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I am comfortable accepting fixed bid contracts under a couple of different circumstances:
(1) I'm competing against really expensive contracting firms, so I'm charging 2x the rate I'd be comfortable with. There's lots of margin for changing my mind.
(2) I'm working with someone for the Nth time, and I know that they're good about being flexible.

But in general, fixed bid contracts are difficult. They incentivize the parties to spend time talking about what the agreed-to scope was, rather than spending time fixing things to however we NOW want it to work.
I think it's great to have that kind of humor once in a while, especially in a big project.
Now you have my attention, what was your concept?
Do you have a link with more info?
Great question. I think more passive income is required for food etc. eg. my rule of thumb $1,000 invested will bring in about $1-2 per week; or, some businesses you own can (theoretically) provide passive income, but in practice it's not totally passive (1 hour per day is quite reasonable though.) But both sources will require more work to setup in the first place, to create the "asset". Another option is part-time consulting work; if you charge $100 per hour, that's $500 per week. Of course, you probably can't get that literally one hour per day; it would be bursty: (say) full-time for a few weeks, then don't work for a year. That's a popular hacker route. But again, you'd have some setup cost, in having the technical skills (and keeping them up to date) + (more importantly) having the business skills to keep getting the work, year after year (and the social temperament.) It's sounding more reliable to work for a whole year, and invest that.

Though my personal experience is that I really missed being productive for other people, and have decided to expend effort doing useful things for others (create the value that I want to create, on my own timetable and terms - largely an intersection of benefiting both others and myself.) It took me 2-3 years of not working to come to that decision, and it seems typical of people who retire. But even knowing that, I still had to see for myself. I expect you too. Of course, it's quite possible to just do that in the first place (I didn't.)
Yep a direct clone of fansnap.com, Impressive job but I can't help it but think yuk!
Why do you think it doesn’t make sense? A colon doesn’t necessarily imply the format, “person: person’s statement”, or “term: definition”, but can also be used in titles with the form “title: subtitle” or “title: explanation”. I think you might just be mixing up typical uses of colons in programming language syntax with “correct” usage in English.

There’s no ultimately “right” or “wrong” (or, sheesh, “deeply offensive”) usage of punctuation, only conventional or atypical. This particular usage is straight-forward to understand (were you seriously confused?), and quite common in titles and headlines of all sorts. In this case, putting “study” at the end emphasizes the first part of the title: so what?
It's called a different use of an A record than what I'm used to.

I'm talking about some totally unconnected system on a different network.

Seems kind of odd to me, what's stopping me from calling my own ip address google.com? I don't know what that would do for me, of course.

Like I said, I know that sounds pretty basic but it's a different way of thinking about this for me, i.e. I've realized I could give my home system, which has a static IP, a domain name that is a subdomain of one of our work computers, which would have been really handy like... last year.
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I don't believe it either. I agree with the condensation idea, not with ice crystals. You can see such rainbows near the Sun when it's right at the edge of a cloud, too. (A normal cumulus cloud, not some high altitude cirrus.)

And it's not the P-G singularity either. That's the bow shock condensation when you go supersonic. This is just a variant of the condensation streak you often see of the wings of a commercial airliner when they go full flaps before landing.
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So having a sex toy hidden well in your bedroom that your daughter has never seen before and a daughter that says something vaguely sexual in school could lead to you losing your daughter? Wow.
The GPA comment refers to people being hired for a first job straight out of college. Get industry experience, and nobody will care what your GPA was, or whether you even have one.

That said, you won't get through the Google interview without filling in some of your CS holes. You don't need to know what anything is called, but if you don't understand why quick sort and merge sort are efficient, you'll have trouble with the interviews.

That said, if you made it through real analysis and algebra, then the CS stuff you need shouldn't be too hard for you to learn. Really. If your interests include math and CS, one fun place to start is trying to tackle Project Euler problems. While doing that, read a few books, and you should be good to go.
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I'll throw in a recommendation for PayLeap (http://www.payleap.com) as a combo gateway/merchant account.

As for the the delayed billing, something like OpenGateway (http://opengateway.net) might work. It is set up for subscription payments, but there's a way to work around it. You could essentially set up the initial payment with a 30 day free trial (although don't really call it that), then automatically bill after the trial period. And instead of then billing every 30 days like a traditional subscription, you make set it up so it only charges once (no repeat).

