skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's actually a larger question than you perhaps realize. There are different kinds of freelancing. The spectrum ranges from something that looks like "remote" work to something more akin to agency-like project work.

That former is much easier. The latter pays better but requires a whole bunch of other skills, and takes much more time. The two aren't mutually exclusive however, and that is what I've done as part of my strategy.

There is a monthly find a freelancer thread on here where you might be able to find a gig. Work on building your portfolio/reputation. I'd suggest small projects at reduced rates.

Next, I'd visit a lawyer and get a template contract worked out. Rather than have him write one from scratch, find one that includes a lot of the things you want and have him tweak it. It will be cheaper that way. Most important (IMO) are indemnification, terms of payment, and arbitration.

Get used to promoting yourself. Have your short and long "elevator pitch" together. Put together a landing page and get some business cards. Talk.To.Everyone! You never know where and when your next client will come from.

One of the issues you will run into is the feast or famine issue. You never know when you will get your next client, you have to always be on the lookout and courting -- overloading the queue because a percentage will drop out. If you don't find the next soon enough, then famine. If, as it happens often, several prospects say yes, then you feast. By feast I mean work a lot of hours and save up so you can weather the next famine.

What are your skills? Do you have a portfolio? How about an up-to-date linked-in profile?
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> If I could do it all over again, I'd have thrown that temper tantrum at 17 and gone to animation school rather than a normal university.

Is animation that different? It's also "create on demand on schedule".
Here's an entire Roman city that was well-preserved thanks to silting and river meandering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostia_Antica
> In countries that respect IP this isn't a problem. The larger issue is China, Taiwan, etc don't respect IP and hard tactics like the FTDI driver bricking becomes a reality. No one wants to talk about the elephant in the room: Asian manufacturer corruption and lack of accountability with IP issues in those countries.

Wait what? The real issue is that manufacturers can push broken drivers (kernel-mode code!), with seemingly no oversight, to users who no longer have an option to opt out.
P/NP has direct bearing on (a) how easy it is for an AI entity to HACK ALL THE INTERNETS that are accessible to it but protected with (NP) cryptography and stuff, and (b) how easy it is for an AI entity to design the next generation of itself in advance of this SINGULARITY APOCALYPSE I keep hearing about (and designing a better computer is probably a problem in NP as well, to say nothing of manufacturing concerns).
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I wonder why all those demo-sites include JavaScript. Doesn't this contradict their purpose of demonstrating a pure-CSS library?
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Why do you think most developers should be paid similarly to a highly specialized doctor?

First of all, you might be thinking of doctors like neurosurgeons. Less than 1% of practicing physicians in the US are neurosurgeons, and some neurosurgeons make as little as $250k (often ones with special academic appointments). Not all of them make $1M/year or even $700k/year.

Second of all, you might in general be overestimating doctor compensation. See this report:

http://www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/compensation/2015...

Primary care doctors earned an average of $195k in total compensation. Half that is $97.5k. There are many developers who make more than that -- certainly far more than .1% of developers. That is, in fact, the median pay for software developers:

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/Computer-and-Information-Technology/S...

Granted, you did say specialized doctor, and we see from the MedScape report that they make $280k on average. Half of that is only $140k. There are fresh college graduates who make more than that in total compensation. I've even known relatively new developers making $250k once bonuses and vesting stocks are taken into account. Either way, $140k in total pay is not uncommon at all for an experienced senior developer. Again, certainly far more than .1% of developers are in that income bracket.

Finally, and perhaps more importantly, I think you might underestimate the difficulty of becoming a specialized doctor. It's certainly much harder than becoming an average programmer. The educational requirements are vastly higher and more rigorous. The debt load is in the six figures for all but children of the rich. And the time investment is at minimum 11 years (4 undergrad + 4 medical school + minimum of 3 residency). But since we're talking about specialized MDs, the residency will actually be longer than that, as long as 7 years for a neurosurgeon, plus an extra 2-3 for a fellowship if desired. After all that, the doctor will potentially work twice as much as the programmer.

It's not fair to compare the average heart surgeon to the average programer, because the heart surgeon is by definition vastly above average among doctors in both education, grades, and pay. It would really only be fair to compare the heart surgeon to, say, a senior engineer at Google (or similar), where a total compensation exceeding $250k is common.

As for lawyers, many law school graduates I know don't even have a job. The days are long gone where a law degree was automatically a golden ticket. It's certainly true that the top lawyers make a large amount of money, but becoming a partner (say) at a large firm is just not comparable to becoming a programmer. These days, it's like winning the lottery.
But where's the LCARS interface?
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Use the old driver? At least give the user the option to keep using the old driver?
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It's not bizarre. There is a long historical culture of criticism of capitalism. It's just been squashed in recent decades.

I am a particularly privileged individual because I have a choice of what labor I can do, and even how much to an extent. Most people don't have the choice of just switching careers because they feel like it, and even fewer have the option of even realizing that there is some sort of activity that would be more fulfilling than what they do to survive.

I believe the reality check needs to occur in the people who are too used to their own comfort that they can't even lift their blinders to look outside their own social environments and see the injustice that is happening on a massive scale in the world.
you've heard of "code smell", right? that right there is a "career smell".
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> In countries that respect IP this isn't a problem.

