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With that description I still have no idea about what you actually do. Maybe that's not actually the pitch and you're just giving an example, or maybe not, just wanted you to give you my feedback :)

> Don't track hours.

Probably you don't mean it in this way, but I found time tracking to be very very useful, even when not tracking with the purpose of invoicing for your time.

On paper this is the most reasonable advice but it's not very realistic and it's definitely not the only choice. When I was thinking about quitting my job, I've encountered this advice a lot and it was very discouraging.

So I just wanted to reiterate for anyone really struggling in their day job, looking to quit: if it gets too unbearable, there are MANY options.

I couldn't agree more with this advice. I'm more of a dev than a consultant, but I believe this applies to many fields.

I quit my job a year ago to start doing freelance/contract work, I never directly looked for clients but just by having good relationships with my former employer, colleagues, and people I know in general, by October I had so many projects on my hand I had to work 80hrs/week for a short period of time.

Just to re-iterate in how many different ways you can get projects and even long-term clients, this is my "how I've gotten gigs" list:

* Former employer: when I quit I was 100% honest, boss trusted me and wanted to keep working with me. They are still giving me work

* Former colleague: he quit right before me, started his own small company, knew he could count on me being a reliable dev, became a long-term client

* I was looking for devs on Twago, in order to get help in case I had too many jobs on my hand. One of the applicants was a small dev agency looking for projects. They ended up giving me work, instead of the other way around.

* (most random one) A client I had a few years ago, during my first venture as entrepreneur, messaged me on Skype by mistake, thinking I was somebody else they knew. Turns out they needed a dev, became a long-term client.

* Went back home to Italy during the summer, rented a room for a few months. My landlord was working in marketing, ended up giving me a few very good clients

I wholeheartedly agree with this article, and I firmly believe that if no one paid attention to flat earthers, for example, it wouldn't have become such a big matter.

It's mind-boggling to me that there's people on YT/social media going out of their way to prove to flat earthers that the earth is not flat. We have 600 years of science proving that, and they don't believe that, do you think that your little experiment will change their mind? Also, what's the point? It's not like if there's enough people that think the earth is flat, NASA will shut down or anything.

It's commendable trying to educate people but in these cases it's definitely not worth the hassle, and I really hope people start realising that and stop entertaining all the crazy ideas that random strangers have around the world.

I'm surprised to see someone likes them, but after all there must be a reason if they exist. As someone who uses LastPass for pretty much every online form, I deeply hate magic login emails.

I'm fine with them existing, as long as you keep the classic email/password option. Something that usually takes me at most 5 seconds (wait for page to load and for LastPass to fill the fields, then click) ends up being a 30+seconds matter. How is this not terrible user experience???

That's not a justification at all. Just to give you an example: UK company addresses are open to the public, and easily accessible through the government website. Many UK internet personalities have set up a company, and for many of them it's their house address (cause either they don't know about the register or they don't care enough).

Would it be ok for me to make a blog post with their home address on it, just because it's publicly available? I don't think so, even if they did something scammy.

Yeah it's unacceptable, especially for someone who claims to be "ethical" in his bio:

> About Sijmen Ruwhof Independent IT Security Researcher / Ethical Hacker

I don't really get what you're trying to prove here, I mean yes we can see the algorithm as a form of curation but the point here's different, newspapers have a set amount of pages and articles whereas YouTube has 400 hours of content uploaded every minute. Hence it's not fair to compare the two of them, in my opinion.

There's no affiliate links on the website.

Wait, this example is different, the first list has a 40px left padding, which adds unnecessary space at the left of each bullet point. With a 20px left padding it looks way better than the example below in my opinion.

Imho posting almost every day for 10 months is more than mildly spammy, I agree that the articles are generally high quality but that's true of many other publications. I have no idea if there's other people doing the same nor if it's ok for HN's admins, but as a reader and user of the site I'm not really ok with it, I think we should hold users to a higher standard.

If she wants to post every article from the BBC on HN she should at contribute in other ways, commenting or posting other high quality sites. And again, this is directed to any other users behaving in the same way.

People at Slack had the same doubts before they chose that name[1], but clearly it was a non-issue

[1] https://www.npr.org/2018/07/27/633164558/slack-flickr-stewar...

Yes, cash.js[0] does almost that, although it doesn't mirror all of jQuery's methods (like .fadeIn() .fadeOut() for example)

[0] https://github.com/kenwheeler/cash/