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I admit I was talking about the latter. I went with the tl;dr, didn't read your blog post, and made the assumption that you were talking about all free apps, not just the apps with paid subscription content being served through them.

That still leaves a lot of app developers who aren't Amazon or a large publishing house. Could be a pure SaaS company (whatever that means) that later came out with a native app. Or an app that falls in the gray area of charging a subscription for functionality but yet still handles "content," such as Readability or Instapaper.

Were all these developers expected to assume that they would become targets? I imagine this is where we still disagree. But do let me know if you were only talking about Amazon and other large content publishers.

Edit: small clarification question at the end.
Yes, you're right, of course. Sorry.
I don't think Indian SaaS startups should worry about the $500/transaction limit imposed by RBI. That's pretty huge for SaaS prices.

If you indeed want, there are plenty of alternatives:

http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/ , http://chargify.com/ , http://spreedly.com/ , https://cheddargetter.com/ , http://recurly.com/

Of these, Braintree looks most popular and is used by many big names.
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I don't disagree, though I would say plenty of things which are ridiculed are done so with good cause and don't get anywhere near the fighting or winning stage.

Just because you're being ridiculed doesn't mean you're on the right track, it might just mean that you're genuinely worthy of ridicule.

(Note: I'm not suggesting that Android is worthy of ridicule, just saying the fact that someone chooses to ridicule you says little about what might happen next).
That video, while cool, is tremendously misleading. Not only does he make a lot of unlikely assumptions assumptions (it should not be that easy to get someone's apache pid), but Facebook doesn't use php's build-in session management code at all.
You're right, it isn't the same. This analogy would make sense if Apple was exclusively selling the iPad through their retail stores alone (and maybe a partner, say Target) whereas all other stores (BestBuy, Staples, etc.) were selling Android tablets exclusively.

Google (and manufacturers) need to move with their tablets and get them at prices people feel comfortable purchasing them fast. Otherwise, iPads will become the next "iPod" where your average consumer associates tablet/slate pcs with an iPad.
Because I can't downvote you, I'll comment.

We do. A lot. Because we're not sitting in our parent's basements eating pizza and chugging mountain dew, we're not hacking the gibson and we're not sweaty, unbathed, pimply losers.

We're motivated, we're not planning to die anytime soon, we're concerned with being able to do things, we're social, we're active and we're sick of the stereotypes.

I'm going to make a massive assumption that your sarcasm was intended to hide the fact that you yourself are ashamed of your fitness. You can't hide behind your profession, your job or your peers. You are the reason you are unfit, unhealthy, eat badly and don't exercise. There truly is no-one else to blame.

But since you're here I assume you have a desire to change the world somehow, so I truly hope you're able to get past any shame and fear you may feel and do something about your problem.

If a feeling of inadequacy is not the problem, they you need to socialize more with hackers... Being a slob in the basement went out the window with the Apple Lisa and Gen X having hair.
The video show in indicator, doesn't it?
This way you know, that is something there.

I would be interested how many still use the
scrollbars instead of the scrollwhell of their mouse / scroll area on toachpad.

The advantage on touch devices is obviously clear, imo.
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It's worth noting that Stanford and Audi (an extension of the VW/Stanford work with DARPA) - will be competing in the upcoming Pikes Peak challenge. For those unaware, it's a balls out race up a mountain road. Asphalt, dirt, weather changes, and sheer dropoffs.

So far they've demo'd the car drifting and powersliding into parking spots:

Stanfords Audi (3min): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2UaYIHiiOA

As mentioned above, BMW did just that a while ago (2min):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50rbUfTYykc

Lastly (I can't view the video), Google mentioned a while back they've already put over 50,000 miles on their fleet.
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Expected this to be about Japanese comics.
I don't think it's funny, I think it's a case of Apple identifying genuine weaknesses with the product and addressing them - it's what they should be doing.
It's not just telecom either. Game consoles have always been closed. And we are starting to see apps running on TVs, in cars, and other places that definitely do not have the history of openness that the PC does.
I believe there are other models involved in the program; not just Prius-es.
> It's going to spike the hell out of my servers, obviously, which is going to cost

