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SEEKING WORK - Portland, OR, Remote

Hello!

I am seeking mobile development work. I am an experienced developer with 15+ years exp, the last 2 years as a mobile app developer for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone. I also develop the cloud/backend for mobile applications. Java, Obj-C, C#, PHP, iOS, Android, WP7.

Email me at csgatekeeper [at] gmail.com

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Here is a list of the apps I have worked on recently:

Fridge Art iOS – Developer/Architect. Fun photo sharing application (Under NDA - have to be vague). C#/mono touch. (In development)

Fridge Art Server – Developer/Architect. The web-service server for the Fridge-art project. Provides api's do add, view, delete, modify virtual photo collections. PHP/Kohana/Mysql (In development)

Vapp (Veteran's Appliction) Android – Developer. Provides a mobile searching platform, messaging, cloud file storage, veteran community access, and resources. Makes heavy use of web services REST/Json. Java/Android. (In development)

Life Sampler Android, Portland State University – Developer. Asks students questions at scheduled times during the day, syncs results via ssh. Makes use of alarms, broadcast receivers and notifications. Java/Android. (unpublished)

Walk There Android App – Developer. Provides visual and audio information as the user goes on walking tours around the Portland metro area. Added enhancements. Java/Android.

C25K (Couch to 5K) Android – Developer. Added GPS capabilities, media player integration, in app purchasing. Java/Android

Break Pals iOS and Android – Developer. Lightweight container bringing native application feel to website. Allows different web pages loaded into tabs. Java/Android, Objective C/iOS. Unpublished

Walk There iOS App – Developer. Provides visual and audio information as the user goes on walking tours around the Portland metro area. Added enhancements. Objective C/iOS.

Economist Pocket World in Figures iOS App – Lead Engineer/Developer. 20+ screen application. Scoped effort, created engineering bids/schedule, created architecture, and implemented product. Pocket World in Figures application provides easily navigable access to the data in The Economist’s Pocket World in Figures book. Objective-C/iOS/SqlLite.

Android social picture puzzle – Developer/architect. Application uses any picture, and creates a puzzle that can be sent to other mobile applications or email addresses. Scramble-puzzles stored on website. Java/Android/SqlLite. C#/mono/Asp.net, Linq to MySql, MySql, REST/Json. Unpublished
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This is actually a big reason I like the personal training metaphor. We're not trying to solve motivation. At least not yet.

You pay a personal trainer, and you (theoretically) grow from the experience and get value. But you still need to show up to the gym.
interesting, being left handed it makes me wonder how different I really am from all the right handed people in the world..
USA Truck announces their first quarter results
Cliff Beckham, CEO and President, made a statement concerning the financial & operating results for quarter which ended on March 31st, 2012.

He says that the results were pretty mixed in first quarter. Since the last August, they are concentrating for driving the sequential improvement for metrics of key performance as 1st step for building acceptable, sustained performance of finance.
I still call it MSN messenger and it's because when I started using it it was originally called MSN Messenger.
Why Appointment Setting Makes Business Life Simpler
In B2B (business to business) context, appointment setting refers to the process of identifying the authenticity of a sales prospect by setting up a meeting with him or her done by the cold callers/telemarketers to present and discuss more about a market offering.
Planning on a masters. I'm not sure if I want to pursue a Ph.D.
I think this site is trying to highlight/advertise fonts in the Typekit.com stack.

Helvetica's webfont license is exclusive to Monotype Imaging available under a web font license here: http://webfonts.fonts.com/en-US/Project/ChooseFonts?fontQuer...

So the short answer is no there isn't anything that special.
Ask HN: Why does Google think I got assaulted recently?
Or is this Google Ad spam ?

I know there is a lot of buzz around Google collecting personal info, albeit to give us very targeted ads.

I was searching (in Google Chrome's Incognito mode) for some jquery hover effects when Google Ads stunned me with this http://i.imgur.com/SaCOG.png on the Page 1

Why such an irrelevant ad ? I thought that Google has fairly smart algorithms in place for this. Am I missing something here?
Well, let's be honest with ourselves. If they won't be free from the original source, they will eventually be free from other sources. The important thing is that the material will exist and it will be available for anyone to learn from.

That said, I really doubt that these classes will remain free. (Especially with likes of Hardvard and MIT.)
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Real Shadow: jQuery Plugin that casts photorealistic shadows
I have open-sourced the jQuery Plugin that casts photorealistic shadows.
What do you think of it?
Do you have any suggestions on how to improve it?

It was created for eye-catching demos and landing pages.

