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by vemv 8y ago
Yeah it's getting harder, IMO one has to level up his game accordingly. Worth noting that high-profile teams rarely seek 'remote web freelancers', that kind of niche has kind of become synonymous with cheap/low-quality w
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by vemv 8y ago
Let me complete my phrase then (although the intent seemed pretty obvious to me): "as many hours needed for me to complete a reasonable day of work". I realise that this is kind of self-referential, but in practice both sides know
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by vemv 8y ago
It can take just one frustrated peer (who may join the company after you do) for 'situations' to arise. For me it is a risk too big and prefer to keep a healthy distance from those who engage in more traditional settings. Admitted
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by vemv 8y ago
I've done this for a number of years. This would be my current advice: - Don't try it on-site (unless they specifically were seeking a consultant beforehand). It'll just create resent. - Therefore go for remote jobs. Which do
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by vemv 8y ago
Why not join forces? You put the existing code, he puts some experience, clients and contacts.
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by vemv 8y ago
Become a contractor in London first, which I assume you aren't. That should get you started into this world! It has world-famous daily rates even for generalistic sectors like JS/React. Try to save some money, so you can afford th
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by vemv 8y ago
Null/nil tends to represent the absence of a thing. That's perfectly logical. Things can be absent.
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by vemv 8y ago
Anyone can expand on what "vindictive reporting from no-win-no-fee legal firms" would exactly consist of?
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by vemv 9y ago
The process described in Point 1 is the most important takeaway. Probably HR departments have all adopted this process following some best-practice which surely arose in the last few years. Maybe there is some blog post (from HR specialist)
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by vemv 9y ago
Sounds good and of course there's more than one approach to get comparable results. Probably as a freelancer/consultant breadth is better than depth (proves you can solve whatever problem you may have with technology X), and vice
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by vemv 9y ago
Well I have seen it with my own eyes, so what can I say? I specifically remember this guy who was really good debugging the 'undebuggable'. Perhaps more business-oriented bugs would indeed be assigned elsewhere, but more elusive s
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by vemv 9y ago
1) That's because average developers' FOSS contributions tend to be sparse and low-impact. I have witnessed a number of companies throwing whatever money was needed to have language/framework/library authors working with
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by vemv 9y ago
I think you are not keeping in mind that these consultants aren't "someones", they are world-class experts. Often, team members know their names before they join the company (why? because FOSS contributions!).
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by vemv 9y ago
As for the mentioned case, perhaps there was a mismatch in expectations. Personally I have witnessed an ex-employer hiring a truly world-class framework contributor. Of course we didn't give him 'feature development' tasks. I
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by vemv 9y ago
It's not uncommon to have a 'dev sabbatical'. Neither is the notion of investing in one's skills beyond on-the-fly self-learning. Some devs are able to save quite some money, or to work far less than 8h/d. I'd
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by vemv 9y ago
Good point! Anyway, my intent was to give an advice to developers rather than to employers.
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by vemv 9y ago
Not many, indeed. That's the reason why this approach makes you stand out - b/c it's not for everyone. I know a handful real cases of such FOSS work boosting one's hourly rate. I'd take it as a matter of patience, h
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by vemv 9y ago
What undeniably would stand out, and speak for itself is a large portfolio of open-source contributions to widely-used projects. No personal projects. No libraries no-one-else uses. Real 1K+ stars projects in the niche/ecosystem you ar
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by vemv 9y ago
Not sure of what does webpagetest is showing evidence of. It could be anything... for one thing, AMP versions are much leaner so naturally they will load fast - even with no dedicated CDN at all. Cloudflare and Fastly should be more than su
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by vemv 9y ago
Worth noting that it would be insane to preload content that didn't pass a strict filter akin to that of AMP. Each Google search would download dozens of MBs and produce a significant CPU workload, both resources being precious on mobi
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by vemv 9y ago
`.foo.bar` are method calls (parenses are optional in Ruby)
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by vemv 9y ago
Ruby equivalent: class Whatever; def method_missing *_; self; end; end Sample usage: irb(main):001:0> Whatever.new.foo.bar.baz - 2 => #<Whatever:0x007fd7ed0a2a68>
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by vemv 9y ago
I'd go for a Kanban-like approach augmented by a tool that isn't as bare-bones as Trello. Clubhouse is my personal favorite. Also, a trend/mindset that should have taken over (but hasn't) is http://asyncmanife
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by vemv 9y ago
I was comparing Junior USA vs. Senior Europe
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by vemv 9y ago
But that 'greater' SV salary for a junior developer can give you less purchasing power than a 'lower' salary for a senior somewhere in Europe, due to cost of living. Granted, money is 'absolute' if you use it t
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by vemv 9y ago
* Elixir quickly got a bigger job market. Why? It's easier and good-enough, while still benefitial. Also it has a One True framework instead of the Clojure situation (many competitors, different degrees of liveliness) * Sadly JVM-Cloju
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by vemv 9y ago
Yeah 150/h wasn't an optimal idea even if it succeeded (it didn't). With that money, arguably you could hire 3x more developers by targeting European maintainers instead.
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by vemv 9y ago
But then again, the npm and externs story is not complete yet... Sometimes I get the impression that other transpiled langs have npm + decent minification + decent non-minified compiled size, etc without having to wait for years. Of course,
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by vemv 9y ago
I'd encourage Clojure fans to contribute monthly, even in the smallest amount. A healthy ecosystem has a compound effect (like a feedback loop), which can result in a greater abundance of Clojure jobs. Thankfully Clojure doesn't n

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