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Ask HN: I'm staring a web design agency. Do you have any recommandations?
Hello,

I like Wordpress a lot. I'm also a web dev and sysadmin, so I have an idea on how things work. In the past few months more people have been asking me to build websites and I feel that I need to get better at it. I'm not used with this level of stress, but I like it; I'm working on several Wordpress websites at the moment and I'm learning the hard way how to: handle a client, manage my time, model the development process, ask the right questions. Also, I see that building a website and handing it over to the client isn't enough: they want SEO(besides generally baseline good sense practices, I need to understand and use tools like Cognitiveseo, Moz, ect.), they want social media management, marketing strategies, brand building, graphic design, ad campaings, and so on.

I can't handle everything by myself, but I still need a clear understanding of each of these aspects. From a business perspective, if I can't offer quality graphic design for a client, I need to reach for a collaborator just to do the job.

On the other hand, I've compiled a list of useful guides on how to start a business:

https://www.sba.gov/thinking-about-starting

http://www.smetoolkit.org/smetoolkit/en/content/en/57466/Starting-a-Business-Learning-Path

https://startupclass.co/courses/how-to-start-a-startup

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/

But besides training my business spirit I need to get in contact with the industry, from both technical and business point of views. I have to know what are the trends, what tools are being used, what advices other professionals give.

I've found out about:

http://wordpress.alltop.com/

https://garage.godaddy.com/

http://torquemag.io/

So I'm reaching out to HN if anyone can offer additions to these link lists and some advices about my road ahead and for others searching for this.

Thank you!
“Hey—don’t know if you left for NYC, but Beach House
playing tonight and tomorrow at Wiltern. You wanna go?
Maybe they’ll let you cover The Motto if we ask nicely?”

1) She was going to be leaving soon, so a second meeting needed to be set up soon, or it would get stretched to some unknown point in the future.

2) He knew she enjoyed the music, they'd listened to it the night before. So while a concert is a time commitment, he at least knew it was one she might be interested in.

3) He gave her both that day and the next as options for the date.

4) He referenced both the music they'd listened to while together and her singing at the party. Reinforced the shared experience, and pointed out that he was paying some attention to her.

He did fine. See the note at the end about their second encounter when she said there'd be no games the second time around, and she went right back to it. The lack of reply was all on her, he did everything he could/should have done (much more would've been inappropriate since they didn't yet have much of a connection, and less would've been doing nothing which he'd likely have regretted for the missed opportunity).
The problem is that society equates being sexist with being evil or bad, the actions of sexist people as being inherently evil, and the words and opinions of sexist people as dismissable out-of-hand.

So when you point out a sexist action the target of your comment interprets that comment as you saying, "You are evil. Your actions are evil and anything you say is not true."

The truth is that even well meaning people who want to treat others well and are willing to learn still do insensitive or discriminatory things but the language people use to point this out is very toxic and often assumes malice.
This is how you raise a Seed Round in 2016
CCC?
You are correct that Docker has some server centric designs. But luckly, the Docker project has split of runc (Docker's container runtime) and since images are just bare directory trees, there is really no claustrophobia about Docker being a bad choice...
Housing cost has very little to do with construction and everything to do with location.

Real estate as an export is .. well, it's a response to circumstances, I suppose, but is it really sustainable? After all, you can't just make more land with the property "within 1km of Central Park".

What happens when the majority of a city is owned by foreign landlords? Do you think that might distort its politics?
Here is a great page of resource links that mostly avoids commercial things: http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/social_emotional.htm

I also recommend http://sengifted.org/archives/articles/overexcitability-and-...
How often do you think the average user understands, or ever will understand how what they're using works?

Not going to disagree that it's hard to take bitcoin seriously, but I don't think that one has ever been much of an issue.
>MS found that out with the failed Scroogled campaign which they scrapped after it tanked.

it tanked because it was a terrible campaign not because people don't care about online privacy. The fact that it was MS all of companies running it made it even more terrible.
I still buy the Sunday Times most weekends. Why? Because I'm not buying it for the 'news'. I'm buying it for the guaranteed insights I trust it for and the presentation style I enjoy. Very few blogs or news sites really nail this the way print does, nor the moments of serendipity when you're browsing through a paper and something catches your eye.
GNU Social is probably the most famous open twitter competitor and it uses ostatus:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OStatus
You mean the docs of Transcrypt?
In what way should it be improved?
Any critisism to make it better is very welcome!
Learn Ideas Not Frameworks: How to Avoid JavaScript Fatigue
"One of the key concerns with income taxes is minimizing economic distortion."

