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www.mikeperham.com 10y ago

Kill Your Dependencies

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www.saltycrane.com 10y ago

Switching from Emacs to Vim (actually Spacemacs)

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www.lunaryorn.com 10y ago

Why Spacemacs?

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www.geekwire.com 10y ago

Seahawks lineman Russell Okung responds to PG's essay on economic inequality

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doomcclanahan.tumblr.com 10y ago

Girl, Bye

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nvie.com 11y ago

Beautiful Map

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transneptune.net 11y ago

Lessons for a freelancer from time in an office

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features.jsomers.net 11y ago

How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back keystrokes (2014)

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aeon.co 11y ago

Who’s to blame for the digital time deficit?

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al3x.net 11y ago

Meditation and Performance

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blog.yesgraph.com 11y ago

Growth Step #1: Pick a Goal

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growthhackers.com 11y ago

AMA: I'm Ivan Kirigin, founder of YesGraph, a new growth tool

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blog.kirigin.com 11y ago

Startup Idea: The Future of Digital Work

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blog.sitarska.com 12y ago

You go, girl Why I love Django community

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paulgraham.com 12y ago

What I Didn't Say

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al3x.net 13y ago

Letter To A Young Programmer Considering A Startup

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status.heroku.com 14y ago

Heroku: a follow up on last week's outage

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learncodethehardway.org 14y ago

Please Don't Become Anything, Especially Not A Programmer

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al3x.net 14y ago

What Is And Is Not A Technology Company

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blog.arongriffis.com 14y ago

Load virtualenvwrapper on demand to speed up your shell

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dougalmatthews.com 15y ago

My Vagrant Workflow - Dougal Matthews

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www.stubbleblog.com 15y ago

Advice for a young entrepreneur

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lethain.com 15y ago

Storing Bounded Timeboxes in Redis

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j2labs.tumblr.com 15y ago

Some Black Magic Python for n00bs

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lucumr.pocoo.org 15y ago

Flask at PyCon 2011

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www.marco.org 15y ago

Which iPad 2 should I get?

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www.engineyard.com 15y ago

Why Puppet Should Manage Your Infrastructure

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jontourage.com 15y ago

Virtualenv and pip Basics

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members.fortunecity.com 15y ago

Good And Bad Reasons For Believing (Dawkins letter to his daughter)

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scale-out-blog.blogspot.com 15y ago

Virtual IP Addresses and Their Discontents for Database Availability

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+1 and well said. When I had legal issues with a client irrationally withholding payment, my lawyer suggested to wait four days to respond. Seems like an eternity, especially considering it's double from what you tend to follow (48 hours), it's amazing how much more reasonable your response can be juxtaposed to responding immediately.

And since this IS a technical community, here's some other points of interest:

- Built with Django, jQuery, and Git (hosted on CodebaseHQ)

- MySQL

- Served up by Apache on Ubuntu Karmic

- Hosted on AWS

- Fabric for deployment

Wow, your first client experience sounds ideal! Not only did he end up as your personal accountant, but you had him working for YOU as he looked for potential clients. That's a great use of resources and definitely sounds like it was worth your time investment for those few weeks.

Thanks for sharing and for the Dale Carnegie recommendation!

Did you do this for your first client? If so, how did it all go?

I did something similar - I offered to build the foundation of their website (a social networking site) for free as a trial. It only took a few nights and they liked what they saw. Shortly after, we negotiated and agreed upon a rate to continue development.

One of the take aways from this post is something that's been talked about on HN for quite some time: the call for quality content.

It would be a better world if the amount of people who knew what they were talking about was directly proportionate to how much they talked.

Just another big fan of your blog! Given the content you write about and the quality of the HN community, I'm usually surprised if I'm the first one to submit a post from your site. It's a perfect fit!

No blog on my end currently - took it down a while ago and haven't found the time to get it started up again. Hopefully soon! My email is [this username] at gmail dot com. I am always up for a good chat! Keep up the great work!

I noticed that, too. Perhaps he is referring to "Cutting-Edge" updates? I'm on build 1436 (Minor Updates) and 1496 is available now.

I agree with you that the title is pure bait. It's obvious that the combination of her poor performance reviews and Myspace photo caused her to lose her teaching position, with the photo pushing everything over the edge. But I think the real controversy here is our online privacy. This is yet another example of how social network profiles (when people are not careful) come back to bite them in the ass. Although I know almost everyone on HN is smart enough to make photos like that private, it's a good reminder from this lesson learned.

And this story always cracks me up :) - http://valleywag.com/tech/your-privacy-is-an-illusion/bank-i...