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I think the problem comes down to the kind of market and audience you're attracting. As a freelancer you really have to position yourself for the right market that corresponds to your rates. HN is a very designer/entrepreneur driven community. my guess is that people on HN would want to spend less money on design and more on development.

I would update your website itself also. To me your website doesn't speak the same level of sophistication as the piece you see in the portfolio. Your website represents your self and your identify as a designer. Dress it up a bit, this is your best chance to really showcase your design sense and originality. As many other people mentioned before, package your product well.

As a full time freelancer, you should spend at least 30-50% of your time marketing yourself and networking with potential clients. Building a solid customer database and having these customers refer you to perspective employees are most important if you want to have a consistent flow of work.

Are you really putting your work out there? Here's a quick checklist to get the ball rolling.

1. Do you regularly update your portfolio with new pieces?
2. Do you have a profile on all the designer networks? (behance.net is a good one to start with).
3. Do you keep in touch with your past clients and make sure they're happy with your work?
4. Have you considered starting a blog that would attract potential customers with valuable information about graphic design and design theories that they could use for their own projects?

I think with the quality and level of work in your portfolio you certainly deserve to get that rate. I've worked with other designers who charge twice as much as you do, but then again, they all presented their web presence really well. When a customer tells you your rates are too expensive, it doesn't necessarily mean that they don't have the budget. It could mean that they don't perceive your value at the price you quoted. As long as you can convince your clients that you're worth every penny and MORE, you should have no problem getting the rates you want.
First, I realized that we all live in a kind of Fitness Fog, a miasma of lies and misinformation that we mistake for common sense, and that makes most of our gym time a complete waste.

The big news here, is that there are many kinds of such mental fog. You can read this article and learn how to get fit more effectively, but there is an even deeper lesson here.
You do realize that the bulked up guys probably weigh a lot more than you do so the number of achieved pull-ups is not an interesting measure?

The really bulked-up ones most likely train for muscle mass, not for any useful activity.
as if every iOS developer sells subscriptions…
I don't think you will be disappointed with Kaminari, it extends the new query interface really nicely. As for CarrierWave, I find it a lot more flexible than Paperclip.

Also, I hadn't seen Rack SSL Enforcer, thanks for that!
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Ok, I get it there is no place for humor here. Xkcd can do it, I can't. Well I have a great respect for google as a company, that's the company I have always dreamt of working for, and my real feelings about this are that I feel great respect and a tad bit of jealousy for our real life iron men larry and sergey who backed by their enormously successful businesses can work on their world changing toys.
Yeah, you're probably right (esp. the fake origin argument). But:

- Algorithmic filtering is an arms race, I still get SPAM in gmail almost every day (albeit just one or two).

- Legal action is out of reach for most people (probably everybody who is outside of the US/EU).

- Just flaggin 'em as spam has lost the "HA - there you go: I just FLAGGED YOU AS SPAM!!!" feeling over the years, now it is more like "Duh hum another spammy email. Flagged it again".
"Remember the times where we used to drive our cars?"

That looks really cool although I'm also interested in how it works. Any infos there?
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This is exactly my problem. It took me a while to figure out just exactly what problem it solves.

Their frontpage, while humorous, doesn't explain this very well at all. A line or two about what Sinatra does and some examples what to use it for would increase usability of the page enormously.
Same: Chrome 11.0.686.3 dev / Win7

Only supported in Opera 9: http://canvaspaint.org/blog/2006/12/flood-fill/
MySpace intentionally delegated a good chunk of the UI/UX to the individual users. This was a mistake.
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Increased density of cars on the road has the potential for a huge economic wins, in terms of getting governments out of widening highways to increase throughput.

Automated cars would be be able to (one day) receive information about down-the-road conditions and congestion which would enable the automation of William Beaty's "jam busting" techniques at a more expansive scale: http://amasci.com/amateur/traffic/trafexp.html (For example, slowing down gradually, rather than screeching to a stop as you pile into the back of a jam.)
OK, let me see if I got this right:

1. Identify any Windows desktop program that most people need.
2. Build an equivalent app that will run in any browser.
3. Migrate everything to the cloud (whatever that means).
4. Give everyone an iPad with 4G.
5. Get rid of the network.
6. Get rid of IT.
7. Get rid of all desks, chairs, phones, and break rooms.
8. Get rid of the corporate office.
9. Build 24,000 more Starbucks.
10. Get back to work.

