jtrtoo

Ha, "energy and motivation" basis sounds about right for non-client work. I'm finding that getting smarter about what work I can outsource (e.g. bookkeeping to bookkeepers, tax preparation to CPA/accountant) is helping me out tremendously. It's very tempting to keep doing things because "I know I can do that", but forcing myself to let go of non-core/non-strategic areas is hugely empowering and helps with the balance issues and optimizes energy / context switching.

Neat. Checked out your web site and really like your philosophy! I'm a solo consultant going into my tenth consecutive year. I too have found that >20 hours definitely throws off the balance. It's still a work in progress, but that 20 hour mark is about what consider my level of useful (high impact) hours.

I understand what you do for employees of your firm, but how do you apply your philosophy to yourself (and the other principals)? Client work is one thing, but there's plenty of non-client work too. Particularly in a small firm!

Sadly the headline is a tad misleading. He got jail time only after violating his probation. The violation? Doing it again. Geez.

Contrarian perspective: These GeoIP firms should start offering businesses in a given area the ability to sponsor the area and become the default location.

It easily is clicked away. (Not that that makes a great experience.) The article itself is worthwhile, both in breadth and depth.

Sounds like you learned some truly valuable lessons applicable to future endeavors. That's precisely why you should not be discouraged; you're better prepared than ever before. Good luck, whatever your future holds. :)

Okay article concept, but full of hearsay. And no references.

This might get more interest submitted as a "Show HN" since you seem to be the author. :)

1. Finding clients. 2. Finding projects. 3. Developing relationships. 4. Managing cash flow. 5. Setting fees. 6. Doing the actual work for clients. 7. Leveraging knowledge and experiences across clients / projects. 8. Attracting work that you continue to enjoy. 9. Managing your time. 10. Managing your energy. 11. Finding new business

Just roughly off the top of my head.

I read whatever interests me, sometimes immediately but generally by placing it in my Pocket (http://getpocket.com) for later perusal at my leisure. Sometime I come across something relevant to a client/colleague; I tend to share those, with a brief comment, in real-time.

Unsolicited feedback: less code so it's more readable across the room & sex the design up a bit.

Or the two teaming up, at the very least.

Why? They could recommend any product via Amazon. Not a huge incentive to lie. Though a healthy skepticism is always good. For what it's worth these are the folks behind the Wirecutter.com. They are legit.

You may want to consider contacting the innocence project: http://www.innocenceproject.org

I think you might be going about solving this problem in a sub-optiimal way. WordPress data consists of db + asset files. Db gets addressed outside of this and asset files either go in s3 or are synced (rsync, etc)

What type of box business? Just ever curious about businesses people operate. :)

Maybe Google has a solution... err, wait...

Thanks for the suggestion. Looks interesting. Link for others: https://roots.io/bedrock/

How is two individuals doing what makes sense for themselves not a free market? Free market doesn't mean altruistic

Wouldn't the U.S. be considered a hybrid?

I read the headline as saying YC rather than YP. Lol

I have had great luck using MailStorr to back up and archive:

http://www.mailstore.com/en/mailstore-home-email-archiving.a...

Indeed. Google ITAR. I remember 90s web page protests.

I can understand the policy and the action, but the notification should come prior to deletion. And possibly include a per machine opt-out for paying customers. (For the record I am a paying customer and have a couple old backups, but haven't yet run across this.)

Maybe consider taking a cut of the savings... ;)

I've been enjoying Craft CMS lately. Almost went static but changed my mind...

Yes. See "The Phoenix Project" (book)

When will we get BTTH? It's always about the last mile...

I just went through this with some of my sites. Some of my URLs were showing up in searches with HTTP URLs, while others were showing up with HTTPS URLs. Digging deeper also showed both HTTP and HTTPS being indexed.

This isn't an HTTPS preference on Google's part. It's (effectively) a mis-configuration on the web site operator's part.

HttpWatch (and many other folks with web sites) should either be using 301 Redirects or, in many cases where that's not compatible with other things being done, using the Canonical link element to indicate with https content is just a copy of http content.

So: Try setting your ‘canonical’ line properly in your web pages. Then this won’t happen.

Right now HttpWatch's http pages report their http as canonical. Their https pages report https as canonical. They effectively are listing their site twice with Google (and probably splitting/hurting SEO, but that's another story.)

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_link_element

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2013/04/5-common-...

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/canonical-link-tag/

I have a few places where a quick and dirty check based on the receipt of an email (or not) (think backup job emails) would be easier to integrate than http. Plus then adding the ability to notify based on the existence/non-existence of a keyword (e.g. "success" or "error").

I totally get the HTTP integration, but some places that just isn't all that convenient and part of what I pay for is convenience/one less thing on my to do list. :)