mediafinger

How to calculate your hourly rate as a freelancer?

Many people struggle with this question. Some just try to make as much as a full-time employee makes (and ignore that they won't be able to bill as many days). Others follow tips on startup related websites that suggest to ask for 20% to 50% more than an salary would yield (and ignore the additional risk and expenses they have).

Below you will find some numbers to help you calculate how high your hourly or daily rate should be.

Your yearly income should be higher than an average salary

• You take more risk than full time employees, phases without income are likely

ericelliott

Essential JavaScript Links

I no longer mantain this list. There are lots of other very comprehensive JavaScript link lists out there. Please see those, instead (Google "awesome JavaScript" for a start).

dreadatour

# Sublime Text 3 languages list:
ls -1 /Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/MacOS/Packages/

# Remove all default Sublime Text 3 snippets for Python language
export ST3_LANG="Python"
mkdir -p ~/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text\ 3/Packages/$ST3_LANG/
unzip -l /Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/MacOS/Packages/$ST3_LANG.sublime-package | grep '.sublime-snippet' | awk '{print $4}' | while read f; do touch ~/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text\ 3/Packages/$ST3_LANG/$f; done
unset ST3_LANG

nikcub

In August 2007 a hacker found a way to expose the PHP source code on facebook.com. He retrieved two files and then emailed them to me, and I wrote about the issue:

http://techcrunch.com/2007/08/11/facebook-source-code-leaked/

It became a big deal:

http://www.techmeme.com/070812/p1#a070812p1

The two files are index.php (the homepage) and search.php (the search page)