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I'm not in Israel, so my answer doesn't contain specific values. I also don't do freelance work online. So...

My "offline" freelancing work quotations are structured like this:
Firstly, I have a target of how much I want to make in a month, secondly an idea of how many hours I'm willing to work in a month to reach that target, and finally an indication of the delivery requirements of the project, if any (some quotations ask me to specify by when they could reasonably expect delivery, while others give an idea of when they require delivery).
Then, I balance hours vs money vs delivery.
So a project that has a delivery of a month (or multiple thereof) and means spending mostly all the monthly hours on that project will attract a rate that means I get out what I intend to for a month. Something that has a shorter delivery requirement with a higher number of hours to be spent (those projects where something needs to be done urgently, for example) the rate is a lot higher since more hours are spent on the project. I also work in a setup cost for each project, which is not billed directly but rather included in a higher hourly rate. I'll typically make more from 4x 1-week projects than 1x 4-week project, but the latter at least getting me to my target. While the former means a nicer "paycheck" at the end of the month, it requires more effort to get right, and it means requiring 4 different projects.

Obviously in practice there's other issues to consider, but such things are picked up over time. For example, projects don't occur one at a time sequentially. Which means sometimes working on 2 or more projects concurrently (your choice completely though whether you accept the extra work and whether you've planned for it). This means when sending the first (and subsequent) quote out, that the 'weights on the scales' have been adjusted accordingly. Then there's the consideration that there might not be work for some period, in which case either the end monetary target needs to be adjusted down for the period without work, or otherwise have an inflated monetary target to begin with, the excess of which caters for those periods (you'll need to determine what is a fair increase and how long it will take to build up a sufficient amount before you can afford to be without work - that length of time is a good indicator of savings needed before starting freelancing).
Something else to consider is that a sufficient amount of time will need to be spent on admin work: generating quotes, responding to emails, invoicing, following up with payments, meeting (potential) clients , etc. You'll need to decide how to bill for this time as well.

Aaand I'm almost done with this novel... since you're wanting to do freelancing work online, you'll need to consider most of the above, but importantly, that
a) your success rate of landing work is likely going to be a lot lower than what you think,
b) the amount of "admin" required increases (responding to and browsing alerts, etc).
All factor in on the total you'll make in a month.
> With Arch do you feel you have a better sense of why things break when they do?

Yes
Unless it's because they tried to use some resources that the government assigned you exclusive rights to, then it's an integral part of a free society?
No idea whether it's correct, but article says that law breaking is acceptable when everyone does it.
They are not and it is not against Amazon ToS.
If there's one thing I've learned from the internet, it's that people sure prize the appearance of being clever.
No way! A static binary is infinitely easier to deploy, patch, and maintain. Especially across systems.

Python, Ruby, and Node are becoming less popular for a reason.
Discord is great, but its primary purpose is for gamers, but can of course be used for similar purposes as Slack.

The problem with Slack & Discord that Mattermost addresses is the ability to host it yourself, which means that you're in control of the data. Not everyone needs that, but there are companies and especially government-owned institutions/companies that do require that.
Given that, what point were you making?
The "just a warm body, any warm body!" mentality is what's so detrimental about the co-founder craze. Both financially (~50% of equity!) and in terms of more risk. It's a bad idea unless they're at least as talented and motivated as you (preferably in an area that complements you), and even then it's dangerous because you give up a lot of control.

If it's your idea and your vision, why not build the prototype, get some traction, then bring on a talented employee for 5% equity? Much better than 50% with someone you met at a "find a tech-cofounder" event
> I hope Emacs guys will finish the GuileEmacs[1] project.

I really really hope they don't and use Common Lisp to achieve the same end. Running emacs in a Common Lisp like SBCL implementation means that it will be natively compiled, with an extremely intelligent compiler.

> A second advantage is that it will be easier to implement some additional language features for Elisp which the Guile compiler tower and VM are capable of, like a full numeric tower (infinite-sized integers, exact rational numbers, imaginary numbers, etc.), record types (like an improved defstruct), CLOS-like OOP, an FFI, composable continuations, a module system, hygienic macros, multiple-value returns, and threads.

Common Lisp has infinite-sized integers, exact rational numbers and imaginary numbers. It has DEFSTRUCT. It has CLOS (obviously). Every Unix Lisp I'm aware of has an FFI. Continuations are actually a problem when it comes to e.g. UNWIND-PROTECT. Common Lisp has packages and an excellent module system in ASDF3. It has hygienic macro libraries, and natively supports the more-powerful DEFMACRO. It supports multiple-value returns. BORDEAUX-THREADS is an excellent portable thread library.

