Saw people going to sleep after slowing down with a glass of beer after drinking vodka shots all night. So only way to stay reputable is to pace yourself and not to get wasted.
IMHO the article author should also have googled how different alcohol make your head hurt :)
Neo4j has this thing on ignoring other graph databases. One example is their O'Reily book Graph databases covering you guessed it one graph database. I know it's good for marketing purposes. I like the way Cypher works, though not sure whether I would like to see Neo4j controlling how graph query language evolves.
Me myself living in small city in Europe. So it was a good starting point to kickstart my skills in programming, and hacking stuff together. Though the projects are mostly involving wordpress themes and etc. so it gets boring quite fast.
Actually any type of freelancers should avoid if possible. Though if you need to accumulate portfolio and get paid even a little bit it's worth a try. Also I saw some burnt clients only look for local devs for higher rate which is still miserable compared to the price you would pay on the ground.
Sorry my bad, tried all of them stuck with oDesk, at one point in my freelance career, cause they had time tracking quite nicely integrated, then decided that working with clients directly on one hand it's harder to find one outside of the system, while on the other the hourly rate is worth the additional effort. Though I miss badly time tracking capability with screenshots outside of any system where I could share screenshots and work done with my client.
When you starting to work on project getting e-mail is just matter of receiving/sending deliverables for the first time. If the client is good usually he/she proposes to move away. As when people find devs/designers etc. which they can trust, usually they stop looking around for new ones. Except you are getting on board with some shady company which makes cheap websites for small businesses
Had similar issues with oDesk, which is now as I know is owned by the same company as freelancer.com. Though it has time tracking and I always tried to bid only on projects with hourly rates, I got stuck with non paying client which dissapeared from the face of the earth, and even when submitting that project is canceled from my side because of no show they are not closing the project. Not to mention I was not paid at all.
After this incident I decided to move away from oDesk and similar platforms. As the hourly rates are low, and getting repeating clients with whom you already have relationship to work outside oDesk is easy.
Also there is an issue with 3rd world developers who are making impression that freelancers should be paid dime on a buck.
From client side there are different horror stories when clients are scammed into accepting low-rate bidder, and get burned heavily, and then either turn back from these platforms, or turn to accepting only bids from local country.
Isn't half of newer windows apps/widgets are just html wrappers, something similar to smart desktop or how they called it in win95/98? Haven't used windows for longer than it needs to switch on IE8 for more than 2 years.
Regarding seductive examples. I recently found out, that most of the examples even example apps are lacking best practices, and in many cases even basic security measures. Good example make a e-commerce app using x and x technologies, and then disclaimer that this app is just to show how fantastic framework x is. Many frameworks js, php name it have disastrous examples, which are oversimplified for the sake of understandability, and then all hell breaks loose when someone finds out that, for example, by default csrf policy, or authorisation is not implemented correctly or not implemented at all.
Shouldn't it say LibreSSL - An OpenSSL fork :)?
Seems cool that we kinda have a choice, and do not need to depend on one OpenSource project to have SSL, on other hand it seems it will be another underfunded project, waiting for another heartbleed to happen. :)
The concept is flawed for this one. As you need to combine two different things in one. Also on their demo video you can see that it's quite unstable. Most of the guys who are actively flying wouldn't consider this "plane" as a good investment. Also as someone pointed out there was such thing before. And I really expected someone released VTOL airship, which is basically combining helicopter and plane, you are getting the possibility to land in your yard, but also speeds of plane while flying.
What interests me is what are implications for general computing performance while using GUI/xServer on raspbian or raspBMC? As I was told rPi has ridiculously powerful GPU compared to processor, but basically it's unusable due to lack of proper driver support. With such quantity of Raspberry Pis sold one would expect more support from Broadcom.
I'm not sure about the timeline who released first, but there is popcorn chat app which allows to chat with people who are within one mile from you it was featured here a while back. The functionality seems to be the same less or more.
BBC uses name of already existing npm package for their install instructions. And in issues one of the programmers I suppose suggests asking to madhums to rename original library :) Strange line of thought.
I would not call that a driver. Also all of them are 3rd party developed. as it seems by single developers. So no standartization possible. The database adoption goes as far as the capability to use it in your project. And I found that the node.js drivers in particular were outdated in npm. Had to nudge one of the developers to update npm repo. Also REST access library is called driver???
I have tried to run ArangoDB under Node.js had some little successes, but in general their claim that they have drivers for many platforms is far from reality. Also why not to release node.js binary drivers instead of pushing people to use foxx. Also simple browsable docs would be nice instead of chunked documents covering hell knows what. Finding link to their query language was a big hassle :) Also their graph traversing is still in infancy as I understand.
escaped fragment is used by major search engines google, bing, yandex (if you are interested in russian markets), not sure about Yahoo! as it was ages since I used yahoo for anything.
They execute Javascript in limited fashion. So you should consider using what is suggested by google itself https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/... . If you are using angular, then you will get your template displayed instead of fully rendered page. with all {{sitename}} displayed.
You do realize that you gave a link which is from 2006? And more recent recommendations does not include that.
[EDIT] OK as I was downvoted I will clarify my point: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/... This is recommended practice for crawling javascript generated pages, no need to lookup for spiders IP address as someone mentioned.
Worthless blabber. Giving people good social guarantees leads to more people unwilling to work. If you want examples take a look to Norway.
Also another dumb question how the hell this article ended up in frontpage of Hacker News in first place?
Nice write up. I think many people face the same problems me included. The problem for me is that I have never had a chance working in a team with more experienced developers. Which would teach a mindset, or bring some insights, of successful developer, which is implement the feature then return and improve as needed. Also solving so called "complex" problems brings rush of pleasure. So you start solving complex problems instead of getting the stuff done.
It depends. Some US entities are keen to hire US based freelancers, just to be 'more' safe. Others do not care, and hire freelancer with best proposal/price. Also some hire people to make their critical product for pennies, and then complain that the freelancers suck at their work. As for my experience US people mostly care that you will be available during their working hours.