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Re:The startup freelancer
on Saturday March 29, 2014 @12:12AM (#7491386)
I asked because I have partnered in part-time with a "seeking co-founder" folk few years ago ... I think I took it because I wasn't experienced neither.
It's not great. But turns out okay. It did become a passive income. (I know it's very rare to happen.)
Re:The startup freelancer
on Friday March 28, 2014 @11:23PM (#7491277)
Can you tell me some story about the "seeking co-founder" types?
Re:I Didn’t Want To Lean Out
on Friday March 28, 2014 @04:08AM (#7485895)
I witnessed a lot similar stories in software companies.
Re:Ask HN: What can be done to fix a dev team that has become complacent?
on Monday March 24, 2014 @05:48AM (#7457385)
Fire the team manager. Promote a new one within the team.
Re:The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage
on Saturday March 22, 2014 @11:19PM (#7451963)
I think top-tier college graduate is the shortage.
Re:Ask HN: How do you earn your money?
on Saturday March 22, 2014 @09:59PM (#7451768)
You are right. Developer is just labor. Not too much different than a server in an resturant.
So how did a server become an resturant owner? You need to think about that.
Values, statues, cashews... rhymes with Hacker News
Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite keyboard for programming?
on Thursday March 13, 2014 @09:43PM (#7396456)
Logitech K350 is fine.
Re:Ask HN: Why is free space pink colored?
on Thursday March 13, 2014 @04:02AM (#7390556)
I know that purple is very close to invisible lights. Maybe that's the reason. Purple, invisible, nothing.
Re:MH370: China releases satellite images of possible crash site
on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @11:25PM (#7389902)
The image was taken on March 9 11:00 AM and relaesed on Marh 12. That's about 48 hours.
Also note that their work is to "found the airplane" not to "release the image".
Re:MH370: China releases satellite images of possible crash site
on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @11:22PM (#7389896)
I think there are a few different satellites that their imaging systems respond to different lightwaves.
Re:Instead of payment, an app dev owns a % of app sales for the lifeti...
on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @11:08PM (#7389871)
I had some experience with this.
- Define the % in different ranges. When the sales is less than X, you got them all. - The company may stop their effort on this product. - You may disagree with the company. Maybe you should get a better % for yourself, if you want to take control. - You'd better to get an inital pay.
It's, basically, co-found a project.
You need value your self's work, the company's work, and the potetioal of this thing, etc.
Ask HN: Do you keep a personal balance sheet?
Do you keep a personal balance sheet? Where do you keep it? A paper notebook?Are there any simple software of webapp for this purpose?
Re:F.lux updated
on Thursday March 06, 2014 @08:53PM (#7357989)
A releated question:
I need to adjust the brightness a few times every day just to match the ambient light.
Are there any better solutions?
I don't use the laptop display as the watching angle is not healthy. I use dell displays.
Online optical test – Are you sitting too close?
Ask HN: Do you want follow others' HN comments?
What do you think if you can follow other on HN. It's like Twitter but using HN comments rather than Tweets.
Re:How to Burn Out Programming
on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @04:41AM (#7223401)
Make sense to me.
Then, burnout is a smart activity.
Burnout is protecting you!
Re:Execute SQL against structured text like CSV or TSV
on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @05:35AM (#7176604)
Ever used Google Refine?
Re:Ask HN: Niche content blog gets 20k views per month, now what?
on Monday February 03, 2014 @11:53PM (#7175587)
20k visits is about $50 adsense revenue.
You never heard of Xunlei? It's a Chinese product and it's like just $20 a year.
Xunlei has a huge network and it's very likely the content you want is already in their server and has been encoded.
Ask HN: An average developer's work seems meaningless?
I have been wondering what people need. Most people would love to have a better house, furniture, food, etc. They barely need a better software.I was a developer for 8 years. I worked in some corporation and some startup, and it's the same issue all around. The product is not really been needed nor used.I can see that companies like Google had a good impact on the world but they have a good...
Re:I never finish anyth
on Friday January 17, 2014 @10:07AM (#7076098)
I've finished something before. It pays back somehow.
But now I barely working on anything. I admit I don't like any work at all. Working for Google or SpaceX? No.
I think we want to finish something because we are not satisfied with our current life. If you feel your current status is okay, it's not easy to get motived to put yourself into some extra work.