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ugh, yeah, newb mistake: forgot any sort of tracking. Probably will do some spend.

There's definitely demand, and you should be able to get decent wedge if you're any good at it. The reason why there's a race to the bottom on freelance sites is precisely because …

What do people think about submitting other people's libraries to package registries like npm, bower, jam or other package managers? I'm against it. I've come across a few circumst…

Nice examples of traction! How'd you land the Nike deal? Any money change hands? To make decent suggestions about where you should focus, we'd need to understand your motivations. …

Is this similar to https://github.com/NYTimes/Emphasis ? What's new?

Really, who cares? It's on pirate bay, it's been downloaded 100,000 times: if you want it, it's out there. "Liberty" has already been achieved! Hooray!

I'm doing a lot of work in Javascript at the moment, and it seems like most of the world indents using only 2 spaces - which I find really hard to read, particularly (say) long gru…

I have a bookmark folder "to read" which would be better named "I don't really care about this". The best system I found was similar, but just suited my habits better: if I find an…

"But information overload isn’t the problem. If it was, you’d walk into a library and die." http://www.gtdtimes.com/2010/02/11/the-problem-is-not-inform...

Wow, that's impressive - often I struggle to recall the details of what I've read - setting a written product of an objective would be useful. This must take a lot of discipline...…

I've not quite had this experience, but similar, and agree - if you've got what they want, then they'll be happy to receive your call. (As long as you're polite about it!)

Agree that tech is myopic... or perhaps it's just a segment of tech - there are a lot of tech people working happily for those large PS firms you mention.

Ah, I wish this were so easy! Perhaps it's a certain lack of kahunas, but I never felt like it would be appropriate to ask the recruitment agent if I can swing by... plus, now in m…

PDF generation is a complex business... you're not going to be all things to all people, you need to choose a particular niche (at least to start with) and make that work. I can se…

I work in the DOCCM (Document Output for Customer Communications Management) space, which in a certain light is just generating PDFs (well, perhaps a bit more complex than that...)…

Congrats on quitting the job! Now... down to the real work! Find your customers first. If you know who they are, then you've got a chance to validate the idea. If you don't, then y…

Finding the same thing with node.js, I got started OK with passport thanks to the examples for passport-local: https://github.com/jaredhanson/passport-local/tree/master/ex... , esp…

I'm 9 months in to my startup (consultancy/product combo for enterprise), probably 2 weeks from having the first signed deal. I quit my day job June 2012. Then I wasted 6 months sp…

A standard defined by an RFC will be a win for consumers, not sure if it'll be a win for companies though. If whatsapp can create a monopoly and make money from it, that's a win fo…

This has been my experience - every organisation I've left has got by irritatingly well without me. The ones without solid metrics to measure success just fudge the metrics anyway;…