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by granshaw 5y ago
Hard to make a standard living selling things. Unless you’re talking about selling services, but then you’re again trading your time for money
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by granshaw 5y ago
Products are the least of most ppls worries. Family, housing, healthcare are way bigger costs
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by granshaw 5y ago
Yeah I went to a not-at-that-level-but-still-rigorous state school, and one of my first impressions of my internships and out-of-college jobs was... "WOW I get to get paid to code, and no homework? I can spend my evenings+weekends howe
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by granshaw 5y ago
> everything can be extremely enjoyable if you like the topic I don’t think this is true. I’ve worked at multiple jobs where I barely interacted with the subject matter. Just the same old crud for webapps
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by granshaw 5y ago
> make a rich man richer While true, this can be a very self-defeating way of thinking about it. The reality is that we are paid quite well, and it takes an entity with lots of resources to be willing to take on the risk of a fulltime hi
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by granshaw 5y ago
I’m on a slack channel with other startup founders and just this week I was seeing chatter about how asking rates for Eastern EU devs were skyrocketing lately
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by granshaw 5y ago
What’d be really interesting is if some companies start paying a premium for employees to be onsite. That might be something I’d bite on
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by granshaw 5y ago
Yes feel free to email selma.griggs at outlook dot com Thanks!
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by granshaw 5y ago
Hey Gluber, funny enough we might require your computer-vision expertise for an upcoming product – do you have a website or linkedin where we can find out more and/or engage you further? Thanks!
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by granshaw 5y ago
Thanks, but easier said than done in practice, as clients just don’t go for it. Heard from a long time contractor that the most he can swing is daily rates for some clients Plus it puts a lot more risk on yourself, your estimation skills, a
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Ask HN: Freelancers/Contractors: Do you work 8hrs/day?
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by granshaw 5y ago
Daily stand ups that ask for updates kindof kills this, unless you purposely have uncommitted work and suddenly commit+push it during your “off” days
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by granshaw 5y ago
This is me, but maybe to a lesser extent. I tried doing my own thing but couldn’t keep at it after about 8 months. I think the key is to at least have your expenses covered by your business. I couldn’t stand seeing my savings and retiremen
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by granshaw 5y ago
Really glad to hear it, and best of luck :)
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by granshaw 5y ago
Asterisk - that takes me back :)
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by granshaw 5y ago
> Most people don't come out the other side the same This!! My greatest fear was that once I tried it I'd like the founder/owner lifestyle and mindset so much that I'd not be able to mentally go back to the corporate
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by granshaw 5y ago
Been there and back. Quit a high-paying but crappy job together with my cofounder to do our own thing. In hindsight we were so naive and unprepared. After 8 months I was lucky to find a part-time staff-aug contract, so I'm doing that n
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by granshaw 5y ago
I'm in such a similar position! Contemplating exhausting the existing profits and/or adding some of my own funds to ramp up marketing for growth (also so I can concentrate on the tech side which I'm good at, and where there i
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by granshaw 5y ago
I have some amount of suspicion that it is... "Integration Test Email #1" sounds abit TOO obvious or sanitized.
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by granshaw 5y ago
This right here shows the danger of relying on ActiveRecord callbacks, instead of explicitly calling the notification/etc code from the caller which did the creation – potentially very impactful things can happen in a non-obvious way
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by granshaw 5y ago
Very insightful comment that I wish was higher up. The devs complaining here don’t know how tough a nut to crack it is to build a truly applicant-centric platform profitably.
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by granshaw 5y ago
I also found the "best friend" part to be strange – I expected language more like "close acquaintance" instead
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by granshaw 5y ago
No apology necessary :) And now after reading more of the comments, I think there are two aspects to the situation. The first is doing nothing but playing video games all day, and the second is freeloading off of others to enable this lifes
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by granshaw 5y ago
And spending your life working to make other execs rich isn’t a waste of oxygen?
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by granshaw 5y ago
This is highly dependent on output expectations. I can see this being the case in large corps and FAANGs but not in many startups
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by granshaw 5y ago
Similar to value based billing in the consulting world I wonder if we’ll see a future where everyone will be contractors paid by value delivered, and companies compete to keep different people on retainer for capacity. Fun to ponder about
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by granshaw 5y ago
This is all true, but reads more like a PM-type role, which is absolutely critical. I understood GP's point as more directed towards "pure Eng. manager" type positions, often when there's also already a PM present. And I
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by granshaw 5y ago
It's a vicious cycle – OP and others are forced to commit most of their wealth to own a home because of all the NIMBYs that came before them, and on and on.
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by granshaw 5y ago
Classic tactic, similar to insurance companies who advertise great service but throw every caveat in the book at you when you actually file a claim, such that you can’t get to use, you know, what you actually paid for… There has to be a ter
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by granshaw 5y ago
> I see that in software business too I mean, from a business standpoint, let's face it, employees are a pain and more of a necessary evil when needed. I dream of running a lifestyle business where I don't need any full-time em

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