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Re:Tesla Model S and Model 3 comparison on Friday May 26, 2017 @08:40AM (#14423605)
Full price is on the model 3 page at https://www.tesla.com/model3

$35,000

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2015) on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @02:03PM (#9813867)
Seeking work: USA/Baltimore|Remote

Hi, I'm currently focusing on iOS for internal business apps and startups exploring adding an iOS client to their offering. I spent over a decade developing internal tools to improve workflow in environments that require high reliability (FedEx, US Army Research Lab, etc).

iOS dev (Native/ObjC), backend dev (C, ObjC, C++, PHP, Ruby, scheme, common lisp, java), SysAdmin/config (fbsd,obsd,solaris,linux)

https://elfga.com/~erik/resume/Erik_Greenwald.pdf

https://github.com/erikg

http://sourceforge.net/users/erikgreenwald

https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikgreenwald

https://www.elfga.com/~erik/

[email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2015) on Monday June 01, 2015 @11:03AM (#9639068)
Seeking work: USA/Baltimore|Remote

iOS dev (Native/ObjC), backend dev (C, ObjC, C++, PHP, Ruby, scheme, common lisp, java), SysAdmin/config (fbsd,obsd,solaris,linux)

https://elfga.com/~erik/resume/Erik_Greenwald.pdf

https://github.com/erikg

http://sourceforge.net/users/erikgreenwald

https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikgreenwald

https://www.elfga.com/~erik/

[email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2015) on Friday May 01, 2015 @10:37AM (#9471594)
Seeking work: USA/Baltimore|Remote

iOS dev (Native/ObjC), backend dev (C, ObjC, C++, PHP, Ruby, scheme, common lisp, java), SysAdmin/config (fbsd,obsd,solaris,linux)

https://elfga.com/~erik/resume/Erik_Greenwald.pdf

https://github.com/erikg

http://sourceforge.net/users/erikgreenwald

https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikgreenwald

https://www.elfga.com/~erik/

[email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2015) on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @10:40AM (#9303931)
Seeking work: USA/Baltimore|Remote

iOS dev (Native/ObjC), backend dev (C, ObjC, C++, PHP, Ruby, scheme, common lisp, java), SysAdmin/config (fbsd,obsd,solaris,linux)

https://elfga.com/~erik/resume/Erik_Greenwald.pdf

https://github.com/erikg

http://sourceforge.net/users/erikgreenwald

https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikgreenwald

https://www.elfga.com/~erik/

[email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2015) on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @11:15AM (#9138438)
Seeking work: USA/Baltimore|Remote

iOS dev (Native/ObjC), backend dev (C, ObjC, C++, PHP, Ruby, scheme, common lisp, java), SysAdmin/config (fbsd,obsd,solaris,linux)

https://elfga.com/~erik/resume/Erik_Greenwald.pdf

https://github.com/erikg

http://sourceforge.net/users/erikgreenwald

https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikgreenwald

https://www.elfga.com/~erik/

[email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2015) on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @10:47AM (#8990966)
Seeking work: USA/Baltimore|Remote

iOS dev (Native/ObjC), backend dev (C, ObjC, C++, PHP, Ruby, scheme, common lisp, java), SysAdmin/config (fbsd,obsd,solaris,linux)

https://elfga.com/~erik/resume/Erik_Greenwald.pdf

https://github.com/erikg

http://sourceforge.net/users/erikgreenwald

https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikgreenwald

https://www.elfga.com/~erik/

[email protected]

Re:How to Recreate a Sloppy Ancient Greek Drinking Game on Thursday January 15, 2015 @08:37AM (#8892387)
The article says "West Chester University of Pennsylvania"...
Re:Spreading a little Christmas job-hunting hope on Thursday December 25, 2014 @09:31AM (#8796280)
Grats on the job!

I hear you about the anxiety. I managed to land an interview with nvidia in 2001 and was so nervous that I couldn't eat or sleep for the 24 hours before the start of the interview (then ate lunch with them at their cafeteria and was wolfing food down like an animal). Didn't fare well, but a year later of hunting and working as a substitute teacher, I ended up working with a great team at FedEx for a while and went to being a "computer scientist" at the army research lab after that.

Anxiety is a challenge, but it can be overcome! I'm even in the process of starting with "toastmasters" to get me out of my comfort zone and learn how to be "on" around strangers.

Again, congratulations and thanks for sharing!

Re:Ongoing MacKeeper fraud on Monday November 03, 2014 @08:46AM (#8550705)
purge(8) flushes and clears the disk buffers, which is not the issue that kills me with my old macbook with 4G ram.

It looks like disk cache expiration is slow and tends to kick in when it's a bit too late. With the speed that modern apps chew through memory, I'm sent into a swap thrash and get sluggish response and beachballs.

MemoryKeeper on the App store seems to mostly clear the file cache and do some -fu to compact memory (maybe it's a memory defragment, the docs are a little lacking in technical details.) When I manually run it, everything runs great until the free memory dries up and I'm back in that alloc/swapthrash/cachepurge cycle again.

I wrote a tiny C program for linux to force cache expirations (in a very sloppy but reasonably portable way) back in '98 that I've started using again on osX, it fixes the issue and runs quite a bit quicker than MemoryKeeper. I can make it available if anyone else wants it.

Ask HN: How did you find your online mastermind group?

After hearing about mastermind groups in various podcasts and blog posts, I read up and went to meetup.com to look for one. Unfortunately, my area is a bit lacking, so I tried googling for some mechanism to join an existing group (lots of "how to start a", no "how to find a"). Instead of submitting to the urge of coding a mastermind dating service, I thought I'd ask here.How do you find a (n...

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Re:Ask HN: Hackers who cook on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @03:31PM (#8357626)
1. Fun. The preparation and cooking (and subsequent eating) is a good change of pace and can be zen-like

2. Not really. I plan special dishes once every couple of weeks, but have enough stuff on my 'normal' weekly grocery list that I can do a fair variety

3. Beef stroganoff, lo mein, stromboli, spaghetti, fajitas, tabbouleh, sushi rolls, steak&baked potatoes, etc

4. No, though I've been trying to reduce fat and cholesterol with low/no fat versions or substitutions (greek yogurt instead of sour cream, ground turkey, etc)

5. Mise en place (prepare everything before turning anything on). Experiment; tweak the recipes and try new things. Don't go cheap on essential equipment (knives, pots&pans). Try doing things without countertop appliances (fresh ravioli with a rolling pin and knife, hand kneed breads, mince with a knife instead of using a food processor, etc) to learn what to look for. Have fun cooking so you do it more often and it's a positive thing :)

Re:Ask HN: Do you still use an RSS reader? on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @01:06PM (#8331046)
I'm using TinyTinyRSS (ttrss) right now. After google reader was shut down, I was using both ttrss and theoldreader, but found that theoldreader was missing a significant number of entries. Then theoldreader set a cap of 100 feeds for free accounts and removed 30 of my feeds (taking me from 102 to 72...) so now I'm just using ttrss. Open source, has a decent user interface plus free ios apps.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2014) on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @09:53AM (#7970611)
Seeking work: USA/Baltimore|Remote

SysAdmin/config (fbsd,obsd,solaris,linux), backend dev (C, ObjC, PHP, Ruby, Scheme, Common Lisp, C++, Java, SQL), iOS dev

https://elfga.com/~erik/ [email protected]

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