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leviathan | 7 years ago | on: My First Year of Freelancing

A bit late to the party, but they don't keep a percentage of your rate. You set your rate and that is what you get paid. Whatever they take as commission is between them and the client.

Source: I work with Toptal.

leviathan | 8 years ago | on: Using a logbook to improve your programming

This article seems lacking some examples. I have found that such ideas are nice in theory, but when it comes to practice, they tend to fall short.

So the author says that it's a good idea to write logbooks, and that it will help. But no mention on how it would help, and what would you actually do with them after you write them up.

A few concrete examples would have been nice.

If the idea is to help you solve the problem more efficiently, why should it be formalized? as opposed to scribbling notes on a notepad that you throw away at the end of the day.

leviathan | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is your favorite place to find work?

Whenever I read a similar story, there always seems to be a piece of information missing.

Like I'm pretty sure the interviewer wasn't just out to get you and simply refused to look at your application because that's just how they do things.

leviathan | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Professional profile management tool built using React

Note (and I've seen this in a lot of apps/sites) that you should expect to not receive an email from a Facebook login. I explicitly do not share my Facebook email, and every website that wants to do Facebook login fails to notice that and ends up in an undefined state.

Your site `/dieu/rest-auth/facebook/` endpoint crashes (because I assume it expects an email and doesn't get one)

leviathan | 9 years ago | on: iOS and MacOS Developers Can Now Respond to Reviews

As far as I've seen, happy user have little incentive to go and leave a good review. But the users who have had some annoyances with the app are definitely going to take it to the reviews. This leaves you with negatively biased reviews a lot of the time.

leviathan | 9 years ago | on: The Memory App – Instant personalized memory recall

probably the whole Elephant for the logo.

You can download the app in iTunes, find the .ipa file and extract it to look what's inside.

Edit: also it's not the actual size that you will download on your phone. Visit the AppStore from your device and it will show you the correct size for you.

leviathan | 9 years ago | on: Adding a phone number to your Google account can make it less secure

I keep hearing this, but here's my anecdote.

I signed up for AdWords a long time ago and created a test campaign just to see what it looks like, but never completed the process, so I didn't have a payment method entered.

Fast forward till start of this year, I created an AdMob account to put ads in one iOS game I have, and apparently as soon as I entered my credit card info, the old AdWords campaign started running and was taking $200/day. I noticed after two days and immediately stopped it and contacted support. They quickly got back to me, a person called me and explained that the issue was an error from their side, and they refunded me the amount. It took three weeks for the refund to occur, and during that time the guy called me at least once per week to keep me in the loop. I was surprised with this after all I've heard about Google's support. But I guess that's just one data point in the pool.

leviathan | 9 years ago | on: Android Studio 2.2

I think the parent is talking about android views. which are XML documents and almost everyone writes the XML instead of mucking about with the visual editor.
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