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Are you speaking English? It looks that way, but I can't parse "you open up solutions". Solutions of/to what? And how does one "open" a solution? I'm also not sure what a "Team Foundation Server" is. I know all of the words separately, but put them together, and they no longer have any meaning for me. I think I missed a trend or a meme or a memo or a brochure or something.

I'm not intending to be a smartass, I really just have no idea what you just said, and looking at the screenshot doesn't really clarify. "Solution Explorer" looks like a file browser, to me.
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In my opinion, $500 is too low for even the simplest site.

6 years back i had a similar disaster. I promised a friend to do a site for $300. figuring there was only 3 hours of work and i was gonna make $100/h. yay... it was an instant disaster. took like 80 hours of work. negotiated more money but was not happy in the end.

The very fact that your customer is willing to spend only $500 on a site is a huge tell.

As for hosting in development: Avoid deploying the development version to remote servers (its a risk that will end up costing time and money). you can use your local computer and just signup to a free virtual dns name like no-ip.org.

Tips to charge more:

Design and setup + deployment to production also need to be billed. Dont give an estimate without a design. If the design takes more than a few hours, you should bill the design (since the customer can use it without you).

Also start taking at least 25% up front. It will ensure your customer is READY and SERIOUS about working with you. Too many times the customer will delay waiting on product information or information from a partner. Having money in the pot will motivate all parties to move quickly.

Institute a minimum amount you can bill. For instance, I dont accept billable work worth less than 8 hours of my time. It ensures that people are not wasting your time.. cant tell u how many times i've heard "Can you change the background color?" and then it ends up turning into something a little more complicated. So, just ask for a minimum. Either the customer is really in an bind he will have to pay it, or its not so important and he can queue up the work until he has enough work to make it viable for you.

cheers
The guy has released the source code openly under GPL on code.google.com. That might be what made Apple angry since that is (apparently) a violation of the NDA.
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That's a really cool desktop background image. Where did you get it? Know where I could download it? I like it. :)
Thanks for the eloquent post. I'm going to cool off a bit longer, ask for the original amount, and then walk away if they decline.
During the launch of Google App Engine, my idea for a test site was a pet owners social networking site, with the ability to put in contact info / special needs and the pet's collar / Avid chip ID, so that a lost pet could be cared for as well as possible until it was returned.

I'm glad someone is working in this space but the tone of the site (acting like you're your dog) seems a little lame to me. Best of luck to them, either way.
Thanks a lot. I'll definitely keep this in mind if I do any freelancing of any kind in the future.
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The difference is ... how many jazz musicians do you think say, "I want to be the computer programmer of jazz musicians!"
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I had a guy start something like this in Rome recently. I reacted so strongly to being touched by a stranger selling stuff that the guy called me names. I guess I'm just not used to personal contact except handshake.
hopefully we'll get a bit of a PR bump and it will mean more users. but either way, we're pretty happy!
thanks to both of you!
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"The Pragmatic Programmer" by Andrew Hunt and Dave Thomas.

It reads a bit like "the 7 habits for effectice developers", except that it contains about a 150 "habits". I have wished many, many times that I could force colleagues to read this.

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It takes a very good post to make me subscribe to someone's blog, especially an Apple person's blog, but this is high-quality Tognazzini-level musing on interface design. Better, even: Modern, web-focused.
This might be somewhat naive, but isn't the whole conversation on HN centered around the idea that we should be trying to make stuff that doesn't have to be sold? Something that people simply want? Where does this article fit in? I've never seen a facebook commercial on TV, or a youtube commercial. Or a MetaFilter commercial...

With my startup, I often have people telling me I should invest in radio outreach, print up business cards etc and do more marketing. This advice is all well-intentioned, and some of it is very good (like having decent business cards), but we've been doing a radio thing (free mind, you) for the last 3 months and haven't seen any fruit at all from it. I dunno. I think my time's better spent making the product better.

