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by kls 14y ago
If you rate does not account for unpaid time you are charging too little. My rate supports my ability to take unpaid time as well as between contract time. It is a reality of freelancing and if the market demands freelancers then the market
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by kls 14y ago
No I just made the poison pill stipulation and started working on the contingency. I pretty much knew what they where going to do, I submitted them more out of curiosity to see if someone would have the audacity to do something like that. B
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by kls 14y ago
Sorry I forgot to mention, after I declined the reduced rate and told them I would not be taking the position, they countered with a rate that was %10 below what the original offer was, stating that no one can reasonable expect to gain a 35
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by kls 14y ago
Just verbally when they sprung the 3 pay stubs requirement on me. I kind of knew where it was heading but they said it was standard practice to verify employment. Mentally I was over it, but I submitted them more out of curiosity to see if
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by kls 14y ago
I actually had a company that once asked for current pay stubs, they where a staffing firm and we had already negotiate the rate at which I was willing to take the job. Part of their process of on-boarding was that I had to submit three cur
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by kls 14y ago
As I see it though, they are all the same problem, fix one and you fix all three. Granted with #3 a company or individual may be more willing to invest some time, but many times specialist jobs can be small and therefore the purchasing part
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by kls 14y ago
I think if you could build a platform where specialist and short term capacity could dovetail into the process you may have a great idea. If somehow companies that used your service where required to use some standards like say gitflow, and
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by kls 14y ago
There are ways to reduce the redundancy, like using LinkedIn as the primary data store and then setting up a macro to generate your resume from that data store. This way the CV reflects all of the updated made to the single authoritative so
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by kls 14y ago
Agreed, you need to help her understand the value of an MVP given the fact that you are a single developer and I am assuming using spare time for this project. She has to understand that the project has to be broken down into small digestib
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by kls 14y ago
I would say the single most important rule that we ever put in place for our team which is completly distributed is that everything goes in the ticket system. No matter how small if it requires work, it goes into the ticket system. This ens
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by kls 14y ago
Based on the info in the thread I would say no, you don't need a technical co-founder but you are going to have to give up some equity and pay market rate to the main technical guy you bring in. I would say 5 percent vested over some time w
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by kls 14y ago
Unfortunately I agree, it is no big secret that tech as a segment has a fairly sizable portion of it's population with smartest guy in the room syndrome. The problem with smartest guy in the room syndrome is they already know the answer. Th
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by kls 14y ago
If all you want to hear is how awesome it is, then go show it to your mum. I'm sure she'll tell you how special you are and that you can do no wrong. Your account was created a little short of a year ago. We are talking about how the newe
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by kls 14y ago
Sadly I am starting to believe a invitation based HN would be the only solution to the problem but it comes with it's own set of problems. The biggest being that it would become an echo chamber.
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by kls 14y ago
I think the difference now is, the negativity was dealt with by the community pretty severely. I lurked for a long time, then joined and now I rarely participate, in total I have probably been reading HN for over 5 years, and actively comme
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by kls 14y ago
I believe HTML and JavaScript will eventually erode native mobile apps, just as it is doing in the desktop app segment. I always advocate for HTML based mobile apps when I propose a solution. For a long time there was a lot of resistance to
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by kls 14y ago
Please no, computing in general has flourished because we have navigated well clear of any massive regulation. Regulation will only serve to protect established players and create a large barrier to entry. Innovation will suffer and everyth
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by kls 14y ago
What I have opted for when doing modern web development is to eschew the idea of session all together. Decoupling authorization and authentication from data storage is one of the advantages while the other is that you do not run into the st
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by kls 14y ago
Since you say you don't have much recent work with J2EE technologies, I would suggest getting a REST lib and learning to develop RESTful services, demand is high for back-end REST developers and you can be spitting out JSON in a day or two
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by kls 14y ago
In the situations you listed many of them are protected classes of items related to race/creed/ or religion. I would say that it would be more akin to Google saying that they will no longer take advertisement from people / companies offerin
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by kls 14y ago
I believe that it is, so long as you can compete on that driver. It should not be held against someone that they work for money, after all it is the foremost reason most people work. As long as they have passion the underlining motivator of
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by kls 14y ago
I have found that browsing new gives you a whole different perspective of this site than if you just hit the front page. I never use the front page. Sure you have to slog through a little more junk links, but HN has a pretty good format for
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by kls 14y ago
We actually had a tradition at one of the places I worked at, where someone along the way brought in a trophy and the title was changed to something along the lines of best bug write. Anytime a bug broke the system the trophy was passed to
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by kls 14y ago
Right, business logic and UI are distinct creative tasks. While one may enjoy both not everyone does, also requirements based design for business logic is a different mental processes than user story based flows for UI. One is very concrete
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by kls 14y ago
Developers are slowly realizing the advantage of this style of application development. I remember around 06 having a discussion with another developer at the company I was with at the time. He was arguing that Ajax could change everything
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by kls 14y ago
If you do anything with a lot of private network web development Gasmask is a must. It is a great little host file switcher. http://code.google.com/p/gmask/
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by kls 14y ago
I disagree with this summation for one reason, both he and Gates are tied to the dawn on the PC revolution as such their personal history is intertwined with an important time in human history. Much like those whose history is tied to the r
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by kls 14y ago
Sure I understand that, and if it is the case I hope it goes well for Apple. I know when we where bitten by a similar issue by Apple (the 68k to PPC transition) they lost a lot of customers for abruptly discontinuing support for systems tha
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by kls 14y ago
Sure that is one way to look at it, but I have a different view given the fact that Apple takes 30%, to me I view Apple as being paid to provide a service. The fact that Apple takes such a high cut, makes them at least a little beholden to
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by kls 14y ago
On a laptop and desktop it does. I would expect it to be relevant for a least 5 years and non-official support but still runs the latest, just maybe not that great, for a few more. We are talking about 4K laptops and desktops here not phone

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