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Steve.northup at g...mail dot com
I too do freelance software development. I'm at a pretty small scale right now, but shoot me an email if you'd like to talk about doing some work together in the future. Whether its just passing excess projects off to each other or it turns into something bigger, I am open to discussion. I am booked until end of June right now. My email should be in my profile.
Do you know Object Oriented methodologies? If so (or if you want to learn), consider something like java or python. Are you coming from front end web? Learn node.js, it will have the most transferable knowledge.
Find the best, clearest tutorials that lead you to something similar to what you want to build, and use that tech. Personally, I'll use python/django for my next webapps because I like the tutorials and the programming style/environment. But I don't do games, and django probably isn't the best game framework.
I'd definately use HTML5 for the front end, I love the api's and the skillset is very valuable.
Agreed. I think that there was a lot of snobbery the way he says 'look at how I got rich, you're doing it wrong'. But some of his concepts are immensely valuable. I like how he pushes the idea of strong education in accounting, law, and other business essentials, as well as his use of networking and assessing of market conditions.
Lots of suggestions to travel. If you choose to do so, I'd recommend traveling cheaply and openly. Its an incredible feeling to travel with no defined end date or destination. Try long distance hiking, or a one way ticket to a cheap area of the world. WWOOFing if you're into farming/sustainability. The style of not having an end date allows you to take your time in an unstressfull situation to ponder the world and where you want to take your career, then when something motivates you enough, you can immediately stop and pour all of your energy into it.
Get dedicated T1's if you can afford them. Debugging phone issues is near impossible if you can't trust your network.
I too would be very interested in learning more about how to break in to this type of work. I am a few years out of school with a CS and Math degree, and no clue where to start. I didn't see any contact info in your profile.
http://www.idealist.org/ is the classic outlet for nonprofity jobs. I've found all nonprofit tech jobs to be incredibly unchallenging though, so if you are motivated by hard problems and engineering challenges then you've got some serious job hunting ahead of you.
Genious
Does anyone else find this incredibly ironic?
CentOS on all my servers
Always start the speech off with a quick joke. Hearing everyone chuckle kindly always eases the nerves. Something easy like "They said that winning this award would take hard work, but no one told me I'd have to give a speech too!".
Good call steve dot northup at gmail dot com
SEEKING WORK
Full stack LAMP stack developer. (Though I am open to other technologies). Experience prototyping web applications and working on financial trading platforms.
Interested mostly in long term part time remote work.
Do what you want and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
--Not Dr. Suess?
Is it something that can be run from the states? I'll take it and run it while you're gone.
Interesting read. I liked the reference to Ralph Nadar... Those who vote in favor of war should be required to enlist in a draft.
Though I don't know how serious I can take this when the guy uses the word 'wonks' in reference to those he disagrees with.
Also I think that the lack of 'skin in the game' encourages risk, which counteracts a natural tendency for large groups to be more conservative (look at big business vs small). If you made decision makers have skin in the game, you'd have even less innovation and new ideas in large institutions. This is taking into account factors beyond his thesis, but leads to interesting thoughts when it comes to practical application of his ideas.
STAMFORD, CT and NEW YORK CITY
Looking for developers
US:
We are a funded startup with 17 or so people and growing. We focus primarily on brokerage and project finance in the REC markets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_Energy_Certificates.
YOU:
- You have a coding background. We use a lot of PHP here, but all we ask is a background with any language. We know good programmers can pick up any language with a reasonable desire to learn
- You want to work in the renewable energy sector. Apply your technical skills to directly support the use of renewable energies
- You understand version control, cloud hosting, and agile dev
- You're interested in the startup culture of a constant flow of new problems, and are willing to help grow the IT presence of the firm
Send resumes to IT at SKYSTREAMMARKETS dot COM
Two bullet points from the site:
- Unlimited talk and text for 30 days.
- 16 hour talk time.
I'm confused. Which is it?
This is one of the better things to come across Hacker News recently. People will hate on Wordpress all they want, but at the end of the day I still have to support a bunch of clients that use it.
We're working on a new idea, coming up with a proof of concept and are talking with Investors and other Entrepreneurs in the area. Would you guys use this kind of service? How do I bring in revenue from something like this?
I really wish people didn't spread this kind of message. Think job security guys! Come on!