Also, as a journalist, that's about the lamest, least informative blog post I've ever read on a newspaper site.
This page seems to be a discussion of the applicability of music analogies to programming. It was not a useful or insightful read, but it might be if someone were to organize their thoughts on the topic.
'Revolutionize" may not be appropriate, but I still think the paper is a good post. For anyone with a math/physics background, this is the perfect 3min. introduction to the page-rank algorithm.
or Microsoft should invest in YC startups.
I can't see the language too. But I use Pydev (http://pydev.sourceforge.net/) to code in python on Eclipse. And it's pretty good.
Heh, that's very clever. Although one wonders if the trolls feel like they have been vindicated in some way (by being able to draw attention!)
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Nothing sells itself. Even if people "simply want" it, you still have to sell if you want to be the leader in your space (and in some spaces being the leader is the only position worth having).
You know how FOX tells you that your dentist is dealing drugs to your kids. This is the same, only target at worried middle class parents convinced by the idea that academic success equals success in life.
it's the developing world. people from the west will very rarely know the appropriate price for an item or service. If we supposedly 'get wise' to inflated asking prices and start haggling down to 30-50% original - they'll just inflate the original. We'll be happy knowing we got some 3rd world grinning buffoon down to 30%, he'll be happy taking home a week's wages from your fare. Frankly, that strikes me as win-win, cynical though that may sound.
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I am hand-coding the HTML for all of the pages for a stealth startup and and having issues with other people altering my code.

Pretty much when I complete a new HTML page it is sent to developers in India who eventually put the webpage live. Once in awhile these India developers will make changes to the code or they will tweak existing pages upon the request of my boss. My boss makes it mandatory that these Indian guys make changes from time to time so I have no control over these guys.

The problem lies in the fact that they are using Dreamweaver to make changes on the startup’s webpages, which as a result, screws up all of hand coded HTML and more specifically the layout of the entire page. The layout is really what is causing most of the problems. The Indian guys, by using Dreamweaver, change the layout of the page every time they do any minor adjustment in Dreamweaver. The layout may not change the look of the webpage in the browser, but it does change the CSS. This in turn screws up the layout of any of my newly added sections that I add from time to time.

So my solution, and hopefully some of you can help, is to make a template for every page on the site; a template that can not be altered by these Indian developers. This way even if these Dreamweaver guys change some code around the template is intact and so is the general layout of the page.

Now here is where some of you (I hope) can help. How do you lock an HTML template, so no one can alter it. Second, any suggestions are welcome. Thanks in advance.
my favorite is "...mathematics has no expiration date". it echoes quite well with pg's assertion (on why lisp is not obsolete, in revenge of nerds) "...it was not technology but math, and math doesn't get stale"
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I think it is worthwhile to note what kind or caliber of accomplishment.

No matter how hard I try, I will not accomplish as much as Feynman, Hawkins et al.

I used to think otherwise that if I try really, really hard and just stuck at whatever I was trying for I could do just about anything but that was when I was much younger. :(

edit: I should probably also mention that I wasn't trying to accomplish what the aforementioned luminaries did. I was trying to do things that seemed more ... pedestrian.
Ask YC: Client Presses Charges (an update)
It's now been a week since (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=263646) one of my developers was threatened with legal action from a client regarding a deposit they made for him to put together a site.

The client has officially pressed charges after our boy resigned, and decided to move back up north and refocus his life. Needless to say, internally there's lots of concern and we're deciding to lease out our programmers if someone requests services from them. Meaning, if our developers end up working for their own client, that client will be billed at our company rate, under company standards and policies to protect such a thing from ever happening again. In addition to this, the client must meet with me personally and sign an agreement of indemnity which will secure the company if they client is dissatisfied.

The last thing we want is to stifle these guy's skills and force them to work on only one thing all the time, even though I know some of you will think it's just a bad idea to let our developers work on outside projects anyway.

Regarding our boy, Jim. We're giving him access to our legal resources to combat this, after taking a look at the paper work he initiated the client doesn't appear to have a case and Jim is expected to pull through with flying colors.

I posted this primarily as a little alert to new founders and people getting into the game: Keep every little bit of paper work you get, understand the legality behind starting a business, even if it's a simple web shop being developed by someone else. And for Christ's sake, if you're a business person with no know-how in technology, be prepared to pay the developer you hire more than you think they'll need.

