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Looking for front end development work
Hi everyone,

Thank you for taking the time out of your busy day to read this, my name is William Porter I'm 19 years old and instead of committing my holidays to a department store I thought I'd dedicate my time to something I'm more passionate about, websites.

I've been working with websites for the past 3 years and front end development for the past year, mainly on personal projects but late 2011 had the opportunity to work on 4 commercial projects which was a great experience, I learnt a lot and wish to consolidate that experience with further freelance work.

I predominately work with PSD to HTML conversions in the past with technologies such as jQuery and CSS but I'm looking to expand my skills and accepting most jobs revolving around front end work.

I may not be the best experienced but I'm hard working, I have the drive to learn new skills and I'm passionate about what I do.
What you get with me is a friendly communication experience, you don't get the canned responses from say a traditional boxed service for instance, I listen to what you have to say and I strive to coming up with the best solutions.

Thank you so much for reading and if you'd like to contact me my details are below.

Website: http://wporter.com (can see some of my previous work)

Email: william@wporter.com
My number 1 tip is to check your comments for replies (see that "threads" link in the menu bar).

Often someone will ask you a question, and unless you check you will never know.
Traditionally, by leaving it on the train tracks.
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Check out avsforums. Or check out high end scalars and the research papers with them. DVDO as even a cheap scalar (I run a VPS 50 from a few years ago on one projector). You'll find more details than you can shake a stick at about the frame lags of various sets. AVSForum is a great place to confirm JoshTriplet's comments.

30 fps is just 33ms per frame. At least one frame of delay is necessary baseline to create transfer and render the image. After that, you're adding delays. 4 frames processing is 133 ms, 6 frames is 200 ms. This is in addition to the console frame rendering time, HDMI transfer from console to TV's frame buffer, and TV's display, assuming a direct connection.

Now, the more interesting thing about all this for me isn't that most TVs and most new home video receivers lag, it is the lag in your own perception and how your mind compensates. As an avid gamer, you learn to compensate for the equipment's lag, and certain studies show a kind of precognition with which top gamers seem to anticipate moves before they should occur. (The reaction happens after the event in the CPU, but before your brain and muscles should have been able to respond to it given normal lag time to perceive and react.) Your own perceptions of whether you can't play a game from lag, especially if you are a gamer, is a bad source of data on this one.[1]

Fact is, home receivers have frame buffers, and home TVs have frame buffers. Most are two or three frames, many are as bad as four. This makes moving video, especially blocky or mosquito noise video, able to be cleaned much more. These receivers and sets look the best, which is why this lag is still increasing. To an extent, the more frames buffered, the more temporal data to use to clean the frames.

Finally, as a gamer, forget the FPS, they're easy to anticipate. You lead your shots naturally and subconsciously. Instead, try something like Geometry Wars Evolved. With the frame lag, you will occasionally be dead in the console before you've seen it on your screen. All my high scores are component video to a Sony Trinitron. I don't come close on a modern set through a receiver. This is well known to the gamers in the GW:E forums.

1. Just one example of improved "anticipation" (as opposed to "reaction"), as I don't have time to look up the various citations... "A different study by Kuhlman and Beitel (1991) measured the anticipation of seven through nine year old children who were categorized as non-experienced, moderately experienced, or highly experienced video game players. The researchers found that children with extensive experience playing video games can more accurately and consistently anticipate the arrival of a stimulus." – http://clearinghouse.missouriwestern.edu/manuscripts/847.php
Which is fair. They are paying for the position via ppc. Companies that are docked for blackhat techniques can still do ppc, assuming they are reputable enough.
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In the States we'll just drive further out and try to urban sprawl our way out of high housing prices...usually with miserable traffic problems as a result.

Any idea why Australia, with more than ample land, and relatively small population doesn't attempt the same?

