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by gedrap 12y ago
I just tried translating Lithuanian -> English. Yup Google Translate is that good. Even for not wide spread languages like Lithuanian.
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by gedrap 12y ago
Yeah £1200/mo sounds like a reasonable middle level developer salary in Eastern Europe (I am from Lithuania). It's a good point about English speakers. I think it has to do with network and comfort zone. When you are 25 and have s
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by gedrap 12y ago
There's a few more genuine use cases for shorteners, one of them is using links offline (e.g. print advertisements). I noticed my university does that and I kind of like it. It definitely won't remember company.com/section&#x
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by gedrap 12y ago
Yup. Whenever I see a link to something like Wired (i.e. 90% of text just more or less meaningless, 10% real information), I just go straight to HN comments. Doesn't feel like I'd be loosing anything.
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by gedrap 12y ago
Done! Thanks for your comment :)
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by gedrap 12y ago
I'd suggest hiding upvotes count in /newest page. After submitting a bunch of links, some of them making a front page, I noticed that there is a fairly strong effect of social proof. People check /newest, see that some post a
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by gedrap 12y ago
Regarding to HN, problem is that social proof takes a huge part in determining what gets on the front page. People check /new, see that some post already has 1 or 2 upvotes, checks it instead of some without any upvotes. The upvoted on
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by gedrap 12y ago
Might not be a coincidence about the reason but probably coincidence about the timing. I am fairly sure that the Chinese government has sources which bring the news faster than WP publishes them :)
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by gedrap 12y ago
>>> In my experience, 20 hrs of project work / week is the ceiling for a solo professional. Same here. Also, you can't really do more than ~5hrs/d of productive work. Personally, I don't see much point in trying
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by gedrap 12y ago
Yes and no, I think. Depends on your starting point. I did that to double my rate in ~8 months (every time I am looking for a new client, I tell my rate 20-30% larger then the last time). But if you are starting at $20/h or so, you mig
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by gedrap 12y ago
Yup. It might seem like it's shit loads of money for something, especially when the project is rather simple. But something that simple might be a tool that save 10hrs/wk of work for a client. Patrick (again) has a great post on i
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by gedrap 12y ago
Good points! I noticed similar trend, mainly with non-paying (or paying super-late clients). At the very beginning, I tried to be very understanding and find excuses for them (shit happens, you know). But I got screwed over for being so nai
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by gedrap 12y ago
Personally I use this Android app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.phlam.andr... Planning to built a Pomodoro clock using Arduino... Some day :) I know there is a bunch of them available but hey n
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4 Things I Learned the Hard Way While Freelancing(blog.gedrap.me)
50 points by gedrap 12y ago|18 comments
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by gedrap 12y ago
I think it (assumption that friends are afraid) doesn't really apply to the majority of HN audience. We give and read criticism (constructive or not) every day here, it's the second nature for us. However, we are a small group of
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by gedrap 12y ago
Let's not pretend, many of us would do the same. Many people would quickly forget their opinion for $1M. And we are talking a billion. Can't judge those guys.
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by gedrap 12y ago
Yeah, it would have worked. But I am too lazy (among real disadvantages) to download all the libraries manually :) Real disadvantages such as updating becomes so boring that you will probably never do that. And 'bower search <someth
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by gedrap 12y ago
I totally agree. It's true even for us, experienced Web guys (and gals), in this mess ruled by packages and their managers. For example, I am trying to make my first Rails app outside a tutorial. Okay, I want to use bootstrap. Should I
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by gedrap 12y ago
Excellent comment. Reminds me an idea from Soccernomics (a great book on soccer by economists who happen to love football), that a club manager is mainly a PR person and goes on to statistically prove that he has almost nothing to do with t
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by gedrap 12y ago
Yes, discovered it last weekend! Interesting tool, it puts little pressure to work more because it sucks to see bad stats :) And yes, I noticed the same about the night. Most of my work gets done between 8pm-1am. Sometimes this is a problem
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Ask HN: what do you do, when you are not productive?
1 points by gedrap 12y ago|3 comments
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by gedrap 12y ago
It's not an Odesk job post where "please include <some word> in your application" ;)
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by gedrap 12y ago
While fairly offtopic, this reminded me of Game Dev Tycoon ( http://www.greenheartgames.com/app/game-dev-tycoon/ ) which seems to be written using HTML5 + JS + Chromium. I like this game, and I equally like the wa
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by gedrap 12y ago
I am more interested in whether Quora will avoid the problems SO is facing. A year ago or so, the links in the email digest were genuinely interesting. /r/iama, kind of. Now, many of them is stuff like 'the best thing you hav
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by gedrap 12y ago
>> make me double click to get though I really don't like it. At first I thought that a link is broken or something.
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by gedrap 12y ago
I think Quora is a totally different product, content wise. You don't go to Quora for programming help unless it's hello world in php. You go there for /r/iama type of questions. Or it's just my usage, largely influ
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by gedrap 12y ago
I guess that's the other side of being mainstream - people, who are not perfect users, are using your product too. Those not perfect users are not only the ones who post questions but also the ones who answer them just for the points.
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Antivirus is Dead: Long Live Antivirus(krebsonsecurity.com)
3 points by gedrap 12y ago|0 comments
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by gedrap 12y ago
Many people say that college/university is not worth it but I disagree. If the one you are attending makes you think it's not worth it, just get to a better one. I think university is a safe default choice. Yes, you will be learni
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by gedrap 13y ago
I am living in Beijing at the moment (Haidian), spent most of my life in Europe. I get what you mean and understand the efficiency of Chinese transport vehicles. But one huge thing you are missing is the cultural differences. They are prett

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