> A third advantage is all Guile APIs/libraries becoming available to Elisp code, no matter what language they’re implemented in, because different languages on the Guile VM can inter-operate quite well, especially if they’re both a Lisp.

Common Lisp has many excellent libraries available via Quicklisp.

Scheme is IMHO a broken language: distinguishing NIL and #f; only have one namespace; continuations; not allowing (cdr nil); not having a native object system; not having a rich type and class library; not having read macros. It was an interesting experiment, but the effort spent on Schemes would have been better spent improving Lisp.

Lisp is far closer to elisp, and is a better language to boot.
The GNOME dev team is where people go when they can't put in work in systemd. The days when it was good are long gone.

GTK3 drags in way too much of gnome for comfort, but I don't want to drop all GTK3 apps, so I have to put up with it.
I get what you're saying, and i think the whole "you gotta work your butt off to be successful" thing is a lingering noting from workoholic culture. "How many hours you put in?" is the corporate version of "how much can you lift?" And I believe it's not exactly right; working smarter is better than just working harder. But both do entail work.

Then again, isn't there some quote about inspiration and perspiration ;)
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> why does getting a degree in the US give any more credibility?

It does not! And probably never will. A lot of people who I know went on to get a phd because of lack of options or because of frustration and failure in corporate life. The latter is statistically a sizeable number; consider unless the kid in your class went off immediately after school.

Whereas a multinational manager is usually directly contributing into the US economy for years with sweat and hard work, including engineering and research -- if needed, for their business to survive and grow. I'd rather say they gather and implement more according to the culture and edge it off with cultural gaps between the host country and their own. Of course now we're entering a class war. :-)
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at least, thats what the politician tells you in order to accept the fleecing of your wallet
That's what Linux on desktop is always about. First contact, and it all looks fine. But then, you want a certain application installed and use it or whatever and things start getting haywire (from user experience perspective). Within half an hour of fresh install you're on some obscure old and closed topics on forums or IRC begging for help, etc. Once it works it's great, but that's how it is.

I use MacOS on my laptop, Windows 8.1 on main workstation and Fedora 24 / XFCE on another workstation daily. Each and every OS has some things I wish the other OS would have and i can't decide which one is 'the best'. There's no such thing.

I'd say the closest thing to an ideal situation (for me) would be a Fedora OS with MacOS-like opaqueness to configurations and upgrade, Adobe, Games, and Office applications from Windows (they work better on Windows) and preview (spacebar and app) from MacOS in it. At that point I wouldn't even care if, at its core, it would be Linux or BSD or NT.
During grad school, I found that MATLAB, in particular, lends itself to spaghettification.

I can think of a lot of reasons why that is, but the one-function-per-file and single flat directory structure of MATLAB programs is part of it.

Language quirks are another, but I could write an entire book about that.
I hope this gets used for good, not evil. Lots of sites (you know, those sites, they crop on on HN from time to time) flash up "give me your email address so I can send you spam" boxes before I can read the blog post. Or when it thinks I've gone somewhere else when in fact I just opened it in a new tab. Or if a momentarily switched away. I mostly close blogs that aggressively try to sell me things, but sometimes I want to read the content.

Conversations about what's an app and what's a document aside, I'd much rather documents didn't know anything about how they were being displayed.
There are exceptions like Romney, but they don't really add up to much. The US has a more progressive tax system than Western Europe: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/04/05/ameri...

The top 10% in the US pay a substantially larger share of taxes than their share of income. In Sweden they pay the same share of taxes as their share of income.
There's no such thing as a tax loophole. It's either legal or not. If it's legal and you don't like it then make it illegal.

You still get punished if you're a day less than legal drinking age and get caught. So you can't have it both ways.

If they're not following the law then punish them.
I have to agree, Excel and science just don't go with one another.
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And there's nothing funny about underfunded critical community services.
Hi @sandGorgon, hi @gizmo

Mattermost team here. Thanks for your feedback,

While pricing is set that way for a purpose, we are always looking for ways to improve and we're keenly interested in what everyone has to say.

Our focus for Enterprise has been large organizations with sophisticated needs and it's important for us to have conversations and demonstrations with the people doing the evaluation so they fully understand what we're offering.

That said, there are people who use our free Team Edition or have read through our docs that just want a "buy" button for E20.

I'll bring this up and see what we can do.

PS: Regarding the word "fix", my personal view is that it's okay for a commercial product, because people are buying it as a customer. Enterprise Edition is a commercial product.

