Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2013)

SEEKING WORK (Toronto, remote work fine) - I’m a marketing and technical writer with experience writing user manuals, online help, Web site copy, press releases, proposals FAQs, screencasts, scripts, and other written material.

I’m all about clear, simple, and straightforward writing that engages the reader -- and marketing writing that sells. My writing is in your voice, meeting your needs, and speaking to your audience.

If you're seeking someone for ongoing writing work who's low-drama, reliable, fast, friendly, and a quick study, I'm your man.

Drop me a line at jonathanacohen@gmail.com and let's talk!

SEEKING WORK - Remote or San Francisco area

Experienced Front End Developer. Technologies: JavaScript, jQuery, YUI, Knockout.js, Backbone.js, Ember.js, Handlebars.js, D3.js, Node.js, Grunt.js, Jade.js, Require.js, Jasmine.js, HTML5, CSS3 and CSS frameworks (LESS, SASS, 960gs), JSON, XML, AJAX, XSS, APIs, Photoshop. Work with the following environments: JSP, Java, Rails, PHP, XML, JSTL, Velocity, XSLT, Specializations: full web applications, stand-alone features for integration with back-end, complex UI, single-page rendering, Ajax, data visualization, APIs, performance, responsive design.

Work: TBD Contact: webdevfe@gmail.com

SEEKING WORK, Remote and part-time only.

Currently, I am working fulltime and very happy with my job. However, I am available for part-time consulting and sub-contracting jobs.

I might be a good option when there is need to offload some work but not enough to pay someone for fulltime position. I am pretty good at working with incomplete or vague requirements, finding bugs in code or design, data analysis, optimizing slow running code or sqls.

A few negative working with me are:

1. I will not be available during the business hours (8AM-6PM US/Central). Not even by email. Also I cannot guarantee a fixed schedule.

2. I probably won't be a good fit for non-technical founders or managers.

Keywords: PHP, Mysql, Zend Framework, Laravel, CodeIgniter, Linux, Java.

If you are interested, please check following link for more info: http://amerkhalid.com/freelancing/

SEEKING WORK - Silicon Valley or Remote

Prgmr.com is a small company that primarily rents virtual private servers[1] We owe our customers upgrades, thus... we really need quite a lot of ram. Around five terabytes of reg. ecc ddr3, to be exact. And some servers and hard drives, too, of course.

I think the quickest way to obtain the aformentioned capital goods is to rent myself out as a sysadmin.

I'm valuing myself at no less than $100/hr, but I'm okay with flat-rate jobs, too. Hell, for a monthly retainer, I'll put your site on my pager. For a larger monthly retainer, I'll make a live copy of your site and host it on my hardware.

Me? I have more than a decade of systems administration experience. I wrote a book about xen[2] Most of my experience is with Linux, but I also have many years of FreeBSD. (now, a lot of that was FreeBSD 4, 5, and 6, but hey, I was using VIMAGE/Jails back in the freebsd 4 days; a lot of this stuff is still relevant.)

I'm an especially good choice if you want to own your own hardware; I've got lots of experience dealing with a lot of physical servers. I have seen... about every problem with pxe that can occur. My networking skills are also pretty okay; I can handle most reasonable BGP configurations.

Prgmr.com has 3 full-time employees, counting myself, and a handful of contractors. Most of them are remote. If you need their skillsets, we can talk about that, too, but I'm primarily looking to rent myself out.

In a perfect world, work would slowly ramp-up over a month or so, and I'd have a good 30 hours a week starting next month, for the next half year or so, But, I'm flexible. I just need my ram.

[1]http://prgmr.com/xen

[2]http://nostarch.com/xen.htm

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