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The article doesn't mention it, but according to https://www.calpeculiarities.com/2022/09/27/sb-1162-approved..., this will go in effect on January 1, 2023.

The ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9lvzzH0STw

Direct link to the photo archive: https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com/

The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman. Fantastic book that makes you realize how poorly designed many things in our lives are.

Location: SF Bay Area

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: ES6, React, PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, jQuery

Resume: https://www.hire.gs/gabe-schwarzer-resume.pdf

Email: gabe@hire.gs

My name is Gabe and I'm a senior web engineer with 12 years' experience in full stack web application development. My strength lies in improving business efficiency and user satisfaction by creating software with intuitive UIs. I'm self-motivated, resourceful, and play well with others. Code samples can be found on my Github at https://www.github.com/gschwarzer.

No recruiters please.

Off topic, but for anyone curious what that image is without clicking: it's a hairy testicle in an egg cup. The title reads "Hacker News" and the caption is "A DDoS made of finance-obsessed man-children and brogrammers".

Front page story 10 years ago on the NY Times: In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don’t Feel Rich (http://web.archive.org/web/20070805144155/http://www.nytimes...)

Sounds familiar...

I thought it was unique enough for it to be unlikely a coincidence, but if I was wrong I sincerely apologize for the accusation.

The one with the second highest thumbs up: http://imgur.com/4HkZ0Wx

Plagiarizing a 2 month old Youtube comment, really?

I don't think it would. I messed with this scammer for a good while and I found that they either use Google Voice or apps like Burner to get new, virtual cell phone numbers easily.

Appreciate the response and with this news I totally get how busy you must have been lately. Also didn't know you had a hellban system; that's smart. In that case, all is forgiven :)

Congrats. I used to be a big fan of Padmapper until recently and kept recommending it to my friends and family, but I've noticed that it has become a cess pool of scammers. When I encountered one of these scammers and reported them to Padmapper support, I was assured it would be dealt with. This was a month ago and the scammer's profiles are still active on the site (his newer profile still has listings: http://www.padlister.com/profile/show/469392). I emailed Eric directly about it too, but received no further response. I was pretty disappointed by the lack of action on their part and I ended up switching back to Craigslist for my latest apartment search.

I just received a call that the truck has been recovered in central California. We're super relieved. Thank you all for your support!

Clickable link to photo: http://hire.gs/f250.jpg

Sadly I haven't figured out how to do this in the app yet :(

Here's a tip: bookmark https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr and you will always see the most recent feed. I've been using this for months now and it hasn't unset the most recent setting yet.

Thank you all for your thoughtful responses! Considering the potential client has also asked for some other contract changes that would increase my liability to them, I've decided to stand firm and not give in to any of their contract change requests. We've been working on getting a deal together for 6 weeks now and I've found them quite inexperienced with technical matters so far. I think this translates into a lack of trust towards me, though I don't get the feeling there's any malice or ill-will behind it. So if they insist on their proposed changes to the contract, I will happily walk away. Thanks again for your thoughts!

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8149162

I focus on job posts by people in the US and emphasize my almost 2 decade experience in web development, my location (California), and my reliability. Clients in the US often prefer freelancers in the US because they've been burned by overseas devs before. I also mostly apply to jobs that aren't that easy to people with less experience (so I avoid any Wordpress/Joomla/Magento jobs, or any of the "convert PSD to HTML" jobs). It always helps to read the job posting entirely and ask clarifying questions in the proposal (shows that you've read it). Also, try to customize your proposal to each client as much as possible.

Absolutely. I skim every single job posting under web programming on Elance and sometimes a week goes by before one shows up that's promising enough to apply to. It's not ideal, but to me this is fine right now because I'm really just doing this as a hobby. I like the short and sub-$500 fixed price projects because it allows me to test the waters with a new client. If they are too annoying to work with, I get the job done quickly and move on. My goal is to pick up recurring clients this way over time that have already been vetted by me with these smaller projects. For that Elance is not too bad. Upwork on the other hand is a huge mess...

There are definitely some sites out there that help higher end developers and clients to find each other. I see gun.io mentioned a lot. Someone posted about trygigster.com here too. The problem I have with those sites is that they focus too much on the top 5% of developers and huge company clients. There are plenty of competent freelancers that aren't rockstar developers and many good clients that aren't Fortune 500 businesses. It seems there isn't a marketplace for those mid-range freelancers and clients. I'd love a site like that!

I honestly don't know if it's possible or even something that should be prevented. There will always be people in countries with lower costs of living that can offer to do a job remotely for cheaper. I don't know if it's fair necessarily to exclude them and keep pricing higher artificially just for our (developers) benefit. This is supply and demand on a global scale. Fortunately, I found that overseas developers who offer to do those jobs for pennies also often deliver subpar quality and have poor communication skills. That's where I can stand out and capitalize on that competitive advantage. Clients that want to pay ridiculously low amounts for huge, complex tasks are clients I don't want to work with anyways. They tend to be a giant pain in the ass. The overseas developers can gladly take them. Clients that know the value of my more expensive rates are the ones that tend to be easier to work with and have less unreasonable expectations. It's just a matter of trying to find those clients that get it.

I started looking for freelance jobs on Elance at the end of June for fun. I've since completed 7 super simple tasks and made $1200. It's definitely a race to the bottom and I'm lucky to have a cushy fulltime web developer job because it'd be hard to live off of Elance earnings alone. But as a hobby it's not bad. Completely agree though, clients tend to be super vague in their job listings and their budgets are miniscule. Every once in a while I find a gem though and it can be satisfying to help someone out remotely for some extra cash.

Lots of useful and insightful information here, thank you so much. That's extremely helpful!

Slightly off topic but if you're annoyed with the new Google Maps you can still use the classic version at https://maps.google.com/lochp.

You can still get to it by going to https://maps.google.com/lochp

Location: San Francisco Bay Area (will consider Austin, Raleigh, Portland, Seattle)

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Full stack web development (JS/jQuery/CSS/HTML, MySQL/PHP), iOS/Objective C, technical project management

Resume: http://www.hire.gs

Email: see resume

I'm a full stack web developer and technical project manager with 8 years of professional experience in the education sector. I’m most passionate about writing readable, quality code and building software that is useful to a wide range of people. I have a knack for quickly grasping new technologies and utilizing them to come up with creative solutions to business problems. I’m currently learning AngularJS in my spare time and my most recent frontend project is at https://www.menloschool.org/centennial.

The videos are here: http://startupclass.samaltman.com/

Location: San Francisco Bay Area (Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, San Jose preferred)

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Abilities: Full stack web development (JS/jQuery/CSS/HTML, LAMP stack, iOS/Objective C), technical project management

Resume: http://www.hire.gs

Email: see resume

I'm a full stack web developer and technical project manager with 8 years of professional experience. So far my main focus has been on web and iOS projects in the education sector, but I can quickly grasp new technologies or languages and use them to come up with creative solutions to business problems. I love to code and build things that are useful to people. Here’s a page I built for my current employer in celebration of its centennial that is a good representation of my current frontend skills: https://www.menloschool.org/centennial

OP here. I work as a web developer for a private school in the Bay Area that is celebrating its centennial year. Although some may say this is just a glorified photo viewer, there's actually a lot of CSS3 and JavaScript work that went into getting all of the transitions and animations to work well across browsers and mobile devices. Happy to answer any questions and I'm open to suggestions on how to improve performance further. Email in profile.