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by jwwest 14y ago
This is heavy handed, as is the client using this type of negotiation tactic. It's not healthy to respond this way. A better solution would be to respond: "Well, my rate is based on my experience with XYZ and because I've been in this indus
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by jwwest 14y ago
This is extremely common. Since I was recently in the same situation as yourself, I thought I'd share what has been working for me and might work for you too. The number one thing you have to understand is that your first few clients will b
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by jwwest 14y ago
SEEKING WORK, REMOTE (On site if in Dallas area) I'm a fulltime freelancer specializing in Rails and iOS development. I also have extensive experience with Android, Python and PHP. I've been responsible for an entire stack before: system ad
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by jwwest 14y ago
'Parsing Clojure in Clojure' 'Why I like Clojure' 'Writing great Scala code' 'Scala's dirty secret' 'Clojure clojure scala clojure, scala scala clojure'
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by jwwest 14y ago
I actually met her at a YC backed startup where she was doing something with marketing. She struck me as incessantly annoying with name dropping and...how should I put this? Valley fangirl-ism? It was obviously that something was a little o
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by jwwest 14y ago
Having been both a developer and a hiring manager, I've come to the uneasy acceptance that recruiting is necessary a lot of the time. However, recruiters that I've dealt with I've personally vetted as being decent folks who don't resort to
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by jwwest 14y ago
The poster has what my mother always called an 'addictive' personality. It's both a benevolent and malevolent trait to have. I'm sure most professional athletes or anyone that 'masters' something to any sort of extreme has to have this sort
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by jwwest 14y ago
Less than a year and 5 different products? I'm all for validated learning but it seems like they needed to stick to an idea longer than an average of two months.
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by jwwest 14y ago
I have to disagree. All of the games you just mentioned are casual titles with little to no complexity. Action and platformer titles in particular require more precise controls. As a long time gamer on both consoles and handhelds, I can tel
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by jwwest 14y ago
Because as we all know, there are no independent games on the apple app store. Sheesh, all consumer software is hit based.
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by jwwest 14y ago
I'm torn between getting a Kindle Fire and the Nexus 7. I have a lot of Kindle books, but also a lot of video content purchased through Amazon as well. I feel that the Nexus 7 is a better device as it's not locked down to Amazon's eco syste
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Ask HN: Do you live outside of a large city?
7 points by jwwest 14y ago|3 comments
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by jwwest 14y ago
I'm curious to know if anyone who doesn't feel like they might be successful doing something someone else points out as a good practice has actually TRIED doing it. If you've tried something and it didn't work out, write up a rebuttal and p
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Ask HN: How do you come up with interesting new projects?
5 points by jwwest 14y ago|9 comments
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by jwwest 14y ago
Good luck to Mr Moritz. The Little Kingdom is one of my favorite books about Apple and remains a classic.
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by jwwest 14y ago
Halon's Razor is appropriate here. Before everyone gets up in arms, this is probably a bug.
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by jwwest 14y ago
And a million insecure developers all cried out in unison, "WE AGREE JEFF!"
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by jwwest 14y ago
What's frightening about the nativity in Atwood's post is that his basic assumption is that the more people know the worse it is. This is in direct contradiction to the fact that generally speaking the more educated people are, the better a
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Agency invents incredibly tacky way of recruiting(launchdfw.com)
1 points by jwwest 14y ago|0 comments
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by jwwest 14y ago
Or even better, have a randomized upper and lower limit.
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by jwwest 14y ago
> 7. Complete credit card numbers used on Order(s) Can you fail PCI compliance if you're able and do this? What if you use a third party system such as Stripe where you have no access to the full credit card number?
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by jwwest 14y ago
I think it's about time someone came up with a name for this, similar to Godin's Law. Perhaps the definition should be: "Once an article is published containing either edgy or profane language, a comment will inevitably derail the conversat
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by jwwest 14y ago
A cursory glance at Wikipedia suggests his middle initial is P. The middle name listed on the register is Luis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Saverin
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by jwwest 14y ago
Regalii seems to be using the GovWorks (now defunct) logo. http://www.businesspundit.com/25-internet-startups-that-bomb... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GovWorks
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Cargo Cult Interviewing(giantrobotbattle.com)
1 points by jwwest 14y ago|0 comments
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Confessions of an introvert(giantrobotbattle.com)
7 points by jwwest 14y ago|2 comments
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by jwwest 14y ago
Won't work for us that share stuff via Buffer, Hootsuite, etc. Great idea though!
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What I've learned from freelancing on Craigslist and Zaarly(giantrobotbattle.com)
1 points by jwwest 14y ago|0 comments
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by jwwest 14y ago
This is a reference to an infamous talk given by Mike Monteiro who's infamous in the design community. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZGra65Nob4
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Re: Brogramming - Is the startup party over? Or did it never happen?(giantrobotbattle.com)
1 points by jwwest 14y ago|0 comments

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