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Ask HN: After freelancing for so long how do I create a good resume?
I've been doing freelance web development for about four years now, and a job just opened at a local university for web development and a little server administration. I know I have the skills needed for the position, but they have been self taught. In addition, I haven't needed to write a resume for several years, so I'm not sure how to get started. There are a lot of the standard resume help and template resources that a google search turns up, but what about things catered to a freelancer or web developer?

A friend was telling me, "Just google web developer resumes and go from there." Is there a better option?
Tumblr gets over 10 billion page views a month. It's something bigger than a "neat little side project." The criticism of Tumblr (and Twitter) that they're not "real" businesses or that they're not interested in making money ignores how young these companies are and how early in their lifetimes we're judging them.
While this project is clearly a joke and the article has fun with it, the statement

It is also a practical test of the thought experiment that wonders whether an infinite number of monkeys pounding on an infinite number of typewriters would be able to produce Shakespeare's works by accident.

is rather idiotic. Nobody "wonders" whether this'll work. Of course it'll work. It's a mathematical certainty. It just... takes a while.
This is supposed to be the dream behind RFID. Smart shelves know when they're under stocked. They can even tell if cart is in range to display ads. They can tell if you remove product A, eyeball it, put it back and get product B. They can track your cart's RFID chip throughout the store to make a heatmap on a per-store basis. Better yet, after a while they can make a heatmap for you, or more importantly <insert demographic>. Then you checkout and it ties that cart to your name and probably other info.

Checkout is the friction point this guy is focused on and probably will be how RFID is sold to consumers, but the real money in RFID is selling customer info to marketers.
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Yes, Welsh is pretty much useless, but we're talking about introducing a new subject.

Maths is useful in a lot more situations than programming would be, I bet most people don't realize how often they use maths without realizing. Things like algebra are about logic, deducing things, figuring things out. French is, again, a subject that can be dropped at 16 and not a core subject. I didn't study French at school (Technically I should have done Spanish but that was the same time I had my SLS instead)
The discussion about technology replacing jobs is worthwhile, but why does the premise need to be based on such a negative attitude towards food and grocery stores? The argument really loses it's effectiveness when it's based on a whiny attitude.

Personally I enjoy going grocery shopping, especially when a trip to a farmer's market is involved. However, I can see how it's a turn off to deal with food when your eating habits consist of frozen pizza and chips.
Ex-FreeBSDer who's thinking to go back to twiddling with it again here!

I agree. These people should join hand to move *BSD forward faster. I feel that as days go by, BSD is losing its ground against Linux (and Windows).

It's also nice to have one shared codebases for the OS level stuff (sure, the GNU toolchain part can be different) so more people can actually learn them as opposed to be given a hard choice of one of the BSDs.
With these sorts of things, I think people often lose sight of how cheap human workers can be. Automating a unionized factory, where the workers get a good salary and benefits, saves a lot of money. Automating away a $8/hr job by a system whose savings is lost as soon as someone takes advantage of it and steals a toothbrush, I'm not as sure.

Some fancy cart that has a built in scale and scanning mechanism to work as the self-checkout lanes do would help somewhat with theft issues, but would also be expensive, prone to breakage, etc. Why not just get a teenager or other low wage worker. Sadly, we have plenty of the latter.
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> I found that, with all services (from aim to slashdot to facebook to HN) that people who claim to spend 5 minutes really end up spending about an hour a day.

How did you found that?

I don't have to track that, i am there just some seconds. If the message counter is not changed, i close it.
I make this check 4 or 5 times a day and only when there is a message i spend time to answer it.
> My view is that the average Londoner would benefit more from having been taught the basics of programming at a young age than where to find the font choices in Word.

Yes, but what are the odds that a school that teaches where to find the font choices in Word as part of an English class wouldn't find something similarly bad to teach as "programming basics"?

Small tweaks don't make big changes. Instead, they just give said organization more opportunities to demonstrate its essential nature.
ah I remember when I was excited http://blog.macromates.com/2009/working-on-it/ :-)

Hope the alpha will all make us forget the release time.
The bar is very high though.
They seem to have misread his letter as proposing that the DOE support/fund/promote Raspberry Pi - I think.

The department does set the curriculum; which means they legislate on what subjects should be taught, what topics within that subject should be taught etc.

