myinitialsaretk

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by myinitialsaretk 8y ago
There was a good HN comment thread about Donor Advised Funds a few months ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17126875 I have one, but can see how this leaves a bad taste in mouths. I can "donate" money to m
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by myinitialsaretk 8y ago
An agency I worked with handled this liability via a support contract. It was structured as, pay us for N hours a month of retainer, we will keep your servers patched and secured with updates and maintain all of your credentials. Otherwise,
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by myinitialsaretk 8y ago
I hear you, I've been in the same situation. I write very clear instructions in a Google Doc and share with multiple key people at a client that sum up a high level of: Here's where all of your stuff is. Here's what the next
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by myinitialsaretk 8y ago
For me, mostly useless. I do however, enjoy using Touch ID for sudo permissions. HT to: https://twitter.com/cabel/status/931292107372838912
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by myinitialsaretk 8y ago
Lots of very good advice in this thread so I'll take a different approach. What's your goal? Why are you looking for a $200 rate? Do you want to make 400k a year? Do you want to make 160k a year but only work for 20 weeks? Do you
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by myinitialsaretk 9y ago
I've worked as a freelancer for extended periods of time. Always get fed up with: 1. Networking and selling myself as a freelancer. 2. Getting paid in a timely manner. Any marketplace I've found is a race to the bottom in terms of
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by myinitialsaretk 9y ago
Great demonstration. You could probably just as easily listen for blur on form fields and be even more dangerous.
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by myinitialsaretk 9y ago
I've been in that same situation. I've made friends from co-working spaces and surprisingly a few friends from going to a few off the beaten track meetup(.com)'s Best advice is to just put yourself out there and remind yourse
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by myinitialsaretk 9y ago
Thanks for the great other examples. For anyone else curious, I found the original I was thinking of, it was Stephen Kaufer from TripAdvisor. https://techcrunch.com/2011/12/22/founder-stories-tripadviso...
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Ask HN: Story about a company using 404s to demonstrate customer demand?
6 points by myinitialsaretk 9y ago|5 comments
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by myinitialsaretk 10y ago
I really like Warren Buffet's description of the ovarian lottery, below. I think about this question a lot now that I'm a (relatively wealthy) parent with two small children. If I have the opportunity, is it acceptable for me to
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by myinitialsaretk 10y ago
Nearly every website owner I've worked with is obsessed with users getting 404s from old incoming links. First I wrote a cron to summarize apache logs and email a report, but that involved me building redirects or a cluster of cms cha
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Ask HN: Who (if anyone) at your company cares about 404 reporting?
3 points by myinitialsaretk 10y ago|0 comments
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by myinitialsaretk 10y ago
Lets assume I am an engineer that has decided I want to transition my career and devote my career to helping non-profits because I will be professionally happier. What could I do to demonstrate to you my commitment and interest in this new