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Ask HN: Where do you find good graphic/web designers?
I'm a web developer but I'll be the first to admit that I don't have a single designer bone in my body. So I always have to find someone to do the design for my web applications and websites.

However, for the life of me, I can't find anyone who is good, consistent, and reliable.

So I'm wondering what everyone else does when they need some good graphic design done.

Should I just go to 99designs and hope for the best? Or are the some designers/firms that you use all the time and could recommend?
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Feel free to add a couple of links

About chrome extensions:
You might like vimium http://github.com/philc/vimium
When you're looking at a line chart that starts at zero, it's very difficult to really understand what's going on unless there's a really huge amount of variability in the data. For example, charts of stock prices virtually never start at zero. Does that mean that, say, Google Finance is trying to deceive you into thinking that Apple's price went up ten times today? No, it means that they're assuming that you're not stupid and that you know how to read a chart. NASA very clearly labels the chart, and anyone who isn't astoundingly stupid or willfully trying to misunderstand the data can see very clearly that this chart starts at 160.
I don't mind my employees being 10 minutes late one day and 10 minutes early the other. I understand that, with variances, you need to shoot for the mean.
The guy could add a defamation claim to whatever else he pled in a lawsuit -- or it could just give him something to make gorilla dust [1] over.

[1] 2001: A Space Odyssey
The point of the post is to relate one person's experience.
Incidentally, they're going to allow PayPal on Andriod Market shortly:

http://www.thestreet.com/story/10880639/1/google-paypal-set-...

But I do agree: Google Checkout needs an eBay to subsidize its growth.
If you are looking for PT/FT employees, I would suggest http://authenticjobs.com

If you're looking for a freelancer or agency, I would suggest http://sortfolio.com (run by 37signals).

As a designer, I would almost never suggest crowd-sourcing design, be it 99designs or otherwise. Rather than go into detail here, I'd suggest you read http://www.no-spec.com/articles/ten-reasons/ (as well as the other few articles on that site).
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In addition to hbt's complaints, the ability to see responses to requests from Flash, and not ripping out get vars from the URL would be incredibly useful (our api all talks to the same endpoint, but the method name is the first get var, making it really easy to find the proper call in Firebug, and a bitch to do the same in Chrome developer tools
The word "gypped" is used indiscriminately by the average American as well.
I think there is plenty of interest in keeping them thinking about genitalia instead of politics, economy, propaganda and the environment.
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Old joke: Filing a lawsuit is like making love to a gorilla; once you start, you're not done till the gorilla is.
This is a wonderful area that you've addressed, definitely beats going through thick, heavy binders of invitation examples to select one. I wish this was around when I got married.
"Happy" societies discourage the pleasures of melancholy. They judge people who enjoy sad songs and rainy days, or who prefer to stay single rather than go through the motions of dating people they don't really feel strongly for. It's not that the society is happier, it's that it is more determined to keep up the image of happiness. Really, it's just another status game, and just underneath the surface of those games lies true misery. There is no satisfying outlet.
xen-users, xen-devel, NANOG (oh man, I'm about 8K messages behind on that one) freeside-devel opensc-user dns-operations svlug lopsa-tech wear-hard centos-virt freebsd-xen netbsd-xen and a few others. If I'm working on an open source project, even in a minor way I usually subscribe to the list so I can lurk and ask questions in a more intelligent manner... For a while I was on the qemu mailing list (I think I even posted a stupid patch.) I'm leaving off the -announce lists I'm on to listen for security vulns because I don't post there, but they are essential for any computer janitor. I'd recommend a search on "Luke S. Crawford" as most of these lists have public archives that are indexed by google and other popular search engines.

Actually, I'm sure you'll notice that I'm more active here than on any of those lists... this is probably a bad thing for my technical career development. (perhaps a good thing for my career development as a business person, though.)

Edit: just to be clear, I'm not saying you should ask an applicant what lists s/he is active on... by itself that won't give you that much information (well, except maybe that if a SysAdmin is not on a bunch of security announce lists, something is very wrong but expecting them to remember this data without going through their mailbox is pretty unreasonable.) you should figure that out. maybe ask them what usernames they use on technical forms that they'd like to share? (note, as an employer, you have to be careful not to be creepy when you do this. Most of us have a 'professional identity' we don't mind sharing... but you don't want to look like the kind of employer who goes through employee's myspace profiles looking for drunken party pictures.)
I think dollar sign should be before amount, not after.
There are very few perfect role models. I would argue that the best roles models are the ones who made mistakes, learned from them and then kept moving forward.

