TooCleverByHalf

Sure. But that's not the point.

We may never know...

Their intonation was tough to get past I will say that.

?? - returns right side operand if left side operand is null or undefined

|| - returns right side operand if left side operand is any falsy value

This implies that handling it well is aligned with keeping ones job. I don't agree with that mindset myself. I'd say they handled it poorly. But, then, both of us are at least half wrong regardless of which one is right.

What they did is the antithesis of their name. What a time to be alive.

Oi, same. Cliché or not, Obi-wan said it best:

...as if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced

I've since created a playlist dedicated to those lost songs, long forgotten fossils, as I randomly re-find or re-remember them. Sadly, there's fewer than 20 songs in there even after all this time.

I’ve been considering building a “Hackintosh” system. But with Apple’s plans of going to ARM possibly by the end of this year, I don’t want to invest a lot in hardware that’s going to be obsolete soon.

This argument doesn't make much sense to me. While not all hardware works with the goal of building a hackintosh. Plenty of top of the line hardware does and will run Windows just fine if ARM becomes an issue.

Presumably nothing would be stored about you in that interaction

Given how prevalent the tracking of users is, anonymous or otherwise, I'd be extremely pessimistic about this assumption.

One candidate even thought they should be able to bill us for their time spent applying (We passed)

Ironically, you passed on the smartest applicant of the bunch.

The problem here is that the average end user would not know which one to use and when to use it.

On one hand I appreciate how elaborately the parent comment made their point. On another, I appreciate how succinctly you made your point. A conundrum within a conundrum, indeed.

I have had the exact opposite experience with BlueJeans :(

Can layer 0 be sources supporting the content?

You use your bare hand?

If I remember correctly, React was only part of it. Lack of support for relational databases was a big issue as well. On top of that, people realized that they didn't need real time functionality and the overhead (and scaling) of mini-mongo et al was a difficult venture. Take with a grain of salt. This was all very long ago so my memory may not be accurate.

Is this an advertisement?

I enjoyed this episode greatly and learned a whole lot about the NHL that I did not know (or intend to know).

Planet Money ran an episode on the Phoebus Cartel not too long ago. Really interesting listen.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/03/27/707388981/epis...

professional services firms that subcontract work to me

How were you able to create these kinds of relationships with the professional services firms?

Would you mind giving an example of the type of value based pricing you're talking about? What kind of metrics do you use to determine the value you provide to the client? Is it as simple as "this feature has increased sales by X%"?

Haha the most exciting questions OP will ever hear!

Not really my product to defend. It does more than sleep tracking for $30/mo, however.

Apologies for being off topic, but I'm looking to attempt the opposite transition. Go from Big Co to self-employed consultant and would love to pique your brain about your journey if you'd be willing to field a few questions of mine at some point?

[Whoop](https://www.whoop.com/) has a lot of buzz right now and offers some interesting looking sleep insight. I haven't used one myself yet so I can't speak from personal experience.

I love HN for the fact that tired, low effort, comments like this are far less common.

Or maybe it's a clever ruse.. checkmate adversary

I'd guess it goes something like, "We have 75 petabytes of data to move over and would like to use your services but are concerned about costs. What kind of prices can you give us?".

If you wouldn't mind sharing, I'd be interested in hearing what kind of work you provide to clients when hired to consult.

Nothing on the internet period?