Move the mouse cursor across the page, it becomes the light source.
Thanks! I just think the long list of dates and vacation times that are outputted could be grokked much easier in a single bar chart of some sort, with time on the X, and some kind of filled in green for when active. I'm just curious when and how fast my FB usage accelerated.

Thanks again for the link; crossfilter is really cool.
It's one of the best justifications for caution.

Or as Dr. Buckaroo Banzai once said, "Don't tug on that. You never know what it might be attached to."
How Companies Like Amazon Use Big Data To Make You Love Them
links please?
Only 2? Wouldn't you have to hit the root, then the tld server, then the name server for the domain, and if it isn't the root domain (example.net), but if it is a sub-domain (www.example.net) which could potentially return more NS records ... and the process would have to happen all over again.

net. => root (return tld)

example.net. => tld (return ns)

www.example.net. => ns (returns ns2)

www.example.net. => ns2
You don't get a copy of the files on your computer which are in google docs format.
That's why I love HN: just discovered Udacity through your comment and onto my first search engine course. Thank you.
Sort of. Dependent types doesn't explain Coq's requirement for pure, total functions. Unless this restriction is weakened I cannot see it as being useful in any general-purpose domain. Agda may be looser.
"Will all of this be around in twenty or thirty years?"

No.
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This is an interesting idea but awkward to use. I am semi-literate in Chinese so I selected intermediate Chinese immersion. I like that the words can be reverted to the original language, but having these Chinese words littered amongst a sea of English words is odd and difficult to process. If you go through an article and you're met with a Chinese word, your brain can't immediately process the new language. The constant switching between languages when it comes to reading is quite cumbersome, even if it is for the sake of learning. This is particularly so for languages of different forms like English and Chinese. Words/phrases that are slang cannot be directly translatable, which is detrimental to beginners who do not know that it has been incorrectly translated. I think it is mildly useful for intermediate leaners trying to increase their vocabulary set but not for language immersion or introduction to a new language.
That's exactly what I had in mind! Hoping to add that tomorrow. :)
However it is now easier to move your files in appropriate collections and remove the unwanted files compared to the webinterface.
Nobody gives a shit what the tos say. People will share their music.
@joeteplow , this is my email address - dr.yaffe@gmail.com
Thanks!
Turn it up to "fluent" and you'll get entire passages translated, which is more interesting I think.
OLE, ActiveX, .NET, MFC, WinRT - they're all entirely different technologies

Not really. Initial versions of OLE were built on DDE. COM was the next generation of OLE. ActiveX was just COM with a DispInterface (self-describing interface to allow dynamic scripting), so named solely because of a rebranding effort to put an X into everything. .Net was, in my opinion, a ridiculous branding of what was essentially analogous to Win32, and it was only named .Net to align with the Internet craze. MFC was just an app development architecture, so as I understand it it's related in intent to WinForms.

Why was COM with a DispInterface called ActiveX, to stand alongside DirectX, when the two had essentially nothing in common with regards to meaning or context, yet MFC and WinForms, which seem related in intent, share absolutely nothing in terms of branding or name?

Microsoft's rebranding efforts just confuse everyone: developers, users, and IT.
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Seeking Freelancer-Columbus,OH/remote

Early stage start up seeking awesome web developers no prior experience needed.
link up with me at moha1471@gmail.com
I don't know if this is uncommon, but on both business checking accounts (in the US) I've set up, I asked for and got attached lines of credit. Basically, it lets you bounce above and below a zero balance in case your cash flow is tight. You could certainly use it to get yourself into trouble, but I didn't and it was very useful.
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Thats weird! I had always assumed that Shift+Caps Lock is lowercased in all OSes.
This is basically Microsoft's internal organizations being forced outward, and powerful marketing people attempting to either latch onto existing brands where inappropriate (Windows, also often Office) or build new ones (Live, SQL, Visual Studio).

What's happened now is that there's finally someone sensible with enough pull to get these back in line- Sinofsky. Core services for Microsoft are getting the Microsoft brand (Microsoft Account), and the unnecessary 'Windows' prefix is going away. It's just mail now. (Thank you very much Apple for initiating this trend).
"This domain and website have been suspended because of abuse or copyright reasons."
PyWeek #14 starts this weekend
One wonders if we would not be mourning the loss of life in the International Space Station. In 2004 a program to beef up the shielding was kicked off [1] but nobody would commit to saying it would keep the crew alive in a 'Carrington' type event.

My hope is that by the time the next one comes we have both a way to shield satellites and a way to launch replacements quickly.

