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skeeton How to get your first 100k active users

Sorry, but this is bad advice.

skeeton I gave Amazon a key to my house and regretted it

Just install Amazon Collar round your dog's neck. It will lightly caress it as the delivery person approaches your house, ensuring your items get there safely.

skeeton Ask HN: How do you start looking for a new job?

I moved from perm to contracting in London by hitting up recruiters on LinkedIn and uploading my CV to JobServe.

Phone didn't stop ringing after uploading my CV.

skeeton Milking the iPhone

To me, the contact lens type HUD in the Black Mirror episode "The Entire History of You" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entire_History_of_You) feels like the ideal solution as it's discreet.

Wonder if it's technically possible...

skeeton Ask HN: What is your daily rate?

My current daily rate is £400 / day, I work in London, UK.

I work as a Node.js Developer, I have 5+ years of experience and my main skills are Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Redis, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, AngularJS, Backbone.js, jQuery, HTML5, CSS, Linux.

skeeton New GitHub Logo

http://i.imgur.com/cKLkPPi.jpg

Pretty subtle logo change really.

skeeton Must-have OS X apps for developers and designers

ClipMenu is a nice free clipboard manager.

http://www.clipmenu.com/