I recently used these two in conjunction and have had great support from both companies. PayLeap has superb phone and email support and OpenGateway has solid email/web support. Also worth mentioning, I'm not an experienced ecommerce or subscription guy, but both systems were pretty easy to work with.
Probably because the answer could be found easily in the article. However, there's a possibility the intent was to just question the accuracy of the title?
And groklaw http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=201009101658045
Here is a company, that since its inception, has done the exact opposite of what is published in business and entrepreneurship papers and has succeeded to great effect.

Explain that.
How much do software engineers make outside of the United States?
Do hackers outside of the US have an above average lifestyle?
ye that should have tipped you off that the dude above has no idea what he is talking about (he got domain names mixed up with skittles)
No. http://www.survivalblog.com
If one in ten Internet startups were acquired by Google, I'd short Google's stock. The likelihood of being acquired is closer to one in one thousand.
My contribution would be my research, if it ends up being any good. But i don't want to be a slave to researching just so i can receive funding and continue my studies, I want to be self-sufficient and research exactly what i feel like, independent of others.
Slightly related, leading cause of death in my age group is accidental poisoning. This got no traction when I posted it, but I'll try linking one more time.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1505903
You wanted a period at the end of that last sentence, not a colon.

When one thing says another, for example, a study says a finding, the sayer goes on the left. For example:

HouseAbsolute: That's just how it's done.

as in a play, or

HouseAbsolute said: that's just how it's done.

in the less often seen form of this use. That's just how it is done. I dislike it being done the opposite way in titles because I think it probably misleads people into thinking it's an acceptable way to use the punctuation in a typical sentence, where in fact it is backwards from the way it should be in a typical sentence.

> or, sheesh, “deeply offensive”

Exaggeration: something I use occasionally. (This is the appositive form of the colon, according to Wikipedia.)

> There’s no ultimately “right” or “wrong” usage of punctuation.

I'm not a strong prescriptive punctuationist, but I do feel we should not use misleading punctuation when we can avoid it or when it doesn't add much. A dash would be fine here, because it's a fairly typical way of showing quotation, although not historically accepted yet. The colon, however, is not.
Doug Fine has partially done this. He moved to New Mexico. Installed solar panels for electricity. Shepherd 2 goats for milk. Grow his own vegetables. Converted his car to run on cooking oil.

http://www.dougfine.com/farewell-my-subaru/
You should install 4.1 on your 3G and I think it will fix it.

I too experienced the "freezes from hell" with iOS 4.0 running on my 3G, but ever since upgrading to 4.1 on Wednesday I've had no more freezes.
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They did try an IPO a while back and decided not to go through with it. Bob Parsons blamed the way accounting rules worked with his business and SOX if I recall correctly.
I installed Julien's google-maps-el a while back - very fun and cool. I'll probably install this also.
Ask HN: Examples of especially well-written C code?
In light of the recent OpenSSL rant (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1680337): what are some open source projects written in C which are particularly well-written?

I can give one example: I was very pleasantly surprised by the experience of cold-reading the BerkeleyDB source (trying to explain some very odd observed behavior) a few years ago. The code was laid out in a sensible way, such that I could find what I needed reasonably quickly. It was generally clear and straightforward to read, and the few places with "tricky" code were very nicely commented -- including the source of the odd behavior I was hunting for.

Are there other examples of great, readable C code out there?
I believe the parent is referring to his 10/GUI project, a desktop multi-touch interface concept:

http://10gui.com/

Which was covered by many outlets, including:

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/10/14/138207/10GUI-mdash-a...

http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/13/10gui-one-very-slick-deskto...

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9tj3j/10gui_is_...
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I hunt as well as dispatch livestock for slaughter. Varmint control is a sometimes necessary. Home defense is a side benefit, but not a primary motivator and I hope I'll never need it.

Nothing fancy, just a .22 rifle and a 12-gauge shotgun with a good supply of rounds for each, two of the most humble and versatile firearms one can own.
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A boutique investment banker friend of mine reads HN daily.
The high cost of being a public company under our current laws, perhaps.

http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/7075161?f=search
Price. Domains are a commodity. Back when Godaddy took off, they had the cheapest reliable service.
Was this you?
http://10gui.com/video/
If not, sorry. If it is, amazing!
Ruby.

Why did you choose mongodb for the data store?
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Google's domain is pointed at Google nameservers.

If you point a domain you control to your own nameserver, you can direct it to any IP you want, on any network.
Touche. I knew about the ICANN fees, but didn't know about the $7.34 for dotcoms that VeriSign gets. Thanks for the correction.
I'd say kudos to the lad for his work. It's a fairly decent idea but I personally wouldn't use it. Never really like any of those "play something random" stuff. Someone out there might love this idea though. With Google Instant, I felt that the speed of change was quite drastic. Every single letter I typed caused the UI to change. Don't really fancy it now but we'll see!
I'm not sure what you mean by doing the exact opposite.
The founder, Bob Parsons, built something people wanted - a cheaper way to get domain names. His marketing tactics are, um, a bit different from most online/tech companies, but he's built two successful companies from the ground up using tactics from direct marketing.

