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Jantehon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2014)

SEEKING WORK - REMOTE (based in The Netherlands)

Hi! I'm looking to get into the freelancing game. I'm currently employed so I'm looking for a part time gig (one day a week max) to test the waters. I've been developing since my teens, but always on the side. I now feel I'm ready to combine my product and development skills to build awesome stuff for others.

I like building tools that make people's (working) life easier. Building tools and small web apps to support people in their daily work is what I've been doing for the last couple of years, next to my work as a Product Manager. I think work like this suits my limited availability perfectly.

I build using 'full stack' Rails, started on Rails 2.3 in 2009 and have been a fan since.

You can contact me at janteh@gmail.com. I'm holding back a bit on giving out personal information here due to my ongoing employment, but can give you all my info in private.

Jantehon Quick tip for developers who use OS X

You can also use shift-option-cmd-v to directly paste without markup :)

Jantehon We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals

Too bad there are many 'remote but inside the US' jobs posted. Anyone got a clue why that is?

Jantehon Show HN: Run iOS apps in the browser

That should be their headline, I didn't get what they are doing the first time I saw the page earlier today.

Jantehon Here's the simple rule you need to know when using a foreign ATM

The same is true for credit cards I guess, I have a Dutch cc and my bank always give me a better rate than for example PayPal.

Jantehon Planning to hack over the holidays? Heroku & Indextank Search contest

This Contest is open to software developers who are 18 years of age or older at the time of entry and who are legal residents of the United States.

Why only the US, really?

Jantehon Zencoder joins the Heroku Add-on catalog

All their add-ons are based on either open source or third party solutions. You can keep using the open source solutions by simply installing them yourself and the third party solutions all have API's or even gems to work with.

Jantehon ⌘Q is too damn close to ⌘W

Chrome actually reopens all tabs for you if you use the command after restarting chrome. I don't like the author's solution because I use cmd 1-9 for navigating between tabs.

Jantehon ASk HN: Do you set life goals, 3/5 year plans?

-John Lennon

One of my favorite quotes, btw.

Jantehon Ask HN: 300 employees, what is Twitter doing with them all?

They have, for example, one person working full-time with relatives of deceased people.

Jantehon How To Use SSL To Secure Your Rails App Against e.g. FireSheep

Wow, I use one before_filter on my Heroku hosted app. Am I doing something wrong here, or is this just Heroku's awesomeness?

  def redirect_to_ssl
    redirect_to :protocol => "https://" unless (request.ssl? or request.local?)
  end

Jantehon In a Digital Age, Students Still Cling to Paper Textbooks

None of my textbooks have digital versions available. I would switch if I could.

Jantehon Why doesn’t Google have a hedge fund?

Google does have a banking license in The Netherlands, I was looking into this yesterday, but there is not much information available, I guess they are not using it. I still wonder why they got it though.

Jantehon 2010 Physics Nobel Prize (Graphene)

He also chose his hamster as co-author for one of his articles:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0921-4526(00)00753-5

Jantehon Google Reader reader? Would you find this service useful?

I've been looking for something like this. Often I read posts through either HN or someone's Twitter, while I'm also subscribed to the RSS feed. To have them automatically marked as read would be awesome.

Jantehon ASk HN: How would you make $25,000 if you had $25,000?

Buy tickets for popular sport/music events, sell for double the money when the venue is sold out. Repeat.

Not that I agree with this kind of business from an ethics point of view, but it's easy money.

Jantehon Medvedev (Russia President) now in Twitter

Anyone has more information on why he visited the Twitter office?

Jantehon iOS 4 Update Now Avaliable

So the version number is 8A293?

edit: Oops, easy to confirm via the URL. It is 8A293 indeed.

Jantehon I am now homeless - living on Airbnb for months

That's one of the best places to be at in Amsterdam. Enjoy your stay in this beautiful country :).

Jantehon Being Present: You have ten to twelve years to connect with your kids

But get a great co-founder first!

Jantehon Recovered: Thomas Edison’s Voice, frozen in time for more than 80 years

http://www.timesunion.com/multimedia/video/TUvideo.asp?title....

Jantehon Droid Incredible saves browser screenshots to secret hiding place

This goes for any electronic device that stores data. Even then it can be hard to completely erase your data, as recovery tools are always available.

Jantehon 1's and 0's

Here's the link to the story about the women's bathroom, for people who are also interested: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Stalled-Server-Room.aspx

Jantehon The Evolution of the World Cup Ball

Love the '70 and '74 ball, also the evolution from '66 to '70 seems huge.

Jantehon Ask HN:Hackers News meeting Netherlands?

Some people tried to get together somewhere at the beginning of the year. Don't know if this went through though. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=998352.

Jantehon Scribd in HTML

Press 'regular site' and select the presentation in the upper right corner.

Jantehon Scribd in HTML

Tried it on my iPhone, only the first three frames show some text (no images) and the rest of the sheets are blank. I believe it is the future though, anyone with an iPad who can try this out?

Jantehon Ask HN: What SaaS apps have a great UI ?

http://wufoo.com/ is beautifully designed, really useful UI and great work with all the colors.

Jantehon Y Combinator presents 26 new startups

I suspect that in times of crisis people tend to play it safe and start more 'simple' companies, with safer business models, instead of swinging for the fences with experimental ideas that have no clear future or business model.

Still, there are some very interesting companies in this batch that are not particularly sexy but might have great potential.

Jantehon Well-placed Pixels - a visual record of beautiful software

Almost all applications are either for the iPhone or for the Mac. I also notice and appreciate the sophistication of a lot of these kind of programs. I still enjoy Tweetie's awesome iPhone UI every day I use it.