People also tend to hear themselves in music. They hear the parts they relate with and block out the parts they don't. I hear Jay-Z and hear a story about a kid who had nothing, did what he had to do to survive and kept working till he made it. You don't even have to go that deep into his tracks to start getting a lot of good motivational lyrics. He has an entire song (with some Notorious Big dubbed in) talking about never getting lazy to keep working and 'treat your last like your first.'
hm. for some reason, on second page it's correct =) so it's only on front page for me.
"Double-click on someone, and you're instantly logged in as them."

Ouch. I think it's time to set up that VPN I've been putting off...
Hmmm maybe I was thinking of an analogy to foreign relations.

You need to show this would-be invader that you DO have a military (lawyer) of your own and are capable of defending yourself. To discourage invasion. Once you have discouraged someone from invading outright, then you can hopefully work towards an "Obama beer summit" over a few pints http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32210408/ns/politics-white_house... Lighten the mood, initiate diplomacy, avoid seeing who has more nuclear missiles than the other.
I don't remember the last time I installed shrink-wrapped software. Adobe CS and Microsoft Office are both downloads these days and those are the only ones I have that I know come in a box too. No app store is needed and if you're big enough to be doing shrink-wrapped software, you're big enough to not want to pay Apple 30% to process your purchases.
That's the same mindset that AOL/Netscape & Jason Calacanis had...so much so that they even tried buying Digg's top users.
Look how that turned out.

Seeing something built, or being built and building something are two completely different things.

It's the same thing with games. Watching someone playing a game and seeing how effortlessly they make it look, is completely different than playing it.

You could make a passable Digg clone, but it would not be successful. Hence my point. It's NOT easy to build a web company, otherwise everybody would be doing it.

If it were that easy, and assuming that Mr. Lyons is a rational individual, why does he not build one himself? He could easily make a few million dollars by listening to his own advice.
Hmm..

(Checks fingers for signs of metal talons)
It sounds like a good story waiting to be told, not embarrassing. So many of our lives are spent following the path society has carved out for us; it's refreshing and interesting to hear about someone who had a desire outside of the mainstream and followed to an extreme.

Did you join one of the go cram schools?
Actually, while that was my first thought as well, it depends on the underlying implementation. I'm not positive here, but I think that the characteristics of the regex engine could allow you to recognize the difference between /a+/ and /a{1,1000}/. That said, I haven't done anything to this end yet -- we'll see if my idea remotely pans out. It'll certainly require knowing what regex engine you're attacking, unlike just generating data.
i did not recognize this until recently so i sympathize; but the chrome inspector has a javascript environment superior to firebug. i do suppose this is arguable, though.

more objectively, you can definitely review ajax requests in the inspector- and I actually think this feature is superior as well.

interestingly, I actually learned to love the chrome inspector because I was so fed up with using firefox in general (enough so that it's debugging capabilities did not outweigh the cons).
I just started mine recently, uploaded the first version on heroku yesterday. I got the initial idea from challenge.greplin.com.
http://codingchallenge.heroku.com
I do not know your name, but for example, projectgus gives me 3400 Google results: blog, twitter, github, and then the rest of the top ten are "something something Project - Gus Winters, something, ..."

So 3400 is a poor rating metric. But what metrics from the list of HN, StackOverflow, /., reddit/prog, yahoo answers, MIT Media Lab, web site PR, Citseer mentions, etc. could constitute a good ranking? Sure, a Nobel Prize is a shortcut. I am talking about a proxy or data model for finding and sorting.

If it can be automated, it will be.
my take:

anyone who does things with the wisdom of an 80-year-old sailor, the efficiency of a 45-year old BMW factory worker, and the enthusiasm of a 3-year-old with finger paint
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Honestly, now that I think about it, my biggest gripe is that Firebug lite on Chrome feels like an add-on. On Firefox, it feels native, and thus more usable (to me).

I've toyed around with various bookmarklet utilities to aid front-end developers. Firebug lite feels like one of those to me. I (maybe wrongly) perceive those as lightweight utilities.

Based on your comment, it sounds like my issue may be more with usability than functionality. I haven't even given the lite version enough of a chance since I didn't realize the JS debugger might be superior.

For the record, most of the time I'll use Firebug to tweak/debug some CSS. I'll also use it to track down JS issues. I've recently started to use it for server-side debugging with a couple php extensions.

Right now, Chrome is my primary browser (OSX). I'd love to use it exclusively, but I still find myself bouncing between the two when developing. (Sometimes I find myself getting lost in a cycle of Safari, Chrome and Firefox windows, but that's a whole 'nother issue.)

Edit: Fixed my use of parentheses.
> Why would they be operating a cab service?