What did I miss?
University of Virginia's Apology for using slave labor in the execution of Jefferson's plan [2007/4/27].

http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=1933
"Don't eat what your grandmother wouldn't recognize". is how I've heard it being summarized. :)
Most of the alternatives you listed don't support Indian merchants last I checked.
"Be verbose. As verbose you can be. If you can say something in one sentence or three paragraphs (with three overlapping or identical examples), choose the latter. Searching for signal in lots of noise is a favourite pasttime of many developers."

Pot, kettle, black, etc.
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Did I miss the part where first-mover advantage became anti-competitive behaviour?
The difference here from malaria would be that our bodies evolved, adapting to the nutrients that we were getting. We're more efficient on them -- more capable of living 'natural' lives.

[Of course, whether a 'natural' life is desirable is debatable.]

Malaria, however, we attempted to evolve away from(sickle cell anemia).
That's precisely why the "nature intended us to" argument doesn't really work for me when I hear people trying to convince me to try the Paleo diet. Whatever the benefits might be (besides making the author of those books a good chunk of money), they can be garnered by other means. What I hate even more is when a few devotees of such diets go on a slant about vegetarianism/veganism etc. etc.
Starbucks needs those lounging chairs you always see in the commercials. Otherwise you don't look sufficiently cool when iPadding.
Even twitter does that! Yet we are yet to see horrendous profile pages on Twitter. Reasons:

1) Twitter crowd is "relatively sober" (no data to prove this).

2) Twitter does not go all out on the options. The tools are limited to a huge extent with a majority of page still covered by tweets esp in the new design. Hence less chance of the user to play their part.
Even better solution: ask to be paid for (non developer-to-developer) support. The best way to prevent DOS is to have a price. Not that it makes interacting with such jerks fun, but at least you get something in return.
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Hi

Is there a git of sorts for these random generators like Ykombinator, livethesheendream etc?

If not, is it possible to make one of these in 3 to 5 hours? Can't imagine the stack is too big.
For TacFit, what resources do you have (or would recommend)? I found one very shady looking website selling some DVDs and a book...
Absolutely. Since that event, I've helped run a few others, to the point where I became a Global Facilitator for Startup Weekend - I just returned from running Startup Weekend Tel-Aviv. I can tell you that you don't need an idea to pitch; in fact, joining a team can be just as much fun as forming your own.
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Twitter profiles can get pretty tacky.
3. It’s tougher to monetize on Android

5. Android’s OS is tougher to build on.

8. Building a “smooth” app on Android is harder.

THESE are the reasons I should build on Android? Am I being Punked!?
5 mile run on the treadmill at an x minute pace is the same as a 5 mile run outside at an x minute pace.

LOL. Go run outside. You have no idea what you're talking about.
I could be wrong, but Twitter doesn't allow custom CSS, cursor changes, scroll tags, and it doesn't let you blast horrible horrible music in the faces of their readers. That, to me, is a plus.

It's a little weird since I prefer to give the users as much control as allowable when I write applications for them... but this has shown me that sometimes great power is not always treated with great responsibility :)
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I was playing with a Xoom at a Verizon booth yesterday.
So they don't want a lower priced product, but they don't want the higher priced product either?

Confused now. :)

Is it the price or the outcome you're talking about here? I'm not talking about offering a "lower price product", I'm talking about offering your clients a little flexibility to suit their budget (while covering your own bases in terms of time spent on any project).

In any case, there's nothing to stop you from communicating that you're willing to discuss options on the quote if they're willing to make concessions wrt your time/revisions.

Maybe I'm just misunderstanding. Good luck all the same!
The first book on Astronomy that I read was very old. The author praised Einstein for his work, but he was skeptical about the expansion thing. His opinion was that even a slight unknown effect in how light travels between galaxies for millions of years could explain the red shift that's usually attributed to expansion.

I don't even understand the maths that justify it, so I won't dare to even have an opinion. But I find it strange how can "we" know so much about objects at monstruous distances. Most of this knowledge is based in a chain of facts that could be invalidated if only one of the links breaks.
(This article reminds me of Nokia, whose software divisions must have suffered at the hands of hardware-dominated managers.)

Solaris x86 could have been a viable challenger to Red Hat had it been open sourced and free. Unfortunately, the presence of Linux-as-a-movement and IBM's backing meant that Solaris's success was far from assured. A movement is like an earthquake. By the time the earth is shaking it is already too late.

Java did well on the server-side, but Java on the client-side left a big vacuum which Adobe proceeded fill. I remembered the early days of AWT where the demos ran better on Microsoft's JVM than on Sun's JVM. Sun Java was far from performant then. Meanwhile, Swing was designed to look good on Solaris but is pretty much alien-looking on Windows. It was excruciatingly slow in the early days. I remembered how refreshingly fast SWT ran on Eclipse 1.0.
MySpace allowing CSS etc. in their profiles was initially a bug. Their code was just bad, not escaping user input.