John's argument is that programming should be added to the earlier curriculum - they seem to have missed that point, but it is not something that a local authority could implement even if contacted.
That's exactly what people say about AIM and gchat :P

I'd recommend, over the next week, that you check how much time was spent with facebook (even if its passive, you may be checking into the screen every half hour) I'm not trying to be negative, but I suspect that number may be higher than you think.
Funny :)

But, it illustrates that in Emacs you can always steal another editor's best features.
>school time is not that scarce

For students, no, for teachers, yes. And for the budgets? Picture yourself as a financer at a school, you have to fund more teachers, introduce a new subject and overall you're getting less money per student.
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I'm in my early 30s. I don't fit in the criteria described above. I only have a Facebook account so no one would use my name and I was interested in Turntable.fm access. I have friends there but I'm not really interested in checking their updates since I can just IM or speak to them.
I love AckMate, but when I moved away from DreamWeaver, I lost the ability to search the whole project OR limit it to a directory in the project. That was damn handy
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By filtering out the people who 'only do it for money', he has also inadvertently filtered out all the people who know that the way business show they value their employees is to pay them appropriately.
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> " Then they suggest that I might like to contact every single local authority and school in the country.
"

I suggest that you stop complaining and do just that, with programming this work can be made easy. and fun.

First start with LAs than go lower level to schools. This is one way you can prove that programming is useful for people to know. And you should report back to PCU your results. And thanks them for advice.
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Nice stuff. I would have never thought to do this.
http://code.google.com/p/emacs-project-mode/
Ruth was just asking last week 'what happened to fractals'. Might run the poster containing its own source code past the teenagers I'm teaching maths to...
I actually did an empirical test with AIM (rigging a version of gaim -- now I think it's called pidgin -- to generate those statistics)
> still believes in a bs that staying wake an insane amount of time is a way of getting things done.
You missed the part where he says getting things done at high quality. I agree with you, but think things can be get done in a half-assed way, by staying awake. But ultimately will need to be reworked multiple times the hours you stayed up.
Is the US that far behind the UK in retail grocery?

A UK supermarket did scan-as-you-pack maybe 15 years ago. They've since been bought out and that option no longer exists, but it's hardly revolutionary or something that's only just becoming possible thanks to Google Wallet.

What seems bigger though is the next step possibility. SAYP allows you to save on headcount at the tills alone (and even then not by much as you still need some form of check-out procedure to manage the exit handover), which is hardly where the majority of the staff load comes. No; surely the bigger retailer benefit comes from moving away from these huge edge-of-town barns altogether?

If I signed up with Tesco Clubcard, they'll already populate an online shopping basket with a regular shopping load that's typical of my purchasing habits, automatically, and deliver that to my door. (I mention Tesco because I know this from others, not that no rivals exist). Ocado operate as an online-only grocery business with picking and packing systems as sophisticated as any to ensure speedy delivery of intact groceries without packing cases of mineral water on top of soft fruit.

What the author is describing is frankly a primitive system. Go the whole hog, be the grocery Amazon. Eliminate the need to have a retail barn that's kept attractive, temperature controlled and has a small army constantly stocking shelves. Eliminate the need for each town to have so many large presences per retailer with a constant feed of large trucks keeping them stocked and operate primarily out of regional distribution hubs. Then you'll see the real retailer cost savings.
MacVim is great for that (if, of course, you are on a mac). It has all the great vi stuff along with the core OS style commands that everyone is familiar with. I believe gVim on Windows does the same but I'm not positive on that.
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And it's about time. :)
You're dividing minutes per month by the total population of the USA (appx. 300 million) to get "avg. American," but I'm sure Facebook has more unique users than Tumblr. So the disparity in time spent on site per person probably isn't so much.
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Missing an important one for me: I spend mere seconds on it a few times a day, but check it every day via my phone and PC

So more than an hour a week, but WAY less than an hour a day.
There are, I agree, some egregious cases. Three examples spring to mind.

Color raised $41 million on basically nothing. Many, including myself, criticized the concept. All the defenders had was "we don't really know where this is going".

The second example--and this is going to be somewhat controversial--is Twitter. Twitter is now at the point where they need to start figuring out the monetization problem. They've established a site where third-party access is a huge part of the user base. The 140 character message format limits in-stream options (and people have thus far railed against inserting ads into tweet streams).