I don't disagree with you, but you can't ignore the realities of the world. One of those is that almost all electronics are made in these regions (fake and genuine). This is why supply chain control is very difficult in these places. Additionally, supply chain control is not my problem to solve. It's the vendor's (FTDI).

> Dell didn't need to buy FTDI to have the nightmarish capacitor plague issue.

None of those issues were created intentionally by a reputable company. Dell didn't intentionally start building bad caps. It was due to a QA process gap at a fairly reputable capacitor manufacturer. It was a mistake... In this case, FTDI is doing this on purpose. It's totally reasonable to blame FTDI for a problem they created.
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This is a very insightful comment. I found myself realizing daily, during my 2015 adventure, that the likelihood of success for me would have dropped precipitously if I did not already have a solid idea of how to handle version control, test-driven development, etc.

The speed at which startups move is a cause for concern, however, because many of the people with which I worked were simply "lean in" types, and would have been able to get a job doing just about anything. The problem was that many of these ninja rockstar 10x efficiency evangelists didn't really work with Git well and didn't really value the command line. Linux knowledge was very minimal.

I worked for four startups, and found that only one of them had ONE employee who had a solid computer science background.
I would say the downside that you mentioned can also be a strength too!

Thanks for the response. I've been trying to decide between Go and Elixir as my next new language. Both languages sound like they have great features.
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If the device doesn't have the USB logo, it means they didn't pay the USB implementors forum. There are plenty of devices which implement USB, but don't pay the license fees. It doesn't mean they just output garbage. I've also seen devices with the vaunted logo on them which failed spectacularly when it came to following USB specs.

I'm not sure what point you're making regarding the infeasibility of detecting counterfeit chips. It's not like these chips were bricked by accident. FTDI is specifically going out of its way to exploit bugs in these clones to brick them. So it looks like they have the detection thing pretty well covered.

You'll note that the opensource linux drivers works just as well with the clones. That's because they do not expend extra effort to make them not work.
> shifts well past midnight on Friday and Christmas Eve.

Haha, try working as a developer supporting a retail-based operation! Our company pulls all-nighters on black friday and christmas eve.
You know I've been wondering this lately too. I haven't done any freelance work but I want to get into it. I'm still not sure the answer, but I started by turning on the 'Hire Me' buttons on my Codepen and GitHub accounts. I just launched a portfolio website (last night actually) that showcases a few of my projects and lists my contact information. I think my next step would be to check out sites like elance etc. But I'd love to hear other ideas from successful freelancers.
Great overview! We're just starting to use Slack for content/design work and beyond the nuts-and-bolts processes the biggest challenge is working in the open. Will share your experiences with my team.
After it happens enough time you would think a lightbulb would turn somewhere...
Using Google Analytics to measure traffic does not contradict the purpose of demonstrating their tooltip library.
As did Phoenix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Technologies#Cloning_t...
> It's understood that this article is meant to discuss zero-install applications that require nothing more than the standard C library.

No, they are zero install, including NOT requiring a C library. No libraries at all. They're communicating directly with kernel32 from userland.

On Windows that's as "bare metal" as a non-driver can really get.
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Deep neural nets do precisely this. Though the specifics change from implementation to implementation, in general there is a large drop in the number of hidden units at each layer of the architecture.
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> I have a high level of trust that it will do what it says

Even after seeing them pull a stunt like this in their drivers?
Its because of two misconceptions

1) People's perceptions that Racket is an educational program

2) It's hard to communicate the unique qualities of Racket. "Racket is a full-spectrum programming language. It goes beyond Lisp and Scheme with dialects that support objects, types, laziness, and more. Racket enables programmers to link components written in different dialects, and it empowers programmers to create new, project-specific dialects. Racket's libraries support applications from web servers and databases to GUIs and charts."

A programming language for programming languages isn't an "Oh I get it right away.".
I'd compare us only superficially to capital-P Professions like lawyers, architects, engineers and the like. There are no bar exams to get a license to practice programming in the industry; no liability -- it's really easy for people to misrepresent themselves and for companies to take advantage of us.

Comparing us to retail workers has some merit. We're not professions, have no collective representation, and can be easily replaced (despite current myths about how difficult it is to hire programmers there are hoards of new graduates and self-taught individuals making the leap from other careers and professions because of the money and cushy benefits -- most hiring processes seem to be designed to keep the majority of people out).
The more operative keyword here is millimeter wave, since 5g doesn't imply any specifics.
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>>> Our career is create on demand on schedule.

Spot on. Lately, I've started questioning if agile development isn't the worst thing that has happened to my overall happiness :)

Waterfall had severe drawbacks, but in any reasonably sized organizations, you'd have a lot of time on your hands in between projects, QA testing and acceptance testing. I still miss being able to hack on small stuff on work time without anybody breathing down your neck.
At some level. But I would never hire a developer to do security, or sysad. Because they have the wrong mindset for it. I want some OCD single-minded person keeping my network safe. Not someone who like to just 'get it done' as efficiently as possible. Totally different goal, and to be really good at it takes a different person.