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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2012)

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Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2012)

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Post by waseemsadiq »

SEEKING FREELANCER for Fileboard. We need a hardcore ios/objective-c developer to help out with turning the iPad (and other tablets) into a device that you can actually work on. waseem at fileboard dot com. Remote work is not only a possibility, but a preference :-)

Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2012)

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Post by jamii »

SEEKING WORK - London or remote.

I'm interested in distributed systems and big data. Some of the things I've been doing recently: testing multiple currency support at a betting exchange, building analytics widgets backed by a disco cluster for a large online publisher, working on an implementation of the telehash protocol.

I've also worked in search [1,2], distributed systems [3], testing [4,5] and p2p systems [6,7,8]. I have a strong background in math (real analysis, probability, discrete maths) and computer science (randomized algorithms, AI / epistemic logic, machine learning). I've worked professionally with python, ocaml and erlang. I would also like to pick up clojure.

Resume - http://scattered-thoughts.net/all?tag=about

Blog - http://scattered-thoughts.net/

Github - https://github.com/jamii

References - http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=65525388#recommendat...

[1] http://scattered-thoughts.net/one/1291/799313/731344

[2] https://github.com/jamii/texsearch

[3] http://scattered-thoughts.net/one/1300/292121/72985

[4] http://scattered-thoughts.net/one/1280/511009/453845

[5] https://github.com/jamii/ocamlcheck

[6] https://github.com/jamii/dissertation

[7] http://scattered-thoughts.net/all?order=asc&tag=telehash...

[8] https://github.com/jamii/erl-telehash

Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2012)

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Post by almost »

pace wrote: post #5

I'd recommend freelancer.com/odesk/elance or any other dedicated market place. Freelancer.com i.e. allows very focussed searches via projects, you can specify the skills, timeline and all requirements and usually you get tons of very qualified bids in less than 24-48h.

Yes, but I'd far rather work with/for someone I met through Hacker News (probably, in general, I did actually find a great guy through oDesk). I've found some great work through these HN posts before.

Definitely for seeking work those sites do tend to be mostly a race to the bottom, you wouldn't believe the silly small amounts some people bid for projects (and how often they get chosen based on that).

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