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Comment · 11 years ago
Freelancing Deal: I'll do your Android project at USD 3500 a month.

I had a project pipelined, which suddenly got cancelled (postponed without a new date) and I have a void to fill. I had put an Ad in the July Seeking Freelancer - for an Android project offer. I accepted a pretty large and complicated Android project, which required me to clone an App and has given me pretty good experience on Android.

This would be my second Android project; but I have used Networking, Sqlite, Broadcast Receivers, Services, used the Drawing api to create a custom widget, and MP Android Charts in the last one.

I can also work in Ruby on Rails, JS/HTML/CSS and Angular (although people should be phasing that out by now).

Prior to this I've developed large apps in C++ and ASP.Net. I tried to do a startup Creating survey programming tool and a Cross Tab engine in C++/yacc so I have pretty good programming experience overall.

Email: [email protected]

Comment · 11 years ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote & Mumbai, India.

We are a team of 2 developers and looking to build a portfolio of mobile apps on Android and IOS. Although we are relatively new to mobile app development we are experienced developers on (node.js, express/sails js), (C++, yacc, flex), Frontend Programming using angular js. Since we are looking to build a portfolio, we will do your Android or IOS app at a fixed price of USD 2000 (per platform) for a reasonably sized app. You will get a native app - Swift or Obj-C on IOS and of course, Java on Android (using fragments).

We are also comfortable with Backend development using node.js - so we will have no trouble doing any backend api integration in either IOS or Android.

Since "Reasonable Sized App" seems a little vague, it should be something you think can be finished in 15 days to a month. We will evaluate the app and confirm this to you. Ideally, this should be an app you do not have a hard deadline on and it would be good if you have design specs.

We are looking to take 1 or 2 projects at this price.

Email: [email protected]

Comment · 11 years ago
I could answer you with reasons. But in the 1980s, one would also ask - why should we enable a household to own a mainframe. But look at what we do with computers today. You could have a really smart kernel hacker/programmer running his own amazon like business. Not based out of the US and not susceptible to NSA snooping - (but his own country's intelligence agency could snoop - that's another matter altogether)
Comment · 11 years ago
I was thinking of how the Intel cpu brought the computer into the normal household. What could bring Amazon into the household of a normal person today? What if someone decided to create a server mobile unit - no screen, no cameras, no sensors. Just a unit that can be plugged into a specially designed rack in your house/apartment.

This is a futuristic idea - think of the 80s and the 8086 has just come out, but one day you're going to challenge the mainframes. How do we make a household capable of being an Amazon

Comment · 11 years ago
I thought this would be pointed out. Yes, one could knock out the battery, screen and sensors. Maybe even android - and just leave the bare linux in there. You would probably reach a raspberry pi as the sibling comment has pointed out.
Comment · 11 years ago
Yes. I do mean that. What struck me from the talk was the cpu in the iphone 6 was about 25x more powerful than the pentium 100 in 1995.
Comment · 11 years ago
I find it hard to believe, in this version and the official version that Osama was killed and not taken alive. If I was Obama or director of CIA, I would have asked the boys to bring him in alive.
Comment · 11 years ago
Professional Javascript for Web Developers by Nicholas Zakas. This treats Javascript as a first class software engineering language.
Comment · 11 years ago
I've found a dealer who has a late-2012 mac mini display piece. This particular machine can be upgraded to 16Gb. Im probably going to go with this config.
Comment · 11 years ago
That's why I thought of 16Gb Ram. I'm thinking, The whole of XCode and the compiler and my program source would be in the buffer cache. So after the initial loading from disk, the dev experience would be quite smooth (that's the guess I'm making).
Comment · 11 years ago
Yes. I just saw that. I cant reply to your comment directly as there is no reply button below your comment (probably nested too deep). stackexchange might be a good place to check. I think the 2012 mac mini was eating into their higher end machine sales and crippling the 2014 mac mini is move on their part to counter this.
Comment · 11 years ago
If you read the tech specs as below, http://www.apple.com/mac-mini/specs/

In the memory section, it says it's upgradeable.

And I think this is a link from Apple's own instructions on how to do the upgrade.

https://support.apple.com/en-is/HT4432

Comment · 11 years ago
What you seem to suggest is that there is no need to even upgrade the RAM.

I could check how well it works for a while before spending the extra on the RAM.

Thanks.

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