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This reminds me a bit of Prudio http://www.prudio.com/ Saw that project on the old assembly site (was a cool idea).

This reminds me a bit of Prudio http://www.prudio.com/ Saw that project on the old assembly site (was a cool idea).

Aside from Falcor, this is exactly my current stack and my preferred as well. React + Redux + Webpack + Immutablejs + Bootstrap/Less. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on Falcor or Relay/GraphQL and see what it can offer. For my backend I run some minimal node webservices. I've recently started making all my stuff "pre-rendered" by statically generating my files (react renderToString -> Mustache -> create a file) , with all my needed data in a json file, and only access the webservices when absolutely needed.

Wow , thought I was the only one. I accidentally left mine in the washer/dryer the other day. Was expecting it to be broken, it came out with 4,000 steps :)

Do you mind if I contact you for a couple quick questions? I'm essentially in the process of trying #2 as OP mentioned and would eventually like to transition into building a team. Would love to ask you a couple things and maybe get some advice. My contact info is in my HN profile if you prefer to reach me instead.

This is exactly my goal as well. I'm currently working a full time job, moonlighting contract jobs on evenings/weekends, with the goal to save enough money to cover my expenses for 6 months. After that I plan to go into full time consulting and specifically target shorter term contracts and take off blocks of time in between. I've always seemed to work best in spurts and software development (new projects anyway) are a good industry for this type of environment.

Cool read. I'm still pretty new to Docker and this is my first time hearing of DockerHub. Seems pretty cool and affordable, I'll give it a shot soon.

I've never actually heard of this, thanks for the links. We use gitlab at work but I took quick browse of this site and it seems pretty cool. Does phabricator have a CI server out of the box that's easy to use? One of the major draws to gitlab recently (at least for me), is a CI server available to the projects for free.

There's been _alot_ of comments here and elsewhere that state the exact same thing. On one hand, no it's not their fault and _should_ they be held accountable - obviously no. But it would be so awesome if they did provide this. Wherever human error can occur, it will occur.

I've always used this comparison too. Of course this same explanation can be used for many fields and career choices, but for technical fields I think it's easy to make this comparison. It's important to point out exactly what you just said though - "the hard way".

It's the whole nature vs nuture argument. I wish I could have told myself many years ago to focus more on my "nuture" side. It's amazing how far you can go when you previously wrote it off as being not naturally inclined.

Thanks, this wiki article is actually pretty interesting. I'm looking through their numbers, and while I don't doubt them, I wonder if there's any more reference information (books, etc.) that corroborate this data.

I have about 3 years Java world (Tomcat/Webstorm + JEE + Oracle/PLSQL, and Spring, Hibernate all that jazz). And about 2 years in Node + Angular/React + AWS. My question was more how to get good rates and still do it as a part-time side gig since I work full time. I've already had offers for full time work :) Yeah, after talking with a bunch of people from this thread I _will_ be blogging/marketing my github profile/give lightning talks. For the moment, I'm trying to network as much as possible without sounding needy and putting in as much time as I can into open source to get experience, have something to show the world. My goal now is to become the expert of 1 or 2 domains in my local area so people are basically forced to notice me.

I know it's small and probably not worth mentioning, but I created a bitcoin exchange's api aggregator (my first Node.js app). Basically it attempts to wrap multiple exchange's api's into 1 common library, so you don't need to constantly look up the docs across different companies.

https://github.com/jxm262/xchange.js

I built another project to analyze prices across the exchanges using the xchange.js library. Surprisingly both have 13 stars on github :) I'm planning to add _alot_ more functionality over the next month or so to both projects.

https://github.com/jxm262/btc-stats

Here's another simplistic explanation for this concept - http://twistedoakstudios.com/blog/Post3724_explain-it-like-i...

I've been reading alot about the cryptography (and alot of bitcoin stuff), there's alot of interesting material out there.

>Don't model your business on the freelancers at oDesk. Model it on McKinsey, Accenture, Bain, etc. Look at how those companies describe themselves. You will necessarily be operating at a smaller scale than them. But that still leaves an awful lot of room.

Thanks for mentioning this comment. I didn't think to do this, but I'll start reading a bit on these companies and try to model myself a bit more like them.

Do you mind if I message you sometime? My email is in my profile if you're not comfortable sharing here.

Would be really cool to bounce a couple questions off of you :)

Will definitely find you and connect :) I've been using React full time for over a year now. Obviously there's still a ton I can learn, but yeah I was thinking I would try to specialize specifically in this tech stack as my "competitive edge" (Node+React)

I actually hadn't thought of that :) Thanks for the tip!

