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by ioddly 8y ago
> - If living in an area without a strong software community, exchanging ideas and "talking shop" goes away. Learning and professional growth is now done entirely remote as well. Try and stay in an area with regular meetups or
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by ioddly 8y ago
Meditations actually was originally a Trello board. I built out a frontend that gave made it easier for me to see statistics and manipulate the individual cards (e.g. just click on one to cycle through labels). Eventually it became evident
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by ioddly 8y ago
I built an application for myself called meditations: https://github.com/ioddly/meditations It's actually...a todo application, but focused on habit formation and creating a positive feedback loop around a few con
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by ioddly 8y ago
Somewhat OT, but is the origin story of React written down completely somewhere? I often see bits and pieces like how it was originally prototyped in ML, would like to know more.
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by ioddly 8y ago
> Successfully raised rates with all client projects (avg: 19% / engagement) Interesting, does that mean you raised rates during the project or as you switched to a new one? Well done, that's a very impressive first year.
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by ioddly 8y ago
I'd say it depends more on what you're doing -- if you're not doing a whole lot of writes, you could get really far. See the "websites" section of the sqlite When to Use article: https://www.sqlite.org&#x
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by ioddly 8y ago
SEEKING WORK - Houston, TX / Remote / Travel OK I am a full-stack web developer writing front-ends with React, Redux & TypeScript and back-ends with Python, Django or Flask, and postgresql. I'm comfortable doing anything
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Ask HN: What has your experience with lesser-known TLDs been?
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by ioddly 8y ago
Sorry about that! I broke the deployment a few weeks ago and forgot to fix it. It should work now: https://meditations.upvalue.io/
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by ioddly 8y ago
Well shucks, this comment made my day :) Feel free to use the GH issues or email me (in profile) if you run into any issues.
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by ioddly 8y ago
https://github.com/ioddly/meditations - Daily organizer based on habit formation. It actually needs a little bit of TLC which I'm hoping to give it once I finish up my current gig. I'm still the only user, as
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by ioddly 9y ago
> Basically - I think the point of a blog (at the beginning) is not really to be lead gen for consulting gigs. Instead, it's a place to plant your flag on the internet and say "This is what I'm an expert in". I actual
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by ioddly 9y ago
SEEKING WORK - Houston, TX / Remote / Travel OK I am a full-stack web developer writing front-ends with React, Redux & TypeScript and back-ends with Python, Django or Flask, and postgresql. I'm comfortable doing anything
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by ioddly 9y ago
Haven't had a Thinkpad in over a decade and I'm still mourning the loss of the trackpoint.
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by ioddly 9y ago
Where does one get started building a simple database?
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by ioddly 9y ago
I have a gmail and fastmail address (the fastmail address is plastered all over the internet in plaintext as well), I can't say I've noticed much of a difference between the two.
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by ioddly 9y ago
I once scraped a large forum off Yuku, the HTML was easily the most bizarre I've ever seen (i.e. multiple different HTML formats for posts on the same page for no apparent reason).
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by ioddly 9y ago
I did something similar for 2-3 years, then eventually wrote a piece of software that handles specifically this use case: https://github.com/ioddly/meditations (It actually doesn't repeat automatically, but you ca
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by ioddly 9y ago
Fabrice Bellard: https://bellard.org No social media. Just shows up every year or two with something that would be a decade-long project for most people.
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by ioddly 9y ago
Mostly column A, a little column B as well (sometimes I travel). I'm a freelancer and when I am between client projects I try to just code without the internet for a few hours first thing in the day.
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by ioddly 9y ago
As someone who codes offline a lot, I really appreciate when I can just clone a repo to have a full copy of the documentation.
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by ioddly 9y ago
From the manual: http://www.lua.org/work/doc/#changes > new generational mode for garbage collection (!) > userdata can have multiple user values > debug information about function arguments and returns &
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by ioddly 9y ago
Some tips: - Don't pick now to use a weird language. Use whatever you are most confident with. - Get it working, then do conscientious things (add tests, add documentation). - Clarify as much as possible up front what they want from yo
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by ioddly 9y ago
Oh hey, you already made my post for me! I do prefer React for when a frontend framework is appropriate, but I also think that's not always the case. I think there's a lot to be said for familiarity. Rails instead of Django? Sure,
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by ioddly 9y ago
From the Django tutorial: > Generating admin sites for your staff or clients to add, change, and delete content is tedious work that doesn’t require much creativity. For that reason, Django entirely automates creation of admin interfaces
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by ioddly 9y ago
SEEKING WORK - Houston, TX / Remote / Travel OK I am a full-stack web developer writing front-ends with React, Redux & TypeScript and back-ends with Python, Django or Flask, and postgresql. I'm comfortable doing anything
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by ioddly 9y ago
There are lots with good advice (worth searching site:news.ycombinator.com tptacek/patio11 billing/consulting/etc), but the main thing is to stop billing hourly, here's one: https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by ioddly 9y ago
Probably the best advice I've gotten on here is from reading 'patio11 and 'tptacek posts on how to bill for consulting work. I don't have a particular comment as they've written it many times over, but it's rea
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by ioddly 9y ago
I don't think the snooze worked: Pretty sure I triggered it yesterday, but I got a match just now.
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by ioddly 9y ago
Podcast Addict. I paid like $1.99 to remove the ads from it, I feel super guilty that I can't somehow give more.

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