Economists might agree with that but politicians certainly wouldn't. The whole USA tax code is set up to reward some activities and punish others.
It often gets hard to pinpoint who actually made the call. Once you start scrutinizing a company, it turns into endless finger-pointing. I agree with your point, someone should be punished for this, but implementation is hard.
Use of GC in Nim is up to you -- you can malloc/free as you please if you want and avoid it altogether. I'm not sure to what extent you can/can't make use of the standard library if you avoid GC, but even if you lessen your restrictions and use it a little bit, it's a highly tuneable/controllable and understandable GC including support for swapping out entirely different GC algorithms.

Professional game development as in AAA studios? Yeah, probably not, but more for the tooling alone than whatever language any particular studio happens to use. Professional indie game development? It's ready, even though it's not at 1.0 yet. Indie devs deal with big breaking upgrades to their frameworks (Unity, Corona, etc.) all the time, it's annoying but not a deal-breaker if the language gets those sometimes too.
That 495 tech belt thing was because office park space was so cheap and having 75,000 sqft was required back during the Sun and Digital days. No one really chose to live out there after graduating for college, and if they did move out there it was either reluctantly for a shorter commute or because employees were further on in life (e.g. 30-somethings then would consider suburbia ideal; in my late 20s, early 30s now very few people want to live outside of major cities, opt for public transportation over having cars, etc). Now Central Square is gentrified enough to the point where a heroin junkie won't rob you at at 9PM, and at least amongst my friends, the young & educated (both in the sciences and the liberal arts) either chose to stay in the city post-college (or move out to a comparable city).
What's cool is that Clay's designer is now working for Apple on Swift https://github.com/jckarter
I think that's one of the causes, the other is the excessive money supply:

https://positivemoney.org/issues/house-prices/

The issue described is not unique to Vancouver, it's a worldwide phenomenon, lots of desirable locations across the globe are facing the same (from Auckland to London to Sydney to Zurich), even in my hometown in Montevideo, Uruguay, houses are going for ridiculous prices.

A good measure on whether housing is overvalued (IMO) is how many salaries it takes to buy a house. A good salaries to house ratio was something like 4 yearly salaries, it's currently over 10 for England, with some places going to 20 yearly salaries for a house:

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/aug/06/average-house-p...

As someone who doesn't own any property, I really hope the housing bubble explodes. OTOH there are people who have gotten very wealthy just by inheriting and holding property, who must dread the same scenario, but where can they safely store their value? As mentioned, interest rates are very low or negative.
I am not YC.

I suspect that the disparity in economic incentives of a founder versus employee creates a tension that correlates to issues further down the road if both people are critical to the company's success. Conversely, if the employee is not critical to the company's success then it raises a question of why there is an employee at all.

That said, a company with an employee would probably be expected to be further along the product/market fit curve than a solo founder since more resources have been allocated. In other words, the bar might be higher in terms of evaluation for YC.

Lastly, if there is hierarchy with just two people, that suggests a particular approach to company culture and these days YC seems to devote a lot of speaking time to company culture and how it is set by the founders.

But again, I am not YC.

Good luck.
Yep - I wasn't "gifted" in any technical sense, just reasonably smart / good at school, at that was no picnic socially, until I figured out how to play dumb. It's a weird thing. (This was NYC school system in the early 80s. Maybe schools have gotten better?)
It's almost as if it takes 29 days to say that you have read an open letter and respond that you will get back to them...
Yodle drops IPO plans, agrees to $342M takeover offer from Web.com
Yeah, investors are all around in Bay area too. They are making the real estate market crazy. I have witnessed more than 15 offers on ordinary properties in South Bay, and well, they are selling far more than the listed price. All these investors pay all-cash, money gifted from other side of the globe. It doesn't matter where you work, how much is your salary - you can't beat these investors.
>Bullying mostly targets the gifted

I believe bullies target what is different. Intelligence or lack of it will make you a target in equal measure. Got a birthmark on your face? Boom, you're a target.

My kids don't go to a school that accepts bullying. I don't think bullying was seen all that different when I was at school.
> S-expressions [...] allow for syntactic abstraction

I never bought this argument, based on my intuition, but now Julia has proved this argument to be invalid. Insisting only S-expressions allow macros is simply intelectually dishonest. Go check how Julia does metaprogramming; all the power of Lisp with none of the wierdness.
And yet 100% of major US cities that built a lot of housing between 1990 and 2013 have low housing costs:

http://www.spur.org/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/asking.price...
Then up it to $10 and host identical copies across EC2 and Linode or Digital Ocean. Set up a git hook to automatically push from your primary to your secondary server, keeping both up to date. You now have better uptime than Github (100%, more or less) for less money than Github charges and greater control.
Jesus christ, what "moral responsibility"? None of these people are paying for a service contact from Google. Nobody anywhere is obliged to actively maintain a piece of software forever.
This was definitely the case in my situation. I grew up gifted AND overweight/obese at an athletics-focused public school in a Northeast US suburb. I was bullied. A lot of my thought processes were "it doesn't matter if I'm fat/how I look/how my peers treat me because at least I'm smart and someday I'll be better than them..."

