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by leknarf 13y ago
This is big deal. Forming an LLC to protect a new business is a fairly cheap and easy process. I paid an online service $300 to handle all the details for mine. The additional 2k for publication fees is just outrageous in comparison.
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by leknarf 13y ago
Employers don't need your CV, the recruitment firms do. They always ask for them in a .DOC format because many have internal databases. Providing a .DOC makes it easier for them to upload the file to that system, where they can then se
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by leknarf 13y ago
The key insight here is that it's complelety acceptable for freelancers to charge different rates for different clients. Many new freelancers, even if they accept that premise in theory, are uncomfortable asking one client to pay 300&#
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by leknarf 13y ago
Freelancers and consultants have one more option: offer the boss two choices: (1) do the work during regular business hours, or (2) do the work now for twice your normal rate. Actually, in-house employees have this option too, it's jus
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by leknarf 13y ago
I expect you're striking the right balance, but I've also seen cases where new freelancers get too excited to be a "real company" that they start emulating all the worst parts of large organizations and lose the benefits
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by leknarf 13y ago
In general, presenting yourself as a professional is essential, but it’d be disadvantageous to act like a dev shop if you’re an individual. In technology, there's a general distrust of "general contractor" style operations. N
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by leknarf 13y ago
I ask applicants for a Github link, but it's not nearly as big a deal as you might think. Some people have interesting work on github. Others don't, but have something else to show instead. I'll look at whatever a candidate s
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Work. Succeed. Repeat: How to Get Hired Over and Over Again.(getlambda.com)
1 points by leknarf 13y ago|0 comments
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by leknarf 13y ago
Yes. Specifically, we're focusing on NYC and the Bay Area first. Most people we speak to are open to consultants that work remotely, but prefer devs that can occasionally be on-site for kick-off meetings and the like. If you can meet w
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by leknarf 13y ago
SEEKING FREELANCERS - NYC or Bay Area preferred - Remote is okay Lambda is a talent agency for freelance developers and designers. We help you find clients, negotiate for higher rates, and take care of the business side of freelancing.
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The Top 5 Reasons A Great Freelance Developer Makes Great Business Sense(getlambda.com)
1 points by leknarf 13y ago|0 comments
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37 Best Marketing Tools to Spy on Your Competitors(blog.kissmetrics.com)
2 points by leknarf 13y ago|0 comments
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by leknarf 13y ago
It's been entirely development and design so far, but I think it makes sense to include work like conversion optimization in the future. I won't have any leads for you this month, but would love to chat sometime. I'll let you
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by leknarf 13y ago
Ruby, Python, and PHP are the most popular languages. Front and backend web dev are roughly equally popular, but web dev is much more popular than native mobile (the split is around 80/20). We also get some interest in dev ops (chef is
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by leknarf 13y ago
Apologies to both of you! If I haven't gotten back to you, then you're on our waitlist. I've been scheduling interviews with folks on the waitlist as quickly as possible, but we're actually getting applicants faster than
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by leknarf 13y ago
We are working with a few dev shops. Most of our clients are looking for individual freelancers right now, but occasionally we speak with someone that would be better served by a team. So we can certainly chat.
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by leknarf 13y ago
~20 minutes after posting, we have about 10 signups on the site and 3 downvotes. I know we can't be an ideal fit for everyone, but please don't downvote just because you dislike the concept. A lot of people on this thread are at l
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by leknarf 13y ago
SEEKING FREELANCERS - NYC or Bay Area preferred - Remote is okay Lambda is a talent agency for freelance developers and designers. We help you find clients, negotiate for higher rates, and take care of the business side of freelancing.
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by leknarf 13y ago
It obviously depends on site activity and thus varies each day, but usually around 7~8am and 5~6pm eastern times work well. I wrote a little app that tracks this for you: http://hnnotify.leknarf.net/ . The graph is slow to l
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by leknarf 13y ago
A while back, I wrote a little app that tracks the relative scores of new submissions and the front page, which tries to tell you when would be a good time to post: http://hnnotify.leknarf.net/ The twitter notification part
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by leknarf 13y ago
We do have quite a few front-end developers. In fact, I've been surprised at how many designer/developers (that is, designers who can implement their own designs) have signed up. That combination of skills was always in short supp
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by leknarf 13y ago
I thought this was a great comparison of the popular talent marketplaces, but it skipped over the most important trait: the typical hourly or project rate. All of the services have good workers, but they've also all been participating
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Amazon’s ‘mountain of margin’ in cloud services: over 80% profit(venturebeat.com)
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Load testing a rails app with apache bench(leknarf.net)
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by leknarf 13y ago
SEEKING FREELANCERS - NYC - Remote is okay Lambda is an invite-only marketplace for developers, designers, and entrepreneurs to find high-paying, fulfilling work. http://getlambda.com/ We just launched and are a bit differe
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This is why developers make for great businesspeople(venturebeat.com)
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by leknarf 13y ago
The original arguments for "search incident to arrest" are for the arresting officers' safety (it's quite reasonable to check if a suspect has a weapon) and to prevent the destruction of evidence. I was surprised to read
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Zillow buys NYC real estate site StreetEasy for $50M(venturebeat.com)
47 points by leknarf 13y ago|8 comments
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by leknarf 13y ago
There's another side to need-based financial aid that tends to be ignored. For you to attend an expensive college for less than the average rate, someone else had to pay more than the average. That is, your discounted tuition increased
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by leknarf 13y ago
Outside of ad campaigns, there's another case where coupon codes are useful. If you have a moderately expensive product and an actual sales team, you can use the coupon field to let the sales team make one-off special deals for individ

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