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freelancing might seem overwhelming, but your competition is terrible. Seriously, absolutely terrible. I think almost all of my clients have gone through several programmers before me and their expectations are generally pretty low.

This is sadly the case, I am worked on a project that was done by a developer and abandoned half way through. The code was atrocious and you could tell that this developer was in over their head.

The worst part about it is that this developer speaks at industry conferences and blogs about the subject matter at hand. All of the developers on the team for this company had very low opinions of the freelancer and the project was put in significant jeopardy by this developers lack of real world qualifications on the subject matter. When the freelancer was questioned about their high ego-to-talent ratio they blamed it on the in-house development team and abandoned the contract.

The worst part about it, is this person is friends with some of the best and brightest in a particular segment of the tech industry. I though to myself if this is the state of freelancing then no wonder I am beating away jobs. It goes to show some people talk a good game, but when the rubber hits the road they can't produce. The author hit this one spot on. If you are a consistent performer, you should consider freelancing.
The Best Presentations at DrupalCon 2010
We have selected the best presentations from both DrupalCon events in 2010: DrupalCon San Francisco and DrupalCon Copenhagen. All the best presentations are grouped in several general topics as follows: modules, theming, scalability and performance, Drupal business process and Drupal 7.
Email is private. Being displayed as a member of a Facebook group is quasi-public (depending on your privacy settings, I believe). Big difference.
Here is a bit more detail:

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/10/07/2741170/jewish-in...
F*** the innovators
That's because Turkey keeps their currency artificially bound to the EURO. 2 lira ~ 1 EURO.
RatCar: Rat-Robot Hybrid to Explore Better Brain Machine Interfaces
Minimalism implies the things you have are truly things you actually need, and not just the latest fashionable fad of the week.

If you're hosting client meetings, the Best Western isn't going have as nice a set of facilities as a 5-star hotel. If you're on a race track, your Scion sucks compared to a BMW, etc. You are sacrificing. The important point is you're cognizant of the sacrifices (a BMW time around a racetrack is irrelevant to your Scion getting you to the grocery store). A macbook pro is a luxury, but absolutely justifiable if you do development on it all day long.
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The beauty of it, as far as the FAA goes, lies in the fact the public is not involved in the safety standards.

There is plenty of window dressing in what the travel industry does. A large part of it is because people want to see something being done. It makes them feel better. No matter how small or inconvenient.

The real safety measures are what we don't see or hear about. Every accident that doesn't happen is not JUST luck. It is the end result of a well thought out and executed process.

Is there room for improvement? Of course. But it beats anything else out there by open lengths.
I think he's saying you could do either. If you forgot to pay the $75, there's no reason why you shouldn't be allowed to pay $1000 to get the on-demand service, for example.
It's not related, but when you like a page, the owner of that page can now post directly to your wall.
Being awful in specific ways can be useful - if your park benches discourage the homeless from sleeping on them, the park as a whole can be more pleasant for the non-homeless visitors.

(Exactly what happens to the homeless is not discussed.)
Noticing that some public seating sucks has opened my eyes to how my municipality regards its residents.

While the sucky seating prevents the behaviour (sleeping) right there, it doesn't address the need/problem at all.

People don't want to sleep in airports, they'd much rather sleep at home, but their connections suck or delays made them miss their connection etc.

So sleeping will happen, but on the floor beside the seats.
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That seems exaggerated. And typically a job that high paying would bring with it a lot of stress. You'd be responsible for pretty high profile projects.
I do tend to think of financial markets as a giant computer whose function is to allocate capital in the economy, and which just happens to use a really weird architecture/computational model that incorporates human brains as computational nodes, sort of like The Matrix if they hadn't gone with the goofy energy-extraction motivation instead.

It's probably an analogy with limited applicability, but I do think it might be interesting to examine the computational properties of financial markets, try to see to what extent arbitrary programs can be encoded in them, etc.
"Scion gets me to the grocery store just as well as a BMW would"

This is not a good example of minimalism and in contradiction with your earlier statement that "Frugal implies you are sacrificing quality or desire in the name of money" (I infer you were contrasting with minimalism here)

A BMW is a lot higher quality than cheap cars, not necessarily 'excessive luxury'. It can be simple, depending on the configuration. One can find minimalist joy in a very expensive BMW. 'Just getting to the grocery store' is not about minimalism, it's about frugality. It's not because something is expensive that it's 'excessive'. Actually simple, high-quality products are often more expensive then cheap trinkets. To have a lot of leeway, one leads a frugal lifestyle to save money. A minimalist lifestyle isn't necessarily a cheap lifestyle.
I think Zynga would depress anyone in the game industry with any other motive than purely profit.
Depends on how frequently you use it, and even then it may not be a big deal.

