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by j4pe 12y ago
Me too! At the moment it's an LLC run according to co-op rules through my PayPal account. Obviously this won't scale : )
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by j4pe 12y ago
I'd been looking at things from the developer side of the table so long, I wanted to explore the problem that people who need contractors face. Good point re: risk/reward. Guess I just decided to use a founder as my example and th
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by j4pe 12y ago
Who says we want to be a startup? We want management costs to be as low as possible. The trust network should be a free resource to make freelancing better for everybody, the co-op just houses it. We're only looking for devs at the mom
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by j4pe 12y ago
Whoa! For some context, I've spent the last ~2 years doing the digital nomad freelancing lifestyle, and it seemed a) unfair and b) like a really great market opportunity that so many senior 20x-type devs in different parts of the world
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by j4pe 12y ago
It it contradictory to recommend that a founder a) prefer making something a small number love to making something a large number like but also b) obsess over growth? I took these to be valid for different stages - first a), then b). Obviou
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The co-op consultancy(j4p3.com)
67 points by j4pe 12y ago|31 comments
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by j4pe 12y ago
Interesting story. I had a similar one, but I was traveling while I did contract work and ended up meeting an array of these overseas guys. The best contract devs rarely end up in the outsourcing factories that would be hired by companies l
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by j4pe 12y ago
Noticing incentive structure common to a government can be helpful in making judgements like that, but I'd wager that anthropomorphizing an organization with >20k employees as a single persona would do more harm than good to my pred
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by j4pe 12y ago
I meant that the probability of losing a civil suit, in the event that the threatened disaster occurred, was high enough to impose heavy cost on showing the film. Criminal liability would of course fall to the perpetrator. In retrospect, I
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by j4pe 12y ago
I've been thinking about forming a co-op for a trusted network of freelancers, to handle the crummy parts of the job (sourcing, selling, collecting) while encouraging the good parts (building, branding, partnering with quality colleagu
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by j4pe 12y ago
I was certain that the story of NK being the actor here was just publicity, paid for by Sony to promote the film and capitalize on their hacking disaster. The release cancellation nixed the idea that Sony was behind the threats, but it stil
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by j4pe 12y ago
SEEKING WORK: Boston MA + remote availability Full-stack web design and development in Ruby (Rails, Sinatra), JS (Ember, other toys), & Python (Django, Flask). http://j4p3.com/portfolio I've been helping ambitious
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by j4pe 12y ago
Even though I've always been a bit repulsed by Product Hunt, I'm really glad to see it succeeding - hopefully it will take the whole startup daily news/gossip business away and leave HN with the cool hacks and new tech, As It
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by j4pe 12y ago
Partly a location thing. There was an excellent comment [1] in the last few days about how coastal business has always had a mercantile growth culture, while midwest business culture has centered on commodities and thrift. Please, please do
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by j4pe 12y ago
I was really surprised to see that you're actually disintermediating microfinance. Other crowdfunded/donor-choice orgs create profiles after a borrower has received a loan, and pay any loans made to that profile into a pool for fu
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by j4pe 12y ago
SEEKING WORK: Boston MA + remote availability Full-stack web design and development in Ruby (Rails, Sinatra), JS (Ember, other toys), Python (Django, Flask), & PHP (Laravel). http://j4p3.com/portfolio I've been hel
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by j4pe 12y ago
I've been working on a Django project for the last few months. In past gigs I've used Drupal, and even talked community with one of Drupal's corporate overlords at Acquia. I enjoy working with Ember and follow its releases. B
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by j4pe 12y ago
It amazes me a little, and says something about Håkon's perspective, that all of his examples are newspaper pages. This looks like the makings of a high quality spec from 2004. Granted, CSS should natively support responsive columns, b
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by j4pe 12y ago
I wonder what the author thinks can be done to improve volunteerism? Here in the Philippines I met a troop of British deaf-assistance volunteers, visiting for three months, who don't know sign language and happily admit their own usele
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by j4pe 13y ago
I am in the exact same line of work as the author. I can't imagine working the way he describes. It's great that he's made this lifestyle work for him, but I'm not convinced I'd like to be one of his clients. A tech
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by j4pe 13y ago
I also wish they had interviewed the runner more deeply. I'd speculate that her advantage is almost entirely mental. Middle-distance races inflict pain on the whole body - guts, arms, neck, everywhere - the legs are by no means the onl
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by j4pe 13y ago
This post belongs to Shawn McCool of Big Name ( http://heybigname.com/2013/01/21/how-to-become-a-better-deve... ). Though he was credited, I think we should use the original content source when possible. McCool
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by j4pe 13y ago
If you're saddened by the steady encroachment of pop culture onto your HN frontpage, look at it like this: what a masterful piece of content marketing by the outfit behind Dear JJ. It doesn't have much merit outside of that - the
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by j4pe 13y ago
Sounds like they've come a long way since they started. Whoever had to go door-to-door pitching a web startup to local shop owners in the Bay Area should get some kind of medal.
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by j4pe 13y ago
This is a really well-constructed piece of marketing. Yes please, I do want to code like Yehuda Katz! Sure, I'll connect my entire web presence to your service to earn credit! But is nobody else concerned about needing an internet conn
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by j4pe 13y ago
Yes, granted, the title's intention is to inspire controversy, but it's still worth pointing out that the author's two concluding avenues to 'learning to code' - all-or-nothing desperation and irresistible intellect
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by j4pe 13y ago
Thanks for posting this. I had a difficult time understanding why my family and friends back in the States have such a problem with Snowden until I saw the tone of this article. Every topic in the story digs the knife a little deeper: did H
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by j4pe 13y ago
Wow, I thought the Run-DMC thing was going to be a gimmick, but this analysis has some depth. Thanks for the follow-along instructions. However, your writing needed more song lyric callouts.
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by j4pe 13y ago
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by j4pe 13y ago
Just one more data point from this hackathon: Jen is as smart and motivated a 17-year-old I've ever met, and she solved a real pain point of mine with nothing but one day of a two-day hackathon and a greasemonkey script. But. If I were her,

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