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Freelancing Deal: I'll do your Android project at USD 3500 a month. I had a project pipelined, which suddenly got cancelled (postponed without a new date) and I have a void to fill…

SEEKING WORK - Remote & Mumbai, India. We are a team of 2 developers and looking to build a portfolio of mobile apps on Android and IOS. Although we are relatively new to mobile ap…

I could answer you with reasons. But in the 1980s, one would also ask - why should we enable a household to own a mainframe. But look at what we do with computers today. You could …

I was thinking of how the Intel cpu brought the computer into the normal household. What could bring Amazon into the household of a normal person today? What if someone decided to …

I thought this would be pointed out. Yes, one could knock out the battery, screen and sensors. Maybe even android - and just leave the bare linux in there. You would probably reach…

Yes. I do mean that. What struck me from the talk was the cpu in the iphone 6 was about 25x more powerful than the pentium 100 in 1995.

I watched the A16Z talk - Mobile changes everything. With today's phones having 4 and 8 core cpus, I was wondering if it's viable to have a server setup of mobile phones in the sty…

I find it hard to believe, in this version and the official version that Osama was killed and not taken alive. If I was Obama or director of CIA, I would have asked the boys to bri…

When I was learning music, there were graded exercises for progressing. For example Trinity College and the Associated Board (ABRSM) have graded exams for measuring progress when l…

Professional Javascript for Web Developers by Nicholas Zakas. This treats Javascript as a first class software engineering language.

I've found a dealer who has a late-2012 mac mini display piece. This particular machine can be upgraded to 16Gb. Im probably going to go with this config.

That's why I thought of 16Gb Ram. I'm thinking, The whole of XCode and the compiler and my program source would be in the buffer cache. So after the initial loading from disk, the …

Yes. I just saw that. I cant reply to your comment directly as there is no reply button below your comment (probably nested too deep). stackexchange might be a good place to check.…

If you read the tech specs as below, http://www.apple.com/mac-mini/specs/ In the memory section, it says it's upgradeable. And I think this is a link from Apple's own instructions …

What you seem to suggest is that there is no need to even upgrade the RAM. I could check how well it works for a while before spending the extra on the RAM. Thanks.

Need advice on whether you can do IOS Dev on a Mini the 1.4 Ghz (2 core i5). Im from india and you can get this machine here (on Amazon.in) for INR 32K (about USD 500). There is a …

OT: I just said to myself, that cannot be "the Peter Norvig" here on Hackernews and I checked the profile. And Lo and behold ...

This technique is described in Peter van der Linden's book "Expert C Programming : Deep C Secrets" (and also explained really well by you).

SEEKING WORK - Remote (Based in India). Looking for a months work, to raise some funds to help move my startup along. I can work on node.js / Bootstrap. I am comfortable with postg…

So at this early stage, I am not talking about replacing lawyers. Their interpretation would still be required. However if there are 5 possible interpretations, the engine should p…

A search engine for the legal system. I had sent this idea to YC 2013 and they asked me to submit a video, but I felt I don't have the creds to apply. Take each section of a countr…

There is a book called Advanced 80386 programming techniques by Jim Turley - it was referenced in Robert Love's Linux Kernel Development book. Other resources include http://www.br…

Working on a compiler for data collection. It's a simple programming language that allows you to launch surveys on android devices. We can also compile to an embedded webserver usi…

SEEKING WORK - Remote We are a team of 3 startup founders, looking for work to self fund. Our skillset - - Backend Programming: Frameworks: Node/{Express,Sails}, Python/{Django,Fla…