I do tons of home repairs, automotive repairs, build things, take stuff apart and so on. I have enough tools to equip a small production woodshop, plus a growing collection of metalworking equipment. And even after all that I probably use a #2 phillips screwdriver on 99% of anything that has a phillips head screw.

For a "typical" person, a #2 phillips will probably serve all their reasonable needs.
Heretic!

Seriously, though, can you elaborate on how Facebook 'became seriously uncool recently'?

What issues caused your loss of enjoyment?
What if you have twins? There goes minimalism, and here comes redundancy.
We've had all kinds of press for our site, radio, tv, newspaper, etc. We get bigger spikes in traffic being featured on blogs nobody's ever heard of with a link to our site than being featured in national outlets like NPR and LA Times where viewers have to remember to look us up online later. That said, the people who hear about you offline will find you weeks and months later and sometimes make a purchase over a year later. I agree, put a "Welcome Oprah Viewers" banner on your site. Also, you can run an adwords campaign for a few weeks to capture Oprah's viewers. Set up your keywords keeping in mind they're going to be googling phrases like "website selling chocolate chip cookies (or whatever it is you do) as seen on oprah tv."
Haha, what a crazy funny bug!!! Sorry for my false accusations.

But I'm still not clear how the sign up page is included. Aren't you searching a database based on keywords and generating pages on the fly? What do you mean by "that page will be included by the search function"? I don't see any dedicated pages for individual books.
Everyone is an equal in Facebook, just like in real life.
Go build a cross platform mobile device game. There is a whole industry around game development and tons of new "physical" games are invented each year. Take one of those ideas and port it to tens of millions of customers with a cool UI and experience. Then tie it into the social online world. Partnering with a game developer should be pretty easy as they probably aren't expecting to be the next Monopoly, but instead do it for love.
I agree with you. they don't have smarter people than any of these big names morgan, goldman.

They show off to attract similar candidates because they know they are nowhere compared to these biggies.

If I have a offer from Goldman why the fuck I join de shaw or xyz company.
I know many home school children, and the common idea that they are not socially educated, or well adjusted, is a myth. Most home schooled children do not sit at home all day - cordoned away from the world. They are usually involved in as much, if not more, activities outside of the home as public schooled children. They have friends in their neighborhoods, and friends they meet in home school groups and their home school activities. As a matter of fact the home schooled children I know are not only generally smarter, and the adults (home schooled) more successful and happier in life, but the kids are far more socially adjusted than the kids that go to public schools.

Public schools by in large create social constructs that do not exist in the adult world. The home schooled children can converse and interact in a healthy way with both young and old - instead of their exclusive peer group.

I home school my children. Yet we have an active church social life, they take piano, wrestling, archery and numerous other peer group events. Plus, on beautiful fall and spring days - when most public school kids are shut up behind brick walls wasting their time in classes with 30+ children learning all of nothing - my kids are outside riding their bikes, exploring the neighborhood, etc.

The other advantage is that if I see other children mistreating my children, or if I see my children mistreating other children (or adults) - I can provide the proper discipline and education in the matter; whereas a teacher wouldn't even think to take the time and deal with the problem. This is not to say I helicopter my children - but I am more aware of issues than a single teacher might that has to keep track of 30 to a 100 or more students at a time and I care more than a teacher would. And thus we come to why we are having this discussion in the first place. The article was written by a guy who had a teacher that was not really connected to him, and his parents were not aware enough of the problem to notice and do anything about it. And the bully's parents the same...

What could have happened with this guy? Had something not turned in his life, he, like many others may have committed suicide and our world would be at a loss for whatever service and good he has thus far rendered.

I think the question really should be this: How is it possible that public school education can teach PROPER socialization - when the evidence and or track record is that these schools produce anti-social behavior and dysfunctional children at such a high level?
The reality is that strategy should be the to do list. Everything else is just stuff that needs to be taken care of afterward.
Can we all agree to put a trevor icon on our site? We kind of need an HN meme.
The will explicitly says:

"one part to the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency"

Think of it as the more technical academy awards. A movie that gets the Oscar for best sound editing might not be a great movie or a box-office hit, but still deserve the award.
No I am saying that the market for Crack would not have existed if coca leaf and powder where available with little hassle. The economy would not be there. Think about it, if they outlawed liquor sure there would be some die hard liquor drinkers, but most would not go through the hassle, they would just drink beer. And liquor manufacturers would not be able to charge a premium due to the economic pressure that the legal alternative puts on it. It would exist but not at the volume that we see now in the drug trade.

On a side note: I would love to see the numbers of people who die in drug related violence contrasted to overdoses. I would suspect that we lose more people to the war on drugs than we ever did to overdose.
Ever been addicted to meth or heroin?

