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by maratd 11y ago
> I'd think by and large you would evalute remote workers by theit work output Which is what? Lines of code? I think that's even worse. How do you determine how much work to assign someone if estimates are meaningless? How do y
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> Why are kids killing themselves in utopia? Why are some of the worlds most intelligent, rich, and power adults burying their children? Really? So you create a hyper-competitive environment where kids are constantly expected to perform
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by maratd 11y ago
> Seriously, I've seen "average story points per developer per sprint" reported to 2 decimal places as if it's a meaningful number. Ok, explain this to me. Why is this not a meaningful number? Story points are essenti
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by maratd 11y ago
> I can't see how a person can have "goodness" without that goodness having a structure which could be studied, systematized and taught somehow. How do you teach someone an attention to detail, good work ethic, and perseve
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by maratd 11y ago
> It's like you don't really have a right to keep your money unless it's accessed via some plastic card or routing number. They have an apparatus in place to track all of your money, as long as it's in electronic form
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by maratd 11y ago
> Would using the plugin be less acceptable if the paywall were harder to get around? I don't see the plugin as getting around their paywall. I see it as getting around moronic web development. For example, if a site has unbelievabl
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by maratd 11y ago
> I feel that both extensions are wrong. I feel that discriminating based on referrer is wrong. Or IP address. Or geographic location. Or user agent. More than that, discriminating based on those things is really flimsy. A website should
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by maratd 11y ago
Are you guys looking at rooms or apartments? If the answer is apartments, then why wouldn't they be more expensive? You get a kitchen, a living room, internet, laundry, etc. stuff that isn't part of the hotel deal.
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by maratd 11y ago
My attempt at humor.
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> All these people speak slowly and clearly Perhaps, you too, should speak slowly and clearly. Use adjectives. Add a bit of color and side-story. Our brains have a speed limit. It's mostly the same for pretty much everybody, but som
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by maratd 11y ago
It depends on what area you want to target. Big data would be a niche field. You would need to know your market. Your market being any niche market where big data is relevant. You then target players who are small enough to need your servic
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by maratd 11y ago
> Or are you talking about contracting, not freelancing? Those things mean different things to different people and there's a lot of gray in between the two. I can add another word to make things even murkier. Consultant. But in the
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by maratd 11y ago
Well obviously waiting until the last minute until things turn to shit is profoundly stupid. Anyway, I wasn't necessarily restricting you to air travel. Take a boat. Or a car. Or walk on your own two feet. When things turn to shit, peo
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by maratd 11y ago
I like having my foot in both doors. I work some of my time with an agency and the rest with my own clients. This gives me the stability/constancy I want, but also allows me to pursue my own clients (and to charge them a ton more, know
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by maratd 11y ago
> The only thing that helps in that situation is being highly resourceful, adaptable, and having survival training. Uhhhhh ... NO. The only thing that helps in that situation is a plane ticket to somewhere else. People die because they&#
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by maratd 11y ago
It's not unsettling to know where a person might be in the middle of the night. It's unsettling to know with absolute precise certainty where a person is at all times of the day. It's even more unsettling to know that a retai
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by maratd 11y ago
> I don't get why people are so keen on the per-hour model. How many years have you been doing this? It doesn't sound like you've been at this for too long. > I've negotiated fixed-price deals where I'm quite
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by maratd 11y ago
There is no market. No corporations, no governments, nothing. It's just people. The uncomfortable truth is that as humans, we don't really care if a few of us die off as long as we don't know them and they're not in our
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by maratd 11y ago
> What if he's a fresh college grad or a junior developer? Even when I was in college, I didn't write crap. Obviously my code wasn't great, but it wasn't crap. And there is a lot of crap out there, I see it every da
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> What's wrong with giving exactly that feedback? Giving feedback on a code review is really meant to improve small bits here and there. Incremental improvement. If someone doesn't know a new language construct, a better way of
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by maratd 11y ago
Very easy to install: https://github.com/c9/core It's completely open source. License allows non-commercial use, if you want to be completely legit and use this for commercial purposes, you need to get in touch wi
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by maratd 11y ago
Yup, I have Cloud9 installed locally on my own server. All my coding is done through it. Fast, easily accessible over VPN, and complete control. Love having multiple terminals open right up on my server in the IDE and just flip through them
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by maratd 12y ago
> I don't trust them any further than I trust car salesmen. Sure, they have the same incentives working against you. They both work on commission based on the amount you pay. > I don't see any reason to use a realtor. You&#x
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> Low income households and those living paycheck to paycheck end up paying as a proportion of their income far more than high income households This is false. Food and clothing is exempt from sales tax. At least it is in my state and th
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by maratd 12y ago
> The national, tax-everything sales tax doesn't tax idle money. There's no such thing as idle money. As soon as you deposit it in a bank, it gets loaned out to someone else who spends it. > People with money have lots of it
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by maratd 12y ago
Is that what I said? I think I said there are better options that would help everyone even more. We should explore those instead. Also, if the government has all the information necessary to do your income taxes properly, then it'll li
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by maratd 12y ago
Thanks, but I read the article before it was even posted to HN and it doesn't even come close to resolving anything for anyone who's self-employed or has their own business. It might resolve the problem for some people, in a margi
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by maratd 12y ago
> Would You Let the I.R.S. Prepare Your Taxes? No. Stop with these stupid stop-gap measures. Income taxes are inherently flawed on so many levels, it's absurd. They're difficult to calculate, easy to cheat on, don't tax sw
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by maratd 12y ago
> Do you propose that tax benefits for couples should be abolished? Yes. (I am married) > How do you propose to handle Estate planning? Contract law. Before you get married, sign a contract that outlines everything. > Health and ot
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by maratd 12y ago
> Yes. Thank you. That's the truth. I very rarely find myself a moderate on things, but both sides of this argument make me sick. The selfish parents who claim vaccines cause autism and who are really riding on herd immunity, while

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