[1] http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/travelinginspace/radiation_...
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Memory card or micro sd card can be expanded upto 32 GB. MicroSD of the device supports FAT16 and FAT 32 both. The huge memory card enables to store in music, videos, important documents and many more.
OK. When it comes to email I'm a complete noob. The Github page indicates this is an SMTP server. SMTP is for sending email, right? The examples then goes into an example of creating an inbox, which indicates receiving email. Maybe someone who knows more about this might want to explain?
What would be interesting to see is the likely decline in intelligence as the user base increases.
Always hire A Players

Words cannot describe how tired I am of hearing these sorts of weird sports metaphors used to describe tech talent. Are we really so immature as an industry that we have to constantly rely on sports metaphors? It's as bad as talking about ninjas and rockstars.

Also, I'm really sick of all these mindless, droning, uninsightful posts about hiring in general. Who cares? Tech interviewing and hiring is a joke, and everyone here knows it. Larger companies act like you're saddled with the new hire forever, even though in most places reading HN it's extremely easy to fire people. Small companies act like they absolutely have to find the best talent in the universe, even though what they actually need to do is get some product shipped. It's all just ego stroking and an attempt to codify insecurities.

How about more awesome submissions about hacks, ingenuity, and product success, and less B.S. about name-dropping, baseless pontification on interview tactics, and overuse of bad metaphors. While were at it, let's drop the bubble FUD and ridiculous guesses about big company tech strategy.

/rant
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And hey, Windows is just DOS with a bit of new code, and wasn't that just a quick copy of CP/M. Really we should expect Windows 8 to have been called Microsoft CP/M 2012, right?

Some of the names you mention are indeed related, but branding and marketing are entirely different beasts, and from a marketing perspective, it may be perfectly logical to give disparate names to tangentially related technologies.
Apple's 1984 Internal Inspirational Video with Steve Jobs as Franklin Roosevelt
La Foire de Paris 2012 : l’économie d’énergie à la fête
La Foire de Paris 2012 a récompensé l’économie d’énergie. Le Grand Prix de l'Innovation a été décerné à quelques grands noms de l’électroménager, que les consommateurs ne manqueront pas de s’offrir.
But would you need to use the tool if you could read an entire passage in that language? If you were literate in that language, you could just go to a native newspaper website and read those articles (something which I cannot do). And I think a mildly fluent person would find translated passages hard to read, which is why I don't translate Chinese websites into English (aka Engrish). The only advantage the language immersion plugin has is the ability to hover over the passage if you don't understand what it means, but it's annoying to do if you just don't understand an individual word/phrase and the whole passage gets reverted to the original language.
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> Think I'll go make myself a tinfoil hat :D.

Aluminum can attract radio waves. Among other things. I wouldn't recommend it.

(http://web.archive.org/web/20100708230258/http://people.csai...)

>If you had warning, and a metal box, would throwing all of your electronics in there be good enough to save them?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage
It certainly beats reading flash cards on my iPhone whilst sitting on the toilet, which was the previous cutting edge.
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Good question. I believe the ECUs and other electronics inside cars won't be affected - cars are made of metal, acting as a cage for the internals themselves, while the ECUs have their own EM protective cage.

Reading the article, it seems to me that only the satellites in orbit (and the ISS, unfortunately) will be severely damaged, while on the surface, we'll have to shut down our electronics and power stations (not an easy thing to do) to prevent damage...

Hopefully, if we are to have such a storm, it will come within the next two decades and be relatively mild, so we can learn how to protect ourselves from them in the future (and see just what kind of damage it can do)...
Things will be far worse. If satellites get bricked a lot of things as we know it will come to a grinding halt.And as you said the other electronic and electrical equipment or earth will be dead.

I guess we will be without most modern technology for a quite a while, and starting from scratch will neither be easy nor cheap.

This is why we need to move out to space as quickly as we can. We have to do it while we can. One incident like this can take us centuries back.
No, you're not. Several answers of this sort, ignoring the expectation that apps to disseminate information without your permission. This is a general expectation, but in particular on iOS there is a clear tilt towards ensuring the user is happy with such actions.

You know that Instagram can load photos from your camera roll, right? "what would this nude photo look like with that filter?" is a common use-case, I'd guess. And a strong expectation that it would not be sent to an outside party as a result.
SMTP is the protocol that mail servers use to send messages between each other, both sending and receiving.
POP3/IMAP are protocols that your email client will use between itself and the mail server which allow you to view messages.

edit: I should note that you're correct in that SMTP is used by the client to relay email messages to the server also.
If you already have a good foundation and just need to practice, typeracer is excellent.

http://play.typeracer.com
massive solar eruptions capable of destroying humanity are covered in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunstorm_(novel)

good book. i liked how the emergency services, military and police were using ancient pre electronic ground vehicles as they were the only ones that could survive or operate in such conditions.
how was the user sure what happened before? with the old system, you were thumbs-upping a video from your google account. your thumbs ups were probably visible somewhere on youtube, and the things that you thumbed up were reported back to google and probably influenced your search results.

now, you're +1ing a video from your google account. your +1s are visible somewhere in google+ and are reported back to google and influence your search results.

it's the exact same thing, the button just looks different.
"You can think about the effect of coding style instead of letting the experts think for you."

