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by gregjor 2y ago
I have some articles about freelancing on my web site typicalprogrammer.com. Free, no ads, popups, or other nonsense.
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by gregjor 2y ago
I have 15 years of freelancing following 25 years working for big companies, including tech companies. > I’ve asked both Claude and ChatGPT, and they agree that finding contracts in the range of $150–$200 per hour should be realistic. No
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by gregjor 2y ago
I want to know how you got out of the AI hype. I try to ignore it but it infects everything.
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by gregjor 2y ago
I saw a few at Starbucks. Look for the people with laptops on stands wearing headphones filling out applications on LinkedIn.
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by gregjor 2y ago
> The ability to autocomplete, and navigate through the code (even my dependencies's code) by the click on a function, the popover showing the documentation/signature of the function i'm going to call. Those are Quality of
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by gregjor 2y ago
No general answer to that. I look for a history of growth and accomplishments. I want someone who shows a focus on solving business problems rather than a focus on languages, tools, frameworks, etc. I don't care much about the kinds
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by gregjor 2y ago
JetBrains makes several IDEs competitive with VsCode, but not free. I also stopped using VSCode because of the bloat, which seems mainly caused by node + npm on the remote server. And I've seen it consume all the RAM and too much CPU f
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by gregjor 2y ago
I know this sounds like boasting, but I have never had a slow period. I have had to turn down gigs because I don't have time. From my start as a freelancer I cultivated long-term relationships with customers who would give me a steady
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by gregjor 2y ago
Just call it by name: deliberate lying. Incorrect refers to someone identifying a goose as a duck, not knowingly publishing and touting manipulated and wrong information for political gain and personal self-aggrandizement.
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by gregjor 2y ago
I have never used LinkedIn for finding freelance work. Canceled my account several years ago. I don't know any other freelancers using LinkedIn either. I don't doubt that some people use it, or try to. Word of mouth and referrals
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by gregjor 2y ago
Not in danger now, but have got laid off in the past. - Make yourself as valuable as possible at your current job. Solve business problems and raise your profile so your managers and other managers see you as too important to lay off. - Sta
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by gregjor 2y ago
I don't think worrying will help. Assuming the human race can cooperate on the possible impact, we should do our best to nudge it into a different orbit, and prepare to evacuate people in the path if the chances of impact keep rising.
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by gregjor 2y ago
I went iPad-only several years ago, sold my MacBook like the author. I have experienced the same friction, the same disappointment with external monitor support, the weird problems with keyboard focus, the killing of backgrounded apps. But
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by gregjor 2y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful comments. I don't really feel bound to a side. I don't feel like I have a stake in artificial intelligence one way or another. AI doesn't threaten my livelihood, so I mostly ignore it. For me it sits
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by gregjor 2y ago
> Essentially the hypothesis that anything we observe to be conscious is actually conscious is unfalsifiable unless you make some assumptions. Yes, and I think we run into that problem because we don't have a good definition of, or
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by gregjor 2y ago
> living things... Definition? I feel confident we have shared definitions of living vs. non-living things, but if you insist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Or
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by gregjor 2y ago
Great video. The narrator mentions ubiquitous surveillance and facial recognition multiple times as bad things. We have that in the USA and Europe too, getting more surveilled all the time, and lied to about it. At this point calling attent
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by gregjor 2y ago
What do you mean by “without a lick of evidence?” Every bit of evidence we have shows that what we call “thinking” and “consciousness” only arises in living things and depends on not just the “substrate” but the entire organism. Examples of
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by gregjor 2y ago
Really? The cloud servers I use have networking stacks, drivers for various block storage devices, drivers for character-oriented devices (terminals), maybe GPU drivers. Running in the cloud means the hardware got virtualized, not that it w
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by gregjor 2y ago
Why does replacing Linux seem like a good idea to you? That would mean rewriting billions of lines of code written for Linux. Operating systems include lots of libraries and drivers. Programmers write code that depends on OS-level functiona
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by gregjor 2y ago
Another red-pilled immigrant millionaire repeating the usual tired talking points. Just like Fox News and the rest of the right wing media, this kind of thing panders and assumes Americans don't know anything about the rest of the worl
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by gregjor 2y ago
Given the time required for space travel compared to human lifespans this doesn’t get close to the threshold for something I would worry about. Even if we launched a probe to the nearest planet tomorrow neither I nor any of my descendants f
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by gregjor 2y ago
> The most reasonable explanation after you exclude something artificially forcing life to exist on Earth, or preventing it from existing anywhere else, is that we just need to explore the universe more, and grab samples from other plane
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by gregjor 2y ago
Yes, the FEIE exempts the first $126,500 per person. You can adjust your W2 withholding to account for that. You have to either show “bonds fire” residency in a foreign country or physically stay out of the US for 335+ days in a one year pe
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by gregjor 2y ago
Funny, I have a storage locker in Bangkok too. I don't have a lot of stuff, but enough that I need a place to put it when I go traveling. I mostly live in Bangkok but sometimes my wife and I leave for months at a time. I was just talki
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by gregjor 2y ago
I already made the wish come true. Originally from USA (California). Lived and worked in USA for 50 years, raised kids there. I left to travel full-time about 13 years ago. I spend most of my time in Thailand. I would choose Thailand, Vietn
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by gregjor 2y ago
Why can’t we let kids drive the school bus?
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> If you hire a driver, or use a taxi, offer to pay the driver to take you to visit their mother. They will ordinarily jump at the chance. Lol. In Thailand mom probably lives far away in a rural village. But lots of drivers have cousins
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by gregjor 2y ago
Every project either fails or turns into a legacy project.
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by gregjor 2y ago
I have the same reaction to node and npm. I just don’t use it. Plenty of other tools I can make a living with. I ignore so-called AI too. I tried Copilot and ChatGPT, not a big time savings for me. If I have to carefully audit and debug cod

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