Why you should work with me:
- I keep up with most of the latest framework updates, was in SF for WWDC/altConf this year. (Although prefer not to work in Swift for now, personal projects only)
- I stay current with design trends and industry news. Core Intuition, DF, objc.io, all that good stuff. I know my shxt.
- Clear English communication. No worries about whether your point got across or not. This is crucial in remote work settings, I think.
We'd work together with great results if you're pretty clear what it is you want done and what the scope of the project is. Handwavey functionality requirements are hard to implement right in the best situations, in remote work it will probably result in surprises and hurt feelings on both sides. Small/medium projects where the goal is clearly defined tend to work best.
Rate: 300 USD/day (straightforward projects using established frameworks). Yes, it's relatively low, but decent for living in Taipei. I don't expect it to stay that way forever, though. I track time in half-day increments.
This. If you can sing along to a song, you can definitely figure out tones. It might take some associating each word with a tiny little snippet of music, but that is essentially what it is.
Re: figuring out whether your tones or speech is correct, try talking to Siri or Google voice search. I tried my French on the French Siri and it was humbling.
> This. If you can sing along to a song, you can definitely figure out tones.
I think you understate the difficulty of recognizing and reproducing tones. Quite a few people can't carry a tune to save their life. Even among the majority who passably can, doing so extremely well - aka having "perfect pitch" - is recognized as a rarity.
First of all, that's not what perfect pitch is -- it is rare, but it has absolutely nothing to do with how well you can carry a tune.
But secondly, if the entire population of China can do it, then statistically, you're almost guaranteed to be able to do it too. And the tones in Chinese are really very, very simple. They're no different from the way you end a question with your voice moving upwards, or the recognizable "valley girl" pattern. It's the same idea, just applied to single words instead of whole sentences.
I live and grew up in Taiwan. Zhuyin is a learning tool taught to all schoolchildren to teach pronunciation. It also happens to be a computer input method because everyone knows it, and the alphabet fits onto a computer keyboard. No adult regularly uses Zhuyin otherwise.
I've recently switched to using Pinyin for computer input because Zhuyin has a larger alphabet compared to Pinyin, and the Zhuyin keyboard on iOS has smaller keys to fit more characters in the same space, making it much harder to type with. The Pinyin keyboard is essentially an English keyboard that spits out Chinese.
Hi, iOS developer for 3+ years here, before that I was writing satellite software and firmware in C/C++ for Taiwan's space agency.
I have a couple of personal apps in the app store; the most recent one scratches a personal itch: it uses facial recognition to help you tie a tie in the easiest way possible. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/face-tie/id570542131
I was iOS team lead for one of the major navigation apps in Taiwan, and have since created medium sized apps (over two dozen viewcontrollers) for multiple clients. I also have experience with Python, HTML/CSS, javascript, git/svn. I love working with people who are dedicated to designing the best user experience possible.
You can find me at ray.tsaihong at gmail if interested in discussing work opportunities. Thanks!
Glenn Fleishman's latest The New Disruptors podcast episode interviews a guy who did just that. Should be very relevant to what you are looking for. http://www.muleradio.net/newdisruptors/31/
Unfortunately we're not going to generate very much juice. Assuming perfect conversion and assuming that the average person burns 100 calories per hour, we're only talking about .12 watts.
It's actually about 120 watts (a food calorie is actually a kCal), but those 100 calories are being spent through a lot more than your legs. Humans burn over 1000 calories per day just by living, so the additional amount that you're burning from walking is only a fraction of that 100 calories that get burned in the hour (assuming 2 MPH). Some of that fraction of effort is directed downward while some other fraction pushes back against the belt and moves it backwards, and then of course to your point the efficiency of capture is never 100%. The law of conservation of energy also tells us that adding a motor to capture output will add resistance to the belt, requiring you to expend more effort to walk the same distance. This is because you don't exert force against a motor in place of the ground/belt, but rather in addition to it.
I think that's a bit low. According to WA 100kcal are ~120 watt hours. The real problem is of course that us programmers hang around in chairs all day and probably need about 75kcal. Slow walking may increase that by (generous) 50kcal, of which say 75% are lost via body heat etc.
"When you're on a mobile device, you don't have time to go search the web for an app that does a certain function that you happen to require. You want a central place that will list all of the apps that are compatible with your phone"
It seems we really need a curated site for mobile apps like the Yahoo of old for websites. Essentially, a more functional app store than the app store. Thoughtful reviews on par with those you see on Amazon. Algorithms equivalent to PageRank don't seem to apply to this space, so perhaps human experts like those seen on about.com might work.
Chrome also has their web store. The major bridge is there needs to be a standard interface for web apps, in addition to some standard way to use them offline. Since most local storage limits itself to 5MB max, you don't really have the offline storage you need to run a game, for example.
Hi, my name is Ray. http://about.me/rmundo
I've been developing iOS apps for the past four years: - Previously wrote satellite flight software for the Taiwanese space agency, jumped into mobile apps and haven't looked back since. - Was iOS lead for one of the top navigation apps in Taiwan: https://itunes.apple.com/tw/app/le-ke-dao-hang-wangn3-pro/id... - Did almost all of the development work for a local EV charge station info app: https://itunes.apple.com/tw/app/yes-chong-dian-zan/id6311870... - Also scratched a few itches of my own: https://itunes.apple.com/app/face-tie/id570542131?mt=8 - There are also others which I'm not at liberty to disclose. - Also have done work in Ruby (Rails, Sinatra), Python, HTML/CSS, but prefer iOS work for now.
Why you should work with me: - I keep up with most of the latest framework updates, was in SF for WWDC/altConf this year. (Although prefer not to work in Swift for now, personal projects only) - I stay current with design trends and industry news. Core Intuition, DF, objc.io, all that good stuff. I know my shxt. - Clear English communication. No worries about whether your point got across or not. This is crucial in remote work settings, I think.
We'd work together with great results if you're pretty clear what it is you want done and what the scope of the project is. Handwavey functionality requirements are hard to implement right in the best situations, in remote work it will probably result in surprises and hurt feelings on both sides. Small/medium projects where the goal is clearly defined tend to work best.
Rate: 300 USD/day (straightforward projects using established frameworks). Yes, it's relatively low, but decent for living in Taipei. I don't expect it to stay that way forever, though. I track time in half-day increments.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raytsaihong Twitter: @rmundo Contact: ray.tsaihong@gmail.com