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Right.

I guess you must be having a whole different set of problems than me. I also use Redux, have not found time travel to be a boost to my productivity. I choose Redux because of the simplicity around state management, and having it all centralised in a store is a nice pattern. (Don't really get other commenters claiming that this isn't new - I don't see the relevance).

Thanks.

Not the one being asked, but I usually go with breakpoints in Dev Tools.

I understand the functionality, but what are actual use cases for a calendar CLI?

I second this. Love the idea.

1. Intelligent people ask questions. There is no reason to stop after the first week. Connect the dots in the open and people will understand that you're intelligent. "Why do you <technical detail> here?". "Because of X". "Ah, so it's basically the same as using <technical detail Y>." Just show that you are able to take in the new information.

On it! :)

It isn't. But, they're assholes, have no understanding of the work that has been done (substantial) and if we quit on them it could have really negative results on their business. Which could lead to legal action.

For those of you that have signed with assholes. If you were able to drop them, how did you do it? I have a client I want to drop, but they're locked in into our development routines and it would probably cost them for us to hand it over to another firm. If another firm would take them. The one's I know that would take them can't handle the complexity of the app's environment and can't code.

> "And don’t feel pressure to go to networking events. No one really mixes at mixers. Although we plan to meet new people, we usually end up hanging out with old friends."

Well yes, if you choose to. I wish the article could keep the focus of the positive effects that creating great things leads to, and not try to position it as an opposite of networking.

Networking is gold. Networkers that also produce extraordinary things will get even better results.

Do you have any information to support this claim about battery drain? Genuinely interested, not trying to negate what you're saying.

A tinfoil hat would go great with that t-shirt.

You could go: "Homie, hook a hacka up". As a now-adult-used-to-wear-baggy-pants I'd identify with the target market.

Sounds like stories found in all countries?

> "That feeling that I am actually the one making this work, and I'm also perfectly capable of talking with people and selling it"

The last part of this sentence is what is important. I'm a decent programmer, having built a few apps both for web and phones. My colleague is a better programmer. We're getting tons of work (by me selling) and outsourcing lots of it to other programmers we know, because they can't sell. Selling is hard, building trust is harder and doing so continuously is even harder.

My point, although a bit drawn out, is: It doesn't matter how great you are as a developer if you can't sell. Running a business is another kind of hard than dealing with race conditions. You can probably learn how to do both.

A week after my son found out Michael Jackson had died. He loves Michael Jackson.

- Dad. Is Michael Jackson dead? - Yes... (Unsure if this will cause a meltdown) - That's OK. - It is? - Yep. There's two. Which one is dead? - How do you mean? - The white or the brown one?

I'd say you have one. If you had one before, you didn't know what really happened when you went `var that = this;` and aired your opinion about how `this` is being stupid. So you got the arrow function, where `this` acts the way you expected before, when you said it was stupid. You can't complain about both.

The scoping of `this` has never really been too hard to understand. I learned it my first week doing JS.

I have a project that I'm trying to turn into a product. I got it from spotting a new tech in use in a restaurant, and applied it to another market. Fingers crossed, I'll have investment coming in around Christmas.

Press releases are very effective. I've done them professionally and had them lead to articles in all but one of Sweden's large newspapers. Marketers with the skill of finding interesting angles shouldn't have a problem to get exposure this way, if they target the right magazines / news outlet.

Tldr; This is what we attend / do to get clients that's not into tech already:

- lots of general network events where only C-level staff attend (often paid networks)

- side by side with consultants and business developers that haven't got technical staff

- get references from companies we've befriended by giving them leads before

You need to find a way into non-technical companies. We find them by going to network meetings with companies not in the IT sector. I have a large network of tech companies, but more non-tech companies. Sometimes a CEO for a marketing firm have a good lead they want in the long term, and then he brings in us to deliver something else for their business, such as an internal app for tracking deliveries. His potential client gets hyped up and I suggest potential marketing angles of the app and in doing so direct the business back to him. Other times I have a few drinks with CEOs from different companies at network events, they get to know me on a more personal level, and then pass me / us as a reference when they hear about jobs. We also go side by side of business developers, letting them add "digitalization" as a part of their brand.

My whole business is based on targeting older businesses. We've done some really simple CRUD apps with users for each employee for quite great margins. So much work to be done - just gotta meet enough businesses.

On mobile: If I try to uncomment by hitting backspace on phone keyboard, instead of erasing it duplicates the word left to the marker. :)

Yes, many more and shorter stride is the way to go. A good way to get into it naturally is joining a trailrunning group. (I'd recommend buying a pair of inov8 for the trails, but that's another topic.)

Edit: Anecdotally, I know a bunch of really great runners and they all have a strike where they land on the ball of the foot.

As a business owner, it's much easier for me to have an invoice (for the books) than explaining why I sent money through PayPal. Nothing is impossible, but it's more of a hassle for me to donate.

We recently started to go through our commercial projects in a structured way and setup a small budget for OSS donations / support. Please setup some easy way to just give a receipt for support or anything else I can document. Purchase via CC is okay but I need receipts. :)

Thanks to all creators in here that let's me keep a much higher development pace.

Well, that stigma sure sounds made up, where the other one is actually a real thing.

Can someone living in the US care to expand on this?

"...which is also when many VCs get back from their August vacations (sad but true!)."

What is sad here? Being Swede,my initial reaction was "ok, late summer vacation".

Thanks for all your great answers! I've learnt something new.

I can't tell if this is satire or not. So unreadable but so in line with much of the hype.

Can someone please explain macros, in an easy to grasp way?