I've managed to avoid that by not actively going out, asking friends where I can get meth/heroin from, approaching a person I believe to be a meth/heroin dealer, trading money for meth/heroin, putting it into a bong, lighting it, inhaling, and repeating until addicted.

I have great sympathy for the disabled and mentally ill. While we do a tolerable job of taking care of the disabled, our mental health system sucks.

But you really undermine your point by including people who deliberately went out of their way to fuck up their life.
Do you typically get 1099's from your clients or do they just pay you like they would any other company?

If you don't get paid with a 1099 does that affect your taxes in any way? Are you still responsible for payroll taxes if you don't get a 1099?
I think a lot of people don't realize how cheap food can be. I average $400 - $500 a month on food, and I buy for myself and my girlfriend. We eat steak, fish, chicken, meatballs, something good every single night. I never even look at prices in the grocery store, I just buy whatever it is I want to buy and it comes out to that amount. If I could spend $800 on food at the grocery store in a month I wouldn't mind, I just don't know what I'm missing out on. The only thing we don't do is go out to eat, or drink much.

We went out for our anniversary the other night and blew $100 on a dinner for two, for a meal I probably could have made myself if I had put my mind to it. That was the first time we ate at a restaurent in probably 3 months, and it was 20-25% of our monthly food budget for 1 dinner. I enjoyed my food but I couldn't help but think, I could eat filet mignon every single night this week and it would be just as good for this same amount of money.

Not to mention the $10.50 martini that cost them $1 to make, or the beer I had that cost more than a six pack of nice local beer.

So don't eat out, learn how to cook, and suddenly $5-15 a day is plenty to eat like a king.
If you haven’t re-invented a wheel... you should probably quit
i just use fb purity, and filter out all the junk comments http://www.fbpurity.com
The Carol Bartz departures: Where are Yahoo alums now?
Is there a way to form a certain kind of company and pay yourself a small salary like 60K/year and only pay payroll taxes on that part? Have you looked into anything like that?
You've been Zuckerpunched, my friend.
organic multistrand machines capable of exceeding dexterity, efficiency, longevity and power output of the human muscle and linkage capability of ligatures.
Businesses Can be Created Around One Idea
Personally I find aesthetics an important part of programming. If it looks good to me then it often means I'm doing something right!

So I don't view it has cute but more it being succinct.
oh, sorry about that. well then we're in total agreement.
Try having triplets. A perfectly organized (and frugal) life suddenly becomes a huge priority, whether you like it or not.

In my case, I also took a minimalist approach and work towards getting rid of clutter, selling off spare computers or equipment for hobbies I don't have time for anymore.

I haven't had a "singleton" (single born child), but I can imagine the same organizational/simplifying demands are made of you, but to a lesser extent.
Reminds me of [Paul Graham]: http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html
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We can create anything and sell it and win

Show. Don't tell.

If you've got 5000 users in 3 months, surely you can get a lot more. You clearly know your domain and have built something which a lot of people found useful.

Build on your strength, don't jump ship because you are bored. Stick it out.

Most importantly, please please don't try to hide your projects. Just link to them, get some more users. I really don't understand why people do this on HN. You are just losing out on loads of useful feedback and connections.
I wonder at the many comments here that missed or ignored that the article's author was diagnosed with depression. That's a chronic and debilitating disease, only marginally better medicated now than in 1977. It does not deprive the sufferer of wit, interest, intelligence, craft or any other human value, as the article amply demonstrates.
Your choices are usually 1099 or W2 for longer-term contract gigs. If on W-2, they pay you just like an employee, taking out taxes and all that. They also have to pay half the FICA taxes in the US, so the rate is a little lower than it would be on 1099.
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Great, so now I can go back 7 days instead of 3.

Just imagine how (un)successful Google would be if it held only the last 7 days of web updates.
The challenge with generic search engine is the amount of un relevant results you will get. Try niche software product like farm management software and you will get 6.M results. You need a more efficient way to find and review business apps (with advanced filters capabilities) this is what getapp.com is about
I suspect the thrift store would need to sell on Amazon, with its broader customer base, in order to support itself with higher prices.

Another alternative would be to sell your books on Amazon yourself, at the going rate, and then donate the proceeds to a library or other organization that has local impact.
I really wouldn't want to be in a business that relies on bookstores never buying an affordable, easy-to-use tool that would increase their profits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesticide_%28toxic_to_bees%29

I haven't read GMO as a possible culprit, but I have seen monoculture, made possible by pesticides and GMOs, as a possibility. Industrial agriculture is rather sterile, not really providing a balanced diet for bees (or us for that matter). The cell phone thing is just batty though.
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In order to execute a strategy, you need tactics. In order to execute tactics, you need a to-do list.
A todo list is a tactic, not a strategy.
You're right in that it won't work as expected - unless the desk methods are static. In reality, you would probably want to call

desk[fn].call(thisContext, arguments);
I agree. I thought that the article's points contradicted each other and that it reads like a hastily-written lecture against the minimalism fad, whatever that is.

