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by hundredwatt 16y ago
Thinking back, I realized that all my larger contracts have been with companies where I had an inside contact (friend who was working there). Also, look for companies in fields outside of internet technology. They certainly won't be spendin
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by hundredwatt 16y ago
Depends on who the client is and what you want. If it's just about making some cash, find some local businesses (restaurants, etc), charge $400, then set them up with a wordpress blog with a theme from theme forest, woo themes, or ??. Spend
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by hundredwatt 16y ago
I agree with most of the article. I am primarily a web programmer, but most of the projects I work on have or already had excellent designers work on them, which makes my portfolio projects that much more appealing. However, I find your wor
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by hundredwatt 16y ago
Ditto everything you said I went a half-step further and setup my hosts file to point certain domains to a page that says JFDI (unabbreviated). It gives me a nice reminder to go work on things that matter.
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Ask HN: Effectively improving your writing ability
5 points by hundredwatt 16y ago|10 comments
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by hundredwatt 16y ago
http://www.woot.com/Blog/
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by hundredwatt 16y ago
I have run into problems in the past caused by forgetting to remove console.log() lines from my scripts. If the console wasn't open, then the scripts didn't work. This isn't a huge problem or reason not to use Firebug (which I would be tota
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by hundredwatt 16y ago
Vim has been the program I have spent the most or second most (the other being a web browser) time using over the last 2-3 years. Still, I don't consider myself a "master" at all. I have not used a formal method for learning, but the genera
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by hundredwatt 16y ago
I first learned to manage a server using a Slicehost VPS. They have a good collection of tutorials at http://articles.slicehost.com/ A lot of it depends on what you are trying to 'serve' :) EDIT: Make sure you spend some time reading abou
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by hundredwatt 16y ago
I am looking hire front-end designers. Not sure if HN is the right place, but if you know anyone, please feel free to have them contact me at <my HN username> at gmail.com
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by hundredwatt 16y ago
I'm working on a project that is directed at helping people like you. I would love to get your feedback on the ideas I have and believe that they may help you out in the process. You can reach me via email at <my hn username> at gma
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by hundredwatt 16y ago
On a similar note, I am curious if anyone has experience starting a company where the founders were all remote, especially if everyone met over the internet. What were the additional challenges or advantages that the remote arrangement brou
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by hundredwatt 17y ago
Reminds of a story from Greg Mankiw's blog on Machiavellian Entrepreneurs: http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2008/07/machiavellian-entrepr...
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Are the roads in Silicon Valley Paved in Gold?(greenhornconnect.com)
1 points by hundredwatt 17y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Winter Mini-Internships?
1 points by hundredwatt 17y ago|1 comments
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Innovation Open House @ HubSpot – My Notes(blog.nochlin.com)
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by hundredwatt 17y ago
This just made my day :) Thanks
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by hundredwatt 17y ago
Or you could operate more like the credit bureaus do for banks by selling your service directly to websites instead of end users. You connect in the back end with all the sites, they send you users information, and then you parse it all int
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by hundredwatt 17y ago
It seems like just a consequence of basic statistics (central limit theorem?). Any algorithm you create has some random bias. By blending, you take several algorithms with random bias and average them together, reducing the overall bias (as
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The Invention of C++(artlung.com)
60 points by hundredwatt 17y ago|15 comments
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Writing a Google Voice App(blog.jamestetler.com)
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Ask HN: Starting Small
5 points by hundredwatt 18y ago|7 comments