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up_and_up··on Poll: Contractors, what is your hourly rate
Mostly Rails development
up_and_up··on Poll: Contractors, what is your hourly rate
This is for a part-time gig. I charge a set amount per month up to a max number of hours worked. If I work 1 hour or 10 it doesnt matter. Usually I only work 2.5 hours a month hence the high hourly rate.
up_and_up··on Poll: Contractors, what is your hourly rate
I stopped charging hourly, now just monthly retainer. Making around $800 per hour, depending on the month.
up_and_up··on How I operated as a Staff engineer at Heroku (2020)
https://amyunger.com/blog/2020/09/10/staff-engineer-at-herok...

Based on how time is being spent that sounds an awful lot like an EM role to me?

Like EM responsibilities minus actual humans reporting to you?

up_and_up··on Ask HN: I'm changing my job after a 15-year tenure. How should I proceed?
In order to be successful on a new team or at new company I recommend The First 90 Days.

You could save time by simply reading and distilling this blog post: https://www.ricklindquist.com/notes/the-first-90-days

up_and_up··on Alex Honnold: The Soloist VR
Background: I have climbed for 3 years.

This is the route: https://www.mountainproject.com/route/106261545/freerider

30 pitches at 5.13a.

That is very very difficult.

Keep in mind:

1. Very few climbers can even climb one pitch of 5.13 (maybe top 1%)

2. Even fewer could attempt 30 pitches of 5.13 over several days.

3. Like maybe only dozens in the world could attempt 30 pitches of 5.13 in single day

4. Only 1 person ever in history that has attempted that without a rope.

up_and_up··on Alex Honnold: The Soloist VR
More like an ultramarathon where you do 100 pushups every mile.
up_and_up··on The Fun Scale (2014)
Theres a great documentary about Offwidth climbing for the uninitiated (trailer for Wide Boyz): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m3QzIibtsw
up_and_up··on Ask HN: How to negotiate stock options?
> but options are more fluid

Not always at medium-big startups. It is fixed depending on the position.

I have worked at like 6 different companies now from 20-1400 people. Smaller companies definitely have some flexibility but its usually a cash vs equity conversation.

up_and_up··on Ask HN: How to negotiate stock options?
You can try to negotiate but the options bands are usually predetermined and approved by the board of directors. Trying to get an exception passed through can be difficult and usually only for leadership positions.
up_and_up··on Why is China smashing its tech industry?
How does this inspire founders to startup a company in China? Does this inspire me to invest more money in China?
up_and_up··on Kubernetes is our generation's Multics
https://www.nomadproject.io/
up_and_up··on Anxiety is in your body, not your mind
Totally anecdotal, but speaking as someone with Anxiety Disorder + occasional intense panic attacks, once I started Rock climbing heavily and Trail running 2x a week, my anxiety and Panic attacks basically went away completely.

This was following years of taking 5HTP, meditating/breathing, talk therapy etc, which helped somewhat but nothing like intense exercise.

up_and_up··on Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (2004)
There are tons of Ruby jobs:

https://stackoverflow.com/jobs?tl=ruby&sort=p

https://hnhiring.com/technologies/ruby

up_and_up··on Get $15k to move to Michigan and work remotely
So Zingermanns has several restaurants. The Deli is overrated IMO, but the Roadhouse, Roadshow, and Miss Kim's are really great.
up_and_up··on Get $15k to move to Michigan and work remotely
Yes, black bears in the northern Lower peninsula and the Upper peninsula. Also likely cougars, but the DNR wont admit it.
up_and_up··on Get $15k to move to Michigan and work remotely
I have worked remotely from Ann Arbor for 7 years. currently work for a large SF based startup. AMA.

Michigan is great in a lot of ways, depending on your interests.

up_and_up··on Business Operations – Tech Stack
https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/internships/
up_and_up··on The magic of mushrooms forces us to rethink what intelligence means
Have you not heard of "How to change your Mind" by Michael Pollan? Or the Research of Roland Griffiths? https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C24&q=rol...

I am not sure your comment is accurate, the effects and benefits are definitely not anecdotal.

Re Depression treatment: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C24&q=dep...

up_and_up··on Investing in Robotics with YC Founder Trevor Blackwell [video]
Another option for investing in Robotics is to just seek out funds that focus on that domain like https://ark-funds.com/arkq
up_and_up··on Ask HN: How does your company manage its encryption keys?
At my prev company we generated keys and split them using `ssss-split` and handed out shards to specific individuals via a keybase exploding message. Our system required at least 3 shards (combined via `ssss-combine`) to reboot.

FYI: Hashicorp vault just uses Shamir's Secret Sharing scheme under the hood: https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/45b9f7c1a53506dc9722...

up_and_up··on Ask HN: Meeting overload – how many do you have daily/weekly?
Async issue review. Code reviews. Read and respond to customer input.
up_and_up··on Ask HN: Meeting overload – how many do you have daily/weekly?
I am an Engineering Manager at a large Startup

I have 18 meetings a week.

I try my hardest to stack them all onto Mon and Wed, leaving the other 3 days as meeting free as possible.

up_and_up··on Ask HN: My company wants my side project. What can I do?
I would focus on what you want to get out of it. Have them purchase it from you and get an additional promotion or something out of it for yourself. They prob dont want a conflict over it.
up_and_up··on Outschooling
Its was a virtual field trip I believe
up_and_up··on Outschooling
> How much time do you spend as a parent teaching or overseeing homeschooling?

Its a busy schedule for my wife, granted we have 3 kids. She also works part-time at their nature camp

> Are you encouraging your kids to go to college?

Depends. I plan on enrolling them at the local community college by age 14-15.

> And if they did want to go to college do they realistically have the option to pick the school they want?

I want them to attend community college then transfer, which is what I did and I transfered to a public ivy school

> Any state or country requirements you need to adhere to in terms of curriculum?

No requirements here in MI, depends on your state.

> Have your kids ever expressed an interest in going to school?

Nope.

> I can see homeschooling work well for disciplines like math or programming but have any of your kids expressed interest in something like medicine or law where prestige matters a lot?

Why would that matter? Top tier colleges are looking for/encouraging homeschool applicants because they are generally very independent thinkers and self-directed.

> Are kids really self motivated to learn anything?

Definitely. For example, my one daughter loves birds and is studying everything she can find about the local bird population. Kids are naturally very curious.

> How much structure do you impose?

This depends on the homeschooling family. We have a decent structure now but other families use no structure.

> Do you find that they do more projects and experiments as opposed to reading theoretical stuff?

50/50 I would say. They are still young so the reading is not like deep theory on anything yet.

up_and_up··on Outschooling
Thats a good question. I bet per child we are prob spending 2K-3K all told. Still way less than private school. Granted we also bring in a reading tutor and music teachers. But I am including all the camps and classes.
up_and_up··on Outschooling
Lots of random extracurriculars like:

"Travel to Paris"

"Viking Art and History"

"Waldorf Form drawing"

"The History of Halloween"

They also get to see the instructor and interact with them and other kids.

up_and_up··on Outschooling
USA, MI, peri-urban
up_and_up··on Outschooling
Thanks! Yeah we feel lucky to have local groups and resources to make this happen. Granted we have also worked hard to get there!
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