oldboyFX

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by oldboyFX 8y ago
Let me play devil's advocate for a moment: Is there any hard data that proves that people are becoming increasingly tribal? Perhaps the number of radicals is the same like it was 20 years ago, but the internet and social media now give
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by oldboyFX 8y ago
GP's experience is also anecdotal because software engineering clearly is a well paid field, AS IN better paid than the majority of other fields. Feeling victimized because you have to commute for 45 minutes, do your cushy job, and get
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by oldboyFX 8y ago
Thanks but contracting / doing projects with a friend is hardly "owning a successful business". You wouldn't call $5/hour folks on upwork "business owners". We're basically doing the same thing, selli
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by oldboyFX 8y ago
> There's this terrible myth that I want to kill; that software engineering is a well-paid field. That's a lie. For me it's been very profitable. > Here's something pharmacists, account managers, farmers can afford
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by oldboyFX 8y ago
Moving to SF/NY makes sense if you're an ambitious, hard-working extrovert who knows how to sell and take advantage of those networks. For ambitious introverts like myself, remote consulting/contracting feels like the best op
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by oldboyFX 8y ago
CS algorithm stuff you're talking about has little to do with web development in practical terms. It's mostly mathematics. You're comparing two very different fields.
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by oldboyFX 8y ago
Try finding long-term engagements or find a well-paid remote job and become an employee instead of a freelancer.
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by oldboyFX 8y ago
This is coming from my experience working with mostly non-technical founders who are trying to turn their idea into a working product and start getting traction in the market: What makes for a world-class software engineer is the ability to
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by oldboyFX 8y ago
SEEKING WORK | Central Europe | REMOTE with frequent visits if needed A high-grade self-managing team of two specialized in mapping out, designing, and delivering complex custom-built web applications on time. We work with both established
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by oldboyFX 8y ago
We're a high-grade self-managing team of two specialized in mapping out, designing, and delivering complex custom-built web applications on time. We have a lot of positive experiences working with non-technical founders and guiding the
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by oldboyFX 8y ago
I live in a small central EU country and know many locals who earn $100k+/year contracting. $200+k/year is also possible if you know how to position yourself and have a history of delivering high-grade products. If you feel unable
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by oldboyFX 8y ago
Folks, keep in mind that the value of code reviews, tests, etc. varies wildly from project to project. - What kind of product are you building? - How large is the project? - How many developers are working on it? - How experienced are the d
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by oldboyFX 8y ago
> The better way to think about it is that code review simply isn't optional. Of course it's optional. Tests are optional too. There are many projects and situations where trading code quality for development speed makes sense.
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by oldboyFX 8y ago
Could you elaborate on this a bit; do you have any interesting real life examples of this mentality?
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by oldboyFX 8y ago
> What do you do when you want to update state in other places in response to a change in a component? In 90% of the cases one of the parent components. Sometimes redux when the component tree goes super deep, or for things such as curre
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by oldboyFX 8y ago
People use Redux way too often and think of features like time travel as nice-to-haves, when in reality they're the main reason why you'd want to use Redux in the first place. Using Redux just to simply set and get data on every p
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by oldboyFX 8y ago
This is pretty interesting but it's not immediately obvious whether it's an improvement over the current system. Looks like one of those things you have to use for a couple of days before coming to a conclusion.
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by oldboyFX 8y ago
> Focus on delivering business value and creating the best END-USER experience. I agree 100%. For most projects clean code comes secondary. Moreover, what is clean and what is sloppy is extremely subjective. If the code doesn't prod
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by oldboyFX 8y ago
Could you give us some context? What kind of project is it? How important is it? Are there any hard deadlines?
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by oldboyFX 8y ago
I will say that most web/iOS/android/similar developers rarely have to do anything more than simple division, multiplication, modulo etc when it comes to math. Yes, many developers are good at math but I'd say that'
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by oldboyFX 8y ago
A Croatian company built two fully electric hypercars with 1 motor per wheel and a torque vectoring system: Rimac Concept One (the old model): - Acceleration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT7KKxoAvvk - Presentation at St
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by oldboyFX 8y ago
I would say that many developers often sweat about minute technical details but completely ignore business goals. I'm involved in the local dev community and after meetups we often go for drinks. You almost never hear people talking ab
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by oldboyFX 8y ago
> In every single time, management outsourced and took the bid from the lowest priced company. What was the initial bid of the Indian company that ended up costing $6 million dollars? Stories like these make my blood boil. And to be fair
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Ask HN: Founders, what is the worst experience you had with developers?
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by oldboyFX 8y ago
It is simpler than we anticipated as well. I will say that many of our past clients had something in common — a recent ugly experience with one or more other development teams. So far we have a history of delivering on what we promised (kno
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by oldboyFX 8y ago
For the past couple of years our average engagement was full-time and 8+ months long, so we only needed to look for new customers once or maybe twice a year. We took some time to create our consultancy website and make sure we're commu
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by oldboyFX 8y ago
There's another important point to make: Im generalizing a bit here but if you write code it's relatively easy to find full-time long-term engagements. On the other hand if you're a strategic consultant you're going to s
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by oldboyFX 8y ago
Author makes a valid point, but what about folks who actually like writing code (among other things)? Here's what worked for me as a remote consultant who lives in a small central european country: My partner and I currently position o
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by oldboyFX 8y ago
Care to give us some context? Also, take the doomsayers in this thread with a grain of salt. Some developers have bad experiences in their career and start thinking that all non-technical folks are just soul-sucking vampires, while often in
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by oldboyFX 8y ago
SEEKING WORK | Central Europe | REMOTE with frequent visits A high-grade self-managing team of two specialized in mapping out, designing, and delivering complex custom-built web applications on time. We work with both established companies

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