Seriously? Just throw it on some decent shared host to start with. E.g. Dreamhost (no affiliation) offers unlimited everything for $9. Yes, "unlimited" is rarely unlimited, and you will probably want to migrate to something better if it takes off - but there's no reason to spend a lot of money to start with.
I'm not sure if they do it but many projects use odd=unstable,even=stable version schemes including GNOME.
That's not true. Ipad apps are usually gratuitously more expensive and if you buy them, you won't be able to use the app on your iPhone and iPod too. For most apps I stick with the standard version. Mind you, I only use my iPad rarely, usually for distraction on plane journeys; not recharged more than once a month.
If they learn enough to get physical access to the machine that runs the script then you're already pretty much screwed, obviously. At that point the encryption is merely there to minimize damage.

Your machine could be confiscated coincidentally if you're involved in other things that make people angry. In this case, they may just gloss over any content irrelevant to the charges at hand. Anecdotes I've heard seem to corroborate that mode of operation. In such a situation, the email archives and/or the backup script may never come into play anyway.

You could also not use a script and do it by hand every day. It's just a trade-off of risks; you either do it manually each day and allow yourself to accidentally forget a day, or get lazy and let it go for weeks, or whatever, and keep that data in the hands of a third-party where you really have no idea what's going on with it, or you can put a script on your machine, where local analysis of your HDD could reveal you.

Also, there'd obviously have to be some unencrypted parts of this, but you could probably encrypt the part that contains the actual email address. You can just point a cronjob to a script that decrypts the real script and shreds it to your paranoia's satisfaction when done.

If the script can actually run fully automated (i.e., no passphrase needed), then that'd probably be a problem if someone got a hold of your workstation. So it really shouldn't be totally automated, but mostly automated would still be good.
In FreeBSD, it is extent-based, so a 300MB process might actually only have a couple dozen maps - heap, stack, program binary, and whatever dynamically loaded libraries.

I'd be shocked if it wasn't the same in linux.
Carrier argument doesn’t really come into it - we’re in the same situation in the UK but the iPhone’s been available on every major carrier since the 3GS.
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Great point. As Steve Jobs mentioned in one of the convocation speeches he delivered: "connecting the dots forward is impossible...but is is very clear looking backwards" - I don't remember the exact text but pretty much what he expressed.

Most often it is the ability to see the opportunities while messing with different things that seem interesting at that point of time and THEN running with that one idea seems to be one common theme of several successful entrepreneurs.
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There's a few cases where app developers have done this:

- Caldera's made the first graphical Linux installer, called 'Lizard'. Red Hat's competitor was called 'Anaconda' because anacondas eat lizards.

- Some angry Ruby people made an app called 'Fuzed' because they didn't like Zed Shaw.
I sometimes wish we could delete the entire fitness industry from the world and replace it with a few lines of text, something like this: eat right, exercise, get adequate sleep, reduce stress, get variety, use natural motions, breathe deep, get yourself winded intentionally from time to time, when in doubt walk, etc. The vast majority of people probably never need to go near a fancy weight machine or even lift artificial weights of any kind. Just carrying out normal actions in the Earth's gravitational field, putting your body through all the natural ranges of motion it's capable of doing, is actually pretty darn adequate, and can build muscle and improve figure and physical capabilities. I believe most of the industry is not much more honest than a shyster trying to sell snake oil.
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I would agree if the webserver was a functional replacement for apache in a production machine. What I mean is that, if the built in server is more efficient than apache and it can be used with performance gain (lets skip the middle man)
They also have incredible incentive to get in shape, and a ton of free time to kill, and tend to have problems with aggression. That adds up. And your own personal muscle mass and melee fighting capability is pretty much the only weapon the prison allows you to have.
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Forgive my ignorance but how exactly does being winded help somebody become fit.

By getting yourself winded do you mean being punched in the stomach hard enough to lose your breath for a moment, or something else?
Is there any reason this Craiglist app couldn't be a web app?
The big elephant in the room is that there actually is no product category of "iPad" for Apple to dominate. I agree with the Gruber of 6 months ago who thought that phones and tablets would merge into the same product category, which he called "tablets" and I'll call "webpads" since I think that's the key distinction between them and the Microsoft tablets and smartphones that preceded them.