That's actually what I had in mind. Read this on one of the blogs and it seemed like probably the best option. The main obstacle (for me anyway) is getting "acquainted" with others who run a consultancy :) I guess i'll try to go to more meetups and be more social, reach out to friends to see if they know people, etc...

Do you think it's frowned upon to cold-email people that you're only vaguely acquainted with? Say for instance, I make a very politely and concisely worded email, asking them if they have any extra work that they could off-load.

Yeah, everyone is telling me to rely on personal/professional network. The problem is that most of them are fellow "enterprise" type programmers without any actual work to give (ie. not hiring managers). Also.. the big issue I have now is finding evening and weekend/part-time jobs. It seems pretty easy to find a decent contract at a company if I transition, to say, full-time for 6 months or whatever they offer.

When you say you were top X% , was that in a specific tech stack or niche industry? I'm really good at certain tech stacks (JavaScript world - Node+React+AWS, or Java/Scala world - Spring, Play, etc..). How do you actually find work that will help you "level" up, per se. And more importantly, show others that you're an expert in the field? I can do _awesome_ work for some people but it might not be broadcasted to the rest of the world if it's just known internally.

Thanks for this. One of the reasons I come to HN is to get good advice and see posts like this :) I'll be following your project, good luck!

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Full Stack Developer with 4+ years experience. Technologies: JavaScript, Java, PLSQL, Scala, HTML/CSS, AWS, all sorts of Databases.

I prefer to work in Node.js + React / Angular or Meteor; but am open to many different technologies.

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Using Android, Note II. I see some whitespace on the left/right side of the main page. Also, clicking to read a comment thread or adding a comment still requires me to slide around left and right. Think it's probably just the Note 2 though, iOS looks ok.

But, yeah I'd keep it for sure. Definitely an improvement

Just glanced, but besides a pretty UI and preview section, I'm not seeing a major difference between this and the customize section of bootstrap (http://getbootstrap.com/customize/).

Am I missing something here? What I think would be really cool is if you mashed something like this together with some prebuilt layouts (something like http://startbootstrap.com/template-categories/unstyled/), and then have more options to do slightly more complex things like a list of font selections, full-site color schemes, etc..

Anyway, not trying to put down your site. It looks pretty clean, just not seeing the need for it personally.

I've been using chrome since it's beginning but just recently really digging into it. There's a ton of cool stuff in it. Just recently discovered the "snippets" section which lets you save a piece of js code and rerun it whenever you want (under Sources -> Snippets -> rightClick - add).

I'm also working on my first chrome extension if anyone's interested in helping or could give some feature requests/advice. https://github.com/jxm262/consoletap

> node.js requires that you use the browser for debugging

wat? :/

Node.js does not require you to use the browser for debugging. But you're probably referring to node-inspector, which uses Chrome or Opera. I personally find webstorm to be wayyy easier debugging node unit tests specifically.

Not sure I fully follow this.. I understand component's don't pass messages to each other, don't redraw themselves. But isn't flux basically doing somewhat of a uni-directional message passing? Maybe my terminology is incorrect and i'm mixing up concepts , but it feels like a modified pub-sub type architecture (difference is that when something is dispatched its sent to _every_ registered callback as opposed to subscribing specifically). Still feels like a form of message passing. I really don't know enough about how old windows development worked, but from this article it seems like it's a _similar_ type of pattern.

One nitpick I have though is the giant switch statement they mention. I typically put all this into an object so you don't need to traverse through some huge switch. Not sure why everyone just doesn't do something like -

  AppDispatcher.register(function(action) {  
    actionMapper[action.actionType](action);  
  }

This was an awesome read. We use React and Flux daily at work so I'm going to share this with coworkers. I'm a little confused on what the author's concern is though.

> I’ve just felt…well, weird. Something seemed off

Is there anything substantively wrong with the flux pattern or drawbacks?

> We’ll especially welcome outsiders working on slightly heretical ideas (just like we do for the startups we fund) and we’ll try to keep things small—we believe small groups can do far more than most people think.

What's the process for an outsider to get involved? This sounds like a really cool and much needed movement. Will more information be coming soon on how to apply/join/contribute?

Cool, starred this for later! I want to see the results and compare with our current flux architectures at my work place.

It would be cool to see more things like this, maybe here on HN, or maybe some other website? I really like TodoMvc but it's a bit too simplistic to see the strengths/weaknesses of each library/framework. Sometimes you need something more in-depth to start getting the larger picture of what patterns and architecture works well. Also.. sometimes I feel like I'm floundering trying to make something elegant, then to find out later someone else already has thought through alot of the nuances. If I had some easy way to search for what the community deems as "good" code, it could really help speed up development.