MortenK

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Claude Fixed My Printer(pastebin.com)
1 points by MortenK 8mo ago|0 comments
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by MortenK 8y ago
Unfortunately in the realm of machine learning, quantity does not equate quality.
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by MortenK 8y ago
Olympic weightlifting is just the name for a discipline which incorporates a specific set of barbell excercises. It's injury rate is indeed extremely low (From Hamill, B. “Relative Safeety of Weightlifting and Weight Training” Journal
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by MortenK 9y ago
I made a little file archiving tool for Windows, because I wanted to be able to archive stuff and find it again quickly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm7wimDNTZ8
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by MortenK 9y ago
Check out indiehackers.com there's a ton of case stories you might find interesting.
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by MortenK 9y ago
How about just travelling a month's time first, before deciding on a year? Go to south America, SE Asia or something, check it out and relax. It'll cost a month extra of rent, but it doesn't sound like the financials is a pro
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by MortenK 10y ago
Do you use a Google api or do you send http request and scrape the response html? As I understand the gogle search api got deprecated some years back. I am a few days from my laptop so can't properly read it for myself :-) thanks!
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by MortenK 10y ago
Why would you consider R&D to be the only expansion expense?
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by MortenK 10y ago
Extremely interesting application. I googled it and found a PC Mag review from 1994 with a funny passage: "We did a direct import of a 1000 record database from both ACT! And Organizer, and the operation took only a minute on a 486 sys
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by MortenK 10y ago
"Both are signs of inexperience." Case of pot calling the kettle black methinks.
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by MortenK 10y ago
I wanted to upvote but accidentally downvoted.
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by MortenK 11y ago
Start with consulting agencies. That's companies that acts like brokers between independent consultants / contractors and companies. Later on, you can get business from LinkedIn, mouth to mouth, previous clients who now contact yo
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by MortenK 11y ago
econsultancy.com most likely have some studies and reports on it.
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by MortenK 11y ago
Fully agree. Nationality alone isn't a sure fire indicator of quality. I find that on average there is a higher success rate with eastern europe / russia vendors, especially when the onshore personnel are inexperienced with outs
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by MortenK 11y ago
And he never returned? That's terrible. I had similar experiences during Maidan especially, but it's (mostly) back to business as usual by now.
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by MortenK 11y ago
You should try other outsourcing destinations. Large timezone differences are indeed a hurdle, and culture differences is always underestimated. Add to that the general ineptitude of managing projects in large companies, and you have a reci
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by MortenK 11y ago
If you try again, try to see if you can get a client with a decent sized mailing list. Warming up is usually done with progressively larger sendouts. So you'd start with maybe 500 sendouts, then a thousand, then 3000 etc. But anyway ye
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by MortenK 11y ago
Outsourcing has worked for me and my clients for 10 years or so. The main aspects of making it work is vendor selection, local manager with outsourcing experience and proper choice of engagement model. The author, Yegor, is arguing outsourc
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by MortenK 11y ago
What country are you in?
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by MortenK 11y ago
OP, I don't know if you are reading the comments here but in case you do: Don't get discouraged so quickly. The reason this is happening is as the blurb from the MS postmaster help page: Your IP doesn't have a reputation yet.
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by MortenK 11y ago
Why would you even post job listings and ask people to apply, if you think no good developers apply for jobs?
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by MortenK 11y ago
This is incredibly accurate, and applies equally well to contracting in other roles than as a developer.
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by MortenK 11y ago
High-end contracting within not-so-common software and / or specific business domains. The contracts are often very long (some many years) and the rates are sufficiently high to get you to 250K and beyond, even after accounting for sic
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by MortenK 11y ago
The serious clients who have the money you are looking for, are not going to hire a random guy in Thailand based on a forum comment. At your suggested rate, these clients will be able to get an on-location contractor with significantly more
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by MortenK 12y ago
The problem here was not with outsourcing as a discipline, it was with lack of experience in outsourcing. The lessons learned in the post are typical of first-time outsourcing attempts, but entirely incorrect if you have an experienced pers
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by MortenK 12y ago
Most users probably don't miss features in LO as such. The issue like with much open source software, is UI and stability related. Joe Marketing ain't going to jump through UI hoops and do complex bug work-arounds, when he can avo
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by MortenK 12y ago
Please don't start a witch hunt on the basis of a handful internet comments. We should be better than that.
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by MortenK 12y ago
Wouldn't such people use Word or Pages rather than markdown though?
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Economic Theory and the Five Day Weekend (2007)(money.howstuffworks.com)
37 points by MortenK 12y ago|12 comments
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by MortenK 12y ago
Not sure it's possible to automate easily since mailchimp is a rather simple esp. I might be mistaken though, it's been a while since I used them. You could probably solve it through the API or at least through a bit of recurring

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