wayne_skylar

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by wayne_skylar 5y ago
SEEKING WORK | NYC | REMOTE ## Overview I am Generalist developer with 13 years experience seeking part-time or full-time contract and freelance opportunities. I spent first half of career in finance-adjacent startup focused on big data. I
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by wayne_skylar 5y ago
SEEKING WORK | NYC | REMOTE ## Overview I am Generalist developer with 13 years experience seeking part-time or full-time contract and freelance opportunities. I spent first half of career in finance-adjacent startup focused on big data. I
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by wayne_skylar 5y ago
SEEKING WORK | NYC | REMOTE ## Overview I am Generalist developer with 13 years experience seeking part-time or full-time contract and freelance opportunities. I spent first half of career in finance-adjacent startup focused on big data. I
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by wayne_skylar 5y ago
Are you saying to look at NY state government job listings and find contracting roles that way? Or are you suggesting I make connections with state gov't to get work as a contractor?
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Ask HN: Where to find contract work as a developer?
50 points by wayne_skylar 5y ago|20 comments
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by wayne_skylar 6y ago
The pandemic has really made me second guess my blind trust in the "trusted" sources. When the WHO released a statement saying that it hadn't been proven that antibodies prevent covid, the media ran with the sensationalist &q
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Examples of games developed by a single developer?
29 points by wayne_skylar 6y ago|38 comments
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by wayne_skylar 6y ago
I don't think it was deliberate. But after they realized it's a problem, they also realized that it's the best way to drive engagement so they do nothing.
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by wayne_skylar 6y ago
What would be an example of a "contractor organization"? I am interested working on contract but I live in NYC and here it seems like it's always contract-to-hire situation where they want someone long-term but are using the
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by wayne_skylar 6y ago
This is the way I see it. Ever since Facebook started "optimizing" the timeline order they have been showing you a distorted picture of the world. Honestly it would probably be enough to default everyone back to a world where nobo
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by wayne_skylar 6y ago
We all walk around with our model of the world in our heads. When we see something that reinforces our model we get a dopamine hit. "I knew I was right!" Instead of Fox or MSNBC selecting stories for a target audience facebook use
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by wayne_skylar 6y ago
I've always had a question about this. If more people are deciding to use the road afterwards surely it means that trips are being taken that weren't before? Wouldn't that be a good thing, economically speaking?
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Ask HN: How can I gain more control over how much I work?
4 points by wayne_skylar 6y ago|0 comments
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by wayne_skylar 6y ago
I find it so funny that Facebook hides behind "freedom of speech" when in fact what they do is the exact opposite. When everything you saw was cronological, you could make that argument. I write a message on my wall and everyone w
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by wayne_skylar 6y ago
It's not strange that you weren't productive during one of the most disruptive periods of instability most of us will likely experience during our entire lives. Some people have made a positive out of this experience but you shoul
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by wayne_skylar 6y ago
One thing that I feel has helped my anxiety a good deal is knowing that "It's OK to not feel OK." A large part of my anxiety is wondering about its source and if it's getting worse, etc. Secondly, I've worked from h
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by wayne_skylar 6y ago
I think the problem I have is that I don't understand how to get good at something that I have good taste in. Of everything that I've been able to learn I've always had some sort of pleasure in the doing. I enjoyed my C++ ass
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by wayne_skylar 6y ago
More than anything right now people are going to have a very strong appetite for financial security. It's about time we reconsider 'working for 50 weeks to pay for 52' as a viable means to have that security.
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by wayne_skylar 6y ago
Without knowing as much about the topic I really feel the same way too. This pandemic might take a "long" time but it will end and we will find ourselves with the same knowhow and infrastructure that we had going in. Surely things
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by wayne_skylar 7y ago
Wonderful. I'd rather have an unregulated ventilator and maybe live than no ventilator and die for sure.
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by wayne_skylar 7y ago
Also live in NY and I bought a portable dishwasher 10 years ago and have brought it with me during every move. It's on casters and functions as a countertop (which I need anyway) when not in use. I went for a few years without using it
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by wayne_skylar 7y ago
The Netflix UI is very abusive. They have no respect for the value of your time or your attention.
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by wayne_skylar 7y ago
This is the right answer. You've got the web paradigm of the nav bar showing up when you scroll up (among other oddities). I think it would be very easy to have a mobile browser extension to show pages full screen in a special interact
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by wayne_skylar 7y ago
This is excellent! I was thinking of making something like this myself (before I knew it already existed) for the exact same reasons.
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by wayne_skylar 7y ago
Is there no agreed upon way to write those letters with an English keyboard? I know for example in German ä -> ae ö -> oe ü -> ue At least that is what I was taught. When writing Spanish some of my friends have replaced ñ with gn a
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by wayne_skylar 7y ago
Oh I think he does get it. Facebook is a tool uniquely designed to influence behavior. Before you had to advertise to a generic stereotype of a person whereas now -- thanks to facebook's treasure trove of user data -- you can target ju
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by wayne_skylar 7y ago
Maybe this is a dumb question, but why can't nuclear waste be diluted? You get U-235 though enrichment of naturally occurring uranium. Why is there no way to reverse this process?
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by wayne_skylar 7y ago
This kind of thinking is the problem though. Like YouTube they don't care about the quality of the experience you're having. Where Netflix might see a very satisfied customer others might see a depressed individual binging a show
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by wayne_skylar 7y ago
I'm currently uninsured and trying to deal with the healthcare system in the US is so annoying it makes me want to give up and move to Canada. I went to an urgent care center and had a doctor perform a routine examination for a sinus i
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by wayne_skylar 7y ago
You're ignoring the vast majority of people who aren't aware that it's possible yet would care a great deal if they knew about it. In fact, that's the whole premise behind tracking pixels. It's victim blaming.

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