chrisbennet
Re:Ask HN: Freelancers, what's your hourly rate?
on Friday May 20, 2022 @12:14AM (#31443277)
Oops! I meant 15 years.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancers, what's your hourly rate?
on Thursday May 19, 2022 @02:26AM (#31431366)
I retired a several years ago (2018). I'm 60 (2022) now.
I was getting $150/hour. I charged by the hour.
I live in Nashua, NH. I think location really effects what you can charge.
Over the 4+ years I worked as contractor, among things I worked on:
- Radar displays/GUI (solo, in person, job shop).
- Laser scanning (solo).
- Medical scanning/GUI - the computer vision part (solo)
- Computer vision for protecting operators (solo, job shop).
To get work, I talked to former employers (direct) and sometimes the indirect kind (through a job shop).
Re:Best Pens for 2022: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens
on Thursday January 06, 2022 @08:18PM (#29833380)
I love these pens (TUL).
I was also surprised that they weren’t mentioned.
Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else code in bed?
on Thursday October 28, 2021 @06:50PM (#29033050)
I have played with Python on my tablet (Pythonista).
Does that make me an “em-bedded” programmer?
Re:Why so many of us are casual spider-murderers
on Sunday October 10, 2021 @02:05PM (#28820592)
As the “man of the household”, my jobs include repairing the mailbox and putting spiders outside.
When the wife tells me there is a spider in the shower I reply: "Oh, you mean Steve?"
Spiders eat the mosquitos so that's plus.
Re:Ask HN: How Do You Learn?
on Monday September 13, 2021 @03:02PM (#28515365)
I'm a lazy software developer.
I can't take a book and make myself learn ("push"). Instead, I find a project I'm interested in and let it "pull" me in. Sort of the difference between studying a French book ("push") and actually going to live in France ("pull") with French people. You still bring the book of course.
Re:US Treasury Department to monitor all US bank accounts over $600 [pdf]
on Sunday September 12, 2021 @04:31AM (#28499490)
Not sure what's going with your account but I upvoted you.
Re:Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times
on Friday September 10, 2021 @07:57AM (#28480298)
I use Waze (on the iPhone) and it doesn't have that problem.
Re:It's not a labor shortage – it's a wage and workers rights shortage
on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @07:17AM (#28443355)
Auto play!
Re:Ask HN: Do You Use a Debugger?
on Monday August 23, 2021 @03:36PM (#28280871)
I use Visual Studio to trace through code I’ve written recently to see if it’s doing what I meant it to. It’s like proof reading.
(Professional coder since 1987.)
Re:Sometimes it is just a bad battery
on Friday August 20, 2021 @03:45AM (#28243656)
I can't believe Apple blew her off like that.
Re:Taxes Are for the Little People
on Saturday June 19, 2021 @08:17PM (#27565826)
I believe he/she is being sarcastic.
Re:The elemental strangeness of foxes
on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @09:40PM (#27535400)
I love foxes too.
Here are a couple of books on them I liked:
"The Sprite: The Story of a Red Fox" https://www.amazon.com/Sprite-Story-Red-Fox/dp/B001JL4JWY
"Red fox: The Catlike Canine" https://www.amazon.com/Red-fox-Catlike-Canine-Smithsonian/dp...
Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’
on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @05:54PM (#27453768)
Forgive my trespass. I meant no spite or ill will.
As an American, I had to converted the number to mm and the divided it by 25.4 and again by 12. I figured I save somebody else the trouble.
(I upvoted you.)
Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’
on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @03:16PM (#27451901)
184cm = 6ft
Re:Chinese paddlefish, one of the world's largest fish, declared extinct
on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @12:49PM (#27357499)
I didn't see it mentioned, but the whale shark is even larger. One whale shark was found to be 62 feet long.
(Yes, I know: "one of the world's largest")
Re:Animals to be formally recognised as sentient beings in UK law
on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @08:13AM (#27129383)
When we kill all the predators, deer will eat everything and then starve. You can hunt them or reintroduce their predators.
Re:Ask HN: What do you wish was better about your IDE, or code editor?
on Thursday April 29, 2021 @08:18PM (#26988481)
My IDE is VS2017. I'd like a couple of things:
1. It would be nice to right click on a file in the solution explorer and have the menu include "Open File Location".
2. When working with C++, it would be nice is it helped with #include's i.e. give me the relative pathname. Don't make me compile it to find out if the file address is right.
Re:Ask HN: How is a company like Comcast able to get away with spam?
on Thursday April 22, 2021 @08:06AM (#26901776)
For other spam, I forward it to "[email protected]".
Re:Sabine Schmitz, Queen of the Nürburgring, Has Died at 51
on Thursday March 18, 2021 @09:18AM (#26502340)
Very sad.
Sabine Schmitz, Queen of the Nürburgring, Has Died at 51
Re:Why the new USPS mail trucks look so weird
on Monday March 15, 2021 @07:44PM (#26470885)
It's the original "ad supported" business.
Re:Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer
on Saturday March 13, 2021 @05:38PM (#26450781)
As opposed to insurance companies determining who would die?
Re:We created a fake language to root out resume liars
on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @07:50PM (#26418707)
"The good news is this means the recruiter is incentivized to help you negotiate higher pay"
Not really. Like realters, "Real estate agents do not generally represent the buyer," says Florida real-estate attorney Barry Ansbacher. "But buyers think they do."
Re:Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations (2007)
on Monday March 08, 2021 @08:22AM (#26385403)
https://www.healthline.com/health/what-is-an-osteopath#train...
"After graduating from medical school, DOs take a rigorous national licensure exam, which contains the same material as the exam to become an MD. Both kinds of doctor are licensed by state medical examination boards."
Re:Ask HN: What happens to job market if companies adopt ‘no jab, no j...
on Friday February 19, 2021 @01:07PM (#26195967)
Only people who don't wear tin foil hats would be employed I guess.
Re:“Location-Based Pay” – Who are we to complain?
on Sunday February 14, 2021 @02:03PM (#26135084)
".., and I have to wonder if “location-based pay” works in both directions. I live in suburban London, ten-ish Tube stops from the belly of the beast. If I worked remotely for Facebook and wanted to move somewhere central where rents are three times higher, would Zuck give me a raise? Somehow I doubt it."
The Best Investment advice you’ll never get (2014)
Re:Ask HN: What's your best advice for someone turning 30 today?
on Monday February 08, 2021 @02:00PM (#26068574)
Put you retirement funds in something like Vanguard. Vanguard is customer owned but any low load broad based index fund will work.
https://ritholtz.com/2014/02/the-best-investment-advice-youl...