This time, Parsons acted as his own angel investor burning through millions from his first company, but seems to have acted rather frugally while building his business. His first was bootstrapped from home while he worked a day job. His persistence and determination are remarkable.

Parsons is an outlier because he's built both companies outside of Silicon Valley with no funding but his own, no degree from a big-name school, but just drive and guts. I think that's why his businesses look different that what we normally see. They grew in a different ecosystem and seem like an alternate species on the outside, but inside they still operate much like other companies.

If you want to know more details about how he did it, read his blog or listen to his older podcasts (if you can find them). He's a shameless self-promoter who doesn't mind telling his story.

But do know that his recent video podcasts are just garbage. After the Super Bowl commercial that put GoDaddy on the map, he's apparently decided that buxom females are the only thing that matters and has gone all the way with it. His earlier audio podcasts were actually more like Mixergy, where he'd talk to young entrepreneurs about how they did it and share his own stories. His story helped inspire me to work on my first startup.
We're all from the past :)
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What about living in a different country?

One of my friends lived on $100 a month in China. Out there your 10k should get you 8 years and 4 months of living in Beijing. You certainly could last much longer in the countryside.

You can supplement your money by teaching English.
By bombarding customers with page upon page of cross selling options.
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I wouldn't classify holding down a fulltime job while doing a side project AND going through fairly rigorous recruiting processes as anywhere near lazy.
I thought PayPal didn't offer pre-order services? You had to complete the charge immediately upon the customer putting in the credentials. Is there a service they offer that allows pre-orders?
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I used to work in US manufacturing. We built chips. The way it worked is that major fab operations, especially the ones that benefited from the close proximity of Ph.D.-educated senior engineers, were done in the USA. Then the parts would be shipped in wafer form to be diced and packaged in Asia because dicing, packaging, wire bonding and inspecting are human-intensive jobs that are hard to fully automate.

Hands-on work like sewing and hand assembly gets done in Asia where there is a good supply of cheap labor, but that doesn't mean that plenty of stuff doesn't get built in the USA, often with extensive help from robots and computers.
I don't use org-mode. I installed google-weather as per the instructions, but it is not clear how to run it separately from org-mode.
The numbers there don't seem nearly high enough to determine a decision like this. I think it'd take a lot more than an expense equal to 1-2% or so of revenues to cause someone who was going to IPO to go the other way.
But, Peter, they have conjugal visits in prison.
After both this and the Mozilla ticket about cots for interns, I am wondering if looking into a life bug ticketing system is worth it...

issue 001: Apartment is out of beer.

Steps to reproduce: Open cooler. attempt to get beer.
I call bullshit. My college GPA was 2.90 and Google still went through the entire hiring process with me. No, I didn't get it after 6 different rounds of talking to people on the phone for phone interviews, but they certainly didn't look down upon my GPA.
I'd like to have him on Mixergy. Interesting guy.
I'd agree, proof of concept did the job, just saying, it seems like something they had to have considered at some point internally. As doty said, they're hiring the person though. ;-p
also, if you teach English in China, you typically get 16 hours a week of classes. This will typically net you an apartment and between 3500-6000 Yuan per month (about $450 to $800). You may be able to negotiate to work fewer hours in exchange for less pay and achieve your 1 hour a day or so dedicated to "other activities", i.e teaching.
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I've been told that the Tarsnap source code is particularly good. :-)
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Believe me, I hear what you're saying. But DCFS has no oversight. If you have guns in your house with kids they will take a very keen interest in you. There are DCFS rules for what you can/will/should do with guns in your home that may exceed what you would do. If the DCFS agent finds your gun not locked by an XYZ lock your kids will be taken from you. I am not joking either.

Every attempt you make to establish your rights will lead you further down the path of their goal. Take heed from the stories above and you will see how it works.
The difference is that book publishers don't make huge political donations
Isn't this going to upset the IRS slightly?

Are they going to demand the money back from everybody that wrote off software as a depreciation?

Alternatively are people now going to be able to write off software as a cost rather than an asset?
http://blog.instapaper.com/post/163849131

This allows you to send items to posts in google reader.
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Ha ha, http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=32058...

I'd bid, but... what if I won?? Doesn't seem to be a lot of competition.
There will also be a transaction fee from their payment processor and there's discount codes.
I had a similar but less illustrious experience.

