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.
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.
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
How do we make a household capable of being an Amazon
Put a sysadmin in every household. Personal servers have been a thing in geek houses for decades.
We're starting to get more domestic computer appliances: PVRs, consoles, home NAS gizmos, increasingly smart routers. Nest. Smart lightbulbs. However, because very few people have the skill, time, and inclination to manage these things, they're subject to the management of their OEM. Who will do the profit-maximising thing.
I suspect we'll see a new service industry spring up to provide installation and support of exactly these types of offerings. It's subtle already out there, I'm just unaware.
"Services" are wrappers around "solutions" which are wrappers around a collection of products. People generally don't want to learn to install 10 different products, or even 3 different solutions. They want one service provider, and they're happy to pay a premium for that.
I don't mean to shit on your idea, and I do find it interesting. :-) I'm curious how a household might benefit from having its own server farm. I guess decentralization could be one benefit. Can you think of others?
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)
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.
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.
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.
I'd get 8GB, I do have trouble now and then with the 4GB, but only because of the VM (I have to reboot), 8GB will give you a longer lifetime I think (I didn't think you could upgrade the RAM in the mini's any more).
Mac mini (Late 2014)
Mac mini (Late 2014) does not have user-installable RAM. You can configure the memory in your Mac mini (Late 2014) when you purchase it.
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.
oh, I just had a look and the base model doesn't have an SSD - I'd really not consider developing without an SSD any more. It will work but compile times are slower, how much I couldn't say. But then I've developed for years without an SSD before that so...
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).
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.
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