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Neal Kemp

Engineer & Consultant

Background: YC S14, Women.com Co-founder, thoughtbot, ZURB, Atlassian & Claremont McKenna College

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nnnnnn··on Offer HN: $2000 worth of free work (last 4 days to get your idea in)
I think you may have broken your own first rule ;)

http://blog.samuellevy.com/post/35-so-you-wanna-be-a-freelan...

nnnnnn··on Archive.org: Only 12 days to reach the goal of $150,000
Someone went wild with that bar graph bevel.
nnnnnn··on 4chan helps Kim Jong Un win Time's Person of the Year poll
My favorite thing about this is that the commenters all seem to be so angry at Time. They clearly did not read the article. I would put Time commenters ever so slightly above Youtube commenters on the intelligence scale.
nnnnnn··on Covering the whole country with Google Fiber could cost $140 billion
A paragraph for an article, really? Journalism is in a sad state...
nnnnnn··on You can now create files on GitHub
Nice to see Github releasing more consumer features lately (deleting branches on merge, now creating files, etc). After not seeing a significant update for months, I thought Github forgot about the consumers in their more focused efforts towards enterprise users.
nnnnnn··on Show HN: Pvsh - A reverse Kickstarter (make feature requests for any product)
I really hope they come through with the Chuck Norris API

http://www.pvshapp.com/#feature_requests/50bcf99ee4ca239c000...

nnnnnn··on Ask HN: Best developer laptop under $1700?
Fair point. To clarify, I meant build quality more so than power of internals (though the internals are nice too!).
nnnnnn··on Ask HN: Best developer laptop under $1700?
Macbook air 13", just uninstall Mac OS and install Ubuntu. I switched from PC Laptop to Mac and will never look back. OS aside, the hardware is phenomenal, easily the best hardware on the market. The ultrabooks are catching up but they're still nowhere near the air.

I've been doing all my dev work on here and have been impressed with the snapiness of the processor and SSD.

Good luck!

nnnnnn··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2012)
Seeking Work - US Bay Area (remote only) Things I do: - Front end dev - Back end dev - Full stack dev - Design (I have a partner who does the designing)

Buzz words: - HTML5, CSS3, Backbone.js, Javascript, jQuery, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Photoshop, PSD to HTML, Responsive design, Bootstrap, Foundation, Wordpress, PHP, MySQL

I've worked or consulted for great firms in Silicon Valley and elsewhere and am always on the look out for interesting new projects. I won't belabor an explanation of my philosophy and experience on this thread, but please visit my site http://nealke.mp if you are interested in learning more or would like to contact me.

nnnnnn··on Show HN: Responsive Email Templates
To add to Sam's comment, if you're using Rails, try:

https://github.com/fphilipe/premailer-rails3

There are a few gotcha's with the gem but overall it works pretty smoothly!

nnnnnn··on Show HN: I built a website that lets you freelance for bitcoins
You should really consider price floors for certain categories (take crowdspring as an example). For example, there's someone on your site offering 1 BTC (~$12 USD) for a logo...I'm not even a designer and I know that's an awful price.

Sites without floors tend towards high-volume, low-quality projects listed. I am not saying you should have market prices, but having some reasonable floors will give the site better quality.

nnnnnn··on CSSHat with 60% Discount Today
Just bought this. Wow, this is going to save so much time. No more digging around to determine border radius or font-sizes. I totally recommend this, especially at $12. It will easily save me 20%-40% of the time I spend working inside of Photoshop when converting PSD to HTML.

Not perfect for some complex layers (such as shapes) but amazing for the repetitive determining of shadows, sizes, radius, font-face, etc. I would love to see this tool have a tool to automatically cut and clip layers into separate images.

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