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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016) on Monday May 02, 2016 @01:04PM (#11613252)
Are you only looking for SF based or are you open to remote engineers (i.e. SE Asia)
Re:Brazilian Judge Shuts Down WhatsApp for 48 Hours on Thursday December 17, 2015 @01:42AM (#10749990)
PR = shorthand for Permanent Resident

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.

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Re:Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health? on Friday April 10, 2015 @02:09PM (#9356066)
Meditation makes a huge difference for me. I've tried a number of different methods, including using biofeedback devices but the most effective for me has been http://www.headspace.com. People who tend to have difficulty turning off the noise in their heads (such as myself) do well with guided imagery training such as that.
Re:Sir Terry Pratchett has died on Thursday March 12, 2015 @04:33PM (#9193687)
I'm in the middle of Feet of Clay - he'll be in my heart as I finish it.
Re:Zenamins (YC S14) Mails You Personalized Vitamins on Monday August 18, 2014 @10:22PM (#8195751)
I've seen convincing results from amino acid therapy, but I sit among the skeptics on multi-vitamins. Without some sort of differentiating research for their products, this doesn't seem vastly superior to a recurring amazon purchase.
Re:Law Students Fend Off a Patent Troll on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @07:52PM (#8170818)
If she started a kickstarter, I'd be happy to fund...
Re:Will you drown? on Saturday April 26, 2014 @03:37PM (#7652502)
I loved that this required no instructions. Really beautiful.
Just to give a difference of opinion, I don't think that this is necessarily representative of the entire HN community. I for one maintain a FB account almost exclusively for apps like this, so that I can reuse my social graph.

Disclaimer: I've done work in the past with one of the founders on a former iteration of this product.

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...

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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?

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Re:A Most Peculiar Test Drive on Thursday February 14, 2013 @01:21PM (#5220948)
to a reporter given the chance, donuts might be considered "normal use patterns" :-)
Re:A Most Peculiar Test Drive on Thursday February 14, 2013 @01:20PM (#5220929)
Agreed if things are going right - but again, for the sake of discussion, one could fathom there being some sort of bug. I don't believe that this could realistically be the case, but I'm just trying to mention all possibilities...
Re:A Most Peculiar Test Drive on Thursday February 14, 2013 @03:36AM (#5218447)
To play devil's advocate, I wonder if it's possible that there is no foul play on either side - if the car had issues displaying accurate data to the driver but logged properly to Tesla, he might have thought he was discontinuing the charge with a fuller battery then he had. Same for the speedometer (a chilling thought) and temperature.

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.

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Re:Help HN: Today I Just Became Homeless & I Need Your Help on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @08:02PM (#5106439)
If you pass along your info to me, I'll be happy to ask around to some of my prospective/current clients. See profile - good luck!

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...

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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...

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Re:Ask HN: Where do you store your media files? on Tuesday November 20, 2012 @04:29PM (#4811436)
Very convincing argument. Any advice for painless ways to set it up as a network drive (after the initial data transfer via USB)?
Re:Ask HN: Where do you store your media files? on Tuesday November 20, 2012 @04:27PM (#4811429)
Convenience would be nice so that I don't need to carry movies on my laptop and could stream them, but perhaps that is a bit move work than necessary.

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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Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2012) on Thursday November 01, 2012 @01:29PM (#4728649)
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco - Remote OK

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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

angel.co/daniel-hackner

linkedin.com/in/danielhackner

danhackner.com

I love this idea - I'll always do a bit of volunteer hacking in exchange for fun travel!

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