(not saying it's a good idea, but interesting to notice at any rate)
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I've asked some "pointed questions" and been downvoted. What I learned from this is that while some discussion threads are about questioning and learning, others are about something else... I'm not sure what exactly... Hearing what you want to hear? Maybe someone else can provide some insight.
As the vast majority of people think that the yellow boxes are to indicate the best result (including my parents who consistently click them as if they're the top result even though I've previously told them that they are ads), I'm guessing the impact won't be large.
May I recommend you start with the dedicated threads for this? "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2012)" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3412901 and "Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (January 2012)" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3412900 There's also a google document with a list of contractors available for hire on HN, but I can't find the link right now.
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Saya sudah membuktikan dalam bulan pertama bisa mengembalikan modal, disamping itu produk yang bagus dan bermanfaat bagi masyarakat luas sangat menunjang tumbuh pesatnya perkembangan bisnis.
Tapi jangan kawatir meskipun program investasi ini mengadopsi system Multi Level Marketing, Anda tidak dituntut untuk jualan produk ataupun mencari downline. Anda cukup mereferensikan link yang diberikan untuk mendapatkan penghasilan.
Tidak ada hal yang sulit jika dikerjakan dengan sepenuh hati. Jika saya bisa Anda-pun pasti bisa..
I'm pretty sure PayPal charges fees for the convenience of getting your money instantly, which means nobody is expecting charity here as you seem to be implying. Thus, PayPal is not bearing all the risk, indeed they are being paid to carry the risk. I have a merchant account and it clears to my bank account next day, there is no such 21-day float period, which might be more common when you are being paid by a vendor but not a bank.

In my opinion their rules are exploitative and out of line with what I would expect from a company that I would do business with. (Edited to remove 'out of line with what rational people expect' comment, I do not presume to speak for anyone.)
Are you a lawyer? You appear to believe that a signed contract is inviolate. I am not a lawyer either, but I've dealt with contracts enough to know that the clause in this contract has "reasonable" in it for a reason, and that "reasonable" does not mean "whatever we think is reasonable".
Or just use Unicode, as in →
Thanks for the advice, I'm not update with the conventions of hacker news so I was unsure how to go about it.

Thanks again.
Another suggestion - try to avoid reinforcing group think or popular memes. It's a form of karma whoring that just encourages narrow thinking and prevents the discussion of new ideas.

There's really nothing to say about software patents at this point that hasn't been said many times before.

In some ways this is an extension to the guideline of not introducing flamewar topics, but even less interesting as pretty much everyone agrees.
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I'm not going to spend the time going through all of the data but my gut tells me that this is horribly misleading.

What constitutes "success" in this model?
Why does a chrome search on "median" return no results?

Bleck...I still don't know why I keep reading TC.
Maybe to switch a web app to "advanced" mode with keyboard shortcuts and less hand-holding? Or in any HTML5 web game.
Thanks for that link. That's chock full of good tips for working in R, and definitely addressed at least a couple things I spent a while debugging.
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SEEKING WORK - Melbourne, Australia or Remote

I'm a Front End Developer with experience with technologies such as HTML, CSS and jQuery. Also I'm your man with PSD to HTML conversions.

Website: http://wporter.com

Email: william@wporter.com
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Frodo should have just sold the ring via eBay as a counterfeit 'ring of dancing +1', had Paypal deem it fraudulent and then had Paypal use its magical powers to destroy it.
You might want to add "IANAL".
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It also shows up as an advertisement (above the results) when searching for "chrome", provided you don't have an ad blocker installed.

https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#...
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So why didn't they do that from day 1 when i opened my account 8 years ago?
> "Normal" customers
> want Netflix, Hulu+, Kindle, and
> the like, not hackable boot roms.

Which is precisely why this level of lockdown is completely ridiculous.

As you say, locking a boot loader has no effect on whether "Normal" customers can steal content -- they're not going to mod their device, they want something that just works, and if it provides an easy way to get the content they want affordably, they won't even care enough to pirate. Where's the win for the studios? And there's certainly no win for the customer.

In the meanwhile, such a lock down does reduce the value of devices for the hacker news audience. Loss for at least some ASUS customers, possibly even a loss for ASUS.
Great work. I'm not as up-to-date on SPDY servers as I should be, but this seems to be one of the few suited for non-trivial use cases.
So.. If I got ill, what would happen? In reality I would have insurance by the norwegian government, but assuming I was american. What does the regular student that doesn't get help from his parents do?
The article was about design, not implementation.
Suspect. The grocery index for Chicago is 72 and in Baltimore it's 101. Are groceries really 40% more in Baltimore than in Chicago? They're likely not more at all. In fact, on the whole, Chicago is more expensive than Baltimore. That's just a fact. But the figures here say otherwise.
I use Bandcamp from the other side, and it is a fantastic service. They not only know the music industry from the inside out (read "Bandcamp for Drummers"), but I've literally never had any problem with their site's functionality.
The article is interesting (I didn't realize NZ had taken such a strong step) but the "# swpatents" mess in the title is confusing and doesn't really add anything.
Would Google of closed the AdWord account of a third-party over this?

