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by twodave 4y ago
Heck yeah I'd sign up for that! Honestly, this is the kind of work that can sustain an entire consulting firm. - It's specialized, so you can charge more for it. And I mean come on, we're saving you millions of dollars. I can
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by twodave 4y ago
Are you suggesting that the concept of a charitable contribution is only for rich people? My understanding and personal experience is that many people benefit from this mechanism, most of them not rich by any local standard.
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by twodave 4y ago
I'm aware of that. I'm adding on that just because Musk has a lot of money shouldn't have anything to do with the laws. In my opinion, if he's not allowed to benefit indirectly from his charitable contributions then neit
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by twodave 4y ago
I'm not sure I see the big problem here. Our government has decided that if you want to dedicate your resources to an approved cause that it won't hinder that cause by taxing those contributed resources. We don't place limita
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by twodave 4y ago
From someone who struggles with focus, here are the strategies I use on myself (some subconsciously now, because I've been doing this for 15 years). They don't all work 100% of the time, but I haven't been fired yet ;) 1) Kno
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by twodave 4y ago
This is basically my feeling as well. It also establishes way up front, “This is how much my time will cost you.” That ultimately pressures clients to be prepared for meetings and not ask for frivolous crap. They can judge the output based
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by twodave 4y ago
Definitely takes some discipline. I’ve found the stress more bearable as time goes on, but it’s definitely a thing, and having a demanding day job can make it worse. Taking a month off here and there from side work can go a long way, though
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by twodave 4y ago
I’ve done anywhere between $125-200/hr depending on the kind of work. Also have done some work for lump sums (working on one of those right now), but honestly try to avoid those despite what others in this thread are saying. It can be
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by twodave 4y ago
It depends :) I’m happy to talk about anything, of course, and you can find my email in my profile.
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by twodave 4y ago
Usually they’re longer-term relationships than 10 hours. I’ve spent anywhere between 3 weeks and 2 years working with the same client/project. Sometimes I’ll have multiple going, but usually can set the expectations such that I don’t h
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by twodave 4y ago
Mostly word of mouth. Friends, past and present colleagues, etc. I even went part time at a job once instead of leaving altogether for another full-time job. It helps to have a good reputation. Often those positive relationships pay off ove
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by twodave 4y ago
Software consulting. You’d be surprised how many little businesses out there have a need for custom software. I make about $60-70k/year in my spare time (maybe 10 hours/week) doing everything from adding features to legacy product
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by twodave 4y ago
1. If those permissions aren't reasonable to ever grant, then they shouldn't be available. 2. A user has no way of controlling which permissions are abused. If you get scammed, you get scammed, but the response from GH here isn&#x
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by twodave 4y ago
This is why I have my rpi4 set up as 1) a Pi-hole, 2) Wireguard VPN host and 3) DHCP DNS server on on my home network. That as long as I am connected to the VPN from my phone I get no ads. If there's any kind of network issue at my hou
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by twodave 4y ago
Love it. Integrate this with a printing/shipping service and I'd spend $20 easily.
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by twodave 4y ago
Love the idea, but I couldn't get the refresh to work, personally. I even tried loading the image url directly in an incognito tab, no dice: https://github-business-card.vercel.app/api/github?username=...
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by twodave 4y ago
Honestly IMO it's a bit better--often times I find myself wanting neither _this_ nor _that_, but some of each. I get to a point in a function where I realize changes I made elsewhere are no longer needed, but I want to keep my function
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by twodave 4y ago
There are way better examples than this, such as the checkbox on Elastic Beanstalk that makes you decide whether to give your application a public IP. This checkbox would default to false, and in most sensible configurations would cause Ela
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by twodave 4y ago
I think what bothers me more than anything is how often even fact-checkers are just wrong. We had a moderator in the last presidential election literally interrupting the president to tell him something wasn’t factually correct, and the mod
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by twodave 4y ago
We both know that this will be applied against will be applied universally to more nuanced scenarios than that. It shouldn’t be. More often the “fact-check” is synonymous with “what we know based on publicly-available information” than what
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by twodave 4y ago
It is my belief that any fact checking system based on consensus and not actual factual evidence will eventually result in an echo chamber. What’s the value of homogenizing a community down to just the voices that agree with you?
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by twodave 4y ago
Isn’t that how most political ads/disinformation campaigns already work? Many absolute truths in politics are self-evident, but if you need to get some lies out there… buy some ads.
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by twodave 4y ago
This. My current hobby project[0] is basically something I started because I was frustrated with the inability to version control my tests in Postman alongside my API code. If it can't be committed to source control, then it's not
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by twodave 4y ago
Is there actually any html templating here? At least I didn’t see any examples in the linked page. I wouldn’t call it a web framework if it’s just dishing out more or less raw HTTP responses. That said, even just an API framework for the fr
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by twodave 4y ago
Then most people must not read the screen when they open an incognito window. It’s said that for at least a decade, and the fact that these articles are still being written is simply sensationalism.
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by twodave 4y ago
This same kind of article gets played and replayed. Nothing new here. “Journalist” manufacturing outrage over something that’s been obviously true for Chrome’s whole lifetime.
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by twodave 4y ago
Timely—I had a conversation about this with a friend a day or two ago. There is a definite trade-off between novelty and productivity. IMO putting as much novelty into the parts of your domain logic that differentiate you from competitors a
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by twodave 4y ago
I think we can agree on Equifax being a giant, rent-seeking POS--that's the whole point of their business, right? But I think if a more reputable company were doing this we wouldn't be so outraged about it. I'm all for taking
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by twodave 4y ago
Overall I agree with this, but I think there's a genuine need for a general self-destruct mechanism. Having a key confiscated or taken by force should be preventable in some way, and even if I have a backup key, there needs to be a low
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by twodave 4y ago
I mean, speak for yourself :D I guess I could take the same medicine.

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