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May I link to it from another page? http://viewtext.org/api/text?url=techbio.org&format=html...
Sure, that's the main reason I built it. So other sites could easily link to it. I'm doing just that with http://ihackernews.com
http://vps.kevinmehall.net:8123/hn An Operational Transformation (like Google Wave / EtherPad) implementation in node.js and coffeescript. Source at http://github.com/kevinmehall/OTpad . It's much cleaner and lighter-weight than the EtherPad open source project. Chrome recommended for now, FF sort-of supported.
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I think he's suggesting that the most obvious way for potential buyers to quantify freelancers is through price, meaning that no matter what (in most cases), the job will go to the lowest bidder, leaving quality freelancers with no other way to 'prove' they are worth more. I'm not sure I agree with robryan 100%, as there are other ways for buyers to compare the freelancers (years experience, etc.). For a middle-groun…
yeah, we have plenty of places for freelancers online which are essencially a race to the bottom on rate, a lot of buyers are looking to compare on rate, most sellers that sell at a premium would at least like buyers to give them the time of day to hear what that premium will get them.
1. we'll have a min. hourly rate of $40/hr.
2. by making it phone-based, we will be filtering out most non-US programmers
3. we intend to charge $2-5/lead once we get traction. This will probably make it unaffordable for folks that only compete on price.
I really don't want to attract elance/rentacoder-type audience which only cares about cost. My experience as a freelancer AND client has shown that you get what you pay for. I'd like higher end clients to match with higher quality coders.
That's what my application is trying to do: Target language=C++, target UI = Web UI using wt, target database = postgres
git://github.com/neilxdsouza/codehelper.git
Currently it generates a makefile in the output directory which compiles with a Wt (witty) UI which can be run as a standalone web server. Still a work in progress - I've done it in C++ - but you need not be restricted to C++ (You should be able to emit code in any language once you have parsed the modified sql grammar which my parser already does). Sample inputs available in the inputs folder. To see the Web UI working you need wt (http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt) and the extjs-2.1 library
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yeah, we have plenty of places for freelancers online which are essencially a race to the bottom on rate, a lot of buyers are looking to compare on rate, most sellers that sell at a premium would at least like buyers to give them the time of day to hear what that premium will get them.
I've thought about this idea and 3 things should help: 1. we'll have a min. hourly rate of $40/hr. 2. by making it phone-based, we will be filtering out most non-US programmers 3. we intend to charge $2-5/lead once we get traction. This will probably make it unaffordable for folks that only compete on price. I really don't want to attract elance/rentacoder-type audience which only cares about cost. My experience as a…
I think you underestimate the capacities of non-US programmers. The international shops (ie. the coders from India and Singapore who can charge a fraction of what a US programmer would need to) usually have access to great VOIP and 24/7 availability.
http://pocketodds.com/ Poker odds calculator (texas holdem), the plan is for the website version to get linked around and soon release a phone version for a couple of bucks (starting with iphone, not finished yet).
Sometimes I want to guess what the odds would be of any random game.
http://nextsprocket.com Pay and get paid to complete open source tasks, bugs, etc. We are having trouble figuring out why the idea is not catching on. Is it fundamentally the idea of paying for open source, the traction or other?
Fixing bugs is a much less glamourous task than implementing features, and people aren't as inclined to take on the dull and frustrating task of fixing other's mistakes. Beyond payment, how do you build up the pride and reputation of bug-fixers? How do you make them heroes in the community? Or rather, just heroes in general?
The site isn't geared just for bug fixes. It's any task for any open source project that needs to be done for a price. For example, this recent task http://nextsprocket.com/tasks/python-for-enunciate wants to port enunciate from ruby to python.