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SEEKING WORK -- Delhi, India (Remote work preferred; I am also willing to travel)

I'm a software developer and operations guy. I love taking on interesting and challenging projects where there's a lot of figuring out to do and an elegant system to be built. I have more than eleven years of paid work experience; I have been hacking and programming for much longer than that.

The five most recent languages I used are .NET/C#, PHP, JavaScript/node.js, XSLT, and shell script, with a side of HTML5 and CSS.

RECENT + INTERESTING PROJECTS

I'm currently finishing up on a WordPress plugin that transforms the regular ATOM feed to an ATOM-derived format that is used by The Associated Press.

I wrote a node.js script to send bulk email via Amazon SES, and utilize the full 100 messages/sec that the client had available.

I built a training/learning module Windows app recently; the fun thing was that I created a build system that would actually compile parts of the app on the client's computers, so that they could update their training materials and upload a new installer, without needing to come back to me. The build system had a nice GUI to control it and did not require any special dev tools on the client's computers.

I ported an open-source Java web app to Heroku, and set up the client's systems so that they could edit and update the website using GitHub for Windows (which pushes to Heroku directly, GitHub isn't involved -- it's just a nice and human-friendly UI for git.)

I've customized several Amazon EC2 images, and written AWS CloudFormation scripts to build up-to-date images on the fly. In one instance, I imported a Linux VMWare image to EC2 – EC2 only supports VM import for Windows images.

WHAT MY CLIENTS SAY

"I was very impressed with professionalism and the end product."

"Flawless project from start to finish. Nik's excellent communication skills and brilliant knowledge of node.js and Amazon scripts meant this project was very successful. We have been acquainted with an excellent developer and we will be availing of Nik's services again in the future."

"Nik is by far the best Elance contractor I have worked with. Wait till you see his proposal. Right there, you'll know what I mean. He took superb care of my project providing great deal of knowledge and unmatched attention to details. The solution he came up with was above and beyond my expectations , resulting in instant savings for years to come. I gave reviews here before, but this one I write with pleasure and satisfaction. Thank you Nik, you're the best!"

CONTACT ME

You can contact me via email: nik@niksci.com or Skype: ndabas.

On a side note, I like using Elance as a project management and escrow platform, and you can check out my Elance profile (work history + client reviews) at http://niksci.elance.com/. On Elance, I am usually ranked among the top 1000 contractors, out of a total of nearly 150,000.

Thanks,

Nik.
> How do you make a single UI that is equally fit for touch and mouse?

Yep, that's the question I was trying to raise. Having a mouse in addition to a touchscreen not only looks redundant to those who don't need precision clicking, it also causes a potential conflict between different UI paradigms.

When touch is the primary input, every UI element needs to become big enough to touch with fat fingers, so you usually end up with UIs that look like they were designed for kindergarteners. You simplify and hide features until you upset every "power user". When the mouse is the primary input, on the other hand, the added precision allows you to cram more clickable elements into small spaces, possibly freeing up more screen real estate for other things.
On the personal front its pretty hard to think of anything besides stuff that defies the laws of economics or current tech that I'd pay $50/m for.

If you asked me 5 years ago Id answer differently. Due to mostly internet powered services a number of my monthly costs have dropped dramatically... My home phone used to be $40/m and now is $4/m, Cable used to be $80 and is now about $17 with Netflix/Hulu, Music used to cost me about $40/m for CDs/iTunes and is now about $10 for streaming.

I guess the point is that taking those price points into consideration its really difficult to think of something that would seem rationally priced at $50.

