tomlagier

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by tomlagier 6y ago
I'm trying to get started in this world! Mind if I ask a few questions? - When you were getting started, how did you find your contracts? Did you use an agency or recruiters, or make connections on your own? - How do you negotiate the
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A mental model for choosing technology(medium.com)
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by tomlagier 6y ago
This was my experience as well. I thought it might be aimed at news sites with content in WordPress as a faster alternative front-end. It certainly positions itself as "for everyone", but it felt wildly over engineered when I used
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by tomlagier 6y ago
One thing that I think may be important to successfully implementing team-wide WFH is easy access to drawing tablets. The "whiteboard experience" is an oft-cited plus to in-office collaboration, but there's really no reason i
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by tomlagier 6y ago
Sure, it's anti-social. But is it more or less anti-social than running a huge software platform that advertises the ways to exploit itself? I think it's a very interesting question. Who is more deserving of a good experience - un
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by tomlagier 6y ago
Hah, I love this one: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/fzwso5/nr... "You're arguing against yourself!"
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by tomlagier 6y ago
A recent $30 Thai dinner for myself and my wife came to $58 after delivery fee, service charge, and tip. Ridiculous for the convenience of saving 20 minutes (round trip) of drive time. Of course we didn't pay it did takeout instead. I
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by tomlagier 6y ago
And were any of those accounts that you followed "big streamers"? The fact that botting exists does not mean that's how most big streamers got started.
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by tomlagier 6y ago
I'm a full-stack developer with experience in front-end webapps, marketing landing pages, real-time IoT status pages, and embedded Chromium. I love working on performance problems and data visualization, a few years ago I made https:&
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by tomlagier 6y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote I'm a full-stack developer with experience in front-end webapps, marketing landing pages, real-time IoT status pages, and embedded Chromium. I love working on performance problems and data visualization, a few yea
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Finding freelance clients during Covid-19(medium.com)
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by tomlagier 6y ago
There's a lovely thing that used to happen on Thursdays on r/sanfrancisco[1] - a fellow by the name u/jimmyjah would set up a spot at a bar and post on Reddit offering to buy any newcomers their first drink. It lead to a real
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by tomlagier 6y ago
Wag may be overvalued, but it definitely provides nonzero value. Anecdata: we use it (and Rover) almost weekly to find someone to sit or walk our dog when we can't get home in a timely manner due to work or social events. We've ke
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by tomlagier 6y ago
Good to know. Feels like a strong place to be. I'm just starting out and most of my contacts are in advertising in one shape or another, which hasn't been nearly as active. I wonder if the best way to get started in a niche is to
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by tomlagier 6y ago
Sorry, I don't buy it. None of the things you listed are a) required to surf or b) unique to surfing. Those activities are certainly violations of social distancing, so _cite them_. Surfing can absolutely be done while respecting socia
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by tomlagier 6y ago
What market segments are you seeing this in?
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by tomlagier 6y ago
Just my anecdata - I've been trying to start freelancing after an aborted roud-the-world trip. I've moonlighted in the past and have a decent, if generic resume (FAANG, popular tech stacks). I've been looking for about a mont
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by tomlagier 7y ago
I think the Evans just need to be honest about what their projects are capable of. Something like a "please do not build anything that cannot be 100% dependent on packages we have written" notice seems like it would be sufficient.
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by tomlagier 7y ago
The trade-off, of course, is access. Now, computers are cheap and available everywhere. In the COBOL era, what percentage of a family's income would it take to purchase such a machine? How wide-spread were these machines in non-English
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by tomlagier 7y ago
Probably? I think it's self-reported. If I was mostly working for Airbnb as a photographer, I might put them as my employer on LinkedIn, freelance or no.
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by tomlagier 7y ago
What's confusing you? (not in a hostile way, genuinely curious) Server side rendering is challenging to do correctly for any app with transient state, inter-app navigation can be slow, it has user experience challenges around interacti
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by tomlagier 7y ago
Likely they're mostly photographers. Airbnb hires a lot of professional photographers to take listing photos. Here's an example job posting: https://careers.airbnb.com/contractors/1404981/
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by tomlagier 7y ago
At a past job, we basically did "both" - we'd store our best guess at a normalized address, and we'd store the text representation. For stuff like shipping labels, we'd use the text. For analytics, we'd lean on
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by tomlagier 7y ago
If you're dealing with international addresses, point 3 becomes very challenging. The 'tokens' of an address are called different things everywhere, take different forms, and sometimes don't make much sense to compare. F
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by tomlagier 7y ago
This is exactly why Gulp was such a refreshing change of pace from Grunt. Gulp was "just JS" APIs, and made it _so much easier_ to understand what the heck was going on during build.
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by tomlagier 7y ago
This is part of the reason why the software industry's decision to use algorithm problems as time-bounded interview questions is so frustrating. Right away, you have to make a choice between doing it the reliable way (brute force) and
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by tomlagier 7y ago
I'm a seasoned freelance full-stack engineer looking for short-term work during the COVID crisis. Location: San Luis Obispo Remote: Only remote, please Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Javascript, React, Redux, Node.js, WebGL, Web
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by tomlagier 7y ago
I think you just described Facebook.
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by tomlagier 7y ago
If it truly was worse at being a map, people would still use physical maps, at least in some scenarios. I have never met a person who still uses a physical map for anything more than a wall decoration.
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by tomlagier 7y ago
Strong agree on the key to success being a company that will invest in training juniors. I think a lot of the noise around bootcamps misses this key fact - it's not really the education which makes people employable, it's the real

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