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931.
by zerr 5y ago
Regarding Freelance visas, some countries (e.g. Germany [1]) require you to have local clients. So not an option for self-employed/indies. Would be nice to have similar info about countries that doesn't require you to work for som
932.
by zerr 5y ago
fwiw, is not such practice recommended by HN celebs here as well?
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by zerr 5y ago
Hear, hear, but if we follow this route, can't we just agree that the browser is already present in the system and reuse it? "WebView apps" that is... If there is no - we can just show the prompt to install that single instan
934.
by zerr 5y ago
A friend at FANG who moved from IC to management describes it as a relaxed and easy cushy job compared to being an engineer and doing real work.
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by zerr 5y ago
> and the execution speed of C Which implementation of Lisp did you use and how did you build/deploy the code? How idiomatic the code was? e.g. was it C-like code but in S-expressions? (imperative, for loops, in-place modifications,
936.
by zerr 5y ago
Interesting, how do you check/respond for such HN posts - do you take in count the upvotes/visibility on the front page, or you just scan "Tell HN: *Stripe*" posts even with zero upvotes?
937.
by zerr 5y ago
I believe it is not about what but how.
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by zerr 5y ago
Saw your hiring post - may I ask, what funding did you get?
939.
by zerr 5y ago
Making it clear in the code itself that something is platform specific is useful as well. Also, I'd say such stubs and extra files would clutter the project.
940.
by zerr 5y ago
When it comes to cross-platform code, you build for several platforms, so the block is active (for particular platforms) and maintained.
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by zerr 5y ago
AFAIK it is exactly that - fine for such faceless corps, not individuals. I've seen this across many "cultures".
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by zerr 5y ago
Agree except the last example - the clarity of intent that you want a conditional compilation is lost. Also, non-optimized debug builds are affected.
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Ask HN: Any experiences with Freelance Visa programs across the world?
8 points by zerr 5y ago|1 comments
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by zerr 5y ago
Can you please point out the differences compared to other books for the same topic? Thanks!
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by zerr 5y ago
It was intended to be broad :) Followup questions: 1. How does one produce a prototype? e.g. if you're in need for some custom part - do you contact to some manufacturer/factory, provide them some CAD files, etc... ? 2. Same quest
946.
Ask HN: How does one build a hardware product?
7 points by zerr 5y ago|8 comments
947.
by zerr 5y ago
Any experiences teaching kids/students programming with FP? Starting with FP that is.
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by zerr 5y ago
I've commented regarding "bailing the language", i.e. it was as a writer, not as a developer. Scott mentions himself that he is not a dev, and there is nothing wrong with this: https://www.artima.com/articles&
949.
by zerr 5y ago
To clarify, Scott never was a practicing programmer, but a book writer who capitalized on quirky details of C++. As he explained, there is less need of such books nowadays due to the vast availability of resources on the web.
950.
by zerr 5y ago
One would say the target audience of Julia - matlab converts, would barely use that feature (macros) directly.
951.
by zerr 5y ago
Besides, if the prose would have been preferable over symbols, we'd be writing e.g. "an unknown number of apples summed up with an unknown number of pears equals to one hundred entities" instead of "x + y = 100" in
952.
by zerr 5y ago
Code is not a prose. C-like syntax is much easier to read compared to Ada/Pascal's text blobs.
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Colorado Requires Disclosure of Compensation and Benefits with All Job Postings(jdsupra.com)
18 points by zerr 5y ago|6 comments
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by zerr 5y ago
That was more like a marketing speech.
955.
by zerr 5y ago
Even more, as it is measured, the more replaceable you render yourself in your work the smarter and skillful you are, and the quality of the work is considered higher.
956.
by zerr 5y ago
Consider a rolling yearly renewable contract, with no upfront estimations whatsoever. Just a continuous stream of work. The hourly billing allows "guilt-free" flexibility. I can work 2 hours one day, 0 another day, 6 yet another d
957.
by zerr 5y ago
Would be great if such materials go beyond console apps. I hope desktop/GUI topic gets more attention.
958.
by zerr 5y ago
That is when agreeing on some fixed nbr of days, i.e. fixed price. In case it is indefinite contract without upfront estimations, day would be expected to be a full day, i.e. back to hourly.
959.
by zerr 5y ago
> day rate Didn't the clients expect holy 8 hours in this case? Another class of freelancers/consultants which are missed out from this discussion (hourly rate vs other): long-term/indefinite flex-time workers. No estimati
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by zerr 5y ago
wxPython is great. wxPython is the best and most mature cross-platform GUI toolkit, given a number of constraints. The only reason wxPython isn't the standard Python GUI toolkit is that Tkinter was there first. -- Guido van Rossum

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