That said, many open source communities are adopting a principle of "kindness" and having feedback phrased positively where possible. People work hard to make open source software and give it away, and if conversations started on a positive note... well, why not?
I audited Mattermost 1.x through 3.x a while back. Had some issues but everything was fixed smoothly and from 3.x it is actually really good. Slides from my talk on it here: https://speakerdeck.com/addelindh/hacking-mattermost-an-asse...
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I love Sudoku! The best way to pick up the essentials of a programming language is to write a Sudoku solver in it. So I've done that plenty :)
You really think the problem is doctors' pay?
The most interesting thing here would be the lack of competition, but the article, which was pretends to be a "case study", just leaves it at "various reasons". What the hell? It's not like an individual company's responsible for keeping the price sane; it should be kept down by the whole market — and if the market's malfunctioning, government's to blame, not the company.
I'd rather take the bar exam (a uniform, objective, standardized test), than do as-hoc interview puzzles.
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Hear, hear! One can argue against this saying Capitalism is the panacea of the market, but one only needs to look at ANY OTHER FIRST WORLD NATION (99% of them have nationalized health care and pay less to get better care than us) to see that we're CLEARLY doing it wrong here.
How did the team come together, how well did you know each other when the company began?
Which is identical to write "cmd; nextCommand"

E.g. sleep 2; echo it works
Are you a lawyer who specializes in libel or just an assertive internet denizen?
You want to pay the 20$ thing but you want additional features from the more expensive call-us tier. That is fundamentally a complaint about their pricing.

The raison d'etre of pricing tiers is to charge a different price to different customers. Having to pay extra to get extra features is the point, not a bug that needs fixing.
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Income from investment is taxed less than income from work in order to boost the economy by incentivizing investment, right? (Please tell me if there's another good reason.) Does our economy still need this? Interest rates are low, long term rates are low, and there's enough money sloshing around hedge and venture funds that people are worried about reckless "yield seeking" behavior.

So why do we still incentivize investment more than work? Perhaps we don't need transfer payments to offset wealth inequality, perhaps we just need to stop giving the wealthy so many advantages.
Health care capitalism in America is like the invisible hand giving all consumers a permanent prostate examination.

We need to nationalize health care (all drug and insurance). There is no other solution.
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actually without some concepts its pretty hard to not have boilerplate code.
I mean OptionT and maybe OneAnd is pretty useful.
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Babel and webpack are megaoverkill for this and account for a good chunk of the 2k gzipped size. The actual library code is barely 140SLOC. There's a lot of room for improvement if this is intended to be a real standalone library (vs. a webpack/babel test).
> unfriendly `ip` command instead of `ifconfig`

Ifconfig had been deprecated for what... over 5 years now? It's a bit different, but if you need it often, you'll either learn in a few days or can just use an ifconfig-compatible wrapper. There are projects that do that already.

The kernel moved to rtnetlink and ifconfig simply doesn't work the same way. Interface labels vs multiple IPs is just one very visible difference.
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I think pushbullet does that.
10 seconds into reading on mobile this sites forces multiple stacked pop-ups down my throat. No thanks. It highly disturbs the reading experience.

Screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/j39660oej84rrkt/File%2027-08.jpeg?...
But then again how many of these companies with cofounders, really only had cofounders-in-name-only? Where one person really drove everything but at some point thought - oh shit, if I'm going to be successful, I need a cofounder!

Given the dogmatic advice "YOU NEED A COFOUNDER", I'm sure a lot of it's title inflation - what would normally be first employees are elevated to founder status to look good for the pitch deck or just to follow the advice. That said, they're still going to be quality people - less met at a find-a-technical-cofounder event, more Biz Stone style "can my title be cofounder lol?"
I haven't used Moxb but I've used Redux a lot the last 6 months, building mobile apps and also a rewrite of our frontend at Typeform.

I'm not sure how Redux could be considered complex, the API is very small and the ideas are small as well. There is really not much to learn with Redux. Redux is like literally 100 lines of code if you remove comments and simple sanity checks.

Also, not sure what you mean with boilerplate? What kind of boilerplate do you have when using Redux? Would love to see an example of that.
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I am also using F22/XFCE setup from past 2 years - Stable !
Actually, if you build GTK3 yourself, it doesn't need anything more than a current default GTK2 distro package does, but you'll lose features like colord support. My experience is with Gentoo USE flags, but I believe FreeBSD ports has options for packages that do the same and are the original inspiration for USE flags, so one should be able to use a lean GTK3 and GTK2 on FreeBSD.

