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Garveyon Ask HN: 6-figure freelancers of HN, what do you do?

What sort of level would you say you were at with regards to your js knowledge, and how long have you been working with it?

I'm still pretty green and living up north, but looking to the future, I could see me having to move to get a decent salary, just wondering how feasible it may be.

Garveyon How Google is secretly recording YOU through your mobile

The S*n isn't worth linking to, sensationalist nonsense.

http://www.anfieldroad.com/dont-buy-the-sun/

Garveyon Microsoft Surface Laptops and Tablets Not Recommended by Consumer Reports

What are your issues with git on Windows?

Not sure why you feel Windows is "appallingly terrible" for set up of development tools either? Care to expand on why this is the case?

Genuinely curious, if only becasue I don't have these problems...

Garveyon Show HN: Map showing distribution of the IMDb top movie filming sites in London

Just a thought but if there was a way to browse by film also, that would be a nice additional option :)

Oh, and if you could click the other locations for a film, once you have the details open, and have it move to that location on the map.

Garveyon Underground Hansa Market taken over and shut down

Buying "some drugs" from "some people", "might" fund those actions.

Bit of a generalisation to apply it to every drug sale ever...

Garveyon UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU

No, they were simply saying that being part of the E.U didn't preclude conflict.

Garveyon Ask HN: Any programmer/developer using Windows as their primary OS?

I'm using it at work and it's a pleasure.

Use whatever fits your workflow and try not to be put off by comments like this that offer no useful information.

Garveyon Ask HN: Why don't web apps make use of right click?

Can't it also be a two finger tap?

Garveyon Ask HN: What did you pay for firstnamelastname.com

http://forebears.co.uk/

Garveyon Ask HN: Is Googlebot signing up for accounts on stackoverflow?

Strangely enough, if I Google "install latest version of npm", I get the same link as your screenshot, but the text is as follows:

"8 Answers 8. You can update nodejs by using npm itself, a PPA, or manually. Or just tell it to install the latest stable version. Both may take a while.17 Dec 2014 14.04 - How do you update npm to the latest version? - Ask Ubuntu askubuntu.com/questions/562417/how-do-you-update-npm-to-the-latest-version"

Does that mean that Google have activated the subscription?

Garveyon Ask HN: What did you pay for firstnamelastname.com

£8.10 firstnamelastname.com

£4.46 firstnamelastname.co.uk

Fairly common firstname, Surname: 18,714th most common surname in the world, Approximately 27,829 people bear this surname

Garveyon Under-35s in the UK face becoming permanent renters, warns thinktank

Is there anything wrong with that? I lived in Italy for around 2 years and everyone there seemed perfectly happy with renting.

According to this article from The Guardian, it would appear to be similar in France.

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/jan/14/why-are-brits-s...

Garveyon Glittering Blue

Not a massive issue, but in Chrome if you scroll so that the credits/about link is over the Earth, you can no longer click it.

Adding a z-index property set to 1 in the CSS fixes it for me in Chrome.

Garveyon Running costs for running a web app

Just an FYI, on the snation.com site, WOT flags the page as Very Poor on Trustworthiness and Child Safety.

The details of the WOT report make it seem like it could be an outdated report of spam/malware.

Garveyon Ask HN: what are your favorite coder related videos? (any length, any kind)

Sneakers: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/

Garveyon US bars friends over Twitter joke

Mainly for things like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster#The_Sun_n...