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by rday 11y ago
I think the universal truth is that people have their own lives going on, and you need a way to sync up in order to accomplish goals with other people. That's why we set times for meetings. If you are late for a bus, it leaves. The pla
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by rday 12y ago
I don't think the gambling analogy works here. You can't invest 5 dollars in a company 1000 times until you have no money left. Also gambling odds are heavily controlled. Could you imagine a pit boss telling you "Table 5&#x27
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by rday 12y ago
Is this emyth.com? Or the book on Amazon, or is there a relation between the two? Edit: Wow. In the small sample on Audible this guy already mentions something I've seen over and over with the clients I work with. When you start your c
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by rday 12y ago
It sounds like you are a successful freelancer. What you are trying to become is a successful business owner. You need to hire a couple people to write code, and start selling full time. This is where things get hard. I haven't made it
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by rday 12y ago
I haven't researched this too much, but I haven't found a plain explanation for my question either: Isn't giving everyone $1,000 just like giving nobody $1,000? It would improve the lives of the homeless dramatically I'm
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by rday 12y ago
I'm interested to see what others say here. I commented on this type of activity over the weekend, saying you shouldn't make it public. Now we get to watch. Does anyone care? Will all of us freelancers have to start requesting ful
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by rday 12y ago
I would agree that it is the correct response. It sounds stupid to just let people get one over on you, sure. But every freelancer (that I know of) has been screwed by a client at some point. Since it happens to everyone, the interesting pa
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by rday 12y ago
The good news is you are in great company! We all get conned at some point. Some of us (me) multiple times. You're paying for your education, whether you are in school or not. Just make sure you get good use out of your experience in t
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by rday 12y ago
I think you're quite right. I tend to feel that people want to do good, and make judgments based off that. Since my early mistakes, I've started telling myself "You're not negotiating with the person across the table, yo
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by rday 12y ago
I've been a founder and an early employee as well. As a founder, you sign on for the bad times. As an early employee, I always got duped. As an early employee, I've had to go without a paycheck on multiple occasions. I had to go w
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by rday 12y ago
It sounds like this was an argument for a bad title on the article, not an attack on the business or founder.
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by rday 12y ago
> Once we pulled up into my driveway, the agents recommended I go inside first and take a few minutes to explain what was happening to my family. This can't possibly be true. Allowing the suspect to enter first and "take a few
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by rday 12y ago
I agree. All the roles are hard to master. Why have I, in the past 5 years, learned a tremendous amount about markets, equity, accounting, law, pricing, and I don't even know what else. But the business masters (all of them) I've
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by rday 12y ago
I agree with that. It's one of the reasons I'm trying to learn to cook. How can I be so bad at something I do multiple times every single day? It makes you think differently. "A dash of salt, a pad of butter, cook until brown
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by rday 12y ago
Thanks for the link. I'm putting that one on my list. I like how you said "most valuable". My time isn't any more valuable then someone else's. I'm just most valuable writing code. Someone is else is most valua
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by rday 12y ago
I try to do everything also (to a fault). I'm not first generation, but my wife's family has that mentality very ingrained. At the moment, I'm lucky enough to have some cash. I can hoard it in the bank, or I can spread it aro
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by rday 12y ago
2 kids, 3 freelance gigs (full time at this), a couple startups behind me (1 pivoted away, 1 still running). I would love to get 5 hours for an OSX app I really want to build. You really do have to shut out the rest of your life if you want
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by rday 12y ago
The punishments do seem extreme, but the why downvotes? Not everyone in jail is a drug addict who was affected by bad circumstances. Really bad people get locked up too. I only have this one link on hand, but surely it isn't an isolate
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by rday 12y ago
Over the past 6 months I've had multiple clients drop their mobile requirement to focus on web. I think it has mainly to do with scope creep and cost. All those extra features that you can cram on a web page need that much more effort
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by rday 12y ago
My wife is a teacher. I have no idea how this guy has two jobs with 100 students. When does he grade papers? When does he read reports? When does he plan his classes with other teachers? From what I've seen, the summer off is a bit of
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by rday 12y ago
This touches on the rest of my half baked idea which I didn't write out. My original post isn't intended to be inflammatory, I'm genuinely interested. If somebody comes to you and says: "Your code will, in the literal se
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by rday 12y ago
I know there are two sides to every story. I know that more positive public interaction with the police is a Good Thing. I just wonder why, as developers, we build tools that are used to oppress and capable of supporting oppression. Unlike
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by rday 12y ago
Second this. Thanks for indicating content below the fold!
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by rday 12y ago
> Like any encryption or privacy system, Tor is popular with criminals. Out of curiosity, what is the bar for "popular"? Are the majority of criminals using Tor? I expect Public Defenders are much more popular with criminals. I
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by rday 12y ago
I've found that, when building applications for clients, they never know what they really want. I try to explain that writing an application is just like formally documenting your business process. If you don't have the process, t
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by rday 12y ago
I don't know the details behind these discoveries, but weren't they found by security researchers looking through open source code? Wouldn't that actually support the theory that open source is "more secure"? Are th
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by rday 13y ago
I cringe each time I read this quote. It isn't helpful. I have had too many people take advantage of "second chances" by pleading ignorance. Maybe I'm just too cynical. The only take away here is that you have to treat m
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by rday 13y ago
I've found that Github makes it so easy to work with clients of mine that the positives still outweigh the negatives. That said, I have two pushes for two clients this morning that may not make it through in time for the status meeting
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by rday 13y ago
Do people go through this much to hire from oDesk? A while back I would just hire 3 people for the same project. One would always stand out pretty early and I would stick with them after the first week. After a few projects I had a list of

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