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I already do charge around $100 an hour. But I don't preface it with Colin's ass-backwards line: "I'm very good and very expensive. You probably can't afford me" [redacted] ( http://i.imgur.com/lyTtxVf.png http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps... )
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Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2014)
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe he's very good? I have no idea who Colin is, but surely it's up to him what he charges. If it's too much then nobody will hire him. What's the problem?
The problem is that he edited his post after I posted my comment in order to conceal his pompous attitude that is ruining San Francisco and other great cities. http://i.imgur.com/lyTtxVf.png http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps... "I'm very good and very expensive. You probably can't afford me" Well if the tech industry can't afford you, then you might want to become a lawyer, buddy. We don't…
Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2014)
#63PROJECT: Design and build a minimal, clean, static site for a software developer (namely, me!). You'll author SASS and a small number of HAML templates that serve as the foundation for the personal site, then use Middleman [0] to actually generate the site along with their blogging extension [1].
[1] http://middlemanapp.com/basics/blogging/
MOTIVATION: I've been giving a lot of talks lately, and I know my co-founder would appreciate it if I spent some time on making my web presence a little more legitimate -- right now, I don't have a public site that I blog about or do anything interesting with, and I'd like to change that.
I'd love to do this myself, but I know that if I try I won't be able to stop myself from going down the rabbit hole of writing my own blog engine first, and that's not going to be good for my sanity. Better to outsource this to someone smart!
SKILLS: If you're interested, you should...
-- Have a good eye for minimalism, clean lines, and a focus on content
-- Know how to write well-structured SASS (and know your way around Compass to avoid reinventing wheels), and how to write organized HAML
-- Able to write some minimal Ruby (enough to wire the Middleman glue together with YAML and some configuration blocks)
-- Understand how to write a readable, understandable git commit
-- Be able to communicate in written English at a reasonable level (if you can read HN, you're probably good!)
My e-mail address and more about me is in my profile. Get in touch with any questions, or ask them here and I'll try to get back to you.
Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2014)
#64Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2014)
#65More info: http://evenchick.com
Email: eric@evenchick.com
Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2014)
#66I'm a full stack Ruby/Rails developer. I started working with Rails in 2006, and I've been writing software for over a decade. Outside of Rails, I've been working with Python at my day-job for the last six months. I am finishing a Master's with a Finance concentration now, and I have a BS in CS, in case you might be interested in someone with some specialized knowledge.
I am particularly interested in working with startups, working on data issues (I process data for a site with > 100M Uniques at my day job), or working on anything marketing-related. I've got a lot of experience running A/B tests and offsite marketing.
Email: justin@bulletprooftiger.com https://github.com/jcnnghm
Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2014)
#67Hi all! I know that this post won't give me a job, but I have already one (at least for the next 3 months), but I just wanted to say that my tremendous skills in JAVASCRIPT/HTML5/CSS3/ANGULAR/C#/NODE/UNIX/etc... are nothing compared to the joy I bring to the teams where I am and also that I'm building the next Facebook-killer and so if you want to work with the next Zukerberg (I would rather be the next Page because at least, he was a good coder), feel free to hire me! Check more at http://marques.io
Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2014)
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FYI, Colin charges $175/hr. I have no idea how anyone has the gonads to charge that rate for Rails work. I'd love to see some discussion around the age-old sales-man technique of "It's too expensive, you probably can't afford it anyways [scoffing]"
Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2014)
#69If you're an avid DuckDuckGo user who is excited about what we're trying to accomplish, then check out our hiring page at https://dukgo.com/help/en_US/company/hiring
Right now we're in need of some freelancing help in two areas: 1) devops (using Chef); 2) backend (using Perl).
Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2014)
#70Node.js web developer + Android programmer Keywords - Node.js, Java, Android
I do end to end development in Java and Javascript (jQuery, EJS, express.js, MongoDB). I have a strong track record in developing analytics applications involving web scraping, charting, reporting and BI.
I also do native Android apps as well, for a demo of some the code I've written you can check this - https://github.com/divyad . However, most of the code I've written is for proprietary projects. There is another Android game in the pipeline.
Please contact backoder@gmail.com if you have any requirements; I can start immediately.