Because, per San Francisco city bylaws, cab services, and only cab services, can pick up people immediately. Limo Services must arrange pick-ups at least one hour in advance.
Well, I would specify a good functional language as one I enjoy coding in. So far that has been SML/NJ and Racket (PLT Scheme). For some reason I did not enjoy F#, and I blame that more on the strangeness of the .Net libraries than the syntax of the language. Also it has been a year, so maybe the language has changed / I don't entirely remember all of the problems I had.
> - keyboard shortcuts for debugging (go to line, create breakpoint)

F1 shows shortcuts.
⌘G: Go to Line

How do you create a breakpoint with shortcut?
Yes, definitely. Lots of people need a temporary information line for event management - giving out directions to a location is a chore for everything from baby showers to rock concerts, and every person calling in is tying up one of the organizers for the same amount of time.

Bridging computer to internet is still more difficult than it should be, and people don't always have a microphone of any quality hooked up to their PC. I don't even though I own a ton of pro audio gear I'm too lazy to set up Skype. The simplicity proposition here is great.

What you need is to let people do it for free but if it gets (or will get) more than X calls in a given period, they need to pay 5c each or maybe a flat fee per hour they want the service to be up. Be aware that you could find yourself dealing with huge volume spikes if someone gives out this number as part of a commercial promotion, like thousands of calls in an hour.

Suggestions...

Look into setting up an 800 number
Check your phone contract so you don't go to bed one night and find yourself owing $43 million when you wake up
Try some other names, this sounds very like 'Go Daddy' mixed with babytalk. Sorry, I'm a real name snob.

Good concept.
California law stated that limousines must be dispatched on a private hire prearrangement basis, regardless of if the reservation is an hour before or not. The vast majority of the limousines services in the united states offer last minute dispatch services if available. This is a in all effects and excuse to stop UberCar, not a requirement.

Let's say I arrived at the airport and forgot to book my limo. You're telling me that I can't call a limo service and ask for one? And that if I do I have to wait an hour? That's not how it works nor how its stated by the law.
Useless is a bit harsh. It is, after all, a big web app that is nothing but fresh screenshots and reviews of apps. Somehow my friends and I manage to find tons of awesome apps all the time.

Google can be pretty awful to find software on. Search for "os x audio recorder" on it and you get one or two direct links to modern software, and the rest are really old or link jacked pages.

A search for "audio recorder" on the App Store is a remarkably different experience. The top hits are well written and well-reviewed apps.

So what is better for "discovery"?
It depends on which side of the dollar sign you click. If your click falls to the left, you'll end up with the dollar sign in the wrong position.
The last thing I want to do when hailing a cab for a 4 minutes drive is check ebay-style reviews. I just want a cab to appear in front of me when I step out of a building.
It's almost never legal to possess cocaine in the U.S. - it's a schedule II drug. Alcohol is not a controlled substance. AFAIK, I (as a private citizen - not a business) am allowed to serve alcohol to anyone I choose, as long as they are over 21 years of age.
This looks really cool. I can't wait to try this out. Very nice work, Eric.
Fast. I wanted to do something like this for code-completion, but with tagclouds. Still do in fact.

In searchforphp.com, function names are search-completed alphabetically. Could you sort them by their usage? Such as token frequency in a corpus of actual PHP source code?
I thought the title of this submission was slightly misleading. This is not a security vulnerability from within Firefox, it's a Firefox plugin to reveal security vulnerabilities in a wide range of websites.
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I couldn't install it on FF 3.6.9 on Windows XP.
It's not a taxi service. It's a Limousine/Black car service. And Ubercab only provides the dispatch operations and facilitate payment, not the transportation service itself
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I think it's OK when it's not a top. The title is just stating the fact that 15 extensions are listed.
#3 - Jay-z is a man who made his money ruining the lives of thousands by selling drugs, and millions more by being a horrific influence. He is a man who has admittedly attempted murder on more than one occasion. He is a man who has used and debased women proudly. He is a man of many transgressions. And I could look past all of them if he did not glorify them so.

So I'll assume you have been perfect your entire life? He raps about what he knows and who he his, and he wasn't perfect. If you have listened to more than a lyric or two off the radio you would hear him rapping about being young and stupid and growing up and maturing.
Are you saying a Martini made with Martini Bianco + lemon juice, or Martini Bianco + lemon juice?
Thanks for your "analysis". Clearly you've given this a lot of "thought". We've obviously "progressed" since the 80s, and I feel very "reassured" that "race" and "class" are no longer barriers to social mobility.

If a quote needs more context to have impact, then it is a shitty quote...

Is that why you conveniently left off the tail of your own quote? For "impact"?

"He says he'll always rap about variations on the same themes: drug hustling, business boasts, luxury hopscotching from Gucci to Louis Vuitton to the new Dior suit he says is a perfect fit.They're all narrative devices:"
Difficulty in regulating at scale? A license is more than just a badge that means "I paid a fee."
Thanks!

Actually I was looking into doing that. I just need to get a large enough corpus to crunch on. I will probably download a few of the larger CMS's and frameworks and do this.
I really wonder how many people would be saying the same thing if he were white.
"Technical degrees are valued in all fields"
Can't we just have exercise bikes linked to generators in economy class?