They were on such a growth trajectory, and users loved being able to customize their pages, that they made it into an official feature.
Well, let him say it in a month's time. Until then, it's not true -- technically or otherwise.

It's what Mr. Jobs likes to call a "future-truth".
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That is why all the training programs tell you to start out lifting light (even just the bar by itself) and gradually add weight over time as your technique improves. If you use common sense and follow the guides you won't get hurt.
There will doubtless be lots of peripheral benefits from this piece of research. But private vehicles being automatically driven on the road ? Is Ford/Audi/Chrysler going to swallow the liability implications ? Look how much they get burnt by questionable brake cables....
Twitter lets you change only the colours and the background. The rest of the page elements are the same across every profile.

MySpace let you change anything and everything, because it allowed custom HTML and CSS. There are plenty of examples where entirely different types of profiles were used, including Flash ones, which could be used with little more than copying and pasting HTML and CSS, e.g. http://www.flaashy.com/index.php?m=Layouts&e=view&id....
It was sarcasm. The point was that the iOS vs. Android wars pale in comparison to potentially world-changing research like this.
Interesting, didn't know that. It makes me wonder if the success Apple has had in mobile is due to their better understanding of software. Has Sony/Ericsson iterated on their video editing feature? Apple definitely gets that software is never done; I can't think of another mobile device company that constantly improves not only the core (i.e. OS) software but also improves its value adds (iBooks, GarageBand, iMovie, iWork, Remote, etc...) RIM comes to mind, but I don't have much experience with RIM devices.
Note that, witty and knowledgeable as he is, Clarkson isn't exactly the most reliable and unbiased source on the merits of cars he dislikes.

Disclaimer: I have an M3, not a Prius. But I average 27mpg.
The craziest ideas are the best ;) and what's crazier: a car on rails or a self driving Prius from a search and advertising company ?
You can read on a laptop ...

It's not about exclusivity.

The thing with the Kindle (I've only used one briefly) and the iPad (I love my 1st gen) is that they do some things better than a laptop.

Reading is better on a Kindle or an iPad - especially curled up on the sofa - than a laptop.

Sketching is better on an iPad than on a laptop.

Browsing in bed is better on an iPad than on a laptop.

Typing is much worse on an iPad than a laptop.

I'm particularly looking forward to Garageband (and I've spent a lot on music apps for the iPad) because it looks like it will be better than Garageband on a laptop (although I admit that's a prediction - one I'm willing to gamble five quid on).
That's because your form stinks. Squats and deads don't hurt you unless you do them incorrectly.
except they have "tablet" somewhere in their name
That's not at all true. In addition to the lack of variation in stride that gaius points out, it's almost impossible to not cheat on a treadmill and let it do some of the work for you, and there's no wind resistance.

Treadmills have their place - for warming up a bit before some other kind of exercise, or as a replacement when the weather or traveling keeps you indoors - but they just aren't equivalent to real running. 5 minutes on a trail will tell you that.
#2 Since the iPad 2 wasn't shipping at all, its volume is 0 at the time this was said. That much is inarguable, full stop. Ergo it is a lie.

#3 Provide documentation then, don't guess. Since you're obviously an Apple fan (not saying there is anything wrong with that), guessing will only provide numbers and situations that you want -- confirmation bias.

For it not to be a lie, Apple must own not 88% of the market, not 90% of the market but some number larger than 90%. And yes, include Nook colors since they're Android tablets and sold out and back-ordered where I live. And include Windows tablets. And include cheapo Walgreens Android tablets, and RIM tablets and Nokia tablets, convertable notebooks/netbooks, netpads and whatever other random tablet form factor is out there today. If you want to constrain the form factor to "a big screen that you touch and carry around" so that it excludes Kindles, I think that's fine and makes sense. Here's some lists of tablets so you can start your research.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet_personal_computer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet_computer

Unfortunately, all indications are that Apple owns somewhere between 85-88% of the tablet market today. Which is a fantastically impressive number considering that Microsoft has been trying to build the tablet market for many years and Apple's only been at it a fraction of the time. That is the number that should have been presented, it's an amazing number. There's no reason to fabricate a number and lie.
They already did it a few years ago in a self-driving BMW. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRF_KaWzxq4
I thought there were quite a lot of apps for the iPad at launch, thanks to an early SDK release. At least there was talk of another app-store gold rush, stories of non-US developers flying to the US for the launch day just so that they could immediately check whether their already published app worked on the real device, etc.
I have seen some pretty poorly done twitter pages. At least they didn't take it to the level that myspace did with flaming text, music, videos, pictures, and embedded objects all on one page sometimes playing simultaneously with no visible controls.

