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by marklit 14y ago
I second this. I'm not seeing Apache used much in any of the places I'm working in these days.
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by marklit 14y ago
USB ports being disabled on corp PCs for one.
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by marklit 14y ago
The author of this probably grew up in an environment simular to mine in the 1990s. Among my peers and teachers, everything revolved around Microsoft. C$650 for Visual Basic Pro, Windows NT was the special platform that business used, 'real
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by marklit 14y ago
I'm glad to see both dropping. The world is a better place.
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by marklit 14y ago
Out of curiosity were you recruiting developers directly or going via a headhunter or agency? £350 that I see a lot is what's offered from headhunter emails filling my inbox everyday. They take a large margin for themselves as a finders fee
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by marklit 14y ago
I'm not sure why I'd have to give up on HN. Not every posting here relates to entrepreneurship. I've found countless posts which have turned my attentions to new technologies. Those technologies ended up helping me find new contracts. I hav
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by marklit 14y ago
You can use an umbrella company to do all your accounting. Ten minutes at the end of each week doing time sheets, 30 minutes each month submitted receipts for write offs. Equipment costs can be deducted from taxes so they can end up being e
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by marklit 14y ago
But 200 days means you're working 40 weeks of the year leaving 12 weeks for everything else. I know some contractors aren't always working but I work next to ten other python developers who are only on six month contracts. Notice periods ar
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by marklit 14y ago
Lots of contracts in London are paying £350 a day. £350 / day * 48 working weeks of the year * 5 days a week = £84,000 / year. £55,498.64 in your pocket after tax. Compare this to ~5 - 10 years of working for peanuts in a startup hoping fo
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by marklit 14y ago
SEEKING WORK: London, UK - Remote a possibility. I'm a full stack developer with 10+ years of professional web development experience in the UK, Germany, Estonia and India. I specialise in Python, Django, Postgres, Celery, RabbitMQ, ffmpeg,
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by marklit 14y ago
Does anyone have any thoughts on the lack of conformity to PEP8? His code works and it's valid python but I feel that it's difficult to read.
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by marklit 14y ago
Throw your CV up on CWJobs. I've been coding Django for two years and every time I put it on there I get 100 phone calls coming in.
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by marklit 14y ago
You can make fabric execute commands in parallel. The reliability will be as good as it'll get with chef. I've spent ages dealing with edge cases with both fabric and chef setup systems. http://morgangoose.com/blog/2010/10/08/parallel-exec
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by marklit 14y ago
Mine have been a mixed bag. At my current ROI I'm paying something like $7 for each person who creates an account. I've done marketing for big companies in the past and they paid like $2 per new customer via various means of online advertis
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by marklit 14y ago
The main reason I choice it was because I only have to hold an integer id of your account id on twitter or facebook. If my database was ever compromised, there is only that piece of info about you that would disappear. It's basically leavin
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by marklit 14y ago
Good point :) To be honest, people search for all sorts of things on the iTunes store but very few people search for tools to help them market on the iTunes store. Also, Apple have got a lot of good keywords trademarked and it's hard to use
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by marklit 14y ago
Neither, I've built a Django-based website that helps mobile developers pick better keywords for the iTunes store.
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Anyone else getting HTTP 500s trying to log into the Cloudfront admin interface?
1 points by marklit 14y ago|0 comments
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by marklit 14y ago
http://searchrank.is/ monitors search keyword rankings of iOS apps on the iTunes store and tries to predict keywords of compeditor apps.
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by marklit 14y ago
Cool, that's what I suspected. Maybe CTO should stand for Chief Traction Officer.
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Traction, how did you get it?
9 points by marklit 14y ago|17 comments
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ShowHN: Track your search terms on the iTunes store(searchrank.is)
2 points by marklit 14y ago|0 comments
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by marklit 14y ago
I'm on here and living in Tallinn. Most foreign techies I know here in Estonia are on HN.
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Silicon Old Town: Tallinn's Startup Scene(marksblogg.com)
3 points by marklit 14y ago|5 comments
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by marklit 15y ago
I learnt Python this year. I went from being a fulltime LAMP employee to contracting in Python. In May I started spending a few hours every night after the gym working on Django apps, mostly re-building my blog and just fell in love with ev