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adambourgon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (July 2011)

SEEKING WORK (REMOTE, Denver/Fort Collins, CO USA)

Wordpress / jQuery / HTML / CSS / C# / Java / Coldfusion / PHP / SQL

My portfolio: http://www.adambourg.com/ -- contact info on web

# 303 835 3579

adambourgon Dropbox Founder on New Features and Global Expansion

... Use Google docs.

adambourgon ASK HK: Review my startup: NextCoast, a total web CMS.

You can go to sign up, and get your own site to play with for free.

adambourgon Study: College Students Not Learning Much

These people are idiots. 2300 college students interviewed... Think about that for 1 minute. That's a sample of less then 10% the size of my university. There are hundreds or even thousands of schools with over 10,000 students.

Where has this sample been taken? What colleges? How diverse was the population? Socio-economic statuses? These are all big concerns I have with this statistic. Also, what are they measuring? English? Maths? Sciences?

With all the high school emphasis on getting into college, I would not expect a serious improvement in the maths and English. If it's looking at general stuff, then yes, I would not expect a substantial shift, if we're talking about fields and careers then this is shocking data.

Given all that. I am a college junior, I have learned so much about math (calculus), science, computer science and how to solve problems. More so then I ever could have dreamed. College has opened me up to many new learning opportunities.

While the fault could be at the college, more then likely; however, it's on the student, not the school.

adambourgon Hello HN: I am quitting school for freelance, here's my portfolio

Ditto on the mouse over, it's very annoying!

adambourgon VMware to virtualize Android smartphones for business users

... This is totally stupid.

Issues; 1) Battery life 2) Heavy CPU/Memory Usage 3) Decreased device life (due to heavy usage) 4) Potential of overheating -- heavy usage combined with no fans 5) Most smart phones don't support it 6) Most phones have small storage capacity 7) Who wants their company running all their stuff on their phone then having to switch to a different VM to use your phone?

Companies stop being cheap and just give the staff that need it a phone with remote wipe just encase. Problem solved.

adambourgon OpenSSH not happy about lack of financial support from vendors

As much as I love Opensource, projects need to see the writing on the wall. Companies WILL profit off of your "free" project, you have two options.

1) Accept it and live with it or 2) Change your licensing. Eg, if used to beyond personal use x y fee will be incurred for usage of the software. Free for personal, small business & non-profit but everyone else you better pay up.