[edit: for the down voter, if they would for a 3rd party, they should for themselves and remove the Ad. If they wouldn't take it away for a 3rd party, they should leave the Ad. Simple consistency]
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MonoTouch?
I haven't used Korma yet, but I spend an hour or two a day using the Noir framework: hits the sweet spot being low level for fine control but is still very quick/agile/convenient. I am releasing a web app for a new business hopefully in February that uses Noir. I am also working on a Noir based web app for a customer.

Now that I have gone through a small learning curve for using Noir, Stripe, and getting a little better writing Javascript I am also going to convert a half complete Java/GWT project to Clojure and Noir.
If you didn't support any other browser, there by definition was no extra burden. In many enterprise shops you had IE and nothing else to worry about. I myself worked on apps where we only tested on IE because that's all the client used.
"Google will probably stop this year."

I'd assume you are talking about Google search? No they won't. 100% guarantee you Google will still support FF3.6, just like Google does, and always will always support IE6. jQuery, YUI, and all the JS libraries will always support IE6 as well. You should never go to any of these major sites and see JS errors & major rendering flaws in legacy browsers. If you do, that is just careless.

The reason I bring it up is because there is a biiiiiiiiig middle-ground of "support", and developers who don't realize this, need to. Legacy users don't need, and shouldn't expect the same experiences, but they still need support. You are still talking about Web browsers here. The Web doesn't have versions.
Square. Authorize payment via phone.
The js PC emulator is pretty awesome.
Migrating away from Puppet to cdist (Python3)
i don't get these posts.
what' does "failing" mean? it's not like any of the other platforms just gained all that market share overnight. people don't just switching operating systems on a whim. if it really is great, it will slowly start to take some market share over next 12-24 months. what is all this bickering about?
We wanted a push based configuration management, that actually had reasonable error messages. We were looking at puppet, but the undecipherable error messages were such a pain!

We searched and found cdist. We're very much enjoying it. The reasons he lists for switching against Puppet resonated with me very much.

Plus, it's written in Python3, which might be a turn off for some, but it's a pretty cool demonstration that python3 is making its way in the wild.
This issue has reached Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Washington Post ... and so on http://news.google.com.au/news/more?q=chrome&hl=en&r...
Richard Stallman (RMS) runs the Free Software Foundation (FSF), not the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

https://www.eff.org/about/board
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This, apparently: http://searchengineland.com/googles-jaw-dropping-sponsored-p...
I remember a year or three ago there was a story going around about Chinese scrap metal recyclers getting shipments of "destroyed" euro coins and reassembling them to pass off as intact money. Turns out at the time the official method to decommission the coins was to pop out the center piece.

So to answer your question: In some cases, not well enough. ;)

EDIT: source: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/04/euro_coin_recy...
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My collection of files is growing really nicely :) Do you use anything in particular to manage all of these resources locally?
Having yet another HTTP Authentication and Signature scheme really isn't adding value to the world.

It's too bad this couldn't model the Keystone token authentication API that OpenStack is doing:

http://keystone.openstack.org/

Or say, heck, don't like OpenStack, even just using OAuth2 would be fine:

http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/oauth/charter/

It sounds cool, using SSH keys as your API signature, but really it isn't solving a problem that hasn't already been solved.
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Other than going to work on time using a Seinfeld calendar ( so that my lax work environment doesn't eat into my evenings ) I'm going with this:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/newyears-resolution-fu...
Lots of things made it through WWII. Bringing that up (it survived the Arab oil embargo, Iran-Contra, WWI, the Spanish-American Influenza, 9/11...) is just rhetoric to drive home that it was more than a century old.
Thunderbird does that. Message/Edit Message As New.

The intent to send it after editing, but you can just close the message, choose Yes to save to the Drafts folder, and then move it into whatever folder you like. Roundabout but it does what you want.
Yeah, Montreal and Halifax, but no Vancouver, Calgary or Toronto
Maybe this is a dumb question as no one really asked it so far but, umm, I thought Google couldn't mess with rankings. Like, at all. I've read everywhere, even on Google's own properties that rankings are based on their top secret algorithm and that they not only cannot but will not manually manipulate results ever.

I really doubt they'd release a publicity statement that let loose such a big secret so what am I missing or misinterpreting? I really thought there was just no way possible to change results. I get that they can mess with ads but organic results?