Plus (IMHO) Twitter has become a tool for following celebrities. The TMZ of the Internet if you will. Not that there isn't a market for that but it's not as large as the vision of people in general sharing status updates. I'm far from convinced that Twitter will make that transition to mainstream.

The third is Groupon. Many, including myself, have been critical of Groupon's shady practices for awhile. What's happened in the last few months is that this Ponzi scheme has started to unravel. Better now than after the IPO. And not before taking over $1 billion in VC, most of that coming from DST who seems to be willing to throw money around with impunity. Better them than American consumers who Congress might feel some need to jump to the defense of.

But, in general, this isn't a celebration of businesses that make no money. It's allowing businesses to scale and grow quickly rather. Many Internet businesses couldn't be profitable if small. Or organic growth would simply take too long and a VC-backed rival could well supplant them.

In Tumblr's case, growing from 2B views/month to 13B/month is nothing less than impressive. The "blog" format has (IMHO) lots of monetization potential. In the short to medium term Tumblr seems destined for more growth or a big exit on buyout.
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I don't think it is. To me the frustration stems from having to put in my time and effort into putting a piece of furniture together only to have it turn out not quite as expected because of forces beyond my control such as sloppiness of the drill operator/machinery (holes drilled in wrong place anyone?).
It seems like cheating to me that he's just matching small strings against the whole. I was always under the impression that this kind of thing would require them to hit the right keys in order, start to finish, to create a work. But if it's just matching a few words at a time...
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It's a mathematical certainty that it will happen in an infinite amount of time, which is like saying it is infinitesemly possible or in layman's terms, impossible. They have reduced that infinite amount of time by having the works of Shakespeare at hand and then selectively choose the words that fit. Kudos to BBC for printing pseudo scientific dung from the so called scientific community.
Cool! This reminds me of Meet the Elements by They Might Be Giants. Good background music whilst brushing up on your alkalines.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy0m7jnyv6U
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Same as you - check often but only to see headline and if I have a notification. Very rare that I am even on there for 2 minutes, let alone 5.
True; and I agree this is theoretically a nice thing.

However the net result of this is that, to take an example, school IT services range from the sublime to the dire. Almost all of them are hugely expensive contracts to major firms (say, BT) and tend to consist of poorly paid tech staff (often shared amongst a school district), old out-dated technology and overly-complex infrastructure.

At my mum's school, a primary, the teachers had 3 "new" laptops each one year, because they could not get the infrastructure right...

This is mirrored across the whole system; no one has a proper budget or equipment recommendations from the DOE. And as a result you get a hit-and-miss situation, with some schools well equipped and others a mess.

More often than not teachers will spend out of their own pocket just to be able to adequately teach a subject.

Mandating every aspect of education would be bad, I agree. But affirmative action to end the waste, provide support for equipment purchase etc. would be very welcome!
You will less likely get someone who cares your dream as much as you do.

What I realized/found these days is that the most passionate people that love to work on startup ideas tend to have their own strong opinions on how things should be done.

This creates a little bit of a management issue. Discussions tend to be filled with using esoteric technology or the "would it be cool if" or the "that's sucks, I could do better in 1 day" as opposed to focus on delivering the stable, high quality, 85% UI polished, version 1.0 of the product.
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HN Meetup in Berlin would be great.

I'm considering coming to the Meetup in Cologne, but if we can schedule one in Berlin, that could be 2 great meetups in a matter of months!
> a school that teaches where to find the font choices in Word as part of an English class

That's taught in an IT lesson, not English!
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So try again.

I'm not trying to be an ass.

Alan Turing didn't get his apology because of one email, and your country's schools aren't going to get programming classes because of one email either. If it's important, fight for it. Focusing on the setbacks is just going to bring you down.
My lay-understanding of the state of quantum computing is that it works, but only up until the point where you try to look at the answer. None of the advances we see month after month have got any closer to being able to read the answer without destroying it, and that it's useless in practice without this last step, and we don't have the first clue how to solve it.

