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kennedysgarage

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A naively-optimistic entrepreneur.
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kennedysgarage··on [dead]
Here is the torrent: http://thepiratebay.la/torrent/12247171
kennedysgarage··on Fashionable Startup Swag
Thanks a lot, really appreciate that.
kennedysgarage··on Build Your Own Lockitron With Twilio, Arduino, and Node.js
This is incredible. I am always amazed by what you can hack together with Twilio.
kennedysgarage··on Show HN: Kenvak, representation for freelance web professionals
That is very interesting. I would love to know more about how this works in the UK. Do you have any agents that you have worked with in the past that I can check out to have a better understanding.
kennedysgarage··on Show HN: Kenvak, representation for freelance web professionals
My name is Kennedy and I am represented by Kenvak. I wouldn't say it's scary and I actually handle the business side of things quite well. I have found that the non-billable hours dealing with client is a waste of time and it's nice to have someone take care of all the business things so I can focus on being creative.
kennedysgarage··on Show HN: Kenvak, representation for freelance web professionals
My name is Kennedy and I am represented by Kenvak. I am not the biggest fan of recruiters. A recruiter is hired and paid by a company to find people to fill that role. My rep Brian is paid by me and he works for me.
kennedysgarage··on Show HN: Kenvak, representation for freelance web professionals
Thinking about I am pretty sure that it is an escrow. I haven't had to worry about collecting payments from a client in a while. I look at it more as a safety net for both me and the clients. Brian helps establish goals and milestones to make sure everyone is on the same page at all times. This helps to ensure no one feels cheated.
kennedysgarage··on Show HN: Kenvak, representation for freelance web professionals
They take 10% of the project.
kennedysgarage··on Show HN: Kenvak, representation for freelance web professionals
My name is Kennedy and I am represented by Kenvek I would love to help answer any questions.

1. They take 10%. Which makes sense to me as my rates and time varies from project to project.

2. Brian, the main man behind it, who represents me is only taking on 10 full time freelancers at this time. He wants to start small and is in no rush take on a bunch of people. This way he can focus on the best people. The vetting process right is strong referrals

3. This is something that I had concerns with as well. Like anything else he is trying new things as he goes. The current process is to hold the money from the clients in the bank account for the sanity of both client and freelancer. For me collecting payments has always been a pain with a lazy client.

edit: formatting

kennedysgarage··on The Original Hacker's Dictionary (1988)
Always interested to see what domains are available in any old dictionary. I didn't see anything that I cared for, have at it:

chinenual.com

connectorconspiracy.com

doprotocol.com

fenceposterror.com

glasstty.com

hardwarily.com

linestarve.com

munchingsquares.com

pessimizingcompiler.com

realworldthe.com

rightthingthe.com

shiftleftrightlogical.com

smokingclover.com

softwarerot.com

waterbottlesoccer.com

yu-shiangwholefish.com

kennedysgarage··on Time is more valuable then money
Every time!
kennedysgarage··on Status Chart: Your Professional Dashboard
Thanks so much for the feedback!

- I was not trying to imply that someone has a higher social status. Just that I personally have gained so much from conferences, in the terms of knowledge. I have also gained equal amounts of knowledge from just watching videos online for the once I could not make it to.

- I do agree that there is a lot of items. I have just implemented the original filtering system first as that seemed to work. We are working on other way to showcase the items you have, because we know not all profiles will be the same.

- I love this idea, maybe we users could mark items as highlights.

- Right now we are only have those categories. Something that I am trying to take care of first and deciding a better way of doing this.

Thanks so much for your feedback. I really appreciate it!

kennedysgarage··on Status Chart: Your Professional Dashboard
Cool. Yeah, I was pretty surprised to find this domain. I literally thought of the name and saw the domain & twitter was all available in 5 minutes after deciding to put up a landing page.
kennedysgarage··on Status Chart: Your Professional Dashboard
Yeah, I need to put up more info up on the landing page.

Here is my profile on Status Chart: https://www.statuschart.com/kennedysgarage

Two weeks ago I was not happy with my traditional résumé and decided to take a closer look it. I noticed that my career path did not fit on the typical one page one often has. I decided the solution would be to keep my résumé a traditional résumé and create something to enhance it.

I created Status Chart to list out all of my projects, hackathons, events, and so on. I fell that these items are what really make me who I am, not necessary the "jobs" I have had, although important.

kennedysgarage··on Status Chart: Your Professional Dashboard
Jessica Roy from BetaBeat wrote about it this morning, she helps explains things a little better http://betabeat.com/2012/09/status-chart-the-resume-porn-for...

I will update the site in a bit with some copy, I forgot to add that :/

kennedysgarage··on Status Chart: Your Professional Dashboard
I appreciate it, thanks for catching that :)
kennedysgarage··on Status Chart: Your Professional Dashboard
This is something we are working on. We had it responsive, but it didn't flow right. We want to spend just a bit more time getting it right.
kennedysgarage··on Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard
This was the main idea behind creating it for myself. I glad that it came across this way.
kennedysgarage··on Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard
I love the way you put this question. But I don't know how good it would be to change the survey right now.
kennedysgarage··on Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard
That is how I am currently using it (http://kennedysgarage.com/status). I just wanted see if there were other uses for it. I think keeping it basic and to the original point might work the best. I do agree with you that we don't just need another Linkedin.
kennedysgarage··on Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard
That is some great insite. I never really thought about that angle. I will have to look more into that type of payment. Thanks for the help!
kennedysgarage··on Show HN: VA kids love drinking, hate paying. Step 1. Thoughts?
Made this for Gainesville, FL back in 2008 http://www.nightgator.com/
kennedysgarage··on The New Twitter Logo in CSS
Old and new logo overlaid on top of each other: http://dribbble.com/shots/592612-New-Twitter-Logo
kennedysgarage··on Twitter has a new logo
You can see a quick overlay I made here http://dribbble.com/shots/592612-New-Twitter-Logo
kennedysgarage··on Twitter has a new logo
The main differences that I can see is that there is a new color, the hair is removed and the the wing is sharper.
kennedysgarage··on Launched my side project: Grade Spotter
Thanks for the feedback, I think I have fixed that intro paragraph.
kennedysgarage··on Launched my side project: Grade Spotter
Thanks for the screenshot! It should be all fixed now.
kennedysgarage··on Launched my side project: Grade Spotter
We have talked about expanding. Our first thought was we would just build this simple app, then we found out that other cities have some sort of a grading systems. So if all works well for NYC, then I see no reason to not expand.
kennedysgarage··on Launched my side project: Grade Spotter
Thanks for the input, I have changed the headline.
kennedysgarage··on How to win a hackathon
I was also on the StartupBus last year and it was the best hackathon I have ever done. I did not take my first nap until 52 hours into it. Had a blast, met a lot of great people, and gained a lot of press http://kennedysgarage.com/projects/lemonade-stand