Apple thinks there will be 3.5 inch webpads, and 10 inch webpads and that they are two totally distinct markets, so it doesn't matter if you lose share in one of them. Everyone else thinks you can have 3.5, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10 even 12 inch webpads and that they're made from 99% the same commodity hardware and software.

Android is in the process of returning Apple to single digit marketshare in the small webpad category, a story that tech churnalists have missed because they live in a rich, old, white, U.S.-centric, gadget-obsessed bubble. I'm fairly certain it'll happen even faster for the iPad.
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Oddly, in the Apple store I visited, you had to stand up to try the iPad.
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ie. go running. do jumping jacks. get your heart and lung going. push yourself beyond what your cardio system needs to do under normal/static conditions.
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Given he calls Crossfit sadistic it's ironic he's basically describing it. Free weights, core strength, a focus on overall fitness and all aspects thereof over abstract weight numbers. It's not complicated and plenty of people know it.

Hyperbolic headlines are intensely irritating.
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Something else — the feeling you get after some kind of strenuous activity that raises your heart/breathing rate. Running, for example.

What you're referring to is getting the wind knocked out of you.
"Why would a non-enthusiast buy an Android tablet based on the idea they they might get better over time, when iPads are good now?"

The same way that people bought Android phones when it first came out. Not everybody wants Apple.
In 2007, if you said you were going to download an app to edit a high definition movie on your smartphone you'd be institutionalized.

Why? I don't recall the first time I saw a phone that came with video editing software, but I'm pretty sure it was before 2007. So if someone had said "in a few years this software will be easier to use and can edit even higher resolution video than it can today", I would have replied, "well, that sounds obvious"
IDC predicts Android to be the second best selling smarphone OS in Europe Q1 2011, that is, now. The first is, of course, Nokia which undermines your claim that Apple dominates on a second level. (Also, in the UK RIM is, somewhat inexplicably, the premier choice for young people and recently overtook Apple's web market share).
I think he means more along the lines of "exhausted from exercise".
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They almost certainly don't mean "punched in the stomach hard enough to lose your breath for a moment", but rather "exercise (e.g. run) hard enough to lose your breath for a moment"
"They faced a crisis which did not yet have a name, but which seemed, at first, to have the potential to bring industrial society to a halt."

Hmm .... Did it now? And, did that happen?

And from where do we read this? 'Vanity Fair' you say?

That magazine is for what? For some especially emotional women, and a few similar men, worrying about their feelings about fashion?

Do the readers or the writers there actually know anything about computing? Or, instead, is all the content just yet another old media application of formula fiction as in "The sky is falling" or

"Oh, we got trouble.
Right here in River City.
Trouble starts with a 'T',
And that rhymes
with a 'V',
And that stands for 'virus'."

to grab people by the heart, the gut, or below the belt to get eyeballs for the ads?

More generally, the content is from old media 'writers' who, in old media, as in McLuhan's "the medium is the message", tried to write for the 'least common denominator' (LCD) of an audience of millions.

And what is that LCD? Technical? No. Emotional? Yes. Only a small fraction of the population is very technical, but a huge fraction is quite emotional. So, the "message" was all emotionalism and not rationalism and certainly not rationalism about technology.

Generally, then for any person A who works in field X, actually to get paid in field X the person A has to know something about field X, know more than the LCD of some audience of millions independent of X. Then when person A reads some old media LCD content about X, they conclude that the writer didn't know anything about X and once again tosses aside old media.

Here on HN we see the pattern clearly: It's super tough to find anyone writing for old media who can write as much as a single, significantly meaningful paragraph on computing without looking uninformed on computing.

So we are seeing "the medium is the message" again: Now the "medium" is the Internet which permits focused content from experts in that content, and the role of 'generalist writers' using formula fiction to grab people emotionally with LCD content is fading away.

With irony, Dear Vanity Fair: This time the sky actually is falling, on old media.