Although if you streamed all new releases currently in the movie theater to my TV I might bite.
That's a good point, you wouldn have expected mouse-using-holdovers to eventually give up, but if that's happening it's happening slowly. Still see people using mice with laptops all of the time. Could expect the same to hold true with the transition to tablets.
Check out Jeri Ellsworth's homebrow NMOS transistor for some real fun. Just get your bare silicon wafer from E-bay and have at it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_znRopGtbE
This is so sad. I blog about brazilian startups and I love the blog. It's been a great source of inspiration. I even use the sticker in my laptop. http://i.imgur.com/49a1E.jpg

Just curious. I love the startups & jobs database that you guys integrated to the CMS. Will you continue to run that? Would you guys consider open sourcing it, so people from other countries could use that too?
The world is changing, and it may be our fault. Are you looking to solve the global climate change in under 2 months, or are you saying "this is proof that The End Is Upon Us" (oh look, post-hoc forecasting!)? IIRC, we have survived about 10 Ends Of The World in the past decade; color me unimpressed.
Cambridge, MA or REMOTE. Full-time.

The Ksplice group at Oracle

Does writing Python clones of your favorite childhood computer games sound like a fun weekend project? Would you hack on an old-school graphics demo that fits into a DOS MBR in your free time? Have you ever told a joke whose punch line was a git command? If that sounds like you, we want to hear from you!

We are a small, tight-knit team of 12 women and men excited to work on technology that most people will tell you is impossible: updating an operating system kernel while it is running. Our product, Ksplice Uptrack, is a subscription service for Linux that provides completely non-disruptive, rebootless kernel updates. (You can read more about the underlying technology at http://www.ksplice.com/paper)

We're looking for a systems engineer with strong Python experience: Help us bring the Ksplice Uptrack client to new Linux distribution releases, improve our server infrastructure, and develop and extend our REST API and Django-based web interface.

If this technology excites you, let's talk! Feel free to direct questions to me at jamie.iles@oracle.com or to jobs@ksplice.com. Oracle is an equal opportunity employer.
Great speech from Rowan Atkinson about this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=g...
yeah but the risks are different. An uber driver is potentially exposing himself and vehicle to the hostile elements. An ubder driver might have otherwise decided not to make himself available at all without the extra cash incentive.
As an HR-ism, "years of experience" is a stupid metric. I agree.

I only included such criteria for the 2.0 and 2.5 level, which characterize the top 1-2 percent (or less) of programmers. I should add that while I've never seen people reach 2.0+ without programming for 10 years (even if they weren't holding a professional-level job during all that time; they might have started at 14) I am not saying it can't happen. But 2.0+ engineers are uncommon and it has to be very rare for someone to get there without the Gladwellian "10,000 hours".

If you're looking to hire 2.0+ engineers, you're not using HR-isms. You don't pay attention to the standard HR bullshit about "must have Ph.D." or "must have 5 years of experience". You're often trying to fill the roles through referrals, because those people aren't on the job market for very long, and they tend to have very high requirements with regard to the jobs they take. You don't find these people using an HR checklist and filtering thousands of off-the-street CVs.

Most people aren't trying to hire 2.0+, because the work that a 2.0+ engineer will find interesting is uncommon and few companies even have use for that high a level of work.

I've been programming for 6 years, and have been aggressively managing my career in the direction of optimizing for learning, sometimes quitting jobs solely on account of boredom, and other times "stealing an education" from jobs, and I'm only 1.7-1.8. The 2.0's are rare and I've never met one under 30 (although it's certainly possible).
How is it non-compliant? It uses the exact wording in the judgment, which did not state that there could not be additions.
On the other hand, don't discount cheap ones simply because they are cheap.

I got my old memory foam mattress from Woot. It made me sleep so soundly that after a couple years, I started waking up with back pain. Slept all night, but woke up in pain. Gave it to my Mom (best sleep she's ever had, too) and bought a hybrid from Ikea. Still way better than any other boxspring mattress I've owned, and ridiculously cheap.

So yes, they are worth investing in... But that doesn't mean you have to pay a lot.

Sadly, I cannot find an Ikea chair/couch that's comfortable. Still working on that purchase.
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It still isn't precise enough (well, not unless you're selecting monospace font type), and even ignoring that, it's a level of abstraction extra, because you don't just click and get where you want in just one step.
What an excellent idea. I wish this was around when I was learning on Red Hat 5.1.

