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Ask HN: Giving an Hour of Code Talk at a Public High School, RFC
1 points by katzgrau 11y ago|1 comments
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by katzgrau 13y ago
Would it be cowardly for me to go ahead and say agencies are an exception? I worked at an agency (HUGE in Brooklyn), and was very close to what freelancing is in regard to learning. It's a steady paycheck, but you're always workin
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by katzgrau 13y ago
Thanks! Fixed
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by katzgrau 13y ago
Good point — I think the sales-feel came more from the emotion behind it when I first wrote it. I didn't intend to say everyone should do it for an entire career, but that it's something important to try at least once because of h
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7 Reasons Every Developer Should Freelance Full Time(codefury.net)
16 points by katzgrau 13y ago|11 comments
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by katzgrau 13y ago
I had a friend who claimed he was an elite hacker (we were both 13). I wanted to be an elite hacker too, so I borrowed his book on Visual Basic 6. As it turns out, he was not an elite hacker, and I wasn't going to become one by learnin
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Satisfaction No Longer Guaranteed(codefury.net)
3 points by katzgrau 13y ago|0 comments
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by katzgrau 13y ago
Someone's going to kill me for saying this: The biggest opportunity you could hit in the shortest amount of time is probably with PHP/Wordpress. Learn how to write smart, clean PHP (if there is such a thing), and learn writing Wor
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by katzgrau 13y ago
True, but I've also noticed that large companies, where budgets are involved and the mentality of "it's not my money" prevails, rate never really matters. Even if they fight back at first, they typically give in, because quality is more imp
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by katzgrau 13y ago
I'd strongly suspect you're working with smaller to mid-sized businesses — or maybe just individuals. I've done a ton of work for smaller outfits, and the fact is that whatever you're billing is coming directly out of their own wallet, or
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by katzgrau 14y ago
Totally, then everyone could work on their startup the other 4 days of the week.
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The Purple Curtain: Or, Why You Need to Stop Hanging Out With Heroku and Friends(codefury.net)
2 points by katzgrau 14y ago|0 comments
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by katzgrau 14y ago
Thanks - I know. I think there's always the possibility that the 'malicious' user in question could edit db/configuration files anyway, but it's definitely the correct thing to do.
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Ask HN: Let users wreak their own havoc?
1 points by katzgrau 14y ago|2 comments
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by katzgrau 14y ago
It's funny, because developers do this sort of thing all the time for much less equity. Startup: Hey, come work here for below market salary for 5% that vests over 4 years Dev: Sounds rad! This guy: Hey, work on your own project for 50%, an
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by katzgrau 14y ago
Just thinking aloud. Is this really ... ? Dev: Is rock star techie whose disadvantage is lack of motivation Dev: Builds MVP that Proposer thinks is going to be valuable Proposer: "Validates" it by showing it around Proposer: Sells flips MVP
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by katzgrau 14y ago
If you're going to work for someone else, go to college for the simple fact that you'll otherwise face discrimination knowingly or unknowingly at some point. And you'll probably learn more about life than about coursework. If you're going t
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by katzgrau 14y ago
The example node.js project sends a 3d pointcloud server to client using websockets, and renders it in webgl. Pretty badass.
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The Future of Web Interface Building(codefury.net)
1 points by katzgrau 14y ago|0 comments
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ShowHN: Plugin to Make Your WordPress 404 Help Find Missing Children(github.com)
1 points by katzgrau 14y ago|0 comments
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Using OpenFlow to "program" a network(codefury.net)
1 points by katzgrau 14y ago|0 comments
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The Best Recruiters Ever(codefury.net)
2 points by katzgrau 14y ago|0 comments
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Is ‘Daily Deal’ Brokering An Unsustainable Business Model?(codefury.net)
2 points by katzgrau 14y ago|0 comments
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by katzgrau 14y ago
He definitely got more recognition — sometimes for stuff he didn't even invent (light bulb). But I think the business quality of him was awesome too, and something most geeks could actually use some of.
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God Save Thomas Edison
3 points by katzgrau 14y ago|2 comments
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Playing on a 1 gb/s network(codefury.net)
1 points by katzgrau 14y ago|0 comments
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A Google-Fiberish gigabit playground for developers(codefury.net)
1 points by katzgrau 14y ago|0 comments
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GENI: Build the New Internet (A Video)(codefury.net)
2 points by katzgrau 14y ago|0 comments
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GENI: Experiment with the Internet of the Future(codefury.net)
2 points by katzgrau 14y ago|0 comments
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Winning Is Better When Everyone Else Is Winning Too(codefury.net)
1 points by katzgrau 14y ago|0 comments

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