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by ioddly 8y ago
Gotcha, thanks for the reply.
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by ioddly 8y ago
How much length do you leave between contracts? How have you found scaring up contract work after long layoffs to go? I'm in a somewhat similar situation but I'm scared to leave too long of a gap. Not so much worried about the res
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by ioddly 8y ago
Whoops, I didn't sleep much last night. Just meant it to be the one all the way at the bottom.
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by ioddly 8y ago
What I'm thinking of are synced ignore lists of some sort. I think I read in the issue tracker that this is something they plan to change eventually. And related, sync % reflecting ignored files. For example I've ignored a bunch o
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by ioddly 8y ago
I switched to Syncthing from Dropbox a few months ago. While there are a handful of warts, the actual syncing seems to Just Work (TM). I am massively impressed with this, as building even a centralized file hosting service is quite the unde
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by ioddly 8y ago
Here are two that I enjoy participating in. Reactiflux: https://www.reactiflux.com/ Not freelancing specific but there's a lot of pretty knowledgeable people in #jobs-advice, plenty of banter, and sometimes I get a tec
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by ioddly 8y ago
> The exception would be if "the guy" is brought in as a contractor (which these days should probably be your goal) Could you elaborate on that? Do you mean being a contractor should be your goal as "the guy" or the h
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by ioddly 8y ago
A coworker and I sometimes work remotely from the local community college library, since they have private rooms that you can grab. You shouldn't feel guilty -- that's what it's there for after all. (You should feel guilty if
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by ioddly 8y ago
In my case, I found that giving talks at local meetup groups helped very much. It gets you used to talking about code in front of people.
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by ioddly 8y ago
I use mdx-deck: https://github.com/jxnblk/mdx-deck Guess this approach depends on whether you want to "code" your slides or not. As someone who's never gotten along with Powerpoint et al, this approach a
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by ioddly 8y ago
> Reading material design from Google https://material.io is a great start. You may not like the UI of it, but the UX and explanations of why things are this way are really interesting. To add, I've found reading the des
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by ioddly 8y ago
The one you're most comfortable with. Personally I choose Python given the option: easy to write, slices and comprehensions generally make algo question answers very terse.
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by ioddly 8y ago
Elixir, Julia, Rust. Elixir - Tried Erlang a long time ago, totally sold on Lisp and message passing since then. Julia - Interested in multimethods and sort-of typing as core language features. Both of them: I miss macros. Rust - Some of my
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by ioddly 8y ago
I think what you should do is get in touch with everyone you've worked with before and let them know you're looking for consulting work. The hard part is building up a network of people who trust you, which you've hopefully a
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by ioddly 8y ago
Thanks for the heads up on gqlgen. Have you used its subscription + websocket functionality? This is the part I haven't figured out with graphql-go yet.
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by ioddly 8y ago
I'm using graphql-go/graphql at the moment. Sparse documentation, but everything seems to work correctly. I'm not too familiar with the Python GraphQL stuff, but here I'm writing my own schema and resolvers, so I guess i
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by ioddly 8y ago
Yeah, implementing a precise GC is a pain, but in Go the hard work of that is already done for you. If I were to write my own Lua-in-Go, my inclination would be to try to make an API something like this table := lua.MakeTable() ta
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by ioddly 8y ago
I'd think one of the big advantages of rewriting Lua in a GC'd language would be that you could ditch the stack API, which is necessary to keep track of pointers but not so intuitive to use. Seems like they didn't take that r
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by ioddly 8y ago
My two are both up; I was also able to log into netlify's control panel and view them.
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by ioddly 8y ago
I'm incredibly pleased with Syncthing. I use a small VPS with backups to cover the passive backup angle. Requires minimal config, uses LAN if available, also supports multiple folders and ignores. I can store all my npm using projects
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by ioddly 8y ago
I'm very happy with my x230. I bought a refurb one for $250 and slapped a new $70 battery in there, runs like a champ. The only thing I wish I'd done differently was going out of my way to get the IPS panel: the TN is really bad.
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by ioddly 8y ago
I've been reading HN for a long time. I never attempted a startup, moved to the Bay Area or applied to YC, so I've always been on the outside looking in, but over the years software developer salaries continue to skyrocket and I&#
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by ioddly 8y ago
I find it amusing how this seems to be a very common response to this sort of Ask HN question. If you want something right, you gotta do it yourself! Here's mine: https://github.com/upvalue/meditations It also sup
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by ioddly 8y ago
Why would you start by caching it? What are you storing the data in currently? If relational, I'd advise starting with simple relational tables (post_comments, user_comment_likes, etc). Render the HTML for logged in users based on quer
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by ioddly 8y ago
I like this one, here it is for Fish shell: https://gist.github.com/upvalue/4f34df2397786535732a77676a72...
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by ioddly 8y ago
I have yet to use Zig seriously, but I'm pretty sure "defer" is its solution to this problem: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#defer
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by ioddly 8y ago
Interviews & job applications are not a fair evaluation of your skills, they're a giant and terrible filter. Don't let it stop you from continuing to apply for jobs. If you have written a Django/Angular site from scratch
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by ioddly 8y ago
What's the name of that legislation? Just curious.
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by ioddly 8y ago
> I graduated my CS master. I like programming but don’t love it. I get a bit scared to think about that I have to do it for 8 hours per day like I am doing now at a startup. The stress is insanely high and my performance is clearly aff
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by ioddly 8y ago
There's actually a thinkpad X230 tablet edition. I'm typing this on an X230 (non-tablet) and fairly happy with the device. But it won't be out of the box tablet-like on Linux. Quick search for Ubuntu Touch seems to suggest Ca

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