Be Gentle Admins(Gods) - Be slow to judge

I recently tried the site getacoder.com The site offers contractors/programmer/engineers for work-for-hire, at good rates.
Thats the good news. The bad news, is there administration is heavy
handed to say the least.

I posted a request, and having done lots of outsourcing gave as much
information as I could, even siting the a open-source reference board.

Seems like the terms of service specify that you cannot provide contact info,
which I'm perfectly fine with. But the Open Source project has contact info for there project. And within a hour of posting, my account was suspended, for violation of terms-of-service.

I've done no violation of terms of service. As my contact details were not included.

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Dear Glenn,

Your account was suspended due to the fact that you have provided contact information in a project page; Please be reminded that this is not allowed by GetACoder.

Statements like: \"For any questions, concerns, or issues submit them to gerald@BeagleBoard.org\"- Will not be tolerated.

If you wish to reactivate your account send us an email, informing that you understand our Terms of Use agreeing to abide by them at all times.

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Funny dont you think that the person knows my name is Glenn, yet she suspended my
account for a unrelated person called gerald.

I've withheld her name to protect the guilty.

Its now been more than 16 hours, account suspended, with no response.

So just to make sure.

I Am Informing Getacoder.com that I AGREE TO THE TERMS OF SERVICE, HAVE NOT, NOR WILL EVER VIOLATE THEM IN THE FUTURE.

Finally I get a response:
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Dear Glenn,

Glad to know that you are aware of the situation and plan to follow a professional conduct with GetACoder. We have reopened your account.

Feel free to contact us if you have further questions.


NOTE: If you wish to send additional information regarding this ticket, please do not create a new email. Instead, reply to this one and do not change subject line.

Sincerely,
Anna Kesel
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I really dont know about these people. The quality of responses is 4 so far, 2 of
which were proposing web designs for a hardware design, ie they dont have a clue
of what is being talked about. Waiting on the other two to "bid" and see what the price is. Since this is a hobby project, cannot be so high.

Making Polywell Magnets Using Ceramics and Liquid Metals

One of my areas of interest is fusion. Since tradition tokamak fusion devices dont seem to have a future. I tend torwards the Inertial Confinement Fusion Camp, with
Polywell based technology being the area I believe would work the best with the lowest cost.

One of the cost issues of polywell that needs to be solved from engineering point of view is the magnet design. In polywell you use a sperical array of magnets to create a virtual grid.

The magnets needless to say need to create a strong magnetic field. So for continious operation you really need cooling. Water does not work because its going to flash to steam way to easily.

The concept I had was to use EoPlex Technologies (http://www.eoplex.com/index.html) to create a ceramic layered magnetic structure combining the magnet and a integrated channel for ibm's liquid metal as well as the copper magnetic wire. The magnets mounted in the reator chanber would connect to a liquid metal circulation system, carrying the liquid metal to a large heat exchanger capable of 1600 degree's C down to 85 degree C, as stated the IBM article.

Since the liquid metal has magnetic properties we may even be able to get rid of the copper conducter and have a liquid conductor. Need a bit more research, but believe this may offer the ability to produce 100Megawatt plants without the need to have cryo cooling.

http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news5.16.08d.html
http://www.eoplex.com/index.html
http://www.talk-polywell.org/bb/index.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell

Questons Questions Questions - A meme inspired by David Mohundro

How old were you when you started programming?

15 Years old.

How did you get started in programming?

After following many articles in Byte Magazine. (Where I learned electronics
from the wondering writing of Steve Ciarcia (http://www.circellar.com/)
I saved my pennies and got me the first TRS80 PC from Radio Shack.

I did lots of small apps, like programs to teach me primary school spelling. Speach Output. Light Pen Input.

Then started doing commercial projects around 16 years old

What was your first language?
BASIC (Microsoft Basic)
Z80 Assembler

What was the first real program that you wrote?
Real Program, means I got paid for it.
First paying job was a mail-merge program for the TRS80 Word Processor
Followed by a automation system for a beer disti.


What languages have you used since you started programming?
Cobol
Fortran
RPG
C
TurboPascal
8086 Assembler
68K Assembler
8031/8051 Assembler
VB
C++
Java
Python
Ruby


If you knew what you know now, would you have started programming?
Absolutely. But I'd skip down to ruby.


What's the most fun you've ever had... programming?
Several that come to mind.
1. LightPen App for the TRS80.
2. Banking Analysis APP - Took it from a month of run-time to a weekend.
3. PDFtoRuby - A Ruby Gem to create ruby code from pdf files
4. Network Monitor APP I did recently in Ruby/Rails


















































I can’t think of any one specific instance, but I think one of the best feelings is, after having spent literally hours trying to debug some problem and then giving up and going home, waking up the next day and having the light bulb come on with the solution to this problem. I love solving problems with software.


















































































































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