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by gregjor 2y ago
> But what about clients? That's who i meant. Demand was never economically justified/it was never a mean of producing capital - they always spent on freelancers more than the value those freelancers created for them. You need
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by gregjor 2y ago
Blaming macroeconomics, politics, "society," platforms, etc. will get you nowhere. Those things have nothing to do with your individual success (or failure) as a freelancer. Since you mention Upwork, if you call that piecework auc
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by gregjor 2y ago
> Thing is, individual freelancing or small-sized development agencies, they never economically worked. They always lost money to clients, never generated net positive returns What? Freelancing has certainly "worked" for me (15
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by gregjor 2y ago
Original question didn’t refer to people in the USA who may get an SSN. It was about establishing a US credit history for foreigners who don’t have US addresses, bank accounts, credit cards, mortgages, car loans, etc. You don’t establish a
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by gregjor 2y ago
I sympathize, I have dealt with this a couple of times, most recently with Coinbase (resolved). I agree that we would live in a better world if everyone on the internet followed standards and best practices, but we will never live in that w
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by gregjor 2y ago
US credit reporting agencies use Social Security Number (SSN) as a primary identifier. Generally only US citizens and permanent residents have SSNs. Credit reporting also uses US residential address. I don't think foreigners can just s
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by gregjor 2y ago
https://archive.is/2025.03.20-140641/https://www.theatlantic...
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by gregjor 2y ago
https://archive.is/0mnqC
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by gregjor 2y ago
Can't comment on the China info, but I looked at the travel advice page for Thailand because I know more about living there. The advice seems badly out of date. The Thailand - Cambodia dispute and armed conflict over the Preah Vihear t
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by gregjor 2y ago
A relational database. Excel data generally maps well to an RDBMS. You can run sqlite, MySQL, or PostgreSQL locally on a typical desktop/laptop. Excel can serve as the front-end to a “real” database.
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by gregjor 2y ago
I started vibe coding an agentic marketplace for agentic marketplaces. It will disrupt the agentic marketplace marketplace market. I have early MVP but still trying to get Claude not to write code that endlessly recurses.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Updated iPhone and two iPads yesterday. None of them had Apple Intelligence turned on after the update completed. Maybe it happens to some people but I doubt Apple deliberately re-enabled it in the update.
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by gregjor 2y ago
https://archive.is/2025.03.08-142018/https://www.ft.com/cont...
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by gregjor 2y ago
Not a problem I have ever experienced, and I wonder how anyone “draws a blank” writing a short commit message. About half of my commits refer to an issue, so the reason for the commit(s) sits one click away. I generally want to describe wh
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by gregjor 2y ago
Factual video, clickbait title. The Casio F91 doesn’t attract any special attention unless worn by someone already profiled, or wired up without a band in luggage. I wear one and never experienced a second glance, much less hate, from an ai
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by gregjor 2y ago
> I've been coding for a while and feel confident in my skills. How long do you mean by “a while?” > Building a SaaS … there’s always a risk of failure. The risk of failure for any startup sits at 80% to 95%. I’d reframe as “ther
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by gregjor 2y ago
+1 exactly what I intended to reply.
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by gregjor 2y ago
probably a year, for sure 18 months. same answer no matter when you ask.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Please stop quoting Sam Altman’s out of thin air and self-serving predictions. Come back when you or Altman have a meaningful way to measure programmer “productivity” and a real definition of what “best” and “top 100” means. This kind of no
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by gregjor 2y ago
If you leave it up to programmers to choose to use AI or not, in the context of writing business software for pay, then you should not have responsibility for managing software development. Hobby projects and personal exploration, sure, but
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by gregjor 2y ago
Companies that make offers based on leetcode and automated interviews deserve what they get, I suppose. Anyone doing this should consider that lying or cheating in a job interview can lead to dismissal if the employer discovers the deceptio
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by gregjor 2y ago
If you didn’t understand how the code works to begin with, what knowledge did you lose?
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by gregjor 2y ago
How would you react to a candidate getting surreptitious human coaching during an interview? How about in a poker game? Thanks for the offer but I don't expect to interview. If I did I wouldn't need AI coaching. Maybe ear exams wi
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by gregjor 2y ago
How would your product offer “real-time, undetectable assistance” during a live in-person interview? > We're exposing the fundamental flaw in traditional interviews: they often measure presentation skills rather than actual job capa
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by gregjor 2y ago
I can only comment on my own field, programming. AI can write code at a junior level, and sometimes help explain and debug. The hard part of programming—the expertise that comes from experience—happens when gathering and defining requiremen
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by gregjor 2y ago
As far as I know we don't have any way to objectively measure or compare "quality" or "coding performance" or "best" when looking at code produced by human programmers. You may find this useful: https:&#x
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by gregjor 2y ago
Job market in the US very tough right now, especially for entry-level and junior people. You may know about the waves of large layoffs. To make matters worse companies increasingly use LLMs and no-code & low-code tools, eliminating jobs
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by gregjor 2y ago
Almost satire. Self-reported subjective "productivity" gains from people invested in AI, or working at organizations pushing it. In a climate of frequent waves of layoffs who wouldn't report improved productivity? 1.4% a ridi
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by gregjor 2y ago
One page. You send a resume to get an interview, not as an autobiography. You stand out by using contacts and professional network, and some ingenuity, to get your resume and yourself in front of the hiring manager. Trying to game an ATS, o
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by gregjor 2y ago
I often work from hotel rooms that don't have a desk or decent chair. Try working on the floor. https://youtu.be/dCTMWVS0pwA With a reasonably firm bed you can sit in bed too. If you mean you want to go out somewhere t

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