Hacker News: steveinator

New comment by steveinator in "Ask HN: How did you take your freelance web development biz to the next level?"

steveinator — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 18:49:12 +0000

I too do freelance software development. I'm at a pretty small scale right now, but shoot me an email if you'd like to talk about doing some work together in the future. Whether its just passing excess projects off to each other or it turns into something bigger, I am open to discussion. I am booked until end of June right now. My email should be in my profile.

New comment by steveinator in "Ask HN: What is the best combination for a simple multiplayer game"

steveinator — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 16:49:27 +0000

Do you know Object Oriented methodologies? If so (or if you want to learn), consider something like java or python. Are you coming from front end web? Learn node.js, it will have the most transferable knowledge.

Find the best, clearest tutorials that lead you to something similar to what you want to build, and use that tech. Personally, I'll use python/django for my next webapps because I like the tutorials and the programming style/environment. But I don't do games, and django probably isn't the best game framework.

I'd definately use HTML5 for the front end, I love the api's and the skillset is very valuable.

New comment by steveinator in "Money and wealth"

steveinator — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 16:24:04 +0000

Agreed. I think that there was a lot of snobbery the way he says 'look at how I got rich, you're doing it wrong'. But some of his concepts are immensely valuable. I like how he pushes the idea of strong education in accounting, law, and other business essentials, as well as his use of networking and assessing of market conditions.

New comment by steveinator in "What do you wish you had done the summer after graduation?"

steveinator — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 21:03:31 +0000

Lots of suggestions to travel. If you choose to do so, I'd recommend traveling cheaply and openly. Its an incredible feeling to travel with no defined end date or destination. Try long distance hiking, or a one way ticket to a cheap area of the world. WWOOFing if you're into farming/sustainability. The style of not having an end date allows you to take your time in an unstressfull situation to ponder the world and where you want to take your career, then when something motivates you enough, you can immediately stop and pour all of your energy into it.

New comment by steveinator in "Ask HN: VoIP anyone?"

steveinator — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 22:47:48 +0000

Get dedicated T1's if you can afford them. Debugging phone issues is near impossible if you can't trust your network.

New comment by steveinator in "Bill Gates: My Plan to Improve Our World, and How You Can Help"

steveinator — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 15:56:09 +0000

I too would be very interested in learning more about how to break in to this type of work. I am a few years out of school with a CS and Math degree, and no clue where to start. I didn't see any contact info in your profile.

New comment by steveinator in "Ask HN: Where can I find a software job that helps society?"

steveinator — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 21:56:15 +0000

http://www.idealist.org/ is the classic outlet for nonprofity jobs. I've found all nonprofit tech jobs to be incredibly unchallenging though, so if you are motivated by hard problems and engineering challenges then you've got some serious job hunting ahead of you.

New comment by steveinator in "100% Compression Using Pi"

steveinator — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 20:26:25 +0000

Genious

New comment by steveinator in "Dating app looking for a co-founder"

steveinator — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:02:51 +0000

Does anyone else find this incredibly ironic?

New comment by steveinator in "Ask HN: What's your linux distro?"

steveinator — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:58:07 +0000

CentOS on all my servers

New comment by steveinator in "Ask HN: I've been asked to give a speech: I am terrified."

steveinator — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 15:12:26 +0000

Always start the speech off with a quick joke. Hearing everyone chuckle kindly always eases the nerves. Something easy like "They said that winning this award would take hard work, but no one told me I'd have to give a speech too!".

New comment by steveinator in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2013)"

steveinator — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 14:41:16 +0000

Good call steve dot northup at gmail dot com

New comment by steveinator in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2013)"

steveinator — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 13:33:20 +0000

SEEKING WORK

Full stack LAMP stack developer. (Though I am open to other technologies). Experience prototyping web applications and working on financial trading platforms.

Interested mostly in long term part time remote work.

New comment by steveinator in "Who Really Said That?"

steveinator — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 20:29:46 +0000

Do what you want and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

--Not Dr. Suess?

New comment by steveinator in "[dead]"

steveinator — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 12:47:43 +0000

Is it something that can be run from the states? I'll take it and run it while you're gone.

New comment by steveinator in "Skin in the Game as a Required Heuristic for Acting Under Uncertainty"

steveinator — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 22:46:15 +0000

Interesting read. I liked the reference to Ralph Nadar... Those who vote in favor of war should be required to enlist in a draft.

Though I don't know how serious I can take this when the guy uses the word 'wonks' in reference to those he disagrees with.

Also I think that the lack of 'skin in the game' encourages risk, which counteracts a natural tendency for large groups to be more conservative (look at big business vs small). If you made decision makers have skin in the game, you'd have even less innovation and new ideas in large institutions. This is taking into account factors beyond his thesis, but leads to interesting thoughts when it comes to practical application of his ideas.

New comment by steveinator in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2013)"

steveinator — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:25:38 +0000

STAMFORD, CT and NEW YORK CITY

Looking for developers

US:

We are a funded startup with 17 or so people and growing. We focus primarily on brokerage and project finance in the REC markets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_Energy_Certificates.

YOU:

- You have a coding background. We use a lot of PHP here, but all we ask is a background with any language. We know good programmers can pick up any language with a reasonable desire to learn

- You want to work in the renewable energy sector. Apply your technical skills to directly support the use of renewable energies

- You understand version control, cloud hosting, and agile dev

- You're interested in the startup culture of a constant flow of new problems, and are willing to help grow the IT presence of the firm

http://skystreammarkets.com/

Send resumes to IT at SKYSTREAMMARKETS dot COM

New comment by steveinator in "Burner Phone"

steveinator — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:51:34 +0000

Two bullet points from the site:

- Unlimited talk and text for 30 days.

- 16 hour talk time.

I'm confused. Which is it?

New comment by steveinator in "A solution for designers who don't know Wordpress"

steveinator — Thu, 09 May 2013 13:53:33 +0000

This is one of the better things to come across Hacker News recently. People will hate on Wordpress all they want, but at the end of the day I still have to support a bunch of clients that use it.

New comment by steveinator in "Talk It Out: Live Chat with Entrepreneurs, Founders, and Investors"

steveinator — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 02:59:58 +0000

We're working on a new idea, coming up with a proof of concept and are talking with Investors and other Entrepreneurs in the area. Would you guys use this kind of service? How do I bring in revenue from something like this?