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joefreemanon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2015)

SEEKING WORK - remote (I'm from the UK).

I'm a generalist software engineer. I build mobile apps (native and hybrid), web apps, server systems (REST APIs, etc). I'm reliable, work efficiently, communicate effectively, and take pride in my work.

Technologies: Clojure, JavaScript (React, Angular, jQuery, Node.js), Java, Android, iOS, PhoneGap/Cordova, Ruby, Python, PHP, AWS, MySQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, CouchDB, Redis, RabbitMQ.

Website/CV: http://joef.co.uk

E-mail: joe@joef.co.uk

joefreemanon Show HN: Artful for Mac

Support for triptychs?

joefreemanon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2014)

SEEKING WORK - remote, or London/UK.

I'm a generalist software engineer with experience across server, web and mobile platforms.

Technologies: Clojure, Ruby, JavaScript (React, Angular, jQuery, Node.js), Java, Android, iOS, PhoneGap, Python, AWS, MySQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, CouchDB, Redis, RabbitMQ.

Website/CV: http://joef.co.uk

E-mail: joe@joef.co.uk

joefreemanon Why Programmers work at night (2011)

Whilst I don't disagree with the points in the article, I think the primary reason for the increase in productivity at night is the 'soft' deadline - knowing that I really should go to sleep, but perhaps I can just finish off One Last Thing. I find the same effect from working in a cafe (I've been here a while, I really should free up this table), or even just from drinking lots of water and needing to go to the bathroom.

joefreemanon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2014)

SEEKING WORK - remote only

I'm from London, but currently staying in Belgrade.

I'm a generalist software engineer with experience across server, web and mobile platforms.

Technologies: Clojure, Ruby, JavaScript (React, Angular, jQuery, Node.js), Java, Android, iOS, PhoneGap, Python, AWS, MySQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, CouchDB, Redis, RabbitMQ.

Website/CV: http://joef.co.uk

E-mail: joe@joef.co.uk

joefreemanon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2014)

SEEKING WORK - Remote

I'm from London, but currently staying in Germany

I'm a full-stack developer (experience in web, mobile, and server-side development).

Technologies: Clojure, Ruby, JavaScript (jQuery, React, ExtJS, Backbone.js, Node.js), HTML5/CSS, Java, Objective-C, Python, AWS, MySQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, CouchDB, Redis, RabbitMQ.

Website/CV: http://joef.co.uk

E-mail: joe@joef.co.uk

joefreemanon Every person with a Wikipedia article in a frequency graph by birth year

The trough and then peak between 1970-1990 is interesting. Any insights? Are people more likely to have an article written about them in their 20s than 30s?

joefreemanon How to price something

Thanks, those are great examples for one-off purchases. How about subscriptions to services?

joefreemanon How to price something

I'm curious - is it ok to charge people different amounts for the same product? Is it morally ok? Is it even legal?

joefreemanon Comment your damn code

I also disagree. Commenting is something I do when I'm being lazy - too lazy to make the intent of the code obvious. Sadly, this is also the impression I get when I see comments written by other developers. (That said, method-level documentation is still something I'm on the fence about.)

joefreemanon Watch YC Startup School 2012 Live

Patrick Collison Founder, Stripe http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/87/Patrick_...

Ron Conway Partner, SV Angel http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/11/1106_ceos_on_electio...

Ben Horowitz Partner, Andreessen Horowitz; Founder, Opsware http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/ben-horo...

Travis Kalanick Founder, Uber http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/images/201...

Jessica Livingston Partner, Y Combinator http://www.foundersatwork.com/author.html

Hiroshi Mikitani Founder, Rakuten http://www.japantimes.co.jp/images/photos2007/nb20070331a2a....

Tom Preston-Werner Founder, GitHub http://mixergy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Preston-Werner...

David Rusenko Founder, Weebly http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/David_Rus...

Ben Silbermann Founder, Pinterest https://talentmechanic.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/ben-silbe...

Joel Spolsky Founder, StackExchange, Fog Creek Software http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Joe...

Mark Zuckerberg Founder, Facebook http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/20...

joefreemanon Ask HN: suggested sweet laptops for running Ubuntu?

I'm running Linux Mint on an Asus Zenbook (basically a cheap copy of a MBA). The only real issues I'm having is that I haven't worked out how to get the laptop to sleep, and there's a weird order of steps I have to take to get an external monitor working. Oh, and the keyboard isn't great.

After a few months I've got used to the problems, but I do miss OS X. (I'm more than happy to give Apple my money to make things Just Work.)

joefreemanon Facebook launches App Center

That doesn't seem like a fair comparison. A fairer comparison would be if the car companies continuously replaced your car with a free upgrade. I could cope with that.

joefreemanon Ask HN: What did you build in March?

http://trackt.com - real-time collaboration using sticky notes

joefreemanon DIagrams Through Ascii Art

http://www.asciiflow.com/

joefreemanon Drawing Machine Using Arduino, Processing, a Sharpie, and String

There's a brief summary of something vaguely similar I made during my degree here: http://joefreeman.co.uk/blog/2009/09/lineographic-interpreta... (Lineographic Interpretations of Images, with an Etch-a-sketch)