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by gregjor 2y ago
You can ask for a raise at any time. You should have a number in mind, and prepare to negotiate. You should have some accomplishments to cite, demonstrating your value to the business. If you don't have a good bargaining position -- no
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The internet did not take off slow and it wasn't a hard sell. Maybe to home users in rural Canada, a negligible fraction of customers. Internet usage exploded so fast that just a few years after it became available to most people in de
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by gregjor 2y ago
Monty Python covered this a long time ago. To get rich, first you need to get a lot of money.
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by gregjor 2y ago
I may occupy a small niche of freelancers. I generally have long-term clients on retainer, or I charge by task/deliverable. I rarely have to track my time in detail. When I do I track in 30 minute increments, so I don’t need per-minute
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by gregjor 2y ago
Long-time freelancer here. As a solo freelancer I never had enough clients and projects at one time to need anything more complicated than a spreadsheet to produce invoices. Solo freelancers have hard limits on billable time and number of c
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by gregjor 2y ago
Covers Commodore 64 and Amiga, but not iOS or iPadOS?
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Some programmers will lose their jobs to LLMs. Those who lack confidence and give up because they saw a rigged Devin demo, for example. And those who can't actually deliver value now, because CoPilot can copy/paste from StackOverf
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by gregjor 2y ago
I think part of the problem you describe comes from confusing “skills” and “tools,” where tools can refer to languages, frameworks, APIs, etc. Employers may have exacerbated the problem, but it seems to me that programmers have mostly done
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by gregjor 2y ago
I have not got as far as coming up with an "ideology" about this. I include the $ to indicate a shell command, a convention I think most books and manuals follow. I don't find that makes copy/paste harder, at least not e
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Pay for Premium.
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Have not tried myself, Apple watch battery life too short for my usage. Other people have written about it, easy to Google. https://www.tomsguide.com/features/i-replaced-my-iphone-with... https://peterxjang.
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by gregjor 2y ago
On MacOS and iOS/iPadOS with Safari you can choose Reader View, print (or share on mobile) and then save as PDF. I believe Windows can also save to PDF through the print option. Don’t know about Linux. Some web pages will have print-sp
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Who bills by the minute? When I freelance hourly I bill in 30 minute increments. I know some freelancers who bill in 15 minute increments, others who round to the hour, or charge a day rate.
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Children and grandchildren. And I enjoy my life in general.
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My first thought: I wouldn’t want a financial relationship with or obligation to customers who can’t manage to pay their bills on time. Introduce them to the envelope system of budgeting. For people who don’t live on the edge: autopay. Most
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by gregjor 2y ago
I use vim with ctags. vim has good autocomplete but I don't use it much -- I rely on memory and looking things up in the docs. With ctags I can jump to definition/implementation of a function. ctags has worked since the early 1990
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Plagiarized without attribution from the official docs at MDN. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guid...
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I have never regretted learning a new language. If you perceive the effort as bother or a waste of time then you should probably stick with downloading packages someone else wrote.
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I had a 1983 Osborne Executive “luggable” computer gathering dust in my garage about ten years ago. It worked but I had no use for it. I put it on eBay and Craigslist expecting a collector to buy it. Instead a guy in my city bought it. He r
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On-call trouble tickets mean something unexpected and out of the ordinary happened. If it happens repeatedly that points to a problem that needs a permanent fix, not automation to handle it.
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No, because the price tells me that the fonts have almost no value. I will never need 5,000 fonts, or even 50 fonts. Sorry for the harsh reply, but you asked. You should assure buyers that you have the rights to sell the fonts. And describe
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Seems like an over-long LinkedIn post. So, can I conclude that unsuccessful people start when or after they feel ready? Or never start at all? Or that unsuccessful people also start before they feel ready but don’t get lucky like Branson? F
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We have all grown up with fake images and videos, in movies and on TV, and then on social media. “AI” generated video makes the tools cheap and available, but doesn’t represent a novel way to deceive. I expect more of it. The fake images wi
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Left USA for Thailand about 12 years ago. Would do it again.
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> LLMs are in many ways text predictors. Actually, in every way. But LLMs don't "predict" in the sense of predicting the future. They predict from probabilities based on training data. They auto-complete based on samples o
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I've had the most success with numbers from hushed.com. Google Voice usually works but not as reliably in my experience.
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> how many times have you had your phone/ipad/laptop get stolen/mugged for/lost, or all three I lost my iPhone in a taxi once. Had laptop die once. Not at the same time. > how did you recover/break back into y
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I have Chase credit cards, they accept my Hushed number. Don’t have a Chase bank account. I use Schwab, they accept VOIP numbers.
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You can do that with a “real” Twilio number and skip the second phone. All of my US banks and credit cards accept VOIP numbers now. A few did not when I first started traveling.
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You’re asking for a general answer to a very personal and situational question. “Perfect” and “right fit” don’t describe properties of a house. They describe how a specific house matches your needs and expectations.

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