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As a rule, you can toss every response you get in the first hour. As you've noticed, there are tons on people on those sites who send out the same canned proposal to every single listing. That level of attention is a good indicator of how the rest of your project will go if you're foolish enough to take one of them on.

Wait a few days. If you've written a good project description (and if you're a bit lucky), you'll start to see a few qualified proposals trickle in.

This is the main problem with freelancing sites. The race to the bottom finished years ago, and the result is that there are simply no good developers or designers left there. It's actually an opportunity waiting for talented newcomers, since a single person showing up and acting professionally would get the job described by this poster (and everybody else who goes there seriously looking to build something).

I took the time to write up my experiences with these freelance sites a few years back:

http://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/2007/09/how-to-fail-at...
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> If money, or geography, or whatever is preventing it, they'll still do the best they can to make sure they don't miss anything.

I live in Romania, and unfortunately for those a little older than me the '80s were pretty hard times, with us being on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain and living under a dictatorship. Nevertheless, people couldn't care less, they were still listening to Radio Free Europe for the latest "decadent" music charts, even though that could have meant their parents losing their State-controlled jobs or even going to prison.

So, yeah, trying to impose stupid barriers (be them real or virtual) has never worked and they'll never do.
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They'd still need to differentiate between shows that they could show to a US viewer and ones which they couldn't (because they didn't have the rights to international distribution - for instance most sport, any drama they've bought in and so on).
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Seems to be my pattern. I've got to increase my rates 100% in last 6 months, and I have still had to say No to some customers/additional work, because of enough work.

I've got encouraging comments from my customers, but dont think I am that good. (Probably/Hopefully Dunning-Kruger effect in play).
I'm not speaking purely about referrals. I'm talking about learning from your would-be-but-not-now-customers how their acquisition process actually works. How do they find out about solutions? Are there trade journals they read? Conferences they go to? Blogs they follow?

In other words, you say "Bob, I understand that you're not interested in buying my solution now-- that's fine. But if I wanted to reach a dozen more guys in your position, what would be the best way to do it?"
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It all began when a user pasted the value of the jsText variable in the address bar. The script create a new script DOM element and append it to head injecting the malicious links (so that there is no more need to run the bookmarklet-like link.)

The problem here is that the (old) Facebook prompt_page.php page:

http://www.facebook.com/connect/prompt_feed.php

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WebOS is not open source so I fail to see why a "geek" should love it. On the contrary - they should avoid it!
Thanks for the link - very good tips there.

I think you're right with dribbble. I've also been looking into Behance.net and Creattica. Have you had good experiences with directly approaching designers?
Is the concept offered by this article so difficult that a new analogy needs to be on the table to help people understand it?
> But iPlayer for non-UK viewers, it just isn't feasible.

It seems like they're working on it (iPad only, by the looks of it):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/02/bbc-global-iplay...

You're right, though, ad-supported iPlayer isn't feasible.
Indeed. I'd add to that that paying 15 Euro for a BluRay may be perfectly acceptable in the Western world, but a huge budget hit in the rest of the world.

The buy 'physical media via the Internet' argument doesn't fly there either.
Which is a form of theft (cf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft_of_services).

There's no point in rehashing the semantic argument; it's still theft in the eyes of the law, and while renaming it may help assuage your conscience, it doesn't really add much to the argument.
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Agreed, that was exactly my experience as a freelancer. I got a couple of jobs quickly by charging extremely low prices, and after receiving feedback i got quite a lot of traction. immediately raised the prices, and now i'm thinking of cutting out the middle-man.

also, the quality of most of the job requests is pretty low as well.
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The better alternative is iTunes. You don't need a VPN, since Apple is not blocking based on IP address.

You'll only need a US address (I am at Starbucks pretty much all day) and a US iTunes gift card (easy to get by), and you are settled.

It's a grey area, but MAFIAA should prefer it over piracy ;).
Thanks for tip. You're absolutely right, most of the first once were automated and totally crap. This was evidenced by the fact that they didn't contain the test "I AM REAL" statement which was intended to filter out the spammers.