About time the lower orders did some work.
You need WinPCap installed. Just FYI.
What was the error?
Not me. Co-founder (3-person team) is @mediamum who is doing a PhD as a Research Assistant at the School of Computer Science at CU (alum include David Morin from Facebook and Woz). She's doing research into the use of social media for crisis communications (hurricanes, wildfires etc) in the Crisis Informatics Lab there. Doesn't hang out on HN so much (must be startup and PhD getting in the way).

Interestingly, Woz got kicked out of the CS school at CU for hacking side projects on the timeshare system as an undergrad - something other schools might have encouraged, and which CU today I am guessing would also not frown on the same way.
Unsure, and somewhat.

You had a good idea and I guess technical skills, he has good judgement and business skills.
"December 6, 2005"
Sorry if it was misleading somehow, this is definitely not a vulnerability in Firefox. It's a Firefox extension that makes it easy to execute HTTP session hijacking attacks.
Thanks! If you or anyone has any problems, email me (eric@codebutler.com) with the details.
Want some help? There is a contact page on the website listed in my profile. I have side projects. Maybe we could trade tasks.
I wonder what could have caused these to evolve.

After all, our ancestors spent the vast majority of their time outside in the open air. Air quality really shouldn't have been an issue almost all the time, and on the odd occasions when it was (eg you somehow get into a cave where the air is bad) this wouldn't help much.
I'm a relatively active HN user. This is a throwaway, because I'm not "out" as a girl on HN.

I have not applied, and I'm not going to, because my husband would never let me spend 3 months in SF by myself (and he has a job where he couldn't come with me.) And this is not a hypothetical, we've discussed it and he put his foot down.
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"As normally used" is part of the problem. How something is normally used has nothing to do with what it is.

General semaphores? I'll easily grant that would be difficult. Not impossible, but likely wasteful and a PITA.

Binary semaphores, which is where the debate lies? Store a whoDecremented thread pointer, cleared on increment. Which is functionally identical to Dekker's algorithm[1] and Eisenberg and McGuire's algorithm[2], except they require storage for all possible waiting threads, instead of the single storage of a semaphore.

edit: links: [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekker%27s_algorithm [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenberg_McGuire_algorithm
Really? You think the US Secretary of Defense has a list of every civilian killed by Al Qaeda/Taliban forces in Afghanistan?
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Wow that's pretty sick.
That has a lot to do with the way they prepare most of their seafood dishes - steaming with mild seasoning. And since most people don't have access to ovens at home in China, steaming and pan frying are pretty much the only ways they do fish. They don't mind bony little fish so long the flesh tastes right which is crucial for steaming applications. That's why they demand live seafood.
Us Americans on the other hand, when we think of fish, we think of fillets, with all sorts of crusts and glaze and whatnot, which often overwhelm the subtle taste of the fish itself.
This is a cool idea. Love telephony stuff.
I was late to an interview once. I could have blamed public transport, but in reality is was poor preparation and planning that caused the issue (forgot to take a map and tried to work on memory). I'm not talking 5 minutes late, I'm talking over 30 minutes late. It's the only time I've ever been late for an interview in my life.

They still gave me the job. I was uneasy about this at the time, but accepted. It was a bad choice, and I was a bad fit. The fact that they brushed off this bad mistake without mentioning it should have been an indicator to me that any amount of sloppy mistakes would be tolerated by their staff. And thus it was proved so.
Hey, if I could get something out of it (like fare), I'd gladly pedal away.
A more comical interpretation, arguing that this test leads these cabbies to have mutant brains:

http://everything2.com/title/Mutant+brains+of+London+cabbies
If equity issues have been resolved, just give him the 'founder' status and hope he takes it - I mean really takes the site as his baby as opposed to just the title. You want as many people as possible rooting for your success and if a title is all that you need to do it to make it happen then I think you should totally do it.
Is there another application besides the FF extension to dump the packets and process them? How does this work?

EDIT: Sorry, I asking specifically how this FF extension works.
> The experience of other cities over many years has shown that open-entry "deregulation" of taxis is poor public policy. . . . In a nutshell, the problem is that the capital costs of entering the taxi business are low. In an unregulated market, anyone with the price of a used car can enter the business. While this may sound good to free-market fans, experience with taxis has shown that quality goes down, prices go up, and public safety is compromised.

So there you have it: the taxi cartels want regulation to keep prices low.
>Difficulty in regulating at scale?

The per-licence cost of regulating should go down with increased scale (unless there's something really surprising I'm not considering).

>A license is more than just a badge that means "I paid a fee."

I don't understand what you mean here. I said the licence should reflect the cost to the city for doing the regulating. And the regulating should include stuff like ensuring the meters work, checking insurance, etc.