So I spent my high school inside WoW, where nobody can see you, and I went to a good college and worked really hard to get an education, lost some weight there (and developed socially, somewhat), and now I'm a full-time software developer (graduated school last May). I'm realizing that (a) I'm not actually an "introvert," I just never had a chance to develop socially, and (b) the reasons that initially attracted me to software development (specifically, the ability to just "get in the zone" and escape from reality for hours and hours) are now considerably less appealing to me. I'd much rather be in a job that exposes me to some sort of social interaction beyond my manager, although perhaps the grass is always greener...

Anyway, to relate back to OP, I really, really wish someone had pulled me out of my public school and let me develop with a group of other "misfits." I eventually fell into that social group anyway, in high school (mostly artists, turns out), but the damage was done. I had a "challenge math" class in elementary school that was fun (and all the other kids I remember from that class either went to ivy leagues or ended up in software or both), but beyond accelerating our math education and offering AP courses, there was no support for giftedness in my school system.
So tempted to add a +1 comment...

(This is a joke, please do not do it)
Hey, timthelion, sorry if any comment was harsh.

I did look better to your software, even if I avoid docker, and it looks nicely engineered and documented.

Congrats. Really. Thanks for your effort and for sharing it.

To don't just another comment, regarding the apt-get stuff of other comments: I build my packages and repos the same, since the 90's... but I was not an early docker adopter, because I was unable to run private registries. I cannot compare them sorry :-)

Have a nice day, and sorry for hijacking your nice project with my docker rage.
Just realized that a lot of people in this thread may be Canadians looking to shift around.

If you're interested in working on cool engineering problems in Toronto, e-mail me.
It always depends on your definition of "popular".

Are there users using it regularly? yes.

Thousand? Yes.
Millions? No.

How many people do you want on your social network before you consider it popular enough to use?
"I clicked print and nothing happened!"
ChromeOS isn't an open platform and Chromebooks are dangerously locked down.

Microsoft could solve these issues on windows by forbidding software that they don't approve. It would undoubtedly improve the security of the platform. But it turns Windows into a walled garden instead of an open platform (consider - would Microsoft have allowed Firefox onto the platform? unlikely)
What world do we live in that 29 days is an unacceptably long amount of time to deliver a feature that affects 0.1% of millions of users?
It's possible there's something exceptional about Connections, but in general there's a lot of copyrighted material on there. It's a real problem if you're looking for genuinely public domain stuff. I'm not sure how archive.org would go about fixing this though.
I guess it would only be fair for Docker to cut you a couple of million, seeing as they're swimming in cash (apparently?)
CouchDB doesn't do joins, which can impose serious schema design changes depending on your application. map/reduce is done at index time. You wouldn't ever want to do it on the fly.

The base CouchDB also wasn't clustered last I looked (a year ago maybe?); you had to use BigCouch, which was an OSS contribution by Cloudant that lagged both Cloudant's own offering and CouchDB releases. It was supposed to get merged into head though so there's a good chance that actually happened while I wasn't looking.

If you're just looking at CouchDB though and not Cloudant, it's not all that compelling (IMO). No clustering. No integrated search. No transactions. No joins. Pretty shallow server metrics in the dashboard. CouchDB doesn't even really have queries AFAIK. Just index scans.
Changing Time and Date to Jan 1, 1970 will permanently brick 64-bit iOS devices
Vancouver salaries seem exceptionally low. I live in the middle of nowhere USA, and devs start out at from school over $60k USD, and I live on an acre in a 3 bed 3 bath, 6 minutes from downtown and 4 minutes from work. At $2350/month my house would have been paid off in 5 years.
A biased coin usually means that one side has a greater chance of falling up, but they have both heads and tails, so p(H) + p(T) is still 1
What I'm arguing is that attraction bypasses the mechanisms of will and rational decision. We are not logical robots. Most of us do not "decide" to like another person.