I'll wait it out a bit longer before calling it quits on these sites.
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Hm, some competition for http://www.faceflow.com and tinychat.com :)
Clearly there is a point to rehashing the argument as long as you're pointing to a wikipedia page on theft of services and claiming that bitorrenting a copy of a TV show is the same thing. Clearly they're not. Hacking a cable box to access channels without paying for them might be, but if you're completely routing around their service, in part because they don't actually provide what you want (e.g. a show in your language), then you're clearly not stealing it.
Are we just assuming that "an unnamed client" is Facebook, because DUH, who else? Or am I missing a piece of this story?
> How are you going to displace the need for the FDA to exist or for the SEC and the Treasury to exist?

Talk to some minimal-government libertarians for some ideas.

A (quite conservative) method to get rid of the FDA would be outsourcing that function to the EU, or perhaps push it down to the states.

> Or the need for the military industrial complex?

You can make it much smaller, if your government follows an isolationist foreign policy.

I'm not saying those are good ideas---just that it's possible.
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I think perhaps he is slightly over reacting to get his point across. Whilst security bugs may well be worse than a lock up (due to stolen data etc.), they aren't the be all and end all of the system. I think he thinks that perhaps the security people won't pay any attention to his point unless he is very ... blunt about it.
If you are able to do that, you can hardly be classified as addicted though.
According to the Daily Beast article linked from the Techcrunch article, Facebook admitted it: "Confronted with evidence, a Facebook spokesman last night confirmed that Facebook hired Burson, citing two reasons: First, because it believes Google is doing some things in social networking that raise privacy concerns; second, and perhaps more important, because Facebook resents Google’s attempts to use Facebook data in its own social-networking service."

That seems like kind of a weird statement from a "Facebook spokesman" so I assume we are going to get some additional statements about this.
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Don't know what will come out of this but good that Chris Soghoian published the email exchange.
It is so sad that Wikipedia doesn't feature IMDB style quotations in its bios. This one would really make Linus' read less drab.
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Right, and a 250k Lamborghini is also a huge budget hit for me in the West. Which is why I drive a shitty Citroen.

I'm sick and tired of the entitled whining. Nobody owes you the right to listen to the latest album of whoever is at the top of the charts; in fact, nobody owes you anything but what they agreed on. The proposition is very clear: there are people who create something. They give it to you, on the condition that you pay for it. They may not want to offer it to you because it's too hard to do business in your country. If you don't agree to their terms, or their decision not to offer you their stuff, that still doesn't give you the right to just take whatever it is they're offering from another source.

Feel free to find other people who make things you want and offer it at terms you accept; or petition people to offer things at a cheaper price; or whatever. But taking things from creators against their wishes is not only criminal but also immoral.

(Maybe you still do it, even if it's criminal and immoral. That's a personal decision. But then just acknowledge it for what it is and don't try to weasel yourself out of the moral responsibility).
I highly doubt it is the former. I hear the US have pretty ridiculous regulations if you want to do crazy things like broadcast videos over the internet: http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/webcasting.html. Somehow these services manage to exist in the US regardless of the ridiculous regulations there, but allofmp3.com got stamped on despite complying with Russian law because they fell afoul of licensing interests in the US.

As for the latter, what exactly is the point in "protecting intellectual property rights" in Estonia if you don't sell anything there in the first place, and as a result everyone there who would like to buy your stuff is getting it off thepiratebay.org? Sounds like the worst of both worlds to me.
The "Compare" page shows PintPay as cheaper than the three competitors compared to, which is good. However, it is also immediately apparent that all three of the competitors have the same per transaction fee and lower percentage charges than PintPay, so that PintPay only wins because the others also have a fixed monthly fee. At a high enough volume, the higher percentage rate at PintPay (3.9% vs 2.1% at Chargify and Recurly--a HUGE difference) will overcome that.

The volume used for comparison is 150 customers a month, each paying $20, for a total of $3000/month. That's only $36k/year, which is not much at all for a business. Using the rates that PintPay gives for its competitors, Recurly becomes cheaper at $3833/month ($46k/year), Chargify becomes cheaper at $5500/month ($66k/year), and PayPal Web Pro becomes cheaper at $6000/month ($72k/year).

