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New comment by EddieJLSH in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2023)"

EddieJLSH — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 16:02:49 +0000

You should charge more! That is low enough it's in the "Why so cheap?" range which may even hurt your chances of finding work than being too expensive! If you have any work experience at all, double or triple that rate.

New comment by EddieJLSH in "Emacs 29.1"

EddieJLSH — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 15:06:27 +0000

VSCode is not a fad - it has huge support from Microsoft, is the most popular code editor by far, and is a very good tool that's beginner friendly and allows for customisation. It is already almost a decade old. Visual Studio has been around since 1997 so there's a good chance VSCode will be around for a good few years too.

New comment by EddieJLSH in "How to check if two SQL tables are the same"

EddieJLSH — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 10:53:24 +0000

Good point, have not used it before but looks like you have to add a unique ID if you want one

New comment by EddieJLSH in "How to check if two SQL tables are the same"

EddieJLSH — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 10:43:22 +0000

Realistically which production DB tables don't have a unique id? Genuine question, never used one in my life.

New comment by EddieJLSH in "Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?"

EddieJLSH — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 10:34:20 +0000

Thanks, got it! :)

New comment by EddieJLSH in "Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?"

EddieJLSH — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 08:51:55 +0000

A rejection screamed in your ear? Luxury! When I was a junior developer we used to stand in job line 25 hours a day for tuppence and if they didn't hire us we'd be shot.

New comment by EddieJLSH in "Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?"

EddieJLSH — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 08:49:59 +0000

The market is pretty horrible right now, in my experience. Speak to a recruiter and it should be a little easier to find something. I used to have roughly 1/2 of applications leading to interviews and around 3/4 of those leading to offers but this year had a 20 application dry streak. I think the market is pretty flooded with good talent from the large tech companies layoffs and the number of people going through bootcamps for junior positions too.

Hoping to get an offer in my final interview for a role in 10 minutes!

New comment by EddieJLSH in "'Verified human': Worldcoin users queue up for iris scans"

EddieJLSH — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 15:57:54 +0000

How is Vitalik a "snake oil peddler"?

New comment by EddieJLSH in "Advanced Python Mastery"

EddieJLSH — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 20:29:17 +0000

Please don't shadow ever :(

New comment by EddieJLSH in "Evernote has laid off most of its US staff and will move operations to Europe"

EddieJLSH — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 13:17:52 +0000

Which company has full self-driving permissions in California and Nevada again?

New comment by EddieJLSH in "Threads Is Now Live"

EddieJLSH — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 23:41:29 +0000

Not available in the EU

New comment by EddieJLSH in "The hardest part of building software is not coding, it's requirements"

EddieJLSH — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 12:20:11 +0000

Can you share one problems defined set of requirements that fit on a single page?

New comment by EddieJLSH in "Crypto for the Homeless (501(C)(3))"

EddieJLSH — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 20:49:00 +0000

Can you read an article before being negative?

New comment by EddieJLSH in "Being “rockstars”: when software was a talents/creatives industry"

EddieJLSH — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 19:08:08 +0000

Just look at the success of the Superhero franchises in Hollywood

New comment by EddieJLSH in "$900k Median Package for Engineers at OpenAI"

EddieJLSH — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 20:13:59 +0000

Every job I checked has a cap of $370k TC https://openai.com/careers/search

New comment by EddieJLSH in "Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering"

EddieJLSH — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 22:24:26 +0000

US UAV/Drones use xbox controllers too

New comment by EddieJLSH in "This is valid Python syntax"

EddieJLSH — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 18:55:21 +0000

Fun syntax gotcha that I saw recently was a YAML MAC address that were all numbers like 11:22:33:11 which Python was parsing as a sexagesimal number so some libraries were throwing type errors

New comment by EddieJLSH in "Csexp: S-Expressions over the Network"

EddieJLSH — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 18:51:11 +0000

What's the realistic issue with code injection over HTTPS TCP parsing into expected messages? If it is an issue for your system, can't you try read into some expected shape and throw an error if it doesn't parse to circumvent that?

New comment by EddieJLSH in "Csexp: S-Expressions over the Network"

EddieJLSH — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 18:47:14 +0000

Yeah that was my understanding, I've considered using this before (sending objects over the wire and eval'ing them) but never implemented it. Lisp seems very good for this sort of stuff.

New comment by EddieJLSH in "Ask HN: How much would you pay per test case?"

EddieJLSH — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 03:22:31 +0000

This is a no-code platform - teams still have to write the tests (which is no-code so... god knows how that is with regards to flakey tests or refactors). So $5 * hours of work effort per month. $25 for manual testing is still far cheaper than I assumed tbh, but I guess this is outsourced to very low cost of living places. Interesting data point though.