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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 …

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 w…

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 wher…

For me, mostly useless. I do however, enjoy using Touch ID for sudo permissions. HT to: https://twitter.com/cabel/status/931292107372838912

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 ma…

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 marketpl…

Great demonstration. You could probably just as easily listen for blur on form fields and be even more dangerous.

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 …

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/foun…

I have a distant recollection of hearing some big name company that had done this with a lot of success. From what I recall, it may have been a travel company that would add a call…

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 …

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 …

I've built a javascript tool which gives our content owners insight into users that hit our 404 page. It includes simple reporting about the top referrers and lets them setup a qui…

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 t…