So who is the intended customer for PintPay? Most businesses that I can think of that would need such a service are going to be doing over $46k/year.
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if you're completely routing around their service, in part because they don't actually provide what you want (e.g. a show in your language), then you're clearly not stealing it.

Huh? That's a completely specious claim.

The owner of the rights to the TV show may not be offering the product in your market--yet. The may choose to do so at some point in the future. Whether they do or not, it has no bearing on the fact that you are consuming their product (and infringing on their rights) without paying.

Your argument is essentially saying that it isn't theft of services if a 15-year-old sneaks into an R-rated movie, because the theater won't sell them a ticket.
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You sound a bit like Stallman. Even if you are using open source software you still use closed source hardware most of the time.

What's really wrong with closed source?
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My gut feel is that they're probably one of those businesses who, if you don't already know exactly what they do, you're not part of their target market.

This is _exactly_ the sort of website I'll suggest if, say, Stradivarius came to me and said "I want a website for my violin building business".

If your demand so outstrips your supply that there's no way you need more customers than you're already servicing, why would you need anything more than this for a website?
take a guess. how many facebook "likes" this article is going to get?
>Configuring IDEs, virtual machines, web servers, databases

A lot of the things listed are things that infrastructure guys, not programmers, should be doing...
Releasing content per country is simply a carry over from the broadcast days where radio signals or cables are naturally constrained by geography. In the internet era it makes no sense either.

Now I don't pirate, as I am on a WAN (plus I do distance learning through a UK University and have to use their proxy server so iPlayer works for me too) and don't seem to be discriminated against by Hulu, or some other sites (Hulu could be breaking some laws though, by allowing me to see the content, or more likely just breaking a license agreement).

Even Germans I know are encouraged to use proxies (is that really pirating?) because they want their shows when they are released, not months later, and they don't necessarily want them overdubbed into German. The system encourages this, by thinking the internet can be divided up into countries like a broadcast signal.
I wonder what the ex googlers who moved to FaceBook think of such slimy tactics. Might be interesting to hear the perspective of someone who moved from a company that (at least) professes an adherence to "Don't be evil" to a company that apparently has no problems with jumping into the slime. If I worked for Facebook, I'd be ashamed of my employer today (and would probably protest and then get fired!).

And, as someone said above, Facebook professing a concern for abuse of privacy is a bit much to swallow.
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I made this! I'm surprised it wasn't caught by the dup detector -- I just posted it two weeks ago, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2491438.

Not that I'm complaining.
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Good ol' Arrington... he's got the courage to call em out. To really stick it to the big guys. It takes guts to say "No More!" to the corrupt and the wicked, even when such a stance might cost you personally.

I was going to comment as such on his blog...

...but I don't have a facebook account. ;)
Anyone knows what's the name of the algorithm / strategy that they use to allocate tasks position numbers?

I've created a new list and added 4 tasks a, b, c and d, and later added a2 after a.

Here's what they are doing:

Position:
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b	10111111111111111111111111111111
c	11011111111111111111111111111111
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So it seems a clever way of allocating the position numbers without having to change them all everytime a task is moved, but I'd love to read more about it.
this should be the up-voted article http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2539932 not that - non informative - opinion piece from techcrunch.
In this case the boundaries aren't artificial, they're historic.

The world will move to laws which are unified (or at least close enough) and allow day and date releases and true international markets but it's unrealistic to expect it to happen overnight.

But a resistance to change (some of which will have it's feet in positive intentions, some in negative) is different to collusion.
Are you saying the iPhone 4 feels like it belongs 5 years ago and is "seriously dated"?

You realise that's a year before iPhone 1 was released and at a time when the "Best smartphone" category ( http://reviews.cnet.com/4321-6452_7-6600061.html ) had Nokia N95 and Windows Mobile 6 in it and mostly no touchscreen, no multitouch devices?

this is really the only reason one could possibly have for choosing Apple these days.