Right, because what could those experts possibly have to teach you? Fuck that intellectual crap, brogrammers are here to crank out some code yo! Just because those dinosaurs have spent "thousands of hours" studying and trying out different programming styles and concepts means I should listen to them? This is the internet age man. Some guy in a github comment told me different and github is cool.

It's like those functional programming professors who try and talk about how continuation passing style was a bad road to go down because of maintenance problems and how difficult refactoring and just reasoning about code becomes in large systems.

Fuck that egghead noise, node.js has callbacks and node is how you get webscale.

I'm right with you bro!
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And hey, Windows is just DOS with a bit of new code

If you think that the step from a command line to GUI, multitasking OS is anything at all like cramming an 'X' or 'Live' into a bunch of disparate technologies, then I don't know what to tell you.

Edit:

from a marketing perspective, it may be perfectly logical to give disparate names to tangentially related technologies.

Please explain the logic of 'X' and 'Live'. From where I'm sitting, they're just aliases for '1997-2003' and '2005-2010' (numbers purely guessed). It added absolutely nothing of value for anyone, aside from the marketing team.
note: i am an idiot and don't know what "shrinkage" means, disregard this post.
I use my own migration utility using `psql < 01-up.sql`. Too obvious really.

Yes Rails does all that for you automagically but you can use a lightweight ORM like FastLegS. A model is as simple as this:

UserDao = FastLegs.Base.extend({
tableName: "users",
primaryKey: "id"
});

To expose it:

app.get("/user/:id", function(req, res) {
UserDao.find(req.params.id, function(err, result) {
res.json(result.rows[0]);
});
});

Let's not forget about unit tests. I can run well over 100 test cases in just over ONE second! Rails is PAINFULLY slow at this.

I've done enough Rails to know how productive it is, and there are many things I miss. I'll argue though I'm more productive with node.js since we do most GUI with Backbone on the client. I can share code between client and server, for example validations.
While the technology might be available there is also something called as economic cost. A lot of what we have today is because we are building something on top of something.

If everything were to go away starting from scratch is not going to be very economically viable.

Add to this the external woes. Loss of electronic life means, several millions will loose jobs and will have to fall back on manual work. The population of the planet has increased substantially. Food, medical and other needs have increased. Much of that scalability depends on electronic means to controlling stuff.

Disruption on a massive level only means extreme chaos.
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i don't know where this misconception is coming from, but you could never like something on youtube without first logging in. you have always had to be logged in to your google account in order to give a thumbs up.
Your ideas have other suboptimal consequences though - sucked-in bags don't look as nice on the shelf, and in fact they look smaller. This makes them less attractive and thus less likely to be purchased.
http://www.spiceworks.com/home/community/

They have an advertising program (see footer)
When we announce our demo day, where our students show off their products, you can be the judge :) We also plan on gettin them intros to various companies--I will be reaching out to YC alum personally.
Yes, but you need fuel to run cars. And much of fuel extraction and refinements happens through machines that depend on electronic control systems.

Nobody builds fuel extraction plants preparing for massive solar flares.

While electronics in your car might be safe. You might not have fuel to use it.
If it was limited to adjectives or nouns in Japanese it would still be incredibly useful (personally that's all I really wanted out of the extension). As you say, lots of sentences don't even require a verb, a well placed piece of vocabulary is everything (from my experience living here anyway).
It is just being paranoid by Viddy & Socialcam funding.

Both the apps (and Dailymotion) are deeply integrated with the FB timeline and hence getting a lot of views because of it.

People will laugh if they integrated Youtube with FB timeline. So, I think it was in their best interest to integrate it with Google+.

So, either Google+ wins or Youtube loses. I believe that most likely the latter will come true because of this move.

I think Google should buy social networks like Pinterest, Viddy or Socialcam (and leaving them they way they are) instead of ruining its own products by integrating them with Google+.

Facebook acquired Instagram in spite of it being integrated with Twitter. Google should also play the same game.
Be careful not to nest too deeply, as you can end up with huge CSS selectors in your output.