Pretty much, if you ARE interested in leveraging such attention into a position, you'd better pursue it wholeheartedly and not just assume you're a shoo-in.
I don't know what the long-term health effects of it would be, but I have it on good authority that dry dog food is capable of sustaining human life, if eaten as a "breakfast cereal" with powder-based milk.

Supposedly the cheapest stuff tastes best, since it doesn't have the flavoring or meat byproducts in it that dogs find palatable. It's basically just raw carbohydrates, fat, and protein; I think corn and soy based, mostly.
Yeah, I was (metaphorically) waving my hand in the air and yelling "Factor! Factor!" for the first half of the essay, but when I got to the end I wasn't so sure. Factor solves a lot of the problems the author describes - it has an extensive standard library, and garbage collection, and all kinds of other useful things - but I think the core complaint about writing Forth code still stands: You still have a data stack, stack-shuffling words like 'dup' and 'over' and 'rot' still make for ugly, hard-to-read code, and re-thinking your expression-graph to be expressible without such shuffling is still very hard.

I still have a local checkout of Factor in my home directory, and I really would like to get around to playing with it some more, someday - but (at least to begin with) playing with Factor sometimes feels very much like hard work.
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A friend of mine was telling me a story about how if he stands near the women's restroom waiting for his fiancée and her young daughter he gets all sorts of dirty looks. But if he stands there holding a stroller people just smile and walk on by.
That 4th link is an excellent shot of what certainly seems to be the same effect. Quite beautiful, too. Nice find!
Here's to hoping that the future owners drop those ridiculous TV ads.
For someone new to the payments industry such as yourself, I can't stress enough the following points:

-Get with a provider who has a good reputation for honesty, and won't aggressively sell you on deceptive rates. More often than not, the rates you're looking at when talking to a sales rep are not the rates you'll actually be charged. Discount rates, Misuse of Auth fees, NABU fees, APF fees, etc. are all easy for a provider to mask and confuse new merchants with.

-Get with a provider who has a reputation for excellent support. You'll have questions, to be sure. Collecting money from your customers is the most important part of your business; Make no doubt about it.

-Get with a provider who has a good strategy for dealing with PCI compliance. If you're storing cards in your database, or even just passing secure data through your server, PCI can be a very significant burden.

-Get with a provider who can get you up and running quickly. The more time you spend researching this decision, the more time you're not selling. The underwriting process is not likely to differ much between providers (with the exception of PayPal, who seems to do their underwriting after the fact - but that's an entirely different and frightening subject), but there are some truly frightening APIs out there, and a couple very good ones.

The process you describe is what many merchants do. They validate the card info when the user signs up / orders the product, and charge when it ships. Any gateway should be able to support this model, some do it more elegantly and intuitively than others.

This is right in my wheelhouse - I work in the industry. Stick to the above points, and you should be okay.
Based on his HN profile, yes it is.

edit: I'm not sure who Morten Jorck is. It sounds like it's R. Clayton Miller's alter-ego. mortenjorck's HN profile links to 10gui.com and in the video it says the original concept is by R. Clayton Miller with the voice-over done by Morten Jorck. But the HN profile also links to twitter.com/claymill Are these two names the same person who came up with that brilliant and highly detailed concept video?
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Maybe they optimize for latency because NTFS still fragments really badly.
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He even gives credit for the stuff he finds on Hacker News: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/09/apocalypse-and-bubbles.html
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I've only written a little C, but I find it hard to believe that anyone can write bady in C and actually get it to work.
So, to recap: EULAs are binding, they can control just about everything you might dream up, and only Congress can change the situation.

Huge leap. From what I can tell, the ruling only applies to resale, and can't reliably be construed to imply that you can barter for people's souls in a EULA or what have you.
> You wouldn't need apples seal of approval though, would you?

Short answer: You still need to get apples seal of approval.

You will still have to use the AppStore to get that app on the iPhone. The only other route is a web-app.
You will still have to get Apples seal of approval to get on the AppStore. There is no alternative.
You will still have to adhere to the HIG (and more) to get Apples seal of approval. So no generic cross-platform apps, your app will have to behave like a proper iOS app in every way.

I think that in reality nothing has actually changed. The reason behind the original ban of 3d party cross-platform frameworks has not changed. It's just the way in which Apple defends against this risk that has changed.
Are you in the US? Which state?
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there are vaguely habitable houses available in my neighborhood (seventh ward new orleans) for 50k or even less
Don't mind at all! Eager to see what you cook up.