And most of the interaction with twitter is rarely done with the userpage. I visit twitter.com, maybe, 20 times a month. The rest of the time its used through an intelligently designed app.
Speaking of the marriage between mathematics and biology. Is there an online repository or books of 'recipes' for fractal models of real plants or landscape features? There are things like fern fractals, plant-building grammars or random fractal landscapes, but as of yet no systematic attempt to (publicly?) describe natural features through procedural means.
Actually it kinda reads exactly like cutting out cardio for the most part, though admittedly I only skimmed through it. Perhaps it isn't communicating its point very well?

Personally I heavily favour cardiovascular fitness over muscular fitness, and would choose the former in a heartbeat (ahaha) if I had to pick one. Currently I cycle and do astanga, though I plan on adding some low-rep strength training to the mix too.
My experience has been that 20 minutes on a treadmill is equivalent to about 15 minutes outside.
Also air resistance, which is zero when you're stationary.
You spat out: "So what about 'engaged' in the article by the third grade teacher?" but didn't bother to answer it.

You say you and I are in agreement; I thought I was in agreement (on that point) with the author; you imply you are in disagreement with the author. I must say, I'm confused.

As for the rest, I might be assuming that Canadian and American public school education is more similar than it actually is. Maybe what you have to say about the state of American education is less hyperbolic than I take it to be. I've lived in Japan for the last 13 years, though, and comparing the to-the-test Japanese system with its long hours of rote learning and cram schools, I definitely think the Canadian system produces better results (and the UN seems to agree). The impression left in my mind by the article was of a Canadian-like system shifting towards being more like a Japanese-like one. It may be these assumptions that have us talking at cross purposes.

Although I must assert that, while I think tests are an important gauge, "teaching to the test" is a short-term goal that, in my experience, leads to a lot of cramming and very little long-term learning. (personally, though, I never crammed---I paid attention in class, although it didn't always look like it)
>>Realistically, if you have maybe 1500 of the most popular apps, you have enough to pretty well serve the market.

Yes, that's the point. It's just that iPad now has so many good quality apps compared to Android. It _may_ change in future, but for the time being iPad wins. (The total number of apps never matters, most of them are crap anyway)
What would happen if every time I flag an email as spam in my gmail, it would automatically send a bounce to the sender?

Gmail would get blocked as a spammer, because...

sometimes the sender is spoofed

...so they would be sending spam to the spoofed sender, who doesn't want to read the spam either.
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The flip side to the caveman diet is that 1) it wasn't particularly planned. They eat what they could, when they could, and 2) There was a pretty major exercise component that went along with it, in that if they didn't hunt / fish / forage, they died of starvation.

The main issue with obesity is that people can easily afford to be obese and not too significantly impact their lives (aside from all health and social malaise of being overweight).

Eating how a caveman ate isn't a particularly bad diet, but misses out on the major aspect of a day filled with exercise.
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You could make the same point about profit but most metrics are difficult for start ups as obviously start ups may spend a significant time with low revenue or profits intentionally.
Or that we're in a bubble, it's just not quite as large as the last one?
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This was what struck me, it seems to be a fairly clear pointer to a lowering of standards (unless someone can come up with a convincing reason why start ups have suddenly got significantly more viable in the last couple of years).

"This is actually a great time to be a startup founder" - yep, so was 1999, no business plan needed, just a half baked idea and people will start throwing money at you. This is not necessarily a good thing.
After looking at google maps/earth, especially street view, I would say they used driving data from that to feed the car driving learning mechanism.
Us not readily acquiring the malaria virus is not due to evolution of our genes; we just don't live in the areas where the vector thrives. If you and I were bit by an infected mosquito, there's a very good chance either of us would die in a relatively short period of time. Although, there are some in Africa who do have fewer chances of acquiring it due to them being heterozygotes for sickle cell anemia.

Anyway, I'm not discounting the underlying concept of your comment; I'm just saying that malaria wasn't a particularly apt comparison.
Looked up the NYTimes article... it's also installed on an Audi TT.
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Just off the top of my head, there's Katie Cotton and Allison Johnson - someone who knows Apple better can correct me, but I'm pretty sure both are VPs.
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"I guess if he were that smart he would be making a positive impact on the world and not doing this."

If he were that smart, he wouldn't have been caught, and we wouldn't be reading an article about it.
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