Can someone who knows what they're talking about tell me how accurate that summation is?
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This already happens to a greater extent than maybe you realise. Witness FreeBSD's adoption of OpenBSD's pf, and so on. Each of the three 'main' BSDs (Free, Net, Open) have a very different focus in terms of the direction of each project, and these idealistic differences - especially when you throw people like Theo de Raadt into the mix - will mean that it's always going to be fragmented in such a manner.

I kind of like it that way, personally.
These methods often have side effects and that's their whole point.

You don't need state and mutations, GUIs can also be programmed nicely using functional reactive programming (FRP). A nice description of FRP:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1028250/what-is-functiona...

Some examples of FRP in GUIs:

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Reactive-banana/Examples
It always makes me smile to see a submission like this.

- Solves an actual problem that people actually have.

- Charges money to solve that problem. Without apology or explanation.

My advice to anybody here who doesn't yet have a product out there: Do what this guy did. Build something small that people will pay for.

My advice to anybody here who's currently building one of the four dozen photo tweeting services/Facebook cookie cleaners/thing-that-fixes-the-css-on-hackernews's that get submitted here every day: Stop. Then do what this guy did. Build something small that people will pay for.
Are there any meetups further down south e.g. in Hessen by any chance?
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Although some may see it as misleading localising a whole app is a greater over all effort. In a view of working to always push forward an app to the greatest possible audience as minimum viable product and work from there, a localised title and description is the best compromise. In this there is also the consideration of a large global english speaking audience, so presuming your first language is a widely spoken alternative (en/es) you are still offering more functionality to a greater audience than would usually have access. Users being annoyed using your app is much more often than not as much of a problem as users having never heard of your application.
I appreciate your effort. The questions are interesting, and it's educational to read through the answers since the problems are the right size, more than just "find the right Emacs library function" but short enough to read through in a few minutes.
Similarly, Ack.vim is indispensable, providing errorlist integration with `ack`. Between that and your project plugin of choice, or just a terminal tab per project, you get something much nicer than anything in TextMate (because of errorlist workflow).
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"We need to be always reminding ourselves that we have always been enhancing ourselves, that science has always been enhancing the human condition, that we have been trusting machines over our own bodies for at least 300-400 years now. We've already broken through that barrier – we do live in a very artificial world." - Very powerful and accurate quote from the article. I am sitting at three computers in a tall office building in the center on a city. None of my environment is like the one humans originally emerged from.
Another possibility is that since iPhone 5 production is ramping up, Apple is making the assumption that for the holiday season, a certain number of people will buy iPhones instead of iPads (or both). I could see iPhone cannibalizing a certain number of iPad sales for the holiday season.

Secondarily, it could be the case that certain hardware parts are shared by both the iPhone 5 and the iPad 2, and so if they're making those parts at capacity, shifting some of them to the iPhone will create a backlog in iPad 2 capacity.
I think the OP meant the Command-T functionality of switching between files. I have never heard anyone praise TextMate's project wide search, which as you mention is beach ball city.
Aren't all words which end in -er, and used as class names, nouns ?
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The discussion at this thread only convinced me to give a try to Sublime Text 2 (currently using Textmate). Never stopped to take a look at it. The vim mode looks nice.
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After digging into the service a little, I stumbled on to this feature: "Compile the best quotes from your reviews on a great-looking promotional webpage." The result looks like this: http://pixelate.promoterapp.com/pub/spirits/ . That's really cool.

Although I have an app in the App Store, I actually couldn't help signing up for this to help in the promotion of my web app. :)
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They are looking for someone who reads the whole job description and not just the headline.
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This type of thing, much slower of course, was used in Germany during and after the war to run cars with wood. The actual furnace was often pulled on a trailer.
This is interesting in view of Go's convention to use the ending -er for interface types (Reader, Writer, ...) rather than the implementations of those interfaces.
Like the other guy said: "Show me the money!"...
85% UI polished?!?

It's a miracle if some people can get it to look 50% complete. For some reason, and by magic, the UI incrementally degrades given the number of days in the hands of certain engineers. I'm not saying that everyone is like that, but I'm pretty certain that if some engineers approached following driving directions the same way they follow the UI, they'd be permanently lost with no hope of return. 85%. Sheesh.
Mine as well and I also serve up my own little icon to let me know that I've thwarted them one more time.
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You are right, his email was broader and not just specific to Raspberry Pi.

Although I'm still not sure what the OP expected and why this was posted here.