'Vanity Fair' RIP.
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Am I charging too high for design?
Hi. I am a freelance web designer. My portfolio is at www.madebyargon.com

I generally price my designs at $3000-$3500 for a full website redesign/ user interface design. This usually comes to around $40-50/hour which I think is fair.

I have noticed however that a lot of prospective clients, who absolutely love my design, find my prices to be too high.

Am I charging too high? How much would you pay for a redesign of your website or webapp?
It was with Camping (http://camping.rubyforge.org/) that i first came across the term "web microframework" and its probable that all subsequent usage stems from this?

However I believe the emphasis of microframework that Camping was trying to put across was more on its code size which came in at or under 4K [1]. So perhaps frameworks which also accomplish a small code footprint, for eg. Squatting (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Squatting/), are best called microframeworks [2]

However happy to use microframework for Sinatra, Dancer, Flask, etc in lieu for something better? (nepenthe suggestion in the comments of "convenience framework" seems good to me - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2286376).

[1] https://github.com/camping/camping/blob/master/lib/camping.r...

[2] https://github.com/beppu/squatting/blob/master/lib/squatting...
Yes, but that's usually in the second digit (e.g. 2.4 is stable, 2.5 is development) - switching from unstable to stable in a nominal patch release (third digit) is at least uncommon.
Exactly. The thing that gets me is people claiming they hate Apple and Apple products while eulogising competing products that are derived from a category that Apple defined in the first place.
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For what it's worth I've never heard what you describe called "winded". To me winded means getting the wind knocked out of you. I wonder if it is a regional thing.
It's funny because this kind of article always ends up recommending a simple, classic free weight program. Then you look at the gyms they refer to, and they've got people doing stuff like this:

http://www.mtnathlete.com/page.php?page_ID=2
architecture only starts to become interesting at 4-5 times their traffic.

Which suggests that even sites with a medium-to-large internet presence, which dominatre thier niche, can do so with "uninteresting" architecture.
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So true. I've only fairly recently gotten into crossfit, and although it is very hard, and very intense, everything he talks about the article is focused on, comes up in various crossfit workouts, as well as a hell of a lot more stuff that makes you so much more versitile than just strength. The thing i hate about crossfit is the "coach" thing, but that must be something I just dont get.
When I read "Politically incorrect", I was thinking of Jonathan Swifts' "A modest proposal" (http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html)
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No, your not. I won't even look at your portfolio.

I used to work in creative teams, and I've worked with colleagues who charge £500 a day in the UK. A lot of the value comes in not only the design, but how he packages it up.

(Just looked at your portfolio. I'd say your prices are good).
Do you have some kind of axe to grind? You write a lot of interesting comments/posts but this comes off as something more than a little hostile. Especially considering Marco didn't write anything remotely inflammatory.
I'd suggest tossing that figure into the original post. It's a nice visual hook.
That is wicked cool, thanks for the link. It must be awesome to be assigned a job like this, or being part of the crew implementing it.
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Now that iPhone is available on Verizon also, let's wait a few more months to see which way US market share (Android phones vs. iPhone) goes.
The sites look really good - I think they warrant $40-50/hr.

You may want to consider offering multiple "packages" if you don't want to lose those clients. $3000/$40 = 75 hours... if you offer a package that's 25 or 50 hours, you can lower the price and maybe keep the client.

That said,

1. You have to set expectations clearly - if they're not paying for a $3k website, they're not getting a $3k website. (most people will still expect that quality even if they're paying less, for whatever reason) Be clear with them about what they're getting.

2. If you have enough work at that price, don't bother. My guess from you posting this is that you want their business.
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I think the "advancement of mankind" piece might get you some flak but the basic concept sounds like what Steve Jobs was alluding to. My view of it is that Apple doesn't build technology for the sake of building technology. Every technological investment is married with a deep focus on how it is APPLIED in the real world hence the deep focus on user experience and app ecosystem. I think a good way to look at it is that Apple built the iPod because they LOVE music as a company. I know some people will think it's a marketing gimmick but it's clear that Jobs & Apple are true music fans and to them, the dearth of a player that could hold thousands of songs drove them to think about a solution that could solve that problem.
In .au "getting winded" means getting the wind knocked out of you.