I may still check this out though. I still have lots to learn.
We Are Legion set for DRM-free digital release
Louis C.K. style. It's excellent, btw. Everyone should see it if they have an interest. I saw it at the Milwaukee Film Festival and was blown away.
Citizens United often gets brought up when people over here talk about limiting political speech, but one thing I like to remind people is that: 1) Citizens United was about a movie criticizing a Presidential candidate--the exact kind of political speech that should be most protected; 2) the Soliciter General put his foot in his mouth in the most terrible way when he basically admitted that the law would allow book banning.

I also like to point out that in the very next term the Supreme Court struck down California's violent video game law, which was widely lauded by liberals even though had Citizens United gone the other way, Rockstar Games would have no free speech rights to raise in that case.

Free speech really is the real deal here, and I find it upsetting how much flak the Supreme Court has gotten for staying true to their line of decisions. This is a Supreme Court that in the midst of Vietnam protected a protestor who said that if the government ever made him carry a rifle (to go to war), the first person in his sights would be President Johnson.
The guys from TNW should definitely hire your team. They're doing a great job covering startups out of the U.S.
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Educreations (http://www.educreations.com) - Full Time or Intern in Palo Alto, CA

Want to use your skills as a force for good to improve education for all? Here's your chance.

At Educreations, we believe that the world's best teachers should be available to all students.

As a first step, we've made it easy for teachers to create amazing online video lessons. Our top-100 app transforms the iPad into a mobile lesson recording studio, and hundreds of
thousands of teachers and students are using it daily to learn from each other anytime, anywhere.

We're looking for some passionate people to help us redefine online teaching and learning. We were part of the first cohort of Imagine K12 and are funded by Accel Partners, NewSchools Venture fund and other top angels.

If you want to make a dent in the universe and are a strong Python hacker, have experience with Objective C or are an awesome designer, we want to talk to you.

http://www.educreations.com/careers/#jobs or http://educreations.wufoo.com/forms/join-educreations/

We are looking for:

Full-stack Engineers (Python)
Mobile Engineers (Objective C/Cocoa)
Visual Designers
Technical Interns
Coffee break with tea.‭ ‬What's your cup of tea‭?
You might be interested in GameTap (http://www.gametap.com/). Lowering the bar of entry meant that I tried out a bunch of games I otherwise would never have tried, but when I was using it there were constant problems. Downloads completed and installed successfully maybe one in three times. Mod support is iffy.
On a desk, it could be good practice for your arm muscles!
"The following is not true:<exact wording in the judgment>"

Context counts for a lot.
I also clicked on "Money per month" first rather than "amount". I think I'm used to the edit box being on the right?
EC2 is still kind of expensive.
> As a European, it can sometimes be hard to appreciate America's guarantees of free speech

As a European, it's hard NOT to appreciate America's guarantees of free speech, especially as limits on it only seem to have negative effects like silencing criticism of government and powerful public figures, quelling reports of corruption, and penalising beliefs unpopular among current political elite.

Their guarantees include not just the fifth amendment but also little bits like truth being an absolute defence against libel, and courts unwilling to chase the smallest slip-ups in their race to convict for libel. And as much as American seem to get offended over what other people say, their government is not imprisoning historians telling wacky stories, or chasing memorabilia.
SEEKING WORK — I'm based in England, but will happily work remotely for anyone in any location!

Looking for a freelancer who's not afraid of communicating?
Someone who will always respond to your emails and who gets excited about realizing the potential of your project.

You've found him.

RECENT WORK

An on line web camera management application which allows small business to share their web cameras with multiple users.
I had the task of refactoring the application to make it simple, secure, maintainable and scalable.
I completed the re-write in just six days and communicated at every stage with the project owner to make sure the finished project was exactly what my client wanted.

Need proof?

