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by eswat 11y ago
If I start labelling a site as an addiction - like I habitually type in the URL of one of these sites when I open a new tab - I block the sige by adding it to my hosts file. After a month or two The hunger pangs on wanting to go to those si
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by eswat 11y ago
I enrolled in my university the same year they switched from teaching C to teaching Java in the CS curriculum. As someone that learned C++ in high school I was less than enthusiastic about this change. But what surprised me more was that th
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by eswat 11y ago
I’m happy for the most part. When I am not happy is when I’m busy fighting with time thieves, mostly bugs and oddities introduced by someone else working on the same system that I would not have picked to work with if it was my decision. I’
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by eswat 11y ago
Echoing with the OP said. Figure out who your ideal client is: who they are, what projects they offer, how much they pay, etc. then go to where those ideal clients would hang out. Talk to them, understand them and figure out how you can rel
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by eswat 11y ago
I had been using Freshbooks when I tried to do a lot of my stuff on my own. But I switched to Xero plus some supporting software - Receipt Bank and Hubdoc - after having an accounting firm help me in that area. Between my first and current
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by eswat 11y ago
I just hang out in one channel, of an old Half-Life 2 mod where those still left have been there for 15 years. Been cool to still keep in contact and see where people progress in their life throughout those years.
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I think you need to give one of you of the role of calling these shots and trust the other to make the right tech decisions so you don’t burn energy and time on trivialities like these. As developers we think picking a tech stack is an imme
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by eswat 11y ago
I’m going on a tangent to the topic of the article: MLM companies are getting wise about this though. If you search YouTube for some MLM companies you’ll find many of them presented as an independent opinion/study on whether a specific
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by eswat 11y ago
I tackle this sideways by going to Meetup or Eventbrite. Specifically I go to meetups and events that potential buyers go to and let them know what I do (I don’t try to sell my services on first contact). It takes some pruning but after a w
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by eswat 11y ago
That quote is not actually from the Dalai Lama, or at the very least there’s enough evidence on the interwebs to suggest this is the case ( https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/525471-man-surprised-me-mos... ).
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by eswat 11y ago
> But the next time and the time after that, it becomes quicker and quicker because you already know the basics. It only takes 10 minutes to see what new GPUs or CPUs have come out. Is this assuming that one would be building a PC with o
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by eswat 11y ago
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B Irvine. The last few months of 2014 and the first couple of months in 2015 - when Canadian winter SAD and the stress of starting a new business kicked in - really did me
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by eswat 11y ago
I can’t comment on the VC or investor side, but as a solopreneur I wouldn’t mind trying to tackle something in here since I live with depression. However I don’t think we’re quite at that point yet where just a couple of kids with technolog
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by eswat 11y ago
Does try out mean actually pay money for though?
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They’ve been complacent for too long on polishing up the non-Windows and mobile clients. Their recent push to use the mobile app as an authenticator and the bugs surrounding that is a good example. I’m not at all surprised an issue like thi
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by eswat 11y ago
Thanks for sharing!
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FYI you can use the Messenger app without having a Facebook account (at least before attaching Messenger to a Facebook account, not sure what would happen if you’ve already done so).
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I guess you can look at the comment as trolling. But look past that and it is an interesting idea that’s worth thinking about.
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What prompted the switch?
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Both trying to charge more than typical employee salary as a solo consultant and scaling a consultancy business have their own difficulties. Personally I’d find it more difficult to try to scale up my consultancy business rather than just c
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by eswat 11y ago
While the “views are many components” reply is true that’s not really the distinction. Views are React components that have state or other complexity to them. Components are React components that just consume props and return DOM that may r
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by eswat 11y ago
Not sure where it would rank for you on tech-related, but I enjoyed Masters of Doom by David Kushner (read by Wil Wheaton). Great deep dive on how id Software came to be and how the two Johns and the two Carmacks came together.
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by eswat 11y ago
SEEKING WORK - Toronto - Remote I’m a design engineer based out of Toronto. I work with web-based startups looking to flesh out the UI of their initial product or help established companies build a scalable UI system with modern front-end p
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by eswat 11y ago
Given a website as an example, ask for the person that hired the last team/person that worked on it. This could be anyone – the owner, marketing department, IT, etc. – so just cut to the chase and ask for whoever is currently responsib
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by eswat 11y ago
SEEKING WORK - Toronto - Remote I’m a web designer and developer based out of Toronto. I mostly work with web-based startups looking to flesh out the UI of their initial product and help establish a system for maintainable HTML/CSS goi
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by eswat 11y ago
Been on a 13" MacBook Air for the last two years, where I was using a 15" MacBook Pro for a few years previously. I only miss the 15" screen real estate when dealing with apps like Adobe suite or Unity. But for just dealing w
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by eswat 11y ago
I picked up a Nexus 7 years ago but found I wasn’t using it consistently enough compared to my laptop or kindle, so I gave it the boot. But last year I bought an iPad to replace by broken Kindle. Between reading and deciding to put more con
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by eswat 11y ago
SEEKING WORK - Toronto - Remote I’m a web designer and developer, now based out of Toronto Canada. I mostly work with web-based startups looking to flesh out the UI of their initial product and help establish a system for maintainable HTML&
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by eswat 11y ago
> If you're any sort of extrovert, you're going to need to find outlets to recharge your social batteries. This is still the biggest hurdle I’ve had to get over after freelancing for a year. I lived alone when I started but it
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by eswat 11y ago
I find learning React more fun because it’s a tiny part of what can make a webapp work, compared to Angular. So you have to sweat more details about what to use to compose the rest of your app, which makes you dive deeper into how to use th

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