ushercakes

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by ushercakes 4y ago
I actually kind of like this, I'm not sure how much I would pay though. I think without having tried it first, there is no way that I would pay personally. You'd have to have some kind of trial beyond this week so that new people
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by ushercakes 4y ago
Grokking Algorithms: An Illustrated Guide Really helped me out when studying for interviews at first. As a visual learner, this was just great. The examples are very basic but pretty foundational and give you a good base to expand on in fur
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by ushercakes 4y ago
There are tools that are better for specific use cases, but Excel just can do the vast majority of use cases 95% good enough, so it's not worth changing tools. On top of that, it's so common that everybody just knows how to use it
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by ushercakes 4y ago
IMO, when billing hourly, it should only be focused work. They aren't paying for you to go on lunch, etc. That's for salaried workers. I'm not saying don't go on lunch, I'm just saying you can't charge for that
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by ushercakes 4y ago
I would just post here asking for a technical co founder if you’re willing to split equity. If you want to keep the equity, you could try hiring an agency or a freelancer.
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by ushercakes 4y ago
React is used across the company. I see it kind of like an internal tooling team that just happened to open source the tool. I think it will continue to be maintained
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by ushercakes 4y ago
I think that in the laying off phase, consultants + contractors are the first to let go. That's because they don't require severance and are easy to just cut for companies. After the layoffs, I think when companies do need to incr
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by ushercakes 4y ago
Ahh this is great. Well done.
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by ushercakes 4y ago
It's interesting, it looks like a clone of my site, which I posted to Show HN a few days ago. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33359126 I had somebody spamming my rates with profanity. The same person, 2 sepa
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by ushercakes 4y ago
To the person trolling me adding profane data: I feel we have a weird relationship and you have actually been pretty helpful. Thank you for your strange ways of bolstering my security.
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by ushercakes 4y ago
Im really sorry. Somebody kept posting expletives to the table so I had to force email verification as a way to protect against it. I’m thinking on alternatives to stop that kind of behavior but for now, I need to keep sign ups on
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by ushercakes 4y ago
thank you, will do
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by ushercakes 4y ago
Unfortunately, there is a lot of abuse happening, one person in particular keeps adding data with N expletives. I’ve temporary blocked writes and I need to re enable forced sign in, I’m sorry all
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by ushercakes 4y ago
Good point. Planning to add captcha then. Fixed the back button, I think. Sorry all - one man show here, really not trying to be malicious and iterating as fast as I can!
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by ushercakes 4y ago
Consider yourself heard, I removed the need to sign up Please, if you are able, contribute and share your rate data! It won’t work unless people are transparent.
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by ushercakes 4y ago
I promise you that it’s not. Maybe I’ll rethink this somehow, I just am trying to protect against bot traffic. Tying activity to a specific user makes it easy to ban access is all.
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by ushercakes 4y ago
It is completely just a way to protect from bot traffic. I don’t think we even send a validation email. If you want, you can type in a dummy address, no worries
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by ushercakes 4y ago
What do you mean by this? I don’t want to abuse the back button
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Show HN: I made a crowdsourced hourly rate dataset for freelancers/contractors(contractrates.fyi)
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