Read the excellent testimonial from my client at the top of my testimonials page: http://alanhollis.com/testimonials/

MORE ABOUT ME

More about me can be found via http://alanhollis.com.

My github profile is available on http://github.com/alan01252.

My strongest languages are PHP, JavaScript and Java. I’ve also got a whole heap of experience debugging and maintaining code written in other languages such as C#, Perl and Python.

CONTACT ME

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Thanks

Alan

PS. I'm always looking for feedback on my sales pitch / website / and portfolio! Every piece of feedback I receive is greatly appreciated regardless of size!
I initially thought those were sliders that I was supposed to drag. :)
It might also be useful to give some background on how such a law came to be passed.
They're not building a company, they're building a proof of concept prototype. If it works out then they could start a company, in which case ordinary investors can trade money for equity as per usual. This is a project, which is what kickstarter is for.
I'm in your same position exactly but unfortunately the options aren't good for what you (and me) will use it for. Before this price drop a Micro instance would run you about $15 - $20 monthly. About the same as I pay for my 512 Linode. But I've heard horror stories about the CPU on the Micro not being able to handle any amount of moderate traffic for more than a few minutes at a time. So then there's the Small instances which are, at least for me, ideal anyway but when you do the math on a Small instance running 24/7 each month with just 10GB of EBS storage you get up past $60 a month. Okay, not bad - pretty close to VPS pricing, actually. But $60/month is a lot for me to spend on hosting a blog so its not for me. I don't know about you. Maybe your priorities and financial situation is different. I'm not hurting at all financially, I'm just cheap (which is why I'm not hurting financially).
SEEKING WORK - remote
I'm open to some part-time freelancing to get me started in the freelancing business again. I'm a full-stack developer with strong focus on PHP for the server side part. I've been programming for +10 years, the last 5 I spent building (from the ground up) and maintaining some of the largest web sites in Slovenia (where I'm from) that have a few million uniques a month, so I know a thing or two about scaling.
If you have a small-ish project that would requiere someone that can build a page from 0 to production (provided you take care of the design) or you need something fixed or extended then I'm your guy.

Contact: jan[dot]hancic at gmail

Showcase: http://hancic.info/showcase
A streaming Netflix+HBO+Spotify like service, but with a much better selection and with a minimal delay between cinema/tv premier and showing up on the service would make me seriously consider it. Throw in an NFL Game pass and you've got yourself a deal.

On the more physical plane, I'd probably also seriously consider it for some of laundry+ironing service that picks up and delivers to my apartment.
TV.

All of it, available like music is on Spotify.
On your marks, get set, release
Philadelphia, PA (Whitpain) : Software engineers and DevOps/Sysadmins/Postgres DBAs

Full Time/Interns, Onsite

Wingspan Technology
www.wingspan.com

We're a quickly growing, client-funded company with SaaS and installable products for Pharma and Energy companies. We just deployed a new product with some interesting technology constraints (e.g. users all over the world, extra care given regulatory constraints)

Contact - gsieling@wingspan.com
Money per month, is that value I enter suppose to be gross or net? I'll assume gross and have to agree with others that said this is a bit too light (as in not enough inputs).
A home automation system with a mobile and desktop view that combined HVAC, security (including door locking/unlocking), utility monitoring and billpay for all those services (assuming they’re different vendors).

e.g. I’d love to defragment all those areas that make up “home”... some kind of Nest + (non-ugly) Lockitron + Mint.com for utilities
Well now my essay feels inadequate...

But seriously though, good job, and best of luck!
Interesting. I've never seen that before, but I can't imagine why you'd make something like that up, so this must just be a gap in my experience.
Beats me. Apple complied with a sloppy judgment. I'm no great fan of Apple in this, but the appeal judges fucked up by not clearly specifying what Apple needed to do and could not do.
India also has a law against “deliberately hurting religious feelings,” which was exploited recently[1] by the Catholic Church.