I assume the author was targeting the average person in regards to the "better person" comment, in which case a happier person does make a better person. Their confidence is improved, and thus they tend to be nicer to others. No need for an evil clause.
Facebook is giving you a platform that does one thing

But that one thing keeps changing at the whim of Facebook. The service 'evolves' and expects the users to do the same.

As a user adjusts to the facebook eco-system, some arbitrary fundamental change comes out, making the user constantly reevaluating their 'friend' relationships.

This can be a real time suck.
Actually because you can apply it to anything, it means that the things we learned in CS class are that much more useful.
Not to mention if you try using the a small Phillips screwdriver suitable for changing a plug to screw in the sort of screw you want for a sturdy book shelf (or vice versa) you're going to find yourself in all sorts of bother.

Then he got rid of his books so that's not an issue he has I guess...

Interesting that he does identify that you need more than one kitchen knife. Minimum for me is a decent general knife (say 7") and a bread knife.
I think they are using TMDB and Heroku for their hosting++ services.
Why would I permanently clutter my browser with a toolbar only for those 2 times a year that I'm looking for new software?

Why not just use google and/or one of the countless app-search outlets (versiontracker, cnet, etc.)?
And America is .ego.
Pretty much all of this is predicated on him being a senior citizen i.e. retired, he just made choices with his savings over the course of his live. It is a fair assumption that he paid far more in taxes than he consumed in poverty at the end of his life.
Were you actually intending to link directly to the comments section rather than to the top of the article? Am I the only one that finds that annoying?
As in many creative fields, a common goal for many game designers is to create a thought-provoking work of art that's also a runaway commercial success. Who wouldn't want to create the next SimCity, Minecraft, or Civilization?

But the harsh reality of the game industry often dictates that designers must choose between the two goals. And the harsh reality of having to eat and pay rent often dictates that one must prioritize the latter.

Zynga's success puts this tradeoff in the starkest possible relief.
There are few communities as awesome as the Civ modding community. They are one of the biggest reasons that the Civ franchise still exists today (awesome games notwithstanding).
Wait, so this idiot was trying to sell information to the Israeli government from Akamai?

There is no information that Israel could possibly want that Akamai wouldn't be more than happy to simply hand over, I'm fairly certain. Given how many people who work at that company are Israeli citizens ...
I love some of the frugal websites that are completely focused on price. You get list after list of special offers where you can get stuff for next to nothing but it's all utter crud. Some items, however cheap, are a false economy.
Firstly, it's a bit ridiculous that such lengths are taken to "anonymize" the country's name. Turns out it's not that hard to speculate, especially given the JTA article posted above.

What I'm really curious about is whether Country X approached the US with this information in an attempt to gain good "karma," or if the US approached Country X with an active investigation and they responded in a manner of "Oh, yeah...meant to tell you about that! Sorry!"
How embarrassing. I've managed to keep my problem a secret for so many years. $5 is entirely doable.
If only I could get my coworkers to see this. Sadly, they never will "get" it, since in my workplace, some people solely exist to schedule meetings.

I really need to get out of the cube.
how many people playing Farmville would have paid for Neverwinter Nights?

You just stumbled onto the real issue right there. All these people have been making amazing games, but they all appeal to the gamer market. Zygna has found out how to reach the the traditional non-gamer. It might be a hard pill to swallow, but the truth is that games like Farmville appeal to the majority of people who would never really pay for games before.
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I still have mine, but I only use it for mobile applications which need to be able to share on it. Now that my mom has a Facebook for our dog that has more pictures than I do, I just stopped.
Obviously, you have never worked as part of an office supply thieves guild.

Much of the guild's recruiting is done via Facebook.
Costco and Sam's Club both use exposed plywood at their checkouts where it probably would have been cheaper and easier to use plastic or metal signs.
HTML -- the new BASIC
http://www.nic.io/rules.html states that you may not host content under a .io domain if it is against the statutory laws of any nation.
I also find aesthetics important, but I don't find this more aesthetically pleasing; it pings the "something's wrong" feeling. Being succinct is a goal, but it's not the only goal.
So you are saying he has a moral obligation to not make use of the charity offered that he spent his entire life paying into?

Most people would argue everyone else has a moral obligation to not let our veterans starve to death after they paid taxes their whole lives, especially when you consider how little his existence actually costs us.