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devonbarrett

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devonbarrett··on Ask HN: Best place to find a freelance coder?
Not sure if you meant clientsfromhell.net?
devonbarrett··on Ask HN: Tech predictions for the next 10 years?
Wearable tech will be a big thing

Google Glasses will be just the start of things.

devonbarrett··on Ask HN: Best place to find a freelance coder?
Elance and Guru have some gems hidden inside - you just have to do a lot of digging to generally find them.

I agree with @sheraz the quality in the Hiring/Seeking post is generally higher then you will find on Elance or Guru.

...on the other hand I freelance and have WordPress experience ;-) [email in profile if interested]

devonbarrett··on Ask HN: What is the most impressive thing "other than this startup" you've done?
Impressive! How deep was it?
devonbarrett··on Ask HN: Any "FAQ as a service" services out there?
Nosing around the live_help_counter function in site.js explained it.

$.get(url, function(data) { max_help_count = parseInt(data); help_count = max_help_count - 5000;

and the url it seems to point to is: http://helpjuice.com/live-help-counter

devonbarrett··on Useful Meteor resources to get started
still available on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Started-Meteor-js-JavaScript-F...
devonbarrett··on Ask HN: Friend's 15 year old wants to drop out, I've been asked to intervene
Hello,

I myself recently went through this decision process (although the company I had started at 15 was different) the situation was the same, and if you would like to discuss anything feel free to email me at devon[at]{hnusername}.net

devonbarrett··on Coinbase Is Now Selling Over $1M USD Of Bitcoin Per Month
Second these guys, managed to find a seller and complete the transaction in under ten mins! Although was only a small amount.
devonbarrett··on Ask HN: Is anyone else experiencing unstable behavior with Google search?
Yes this will happen to me if after a search I try to amend what is in the search bar. However, simply clicking on the search icon resolves this.
devonbarrett··on MIT website hacked by Lulzsec
From http://3down.mit.edu/3down/

Tuesday January 22 2013 12:19:

The MIT.EDU domain has been compromised and sites external to MIT are currently being redirected elsewhere. We are working with the domain registrar to get this fixed.

devonbarrett··on Implore HN: Celebrate and encourage young developers who post here
I agree with experience being fundamental to ability, but being a teenager does not mean that you have not had experience(albeit not all real world). For instance, a computer science graduate who is 23 and has only been programming while at university has four years experience. However, I have been programming since I was eight years old, and as a result have nine years experience. I am not trying to say that I have am a better developer then the graduate, but even being five years younger, I would have more than double the amount of experience.

Also, I have met plenty of people who below the age of 15 that were invited to Oxford and Cambridge for maths related events, and they had a greater ability than most the people in the room. So yes I think experience does play a major part, but it is not the only factor. If you have the dedication, then age is nothing but a number.

devonbarrett··on Implore HN: Celebrate and encourage young developers who post here
I agree with you on that, but I also think, why should that not be extended to everyone no matter what age?
devonbarrett··on Implore HN: Celebrate and encourage young developers who post here
As a 17 year old, I disagree, regardless of age, if someone creates or does something that is considered impressive, they should receive credit based upon that - not because of an arbitrary number that supposedly relates to their ability.
devonbarrett··on Ask HN: Predictions... What will 2013 be the year of?
Google's world domination... they even do car insurance comparison now

But TBH if any tech company was to dominate I would rather Google than others

devonbarrett··on Ask HN: How are you using the time between Christmas and New Year?
Eating, working on my side project and watching videos from talks throughout the year that I missed.
devonbarrett··on Ask HN: Do you have any one-man websites? How much do you make?
Its a funeral program generator so I charge for each program created
devonbarrett··on Ask HN: Do you have any one-man websites? How much do you make?
Online HTML5 app, about $400 a day, if I was going to try it for a sustainable income I would start a few a manage them all at the same time.
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