Any suggestions that you guys want to throw out here, I'm sure Jim will appreciate the encouragement and advice on dealing with the matter.
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Ok I let it slide when they usurped "Whatever 2.0!" for their marketing fracas, but math-a-tizing it? Its just a step too far.
This post was excellent, although I take issue with the silent waiter part. His waiter example was trivial; there's no reason you wouldn't want the marshmallow bowl refilled, but usually programs aren't like that. I hate when programs do stuff without asking me, especially by default. Everytime I start using OpenOffice on somebody else's machine it takes it all of a minute to incorrectly autocorrect something I've typed (I disable autocorrect on my machines). That's the kind of "silent waiter" I hate, I don't want it automatically doing something unless there's absolutely no way I wouldn't want it done, and that's fairly rare
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Bullshit less next time?
It's not that "they are there to rip you off", they also enjoy bargaining tremendously. Most of them would much rather haggle to 20% the original price then just get the money, an probably feel dissapointed by the tourists who either pay or walk away. It's simply a bit of culture shock.
It always frustrates me when people pay more attention to word than meaning.
"By supporting the startups in return for some stock and a commitment to use Microsoft development software, product platforms, and operating systems..."

MS on the desktop is okay, Visual Studio is in a class of its own, but using their server-side stuff? And paying for it? What's he smoking?
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I never bought any of these Dummies books, for a similar reason. I don't think I'm a dummy, or an idiot, and I take it as a personal insult. If you want to sell a book to me, don't call me an idiot.

Yes, I know it's just a joke, but to me, it's a poor, insulting, and, most of all, an idiotic joke. Perhaps the authors think of themselves as idiots. Why should I read them?

I'd much rather buy from a "For smart people" series. It's a shame no one publishes that.
Given that the article talked about knives, I'm surprised no one's mentioned Vector Marketing yet: http://www.collegeotr.com/suny_binghamton/vector_marketing_s.... They basically mass-mail high school students trying to recruit some to sell knives. A couple of my friends did it back in high school. While it can be a way to improve your sales ability, this particular scheme (and many others) was little more than a fancy scam.

I fully agree with the title, but these "independent reseller" schemes seem to be hit-or-miss at best. It might be a better experience to work in sales at a big company, rather than as an independent reseller. John Doerr plays up the fact that he worked in sales at Intel before his VC life. Or even better, sell something you made.
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My girlfriend recently spent a few weeks in China, and related some of the same stories. She figured out the process pretty quick: it's not quite that the people she encountered enjoyed haggling, it's just what they're used to. Haggling successfully to a low price gets you respect from the seller.

It is a completely foreign concept to Americans, who tend to come away with this feeling that either they've just been ripped off, or they just ripped off the seller.

I don't think I would handle it well at all (partly because I'm not fond of buying trinkets anyway).
I must confess that I very much hate bargaining. I can't overcome the feeling that the other person tries to steal my money, and now I have to be careful and defend myself to reduce the damage. Then, I will end up with a stuff I don't really need.

Regarding the Turkey story, I just would not follow the man no matter what. I can't help, but persuasion doesn't work on me - the more other person tries to persuade me, the less likely I will buy anything.
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I do agree a lack of evidence does not make a thesis wrong. Everyone thought the discoverer of plate tectonics was wrong because he was unable to provide a precise mechanism for how the continents might move, despite an impressive array of fossil, biological, and other evidence. I don't think this theory of old masters and prodigies is completely debunked, but I thought Aaron's article brought up an excellent point about how the valuations were being made that I'd simply swallowed too easily. Aaron's submission was also the first thing I'd seen of anyone being critical at all, which was slightly startling in retrospect. I try to make a policy of not believing everything I hear and I failed this time.

I suppose I was a little condescending though. I'm sorry.
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Reading one of these "business books" will make your head hurt. The memoirs of successful entrepreneurs are often interesting reads (e.g. "Losing My Virginity" by Richard Branson) but things like this are a paragraph of content extended to 200 pages with a $39.95 price tag.
Put it on GitHub.
My friend had a similar experience in india. I wonder how the same kind of soft well approach could be applied to startups? Perhaps by making sure you provide value for people with no pressure to buy? The methodology sure seems to work.
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Is there no way you can convince the boss to make it mandatory that your Indian developers don't use Dreamweaver?
sigh! why the upvotes? How is this HN worthy?
I think the YC model wouldn't work for a company like M$ because there is way too much drama. Founders get into fights, startups make horrible paperwork mistakes and ideas and markets change all the time. There is way too much counseling and looking after required to really do a YC style investment program with a large number of young founders.

M$ would do better to give money to a company like YCombinator and just encourage all the startups to use microsoft products.
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In some countries, it is not unusual for male friends (heterosexual friends) to sometimes hold hands when they walk
because its interesting, has to do with negotiation and the psychology of bargaining.
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"...and just encourage all the startups to use microsoft products."

I can't see that happening any time soon.
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