[1] http://lee-phillips.org/IndiaNoDemocracy/
Agreed on Ulam. Also, there are many capsule biographies in William Dunham's "Journey Through Genius".
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I really like the concept, but...

- big no-no - which flavor you will be using? RHEL? Ubuntu? FreeBSD? Let's say I sign-up and it turns around that there will be RHEL tooling. Well - money wasted if I standardize on Ubuntu.

>> use grep, ssh, apt-get, tail and man to administer, monitor and extend your server.

- lack of proper course description - the above is not enough. How about setting properly iptables and kernel config (to ensure network security)? how about properly hardening web server? Install from ports won't cut it. How about proper partinioning to ensure no executable bits? etc etc etc

- who are you and how I can be sure that what you teach is best practices and not some oldish shmaboodle fairy tales?

Would the above be addressed positively - I would pay more... and more... and more...
10 years of experience does not equate to a great violinist, but I don't know any great violin players without it.

I started writing code at a young age, got a CS degree, and after graduating my first 3 months I was more productive than some people I have worked with with 5 years experience. I created something that a significant fraction of people I have worked with would have been unable to think of. However, I had just been writing code not reading it. After working on many projects both short and long term, I would cringe if I had to maintain the code I wrote back then.

Comments are a probably the perfect example where you need to be bitten by a stale comment a few times to really understand what's important.
1. For timesavers. If it saves me 1 hour of my working time per month (and reliably), I would buy it.

2. For tools which create the opportunity to earn more or stabilize my income, like bidsketch. E.g., a tool which makes project proposals a bullet-proof thing (using a best-practice process framework or sthg), increasing my freelancing client conversion rate.

3. Networking with experts or professionals from areas to which I have no access to (like dentists or steel industry). Because this might lead to projects.
50 bucks it is, so..

Personal:

- If IMDB offered service with HD quality click-to-stream for every title they have listed

- Drop&collect laundry service for basic clothing

- Home delivered grocery subscription for relatively cheap basic stuff which don't rot quickly like pasta, rice, flour, cheese, butter, sugar, coffee, spices, canned tomatoes, etc.

Work related:

- Beefy enough VPS

- Book-keeping for small business

- Leased laptop

- Seat in open floor co-working space with electricity and network connectivity
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I make 50% of minimum wage in my professional full time job as a PHP web developer in the UK, so at this moment in time, "only just minimum wage" looks pretty darn good.
This attempt at being "clever" has definitely backfired on apple. If they had just done what was asked the first time, that would have been the end of it. Now it has to be dredged up and people will be reminded (again) that they lost the case. I find it hard to believe that their lawyers advised them that they would get away with something like this.
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I've recently bought some financial software for my Mac, can't recall its name but it's pretty good. I can import my credit card statements into it and categorise all my transactions so I can see (and report on) what my money is going on.

Gives a great incentive to see where savings can be made
Thats £30ish... Something that pays all of my bills on time, and checks through my accounts and flags things that are unusual. It should probably be researching to see who the best service providers are and switching accordingly.
I will probably stick with my Linode then. Thanks for the info.
Well, law is not (yet) code, and you are expected to use common sense. Apple didn't.
> I am not sure if the HDMI port on them can be driven any higher, it possibly can though.

HDMI itself can (from 1.3 onwards), but the card may not allow that for whatever reason.

> I am not sure what the max resolution on AMD's Trinity line is if they have Display Link or HDMI

I can't find anything on AMD's website, but the Asus F2A85-M Pro[0] is specced at:

- 1920 x 1080 over HDMI

- 1920 x 1600 over RGB

- 2560 x 1600 over DVI

- 4096 x 2160 over DisplayPort

[0] http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_Socket_FM2/F2A85M_PRO/#...
I'm still looking forward to Minority Report style interfaces for the desktop, like https://leapmotion.com/

Probably not the best model for mobile interaction, but there's plenty of seats free at the man-machine interface table.