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I noticed several other developers chiming on the "Being a Deaf Developer" post [0], and thought I'd share our tool. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10924605

You could consider investing in some training for the employee. You could have another senior designer offer the critiques and feedback you feel are eating into your time.

You most certainly should charge for maintenance. Depending on the size of the project, you can also charge a monthly retainer to be available for maintenance should the need occur…

Or your end users. Everything becomes easier when you really care about the demographic you're serving.

Constant fear of Apple breaking backward compatibility by shipping new versions of their operating system every year. Apple is now running a beta versions of iOS 8.x and iOS 9. Thi…

I don't think finding a unique SaaS idea is the way to go. You're better off studying the competition and trying to see how you can sufficiently differentiate your offering from th…

Alright, so here's how you go about it. I'll first give you the general approach, then an example. 1. Find a demographic that you care about. Someone you want to help from the hear…

For B2C products, once word-of-mouth and customer referrals become a significant (~10%) chunk of your customer acquisition, it's safe to say you have good product/market fit.

First, think of what you will do if your client refuses to increase your rate. What is your BATNA? Are you prepared to walk away? If, after rejection, you plan to continue with the…

"Winning through Intimidation" by Robert Ringer is an amazing work that has helped me tremendously.

Like Patrick mentions in his reply, you should try to hack your psychology to get more comfortable with directly but politely asking for things you want. One trick that works for m…

Indeed. I work in accessibility/assistive-tech and the dots between words is a disaster.

How to politely and firmly ask for what you want.

The vector for the water/boat/plane is "medium".

Awesome.

*.txt will be the only format that mitigates the risk I'm talking about. Evernote. Sigh.

> - not really they are archived objects This is a deal-breaker for me. I don't want to risk putting years of effort into this and then have the app break when Apple decides to dep…

Good point. While the family Corvidae (Corvids, which includes Jays) is found in South America, the genus Corvus ("Crows") is absent there. So for PBS to be correct you have to rea…

Feynman had an offer from IAS which he declined for the reasons discussed above.