Edit: Not to be that guy but what's with the downvotes? I'm honestly asking. If there's something dumb about it I'd really appreciate someone telling me. Then downvote all you like. Am I being naive to think they can't change a ranking? Am I misusing terms? What's up?
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R is so ugly. Octave / Matlab is supposed to have inconsistent syntax and behavior but at least wrt matrices it seems much cleaner. So, is there a language (like R or Matlab) that's beautiful and well thought out? Mathematica?
The thing is if an item is counterfeit and paypal allowed payment to proceed they could be litigated. If a third party imported counterfit goods and didn't take due action they could be fined and / or lose their license. Paypal does this to minimize risk and effort (cost) involved, whether this is a good way to minimize risk is apparent but than again this is paypal.
On the contrary, I think people should flag away -- but go to the new stories page first. There's plenty of spam and politics and duplicate content and other off-topic humdrum.

And if you happen to come across an interesting article about hacking or startups, vote it up -- it might even make it to the front page.
This. The violin, bow, and strings all affect the sound produced.

In high school, I bought my violin and bow used for around $750. While it was fine for orchestral/symphonic stuff, it definitely paled in tone, volume, and responsiveness compared to some of my friends' more expensive violins.

When I got to be the soloist during my senior year, I borrowed a much nicer violin from my director and bought a new bow because I simply couldn't get the right sound out of my own violin.
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it seems to be a bit higher in china.
I took violin in 6th grade and all of our student models had the "Stradivarius" label. The teacher said about half the violins in the world had a label like that, it was just the style.

PayPal's actions and those of these anti-counterfeiting fascists make me sick. How long until they start organizing "counterfeit violin" burnings in the streets?
Yes indeed, I worked with JSF like 2 years, a PITA, now I'm back in the PHP world and looks the same crap :S, sad.
They're not unveiling anything. They're just describing how their API works, and they've reinvented a wheel.
Yes, this definition of "quits" as "gets suspended" is what I have a problem with. "Quits" used to mean "terminates". I guess in the new apple world, especially given what happens on Lion, "quits" doesn't mean what I think it does.
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While I don't doubt there are violations, and that Google will never prosecute the vendors - is there actually a list of the actual violations?

Thanks
I would see this in a more positive light if searching for the word "Chrome" did not find the Google Chrome homepage. However, they chose the word "browser", which isn't quite the same thing.
Usually urban planning restrictions and poor roads stops too much outward flow. Having said that, I do believe Perth is spreading fast enough. However new suburbs that are constructed are rarely considered 'affordable' suburbs. They are usually shiny new estates with big houses.
The easiest way to destroy the value of numismatic coin would probably be to clean it. A coin at the highest level of grading would be "destroyed" (lowered to a less valuable rating) by simply picking it up outside of its sealed, graded holder.

There are plenty of ways to destroy it physically (throw it in a forge, bend it with pliers, etc).

I'm a bit more concerned that a scammer wouldn't destroy the coin per se, but make a claim on authenticity, causing me to lose my money and also the coin.
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Nice quote Keiferski! Yes, everything is driven by whats in between our ears. That is driven by what is in our heart!

Similar wisdom from the Bible is Proverbs 4:24 "Above, all else, guard your heart for it is the wellspring of life"
My 14 year old was surprised when I told him his Xbox was made by Microsoft.
decompressing there's actually no need to use -a, you can do tar xf firefox-9.0.1.source.tar.bz2 (tar 1.25 here).
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LISP has had this for years:

(with-open-file (output "foo.txt" :direction :output :if-exists :supersede)
(print-foo output))
The key question that still remains is, how do you find the best learning sources and how do you get credit for it? Are badges the right solution? Its great to see that these many people are embracing self-paced learning. With the democratization of education, it has opened doors for anyone to create a curriculum online now. But all this will soon cause an information overload in terms of self-paced learning opportunities and it will become critical to start organizing this plethora of resources
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This problem really echoed with me. The one thing I hate about Python is the pain of compiling it from source.

Unlike startups, we enterprise dudes don't have the liberty of choosing the latest distros with better base Python versions.in some cases,the machines don't even have a compiler installed.

Try running your funky new admin script on these rhel5 boxen is a pain.

I've resorted to compiling with LD_RUN_PATH, -rpath & -r set.

I think this should be included in the python-guide for the sanity of other devops dudes