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by ushercakes 4y ago
I would really advise heavily against just separating freelance/full time as black and white, one at a time. Really, it should be a slow transition - you work full time, you take up 1-2 freelance clients on the side. As you start to ge
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Ask HN: Why are there so few old ICs?
1 points by ushercakes 4y ago|2 comments
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by ushercakes 4y ago
Too slow?
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by ushercakes 4y ago
I bought a $700 sim racing steering wheel. It's really fun to use, but I unfortunately never really use it. It's too annoying to set up, and I don't have dedicated space where I live to give it a permanent location.
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Ask HN: What expensive product was a complete waste of money?
20 points by ushercakes 4y ago|17 comments
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by ushercakes 4y ago
I think it's a great idea. There are definitely job boards out there for freelancers already, (servicescrape, guru, upwork, freelancer), but for actual consulting firms, seems like it doesn't exist. The current situation is like t
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by ushercakes 4y ago
Fortunately, Owner permissions on Search console are not that risky. All you can really do is request a site be re-crawled, or request that Google validate some crawl issue that you fixed. No way around it unfortunately. It isn't unlik
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by ushercakes 4y ago
If you use Google Analytics, you can get in a lot of trouble if you don't prompt the user with the cookie policy pop up. GDPR is a MF. I feel like it's bad UX to have that pop up, and I don't want to get in trouble, so I opt
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Show HN: Instant indexing on Google(indexguru.io)
3 points by ushercakes 4y ago|2 comments
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by ushercakes 4y ago
Not especially extraordinary, and I'm sure there are tools that are better for other people, but, for my workflow, apple notes has been fantastic. Any time I think of something cool, see something cool, whatever - I add it / paste
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by ushercakes 4y ago
After 2022, it's both hilarious and sad to see how blockchain type recommendations have fallen off so hard. What a gigantic waste of time and effort that field has been. I still have yet to see anything useful come out of it. NFTs alwa
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by ushercakes 4y ago
Project Hail Mary was such a fun read. I burned through it in 2 days, and was sad when I finished it. 10/10 would recommend
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by ushercakes 4y ago
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius. This year and every year. It is kind of a stereotype though of tech dudes to be into stoicism, but whatever, this book really just puts me in such a good frame of mind any time I open it.
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by ushercakes 4y ago
I use Flux, a software tool that removes some blue light from the display. I also wear glasses, and paid the extra $150 to get the blue light filtering. If I ever feel my eyes straining, I just take a break. Go take a walk, good for your mi
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by ushercakes 4y ago
Yikes. Agendas are good, and the person running the meeting should try to stick with the agenda. Sometimes it's hard though, if senior people within the meeting start steering it off course and the person running the meeting is a lower
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by ushercakes 4y ago
It's hard starting out. Let's look at the opposite end of the spectrum. People that have more requests for work than they have time. This is common, especially in your field (programming). So - a hack I like to suggest. Befriend o
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by ushercakes 4y ago
I'm doing a few things. 1. I run a blog that is about 4 years old. I spend maybe 5 hours or so each month writing a new post to keep it fresh, and an additional 2-3 doing generic maintenance work (responding to comments, SEO checks, et
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by ushercakes 4y ago
I recommend Bonsai, not just as a time tracker, but as a full fledged suite for freelancing. In this thread, I'm seeing a lot of cheaper/discount alternatives, but an imperative piece of timesheets is trust. When you send the time
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by ushercakes 4y ago
Anxiety is a result of being uncomfortable, which is understandable. Interviews suck, especially the FAANG ones. So - how do you make yourself not uncomfortable? Practice. Make interviewing normal, and it becomes just another thing. I r
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by ushercakes 4y ago
:D No, unfortunately contractrates.fyi is not quite yet at the $4k mark! The site I am referring to I try to keep quiet because it is very niche and I'm without any competition. But, hoping to take the things I know from that initial p
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by ushercakes 4y ago
I get what you mean, but in this case I think the risk is low because even though I have one native ad on my site, there are probably a dozen other advertisers that would love to take that spot. Thats the game :)
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by ushercakes 4y ago
Really depends on the content of the blog. Here are a couple ideas 1. Sell courses. If it's a technical blog teaching people how to do things, you can sell an ebook or a video course that dives deeper than the blog itself. 2. Affiliate
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by ushercakes 4y ago
I use https://justgetflux.com/ and have it set to night mode at all hours. I also wear glasses with blue light filtering. No issues with my eyes anymore personally
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by ushercakes 4y ago
Just check https://contractrates.fyi for hourly rates. Really depends what kind of developer. A wordpress developer will charge wildly different rates from a Fullstack type developer.
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by ushercakes 4y ago
I would be interested in watching recorded YouTube sessions of this, to see how it works
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by ushercakes 4y ago
There are a lot of very, very successful sites running on vanilla JS, css, and HTML. Also a lot of pretty simple old school PHP sites that are doing really well. If you’re working on something at work, it’s best to pick the established fram
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by ushercakes 4y ago
This is just so well designed. No confusion, no fluff, just clean, easy, and useful. GJ props
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by ushercakes 4y ago
I would just wait and see if you hear anything back from the email you sent today. The reality with Amazon is that recruiters are swamped and have insane quotas to meet, they unfortunately lose track of stuff often. On top of that, Amazon j
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by ushercakes 4y ago
Freshbooks in my experience has been the 90% best tool for my needs, although kind of expensive.
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by ushercakes 4y ago
Depends how we want to define impact. Is it - what is the thing I made that the most people use? A core service within AWS. Very insane scale. Is it - what is the thing I made that I think will be the most intrinsically "beneficial&quo

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