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Comment · 5 years ago
This site will calculate your take home pay after tax in many European capitals: https://freelance.tax
Comment · 6 years ago
I can't speak for the Librem 5, but I have the latest PinePhone Community Edition with PostmarketOS. It works out of the box for most things, including calls. The cameras and HDMI output aren't working right now, but fixes are coming soon for these issues (like next week).
Firefox works well with several tabs open. There are UI issues, but this is to be expected since practically no Linux desktop apps are designed for small screens. However, it's perfectly capable of running a responsive web app or two.
Comment · 8 years ago
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SEEKING WORK - Remote, Travel OK
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13+ years as CTO, Tech Strategist, and Senior Developer, building Platforms & Marketplaces.
If you are a Platform or Marketplace founder, I can:
- Build effective platform tools that enhance your user's transactions, and nudge them towards transacting more often.
- Help you collect the right data, and leverage it to match up producers and consumers, so they can transact effectively.
- Show you how to attract users to your platform, and help you solve the platform "chicken and the egg" problem.
- I'm writing a book on *Platform Growth Strategies*, coming out soon.
- I am language and technology-agnostic; I'll use whatever technology is most suited to solving my clients' problems. I've used a lot of tech in the last 13 years.
- I'm originally from Canada, but I've worked with clients all over the world: San Francisco, Austin, Seattle, Vancouver, Toronto, London, Berlin, Copenhagen, Hong Kong, Taipei, and more.
Github: https://github.com/mattfran
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattfrancois
Comment · 9 years ago
There are some cryptocurrencies which are actually technologically novel. Unfortunately, they don't usually do a great job of marketing themselves, since their teams are more interested in building the technology than in making big bucks from ICOs or speculators.
For example, there is Monero and other "privacy" coins, which promise private and untraceable transactions. They are usually based on ring signatures.
Or IOTA which promises to scale to thousands of transactions per second, and is based on a Directed Acyclic Graph instead of a blockchain. The more devices or people who use it to make transactions, the faster it gets. Scalability is something Bitcoin is struggling with right now.
Comment · 10 years ago
I built a very simple Doctor Who inspired WebGL game a while back. If I had known how simple this effect was I'd have included it! The (terrible) code is on GitHub if anybody wants to remix it: https://github.com/mattfran/developer-who
Comment · 11 years ago
SEEKING WORK - REMOTE (based in Berlin, originally from Canada)
Over the last 9 years, I've helped innovative startups and businesses with all their web development needs. I am a full-stack Ruby & Javascript developer, providing a complete range of services, including project planning, front-end & back-end development, design/UX, and infrastructure setup. Writing rock-solid, reliable code that achieves your business goals is my priority.
Please see my portfolio for some examples of my previous work: http://mattfrancois.com
Some technologies I use regularly: Ruby on Rails, AngularJS, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, ES6, jQuery, SASS, LESS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Nginx, Unicorn, Chef, Rspec, Capybara, Jasmine, Pub/Sub, Git, Linux, Bootstrap, and tons more. I follow proper object-oriented design principles (SOLID, DRY) and an Agile Test Driven Development workflow.
Comment · 11 years ago
I made this just for fun. I thought I'd post it since the new season of Doctor Who is upon us.
Comment · 11 years ago
This could be pretty huge. I've dealt with several freight forwarding companies while building a previous startup of mine and it definitely struck me as an antiquated industry (this was 2007ish). Maybe a good benchmark for "disruptable" industries is that you have to actually make a telephone call to get something done. Time to get out the yellow pages and do some research!
Comment · 11 years ago
When I was a young child, my local pool allowed kids to play on large floating foam rafts (like this, but half the length: http://goo.gl/7Y4HbU). One day I decided to show off my underwater swimming skills to a girl I fancied. After a long swim underwater, I exhausted my breath and came to resurface for air, only to get caught under a stacked pile of 5 of these rafts, with kids standing on top like in that photo! I panicked and didn't know what was going on. I don't remember what happened next, but I am told my father was watching me closely and jumped into the pool, pushed the mats off of me (thus throwing like 4 kids off the rafts into the water) and saved me.
Parents were angry at him for throwing their kids into the water. None of them even realized I had almost died. Not that I blame them though, it would probably look pretty funny to see a grown man knock 4 kids off some mats into the pool haha.
Comment · 11 years ago
Right now the About button just shows the same Hostel Hawk popup from when the site loads; clicking it while it's already displayed does nothing. But I'll add more info about the site soon and fix that.
Basically you can explore the map and see what cities are most popular with travelers right now. You can zoom in and check out how many travelers are staying (approximately) at the tops hostels. The app also displays ratings weighed by number of reviews, so a hostel with only one review and a high rating won't outrank another one with thousands of reviews but a slightly lower rating.
My ultimate goal is to make finding popular sociable hostels super easy and ultra quick.
Comment · 11 years ago
Mine helps travelers find hostels where there are lots of other people staying (https://hostelhawk.com). It's been a side project since I started working as a digital nomad over 1.5 years ago and has helped me find sociable hostels to stay in so I never get lonely. Uses Ionic framework + Angular.js. Still very much a work in progress, so any feedback is appreciated!
Comment · 11 years ago
Creator here: I built this while travelling as a solo digital nomad for the last 1.5 years. It's been useful to me to meet other travellers, so I decided to release it to the public. I would greatly appreciate any feedback from the HN community on how to improve upon it. Thanks!
15+ years as a Consulting CTO and Senior Developer.
https://www.saastune.com https://mattfrancois.com