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by ioddly 9y ago
Figure out how to get more consistent freelance work and then do that. Keeping it simple -- 2017 was a pretty good year for me otherwise so I don't need to really add anything to the mix so to speak other than this. Share more things t
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by ioddly 9y ago
I worked on meditations, the app I use to manage my daily habits: https://github.com/ioddly/meditations So far as I know, I'm still the only user, which is fine by me. I tried working on other things with my spare
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by ioddly 9y ago
Some really good suggestions here, so I'll just add: become acquainted with a code search tool (I used grep for a long time, now ag -- I don't think the tool matters that much for most purposes as long as you are comfortable with
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by ioddly 9y ago
Part of this functionality was a YC startup a while ago: https://techcrunch.com/2011/02/14/greplin-grabs-4-million-fr...
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by ioddly 9y ago
I would say that living in the middle of nowhere has certainly harmed me, which is somewhat related if the reason you want to work remotely is to say, relocate from a tech city to a rural area. I am slowly figuring out that the onus is on m
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by ioddly 9y ago
It's definitely only about two years old. I remember commenting on it when someone submitted the repo timeline relating to JSON on HN.
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by ioddly 9y ago
I get work through the whoishiring freelancer thread. I might even be breaking even once you account for all the time I waste reading the articles ;)
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by ioddly 9y ago
I recommend doing both. It also pays (literally) to check the normal "who's hiring" thread as companies sometimes post contract opportunities there instead of in the freelancer thread.
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by ioddly 9y ago
There's been a lot of good advice thrown out there, so I'd just add that you might consider looking into a sleep study. I had untreated sleep apnea and it was like waking up with a hangover every morning.
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by ioddly 9y ago
SEEKING WORK. Houston, TX / Remote / Travel OK. Full stack web developer. Some things I typically work with: Frontend => React, JavaScript, TypeScript, SASS, Bootstrap Backend => Python+flask or django, node.js, go
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by ioddly 9y ago
> Writing your own Lisp-ette is a brilliant evening or weekend project, regardless of the language. Just be careful about scope creep. I started one as a weekend project five years ago and I'm still not finished ;)
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by ioddly 9y ago
I find writing documentation as I go to be a particularly good form of this. I start before I fully understand how I'm going to solve something, and only check the documentation in once it's correct.
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by ioddly 9y ago
I think most MUDs definitely fall under what you described as "kill bandit," (as do many graphical MMOs), but I do recall a few exceptions. I remember God Wars II, for example, as a game that had more complex and interactive comba
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by ioddly 9y ago
Start simple. If you haven't written an interpreter, do that first. Then figure out how to write a similar program that emits code for a virtual machine rather than evaluating the language. I'd keep an eye on http://www
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by ioddly 9y ago
Well, I'm kinda intrigued by the Redux/C++ idea. Will there be notes or video from the conference? I looked through the talks page but couldn't find anything that seemed like that.
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by ioddly 9y ago
> tech related Slack communities Any particular ones? So far, Reactiflux is the only one I've found that seems to have a reasonably active and quality job channel.
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by ioddly 9y ago
I'm working on my habit formation/note-taking application: https://github.com/ioddly/meditations Specifically I'm trying to work up the nerve to go implement a decent search which I've been putting
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by ioddly 9y ago
Modal editing was always the upsetting thing that I had to do when pico wasn't available on various servers. I don't remember what won me over, but it really doesn't take much to get a fairly large editing boost out of using
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by ioddly 9y ago
SEEKING WORK - Houston, TX / Remote / Travel OK Available from Nov. 6 onwards (happy to chat this week, though). I'm a full stack web developer doing everything from desktop Electron apps to backends for mobile apps running o
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by ioddly 9y ago
I imagine it varies. I have gotten some good mileage out of my github projects in interviews that have resulted from the HN whoishiring thread; I'm sure if I went in for an interview at some line-of-business software shop here in Houst
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by ioddly 9y ago
He didn't mention some of the stuff Viewpoints was working on which seems to have petered out (although maybe "bad funders" was a dig at that). I'd like to know what happened to those projects. https://en.wiki
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by ioddly 9y ago
1) I built an app to help me form habits on a daily basis: https://github.com/ioddly/meditations . Pretty simple, minimalistic, but having it open every time my computer does makes it low-friction to log all these thin
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by ioddly 9y ago
I've had several interviews that were pretty practical. They do exist but there's unfortunately no way to know in advance unless the company advertises it.
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by ioddly 9y ago
SEEKING WORK - Houston, TX / Remote / Travel OK Available from October 11 (next week) onwards. I'm a full stack web developer doing everything from desktop Electron apps to backends for mobile apps running on AWS. I'd be
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by ioddly 9y ago
The one you are already experienced and comfortable with, which for you sounds like Rails.
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by ioddly 9y ago
Where is Chuck Moore now? He used to write a blog that was sometimes quite educational.
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by ioddly 9y ago
What do you want to do? You could write a LISP interpreter in a high level language in an hour, you could target the JVM/CLR/whatever and get fairly high performance and GC without too much work, you could spend months/year
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by ioddly 9y ago
SEEKING WORK - Houston, TX / Remote / Travel OK Available from September 12 (next Tuesday) onwards. I'm a full stack web developer doing everything from desktop Electron apps to backends for mobile apps running on AWS. I&#x27
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by ioddly 9y ago
I enjoy this and History on Fire, but I've had a hard time getting into other history podcasts. Any recommendations welcome.
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by ioddly 9y ago
I'm using VSCodeVim and getting along fairly well. I've been a vim user for several years but am not particularly advanced; macros are probably the only thing I occasionally use that I've run into issues with using vim emulat

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