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And JFYI - while there definitely are good clients on Upwork, you'd have to sieve through a lot of garbage posts, so you'll have to spend quite some time finding the good ones.

I also heard people saying that local US marketplaces (even Craigslist) might bring a higher hourly rate. Can't vouch for it, though. On Upwork, there's a lot of work at $30-35 per hour - you can set higher rate for yourself, but that would naturally mean less clients reaching out to you.

I've been working with it for 9.5 years now, you're welcome to ask if you have questions.

Good luck!

Comment · 10 years ago

Strong tradition of STEM education, back from the Soviet times. Military complex was very strong in the USSR, which resulted in quality education (again, just STEM, not so in humanities) - basically, you need to know physics and maths very well to build the bomb.

I guess that applies to other Eastern bloc countries to some extent (see Polish universities at ##5, 9 and 25, Ukraine at #11, Belarus at #17).

Comment · 10 years ago

  > If you were to produce something along the lines of that 
  > for open-source projects that need it, I wouldn't hesitate 
  > to pay a modest fee.

Try BountySource [1] maybe?

There you can post a proposal for some improvement to an OSS project (a design doc, in your case) and pledge a bounty for it.

If other people have the same problem, they might chip in further, making it more visible/profitable to solve.

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[1] https://www.bountysource.com/

Comment · 10 years ago

> I will put $100 into an index fund and bet the proceeds > that self-driving technology will not be competitive with > rail by 2040.

Longbets? [1]

(They don't seem to be very active though, so if anyone knows better alternatives, you're welcome to share)

[1] http://longbets.org/

Comment · 10 years ago

> I just wish it existed outside emacs!

"Orgmode for Sublime Text 2 and 3" (didn't try it myself though)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11311465

Comment · 10 years ago

> Postgres hackers mailing list

Link on Gmane:

http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.general

Comment · 10 years ago

Seconding draw.io, have been using it somewhat actively recently, do recommend.

Seamless integration with GDrive, lots of existing templates, great experience overall.

Comment · 10 years ago

Try asking at Datasets subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets

Comment · 10 years ago

  > could very easily own that space if they implemented 
  > something like "give x$ per month to every project 
  > I've starred"

That's exactly what BountySource is about.

Then, as mention downthread, there are Flattr, Gittip/Gratipay and Patreon.