Putting this out there in case it may help others: My mother suffered from GERD for years and years and about two years ago, her condition seemed to have taken a turn for the worse. We’re talking waking up in the middle of the night projectile vomiting. Constant heartburn, burping and indigestion after meals and daily constipation. The doctors were completely unable to help except to recommend antacids and possibly PPI medication which can have serious side-effects.
I put her on a prebiotic + probiotic diet (kaffir, yogurt, whole grains, dark leafy greens, etc) along with a basic probiotic supplement every night and now according to her, at least 95% of the symptoms have gone away. She’s able to sleep through the night now, better mood, better energy, better everything.
Not saying it will work for everyone, but it worked for her. I feel like so little is understood about the gut microbiome and modern medicine is letting people suffer needlessly.
Edit: just realized this sounds exactly like a paid infomercial lol
You are the boss of a company of one. Your company sells labor to the labor market, it makes investments in assets, it borrows funds, etc.
It’s your job to decide how that company is run. It’s your job to decide what investments that company needs to make to get good returns.
It’s also your job to interpret the contracts your company enters into and decide what is acceptable, and to appropriately risk-manage legal hazard, reputational hazard, etc.
There is nobody else to run this company. It does not have a right to a good outcome. A lot of companies fail. Your company of one WILL fail if you make poor decisions.
When you truly internalise that last fact is when you become an adult.
(Edit: clarified that the last paragraph refers to the previous one specifically)
I'd recommend two things. The first is Brad Myers' Software Structures for User Interfaces course at Carnegie Mellon University, which focuses on the guts of how graphical user interfaces work.
The second is Dan Olsen's book Developing User Interfaces, which has all of the details of how GUIs work, from graphics to interactor trees to events to dispatching. For some reason, it's absurdly expensive on Amazon right now.
Both Dan Olsen and Brad Myers were early pioneers in GUIs and GUI tools, so you'd be learning from the masters.
Ha, yes, I've done that at https://gigablast.com/ .
The biggest problems now are the following:
1) Too hard to spider the web. Gatekeeper companies like Cloudflare (owned in part by Google) and Cloudfront make it really difficult for upstart search engines to download web pages.
2) Hardware costs are too high. It's much more expensive now to build a large index (50B+ pages) to be competitive.
I believe my algorithms are decent, but the biggest problem for Gigablast is now the index size. You do a search on Gigablast and say, well, why didn't it get this result that Google got. And that's because the index isn't big enough because I don't have the cash for the hardware. btw, I've been working on this engine for over 20 years and have coded probably 1-2M lines of code on it.
Father of two little guys of 7 & 5 here. Personal story below.
There's no tablets at home, no games on parent's smartphones. They have access to technology thought. But we are a "NO ADS ALLOWED HERE" kind of home :)
Netflix is freely accessible on the only TV we have, during "opening hours", so that they can choose actively their program and not be exposed to TV ads (the TV has only access to Netflix).
They can switch on a Raspberry with an emulator where they can play some games from the 80/90'. But they have to enter one command on the little Bluetooth keyboard (and they do!).
And finally they can sit at the home's PC, start windows, ask parents to open their session and launch complex games such as Age Of Empire.
No internet access, only books for now.
When they happen to be exposed to TV ads at grand-parents home, for ex, you can really see what kind of behavior ads are ingraining in little brains: "I want this!", "Why is this so short?", "Why don't they tell the price?". That's always an opportunity for me to educate them to what's actually happening before their eyes: "look guys, this is a company (some people at work) that's working to expose their products (toys) to your eyes, hoping that you will ask your parents to spend money to buy it. They're smart, but we are smarter!".
I'm very inclined to think that toddlers should not have access to tablets, moreover to mainstream games on Android/Iphone. My personnal guess is that It's not preparing them to mastering technology, it's preparing them to be addicted to technology.
There's also:
- PeoplePerHour.co.uk (UK based, not sure of international presence)
- Freelancer.com
- Toptal (but I think they have some sort of approval process that may be a bit arduous)
- Guru.com
- Codeable.io
- Outsourcely.com
- Truelancer.com
- Konker
- Servicescape
- Solidgig (but stronger for design and marketing/SEO roles, I think - considered dropping into the category below)
- Hubstaff Talent
- FlexJobs (but more oriented toward IT and accounting than software development; again, considered dropping into the more specalised category below)
Additional specialist companies I'm aware of that target roles other than developers:
- 99Designs (for, you guessed it, designers and UX) - https://99designs.co.uk/
- Savio (market researchers) - https://savio.pro/
- F-LEX (legal) - https://flex.legal/
Hope you manage to pick up more work soon, but also that you manage to get yours and your clients money back from Upwork.