Falling in love or feeling sexually attracted to someone are irrational things by definition. You do not decide to do it. You cannot force yourself to feel attracted to someone because they "play fair", either. Because of (reasonable) society norms, you cannot simply engage with everyone you're sexually attracted to -- it's not ok to harass fellow coworkers, or someone else's partner, etc. But the core of it is irrational. You cannot impose rational rules like "I'll pay more attention to people who text me back immediately or who are more considerate of other people, or who I agree with on serious issues, even though what I'd really like is to call X and do the naughty all night long".
Media encourages male entitlement. Movies teach us persistence is the key to winning a woman's heart. Remember the cop character from Jessica Jones? He increases courtship aggressively with each rejection.

1. Cop, under mind control, tries to kill Trish Walker.
2. Cop stalks Trish to apologize.
3. Trish is frightened and tell him to leave.
4. Cop continues to stalk.
5. Cop and Trish hook up.

Step 5 should be Trish maces cop, and he loses his badge.
That's too simple. The statement is not nuanced enough and it is unfortunately only a necessary condition. This type of advice gave me a hard time for a couple of years -- when I was rather clueless and young.

It's not a sufficient condition: I don't need make-up, yet the best time searching for it is never.

It's not a nuanced statement: I don't need a car now. Even if I could get a cheap car, it would be extra baggage and a distraction. I don't need it.

It's not that your advice is nonsense, I never said that ;)

Research on the poor shows that because they need money, they get stressed. I think the same applies for: funding, a job and a partner. It adds stress, which in turn, lowers one's decision ability. I presume you were hinting at this.

But then the statement doesn't become: "the best time to search for x is when you don't need it." It should be: "the best time to search for x is when you don't need it right now." Perhaps still a bit unnuanced -- improvements are welcome -- but your examples (funding, job and partner) implies that you'd need it at a later stage. Or perhaps better said, that is when it gets interesting. I probably can find the best make-up deal in town, because I don't need it. I also couldn't care less.

Additions and changes are welcome.
It is in fact an expression of power, for one.

However, for two, it is a general discontent in the options available. You are the "next best choice" or the "best available" when facing this lack of eagerness in early relationship phases. There is an element of ego preservation in this behavior. One can improve from "best available," but this comes with experience in the early phase of the relationship.
Meh... article is pushed by special interest groups. Their concerns could be addressed very quickly by raising their employees salaries. Especially since vast majority of companies sell services to the US, and get more CADs than before with the current exchange rate.
San Francisco housing is expensive BECAUSE of the incomes. Vancouver housing is expensive DESPITE the incomes. It's more of a housing issue than an income one. If incomes were higher, rents would only go up as well.
I agree. You can't battle the information overload with books, since they aren't as available as the internet for the entire world population.
Syria conflict: Bashar al-Assad vows to retake whole country
I've been doing this on a Streisand created VPN server : https://github.com/jlund/streisand and use most of the same lists (though I've had to remove a few things from "Someone that cares" and I've also had to add a few things - I target apps too so I nuke some specific to mobile apps that are likely not in those lists).

The reasons:

* Block adverts in native mobile apps

* Block adverts in mobile web browsing

* Create a single connection for the mobile (reduce exposure to latency of new connections to different servers)

* VPN connection keep-alive means I seldom reconnect

* Side effect of mitigating risk of my telco screwing with my traffic or excessively logging metadata

It works really, really well.

I'm sure someone will say "battery!" but the cost of mobile adverts on batteries far outweighs the cost of connecting to a VPN.

This is effectively adblock for mobile that works for all apps and websites.
"an insult to their manhood."
"can literally be dangerous to you."

Is that not indicative of being the product of a sexist environment? A man that cannot accept rejection and therefor feels he has a right to behave in a dangerous way, seems to be a problem with his view of himself, and men as a whole, the world.
Can't wait to see what actually tangible outcome this will have.

I think that's far more interesting than that they took 29 days to respond; ok, they did. Deal with it. They have responded now.

What's important is what happens next.

A public issue tracker?

A rust style RFC process? (https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs)

Just please, whatever you do, do it fast, and stop people from doing what babel did and migrating to phabricator. :P
I like ShiftEdit (https://shiftedit.net/).
Yes, long term Vanguard client here. Because I opted to go with someone with lower costs the other funds are unhappy and want Vanguard to pay more in taxes?

So does the shoe then fit if Vanguard triples their fees making them the most expensive, do the other management companies then need to pay taxes on the difference between their now lower fees and Vanguards?

I think this is a ploy by the management firms that are being undercut and in a tight market (or a down market) the management fees become important.
I don't think anyone was expecting a list of specific measures, but more something like what they published today. "We heard you, we'll report back in a month once we figured out what we can do" is (IMHO) better than silence.