tmat

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by tmat 9y ago
That's because of Segwit adoption and Batching.
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by tmat 9y ago
i just sent a transaction for 6 cents and it was included in the next block.. that problem is resolved. so you can see i'm not making shit up https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/tx/8b420f5e6548865535381fdb... Th
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2017: A Year as a Full-Time Indie Hacker(indiehackers.com)
3 points by tmat 9y ago|0 comments
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by tmat 9y ago
Amazing isn't it?
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by tmat 9y ago
You say this as if Hillary would have been so much better.. No, this ones on all the people who continue to stick their head in the sand and try to blame the other team.
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by tmat 9y ago
the problem with this statement is we weren't given a fair choice of options.. It was this or that and they both stunk to high heaven.
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Ask HN: What are you using now that screenhero is dead?
2 points by tmat 9y ago|1 comments
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by tmat 9y ago
lol, after a reread I concur.
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by tmat 9y ago
Let me tell you, don't worry about it.. You'll use your skills to smoothly transition to something else.. I've been in this industry since copper and telco was hot shit.. I went from doing Telco programming > IT > Web D
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by tmat 9y ago
There is a difference in engineering and programming. An engineer uses programming to solve an engineering problem. If all you can do is program, you're just not as valuable. Programming is one of many tools I use in my every day job a
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by tmat 9y ago
That sounds more like flux, how do they avoid all the boilerplate that flux was? It was very very painful.
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by tmat 9y ago
React has made me a happier developer and affords me a lifestyle to take care of my family very well. So I'm very thankful for everything that's taken place to bring React to where it is. I got the same feeling many many years ago
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by tmat 9y ago
actually once redux is introduced to react it's very very very functional.. so hold the sadness
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by tmat 9y ago
Same here, This all seems like a "My JS Lib is better than your JS Lib" fight. So let me say this, React is by far and away the best JS view library out there. I don't need MVC in my fucking view(Hey Ember), and I don't
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by tmat 9y ago
Angular is nothing like React. It's garbage in comparison.
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by tmat 9y ago
React isn't even a framework.
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by tmat 9y ago
what about costs of running the application? You're not taking that into account.. I can run my elixir app far cheaper than you can a ruby app for instance. This means I can charge less than my competitors and offer more to my customer
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by tmat 9y ago
Releases and deployments with Elixir are still the area that needs most work, but it's nothing that would ever prevent me from using it. I have several in production and once we figured it out, it was easy peasy from there on. We have
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by tmat 9y ago
Because it makes me happy.. and OTP, Beam, Jose and team are amazing.
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by tmat 9y ago
yes because the measure of someones intelligence is their grammar on the internet.
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by tmat 9y ago
That's just genservers though right? All of this stuff is just Elixir and generally can be done in Elixir in a few lines of code. We're experimenting with a truly OTP driven web application right now(No API) where we connect the R
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by tmat 9y ago
I started by talking to my friends and networking with people who needed developers, using online sites to find people hiring or seeking developers I could pitch on my services(this works amazingly well), and doing content marketing to get
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by tmat 9y ago
all remote.. i scower the web for RFP's and people looking for developers and pitch my services.
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by tmat 9y ago
I started w/ word of mouth and networking through people I already knew. I also started with a lower rate. I raised my rates anytime I had to much work to do. I discovered this technique from another friend. I was complaining one day a
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by tmat 9y ago
Phoenix is completely unnecessary though. I have gone away from it and just use good old Plug and Elixir. Works amazing for me.
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by tmat 9y ago
replace pet with nothing and you get my life.. it's also FAR cheaper to run at scale than ruby.. which means you can offer faster/better apps than your ruby peers at a lower price point. as a Ruby developer from Rails 2 > Rails
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by tmat 9y ago
I ran into this problem.. I felt like I was worth more than the best offers I was getting. I continued to get job offers, but I couldn't get one for more than 100k remotely or in my area(Burlington, VT). I've got many many years e
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Solving problems in everyday business with progressive web apps(blog.grillwork.io)
1 points by tmat 9y ago|0 comments
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by tmat 9y ago
This is absolutely not true. You're speaking out of your ass here. 0 people died. If they couldn't afford it HE GAVE IT TO THEM FREE.
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by tmat 9y ago
I have 2 other freelancers I work w/. We've created a freelance conglomerate of sorts. We all work on a contract to contract basis. We offer our entire network a 10% finders fee. If someone you recommend closes w/ us you get

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