When GTK3 and even Qt5 go user-unfriendly and dev-unfriendly ways, it's no wonder there's many immediate mode ui library projects that are popular or actively developed Haskell FLTK bindings.
There are objectively better or worse solutions for this problem. Some lead to human flourishing, others prevent it. It is definitely possible to have more or less expertise in this topic.
I never thought I'd want a clock-in, clock-out system until this moment. Early in my working life (teen retail electronics job), I felt the pressure of the clock, even as a super reliable worker. I just knew it was there.

Now, the idea of a clock that tells me to go home seems super appealing.
> On August 15, Larpenter was supposed to be honored for his service to the community by being inducted into the Louisiana Justice Hall of Fame.

That says it all!

and this one instance is the only one we know of that Larpenter overstepped the bounds of his authority.
I've been using arch for about 3 years and I think that things break just as often (actually, probably more often) and you're generally not left with a better sense of what the root cause is. Sure, you have less software installed, but you're also usually running bleeding-edge versions of everything and things are noticeably less stable.

I do think that from an educational standpoint, arch linux is a good OS to use, as you will probably get a lot more comfortable with the linux environment. This is largely out of necessity as you will spend a great deal of time setting up and fixing your system.

If you have the time to debug the various components of your system, it can be quite fun and educational to use, but if you're interested in getting work done I cannot recommend arch linux at all.
I'm not sure I would go that far but I have always had very mediocre experiences with people who describe themselves as "visionary"
The median index fund easily beats the median hedge fund after accounting for fees on both.

Are you more comfortable with that statement?

Also, here's another one to ponder: It may be just as hard to pick a fund manager who will outperform his/her peers as it is to pick a stock that will outperform its peers. For this reason alone, I index almost all my money.
> If not, then I humbly ask why is a term such as monad qualified as elitist, yet terms such as Abstract Syntax Tree[0], Big O notation[1], and Turing complete[2] are not?

The preciseness of the definition has nothing to do with the perceived elitism. Plenty of precisely mathematically defined concepts, as you've illustrated, can be (and are) explained to people without ever needing a single glyph or axiom in the explanation, let alone a recursive terminology briefer.

Take the following two definitions:

1) A screw is a mechanical device that converts rotational motion to linear motion, and torque to a linear force.

2) A screw is something you use to attach stuff to walls. You use a screwdriver to mash it in there.

One is abstract yet precise. The other is non-abstract and imprecise...so imprecise that it might as well be wrong. Regardless of its cringe induction potential to the Haskell-lovers brain, only one of these definitions will hold the attention of a 4 year old and explains why they're useful and how to use them.

The simple fact of the matter is that people in general are bad at math, and even most people who think they are "good at math" have no fucking clue what category theory is...good luck holding their attention while you brief them on it. Nobody learns abstract before non-abstract, it's just not how brains work. If you give them a reason to hold on to the concept, and explain it with words they likely understand, you might get far enough to one day explain the abstract version.
Well but even if you want to li... fantasize, you have to give some "credible" input as how you know that.

Dunno, that you were in a reptilian press conference and you heard that there. Something.

Even to li... fantasize, you have to know how.
> I'm surprised that the original warrants were signed in the first place.

No, no surprise there.

Cops/Sheriffs are not the only corrupt arm of the criminal justice system. The whole system is messed up.
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I just found a beautiful red fox in my front yard. It was stretched out as if sleeping on the grass: dead and probably hit by a car, sad.

It really was a lovely animal except for one thing, in comparison to a similar sized dog its mouth was full of sharp teeth and the muzzle gave the impression of being more feral. I think a live wolverine's mouth would be even scarier. Maybe a muzzle with a red-cross on it over the wolverine's mouth would make it less terrifying to a trapped victim.

Dogs have teeth smaller than similar wild canine species. The suggestion is that there has been (human driven) selective evolutionary pressure during the 20,000 years or so of dogs domestication to make them more compatible with life around humans. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_domestic_dog
It might originally have been a misunderstanding, but like how "literally", now also means "not literally" it's the meaning of "culture".
I have no idea what you are even trying to argue.

Why would they create cats while they still had hope to save scalaz from its community? No need to spin some crazy conspiracy.

> you apparently dislike the people involved

LOL WTF? That guy has single-handedly destroyed more than one community already. It's not like it's some unfortunate thing that accidentally happens. It has happened before, and will keep happening until he is shown the door for good.

The rest of the scalaz community are enabling him to keep doing his toxic shit. The faster scalaz goes the way of Lift, the better.

I judge people for using scalaz. If you think it is acceptable to keep enabling him, you are a bad human being.
I don't believe he meant glitch in the sense of bugs but rather in FRP terms. I.e. temporarily inconsistent state.