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I have a resource that could help someone's project: my time. I'm a novice programmer looking to gain some practical experience, and I'd be willing to work, say, 20 hours a week for free, at least for a month or two. PM me if you think I might be able to help out.
What would be your ideal subject matter to be programming?
The clearer and more detailed you answer that, the more likely you are to get it or something similar. Also perhaps information about what languages you use and/or specialties and/or link to a Linkedin page or something like that.
Thanks for making this offer!
I'm not actually sure what areas I'd most like to focus on. A big part of why I'm making this offer is to learn what's out there so I can answer that question. Currently, Java is the only language I'm familiar with, but I'd love to branch out.
Would creating a wiki for this page be the sort of thing that you'd be interested in?
Things that I think could be sped up with some a program would be to translate all of the comments over wiki format, and organizing the ideas - it would be really cool if posts for business ideas to be tagged and then organized ranked by upvotes, and updated with the upvote updates on the website.
What I'm visualizing is a page with a list of links of ideas that are ranked (people can manually title the idea summaries after the wiki is created), that links back to the LW site. I'd say that's the most important aspect and I'd love to see it done soon, although there's plenty of other organization that would be nice as well.
As cool as that would be, that's a bigger job than I'd want to accept on my own. I'd have to teach myself a whole lot of code, which would probably take more time than I could justify devoting to a one-shot project.
Do you grant random programming wishes or are you only interested in longer term stuff?
Probably. No promises, but I'll seriously consider any request.
I use Cyberduck for FTP-ing. It's open source. I want it to have a global hotkey that will upload the file I'm working on, or have selected in the Finder, to the current directory so I don't have to drag every time.
I don't know anything about programming Macs, but here are some thoughts for anyone who wants to try this:
(Another option for step #3 would be to programmatically drag-drop the active file to the Cyberduck window, but I couldn't figure out how to do that)
I'm not sure how comfortable you are working with Terminal, but this works:
curl -T MyFileToUpload.txt ftp://myusername:mypassword@ftp.myhost.com/directory/
(and can be repeated with two keystrokes: "Up, Enter")
You'll be better off learning something like AutoHotkey, which will allow you to do that and a lot more to automate your tasks, without the need to modify every program you use.
Is there anything like it for Mac? AutoHotkey says Windows.
Only what Google can find.
alternativeto.net suggests IronAHK, which apparently works on Mono and has source available.
Figuring out how to do this is now on my list of cool projects to do when I have time. I'd estimate a one in three chance I'll actually finish this one.