Untrue and inflamatory trolling. The app store or specific apps, iTunes store integration, familiarity, preference for iOS, loyalty to Apple corporation, integration with Apple TV, fashion,
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Hey! I think you're in the wrong place for table-bashing :)

There used to be more CSS when I was using unordered lists, but it turns out that tables make for a much smaller file size.
Find an existing open source project and fix some bugs. That will give you experience in larger projects, communication, reading documentation, understanding frameworks, using source control, debugging, reading code, and possibly in dark corners of your chosen language.

Then do it again, and again. You will earn respect in the community, and experience that is otherwise hard to obtain.

You can do that quickly, too. It's the fastest way to learn, and you'll be well placed to take that one burning idea that you can't ignore and make it a reality.

If you want to make a mirror for a 6" reflecting telecope, conventional wisdom and experience says it's fastest first to make a 4", then the 6". The experience gained in the smaller exercise far outweighs the time taken.

It's an analogy, and it has flaws, but it contains a lesson.
I always find it incredibly difficult to concentrate on comparisons of Fibonacci sequence algorithms when I know for a fact that there is a closed-form expression[1] which gives F(n) in constant time.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number#Closed-form_ex...
Never had the need for the high quality design the users of those sites provide, yet :)
But even if there isn't an automated process to manage requests, i guess that (1)selecting a few of them, (2)sending a customized project/request description and (3)asking for a quote shouldn't be too much of an overhead, you have to do the most time consuming task (2) even if you decide to use 99designs. The main difference between the two approach will be the price, btw.
You are right, it‘s a semantic argument (I think you are not at all right in claiming that copyright infringement is theft of services, the linked Wikipedia article certainly doesn’t support that claim) but I do think it’s important to rehash it.

The legislator has decided to not treat copyright infringement like theft. Copyright is not the same as property (so says the law), it would be wrong to act as though there is some sort of consensus in society that both are somehow equivalent. The law is not everything and the law might be wrong (there might be good reasons to treat both the same) but it is disingenuous to act as though there is not at least a controversy.
The law was written way before there was possible to make an exact copy of something while leaving the original intact and way before the cost of such act is so close to zero than even those who have no money to buy original still are able to make the copy.

One can apply the same laws, but doing so is stretching them too much.

Consider the possibility of you making exact copy of a car just by pressing a button on some device. Let's say the neighbor has a car you like and you have no money to buy such a car. You press the button and you get the copy of the car. Did you steal it from your neighbor? No, he still has his. Did you steal it from the manufacturer? Well, some may say that, because you got something that they produce without paying them, but: a) you'd never buy that car from them anyway (see condition #2), b) they still got all the money for the cars they produced, there is not a single missing.
So, whom did you steal the car from?

No consider more realistic scenario: I torrent the movie. You may call this a theft.
Now slightly modified scenario: I buy the DVD on amazon.com, but while it's shipping I torrent the same movie and watch it. Is it still a theft?

Or if I torrent the movie first, like it a lot, go to see it in cinema, then go to see the second time with my wife, and to top all that I also buy a DVD? How about now, is it still the theft?

My point is: there is a real difference between an illegal copy and a theft, not just some semantics.

If I torrent something "getting for free" is never the reason to do that. The reasons are either availability or convenience. If there was a way to buy movies in digital format (I cannot even buy music on iTunes in my country, only apps) I'd spend a lot more money on them. App Store and Mac App store are the good indicator of that.
Just a little note, something can be not theft and still be illegal. When I damage your computer it’s not theft but still illegal.
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Please read this, here is the point of the discussion, I think this more informative text should have been linked:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/15/498

He simply doesn't want to make it easier for "exploitz searchers" to recognize which bug patches are "easy to make an exploit."
BMW is not going to like this, but it sounds good for Audi. At least based on their company slogans.
The thing is, ordinary bugs can also be security bugs.

People that fix ordinary bugs then also end up fixing many security bugs that are not classified as such. These are the unsung "heroes".

I think his point is that the important part is working on fixing bugs, and not making a show out of finding security ones.