nightkoder

Re:Psytrance Guide on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @03:09PM (#20698892)

I used to really enjoy playing really dirty psy in the middle of the day, but slowed right down - like -10%. I loved the effect personally, but I did get kicked off the decks quite often..

Re:Malicious code in the purescript NPM installer on Sunday July 28, 2019 @05:22PM (#20549915)

I have been installing purescript using Nix from https://github.com/justinwoo/easy-purescript-nix for a while now. It works quite well and I get to avoid npm.

Re:Ask HN: How to freelance with niche programming languages? on Monday July 22, 2019 @02:35PM (#20500871)

Thats great advice, and very hard for my tech fixated brain to think that way!

Ask HN: How to freelance with niche programming languages?

Posted by nightkoder on Monday July 22, 2019 @03:04AM
from the ask-hn dept.

So I am primarily into Rust with a bit of Haskell and Purescript and I am trying to get some side work that will hopefully blossom into full time freelancing. The problem I am encountering, looking on sites like upwork, all the demand seems to be for Ruby or Javascript programmers.Do you guys have any advice on how I can get some work with more niche languages?

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Re:History and Effective Use of Vim on Friday July 19, 2019 @06:01PM (#20482814)

You may enjoy a dvorak keyboard. Up and down (j and k) are the c and v keys. Left and right (h and l) are j and p.

Re:Dhall: A Non-Repetitive Alternative to YAML on Thursday July 04, 2019 @04:51PM (#20357685)

As far as I know Clojure, Haskell, Ruby, Rust in various stages of completion..

Re:Ask HN: Evening freelancers, how do you manage your time? on Saturday June 29, 2019 @07:15AM (#20311936)

I am divorced and the mother of my kids is not particularly stable.. To put it mildly. Which does make things quite a bit harder unfortunately.

Ask HN: Evening freelancers, how do you manage your time?

Posted by nightkoder on Friday June 28, 2019 @06:27PM
from the ask-hn dept.

So I tend to have a fair amount of time in the evenings, but due to a fairly erratic childcare schedule I never really know when I am going to get the most of my freetime in.I would like to do some freelancing in my spare time with a view to quitting my job and doing it fulltime once it is up and running. I am worried that clients aren't really going to like the fact that I will not be able to...

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