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2) Agencies won't work because agencies are in it for themselves. If their funnel is big, they could care less about your project and will only dedicate enough resources to get paid.

3) Larger agencies won't work because you're not a big client.

What you need to do is either get a partner or start your own consulting agencies.

Alternatively, other approach is to raise your rates to filter out clients. Also, unsure if you're doing maintenance work, but you can switch from that to new projects exclusively to eliminate 10-20 hours, however that might lose you a contract in the future.

Shameless plug - My long term (1,5+ years) contract is coming to an end and I'm actively looking for another or for an opportunity to partner up. I do full-stack, but I prefer backend and/or apis and have six years of experience.

Regardless of whether you're interested or not, feel free to reach out even for just a chat :) email is in the profile.

Solo - the guy that is the captain of Virtus Pro, was at 4k for the longest time. There's more to dota than just mmr.

There are players at 5.5-6k range that still do not understand the basics of team play, but are just extremely mechanically gifted and are in great gaming shape.

Sure, there’s opinions, but no standards within the React framework, and that’s what keeps bothering me the most. I can’t get into react because person x will tell me - “oh you should do x like this instead, because of y’ and then I’ll read y is heresy. I don’t have enough experience or time to vet what’s good or bad and I can’t make that choice. I also however don’t want to refactor every other month because someone suggests the new best practice.

With Vue, at least for myself, things felt more natural and straightforward. Not saying I understand Vue fully either, but, I made a fully working standalone project that complements the business in less than a day. JWT, multiple api calls, toasts, Vuex, components and voala it was done, while for react it took a real front end dev almost an entire week to get something up and running.

At some point it’s not about modularity or code perfection, but rather delivering. It was easy for me to get something up and running with Vue, but I was overwhelmed with React. I don’t want to spend 3-6 months learning something only to be able to write PR passable code.

As a developer you're constantly fighting managers who want to rush things to get them out and who will eventually blame you for a bug/non-defined behavior once you hit a certain milestone.

To me it seems the author of the article doesn't understand the tech debt. If you've ever worked in a startup you'd know that the requirements are ever-changing, thus that if a certain payment system is put in place, it might evolve to the point where you really need to refactor it and in order to enable the refactor you have to refactor the whole business flow as well. If there's more than 2-3 features affected by a new feature, a big refactor is definitely needed.

Only one solution offered, which I dont think is adequate because why would I leave something in that was only meant to provide value for short term and then build on top of it till I kill the old system?

Highlight of the article! Even though I disagree with certain bits, the article in itself helps explain how to think about programming time in a project.

I could be wrong, but my idea is that nowadays - schools are just brands, rather than an educational environments, but there are exceptions of course.

Watch some of his youtube videos as well - they gave me strength to endure through some tough times.

We have broken off two of our monolith’s components into a microservice and for now it’s working great - but there are just some things I don’t think make sense to decouple and isolate. I’m afraid I’d get in an integration hell. Has anyone had such an issue?

- Create a custom http header and find a unique way to create/identify it. So theoretically another layer of authorization, just like APP ID for instance.

- Create a middleware that would scan the request and check whether it has the required custom header

- If not log everything and create a notification/slack/allow/deny and if it's good let through the request.

My company is hiring a remote web developer - if you're interested. Salary goes between 80-100k depending on experience. Contact is in my profile.

Just to clear it up - my issue is with people feeling entitled to get help, while they can work.

Yes, no tiny creature should be punished, but there has to be a thought put into it at first I believe.

You mean the adults who were left to starve? No, it works better when children are loved and brought up in a normal environment. I see your point :)

OT: To my eyes - there is a big difference in a sign "WILL WORK FOR FOOD/MONEY/ETC" and "PLEASE GIVE ME 100$ I NEED IT". Should the USA be like Mother Theresa, lend their helping hand to everyone in need?

I can tell you for a fact that there are tons of people who live on social aid, that are eligible to work, maybe even have degrees and just simply don't want to work. The whole point is, the more you help the more will the people get used to it and will start leeching - it's in the human nature.

I think enjoying bodily pleasures is great - but having a baby is something you need to ensure you can handle. If you can't raise a child right, don't raise it. I have seen people have 5 children - only so that the mother can live off of welfare.

You can give your wealth away - that's what I'm doing, but I'm not expecting my government to provide diapers, I buy them for the people in need. I expect my government to provide health care and jobs, the people will take care of the rest.

I don't mind USA helping people in a real need, but people who are just reckless should not be helped, because they knew what a child brings.

This is privilege and propaganda at work right here. Being so far removed from what its like to be poor that you unironically believe some bullshit like "poor people just want government bux for free".

Privilege is that I'm saying that people get used to government help and dont want to work? That's not privilege, that's called common sense. No point in discussing this further.

You don't even understand what privilege means, my dude. I expect my government to serve myself and the people, and not a handful of old dudes at the top of the food chain. If you think a government serving its people is a privilege, I think you have a very poor idea of what democracy is (or should be).

Oh - but government creating jobs and providing health care is serving old dudes? If what you're saying continues, you will end up with a world full of people that have no ability to resonate, work or be challenged.

unless, of course, you have a system that encourages dependence on public assistance and actually ends up hurting a woman's self-sufficiency and puts her little boy at a high risk of being helpless and dependent, too.

By having the government helping them more, they fail to become self-reliant, thus get used to leeching and are expecting from the government to help them. You have people purposely living on food stamps and government help, even though they're capable of finding work. If you're not aware of this you might want to check your filters as well.

You say the OP's comment reeks of privilege/ignorance, but you go ahead and expect government privilege in $CURRENY_YEAR.

The OP was commenting that certain people leech and do not want to find a job and help themselves, but rather want more help from the government.

I grew up with cloth diapers not because my family was poor, but just simply because it was a better choice for us at the time. My Family grew up in the 50-60s with cloth diapers, because other types of diapers weren't available. I don't see that cloth diapers are a poor-people's choice. Why is that so "third world"? Is it bellow some "level" you think should exist - that my friend is the privilege/ignorance you were smelling in other comments.