dhackner
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Ask HN: Want to meet in Buenos Aires/Montevideo?
I'm a freelance developer spending September in Buenos Aires and would love to meet other hackers from the local tech community. I travel a lot and consult for clients all over the place so I'd love to get in contact with anyone looking for CTO-style architecture work, or just doing something interesting to discuss over a beer.
Neobase: Create a private social network outside the cloud
Disclaimer: I've done work in the past with one of the founders on a former iteration of this product.
Ask HN: Any Hackers in Singapore or HK want to meet up for a drink?
Will be passing through over the next two weeks and would love to meet some of the local community! Have been traveling for 3 months and these are my final stops. Email in profile.
Ask HN: I'm traveling Asia, can I meet you?
My fiance and I run a small consulting business; I'm a generalist programmer currently specializing in Django and AngularJS development and she is a copywriter and social media specialist. We are traveling Asia for a number of months, working, making connections, and vacationing. We're currently halfway through Japan and the rest of our few months is flexible.We have traveled a lot in the past...
Ask HN: What is your must-read pick for HTML/CSS design?
I'm a backend developer with a traditional CS background who is trying to expand his front end knowledge for my consultancy. I'd love a killer suggestion to up my design game.The CSS Zen Garden book seems to have been a defacto read, but it's published in 2005. Is it still relevant? Other suggestions?
Ask HN: Who advises your startup/consulting corp on finance and taxes?
I'm in the SF area and would love suggestions for somebody who can competently consult on things such as s-corp vs. llc fillings, write-offs due to travel, etc. I have a two person freelance consulting group.
As for the circles in the parking lot - I'd probably do donuts too if I was given free reign over a slick sports car.
Obviously it's far fetched to think that display inaccuracies were really the case, but food for thought.
Ask HN: What is your favorite mobile hotspot?
xcomglobal makes an expensive but really neat product for traveling abroad to more exotic locales, but what are your favorite choices for local use as well as international? I'm looking for a cheap option for major U.S. cities and perhaps Canada/Mexico as well. I'm intrigued by the clearcut payments of yourkarma.com.Smaller data packages are fine; this is mostly for dev while traveling.
Ask HN Freelancers: Upfront payments
A prospective client says that it is against their company policy to pay up front for anything and that they "always pay on time". Given that they haven't been particularly responsive in our email back and forths, does this strike any of the more experienced freelancers out there as a red light? What are your policies for upfront payments on hourly contracts? If you require them, what kind of...
Ask HN: Where to travel/freelance abroad?
Open ended discussion question! My girlfriend and I are SF based but looking to spend a few months traveling, starting around March. She's a writer/blogger/social media manager and I'm a freelance developer.I'd love suggestions from the community for places to head to. Considerations are cost, safety/health, food, weather, interesting experiences, local dev community / ease of finding cafes to...
Ask HN: What is your OSX virus defense strategy?
I was considering buying and partitioning a time capsule to use as both external storage for media and as a time machine backup. The wireless setup is nice since it becomes more transparent.
Ask HN: Where do you store your media files?
I'm upgrading machines and doing some housecleaning. My code goes in Github, my files go into Dropbox... but how about my music/movies/pictures? I don't have a huge library; on the scale of 100-200gb. What is everyone's preferred storage method? I was just about to setup a NAS drive or time capsule but then started to consider whether I'm not just better off with just a bigger Dropbox account...
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Freelancing and contracting to help bootstrap our startup, looking for ideally upwards of 20 hours a week (co-location in SF is fine. DC, Bay Area, NYC, or possibly other areas are feasible for short term deployments). Flexible up to 30 hours. Rates are flexible dependent on circumstances; will consider taking part of compensation as equity or through other creative setups. Prefer to establish long term relationships with startups.
In the process of learning:
- Rails
- Ember.js
- Frontend wizardry
Existing strengths:
- TDD
- General full stack development from backend Java algorithms and datastore implementations all the way up to Django templating.
- Selenium autotesting
- Compass/SASS/SCSS
- Continuous integration setup
- Remote and inperson work environments
Adioso (founding team) - built the backend flight ticketing system, fare data scrapers, frontend display
TripIt (acquired) - built the continuous integration and testing infrastructure, including Selenium and iOS/Android autotesting
Google (intern) - developed autotesting tools for Google Maps
Fun facts: Avid traveler, fashion observer, Mandarin chinese speaker, cyclist, published researcher
Contact info on profile to chat/get references/talk about how I can help you!
@drh
github.com/dhackner
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