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Ask HN: Reducing my hourly rate?
I do freelance work on the side and recently moved to a small town from mid-sized city. I've had a lot of opportunties to quote out jobs, but I was getting no response back (which in the past was never really a problem). Someone suggested to me that my hourly rate was way too high for the area, so I reduced it by half, but basically quote twice the hours (so in the end I make the same) and all of sudden I started getting work again. Is this a common thing to do? I feel a little bad about doing that, but the results have proved that the end result is the same. Any other suggestions on how others handle this?
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Didn't they try that once? And instead of fixing things they ended up with two sets of broken data structures? I could be mistaken.
What you are suggesting is exactly the circumvention of a system designed to take into account mitigating factors (this is why there is a mitigation section of sentencing).

You suggest that the responding officers at the scene of a crime (no matter that yes, this was not a violent crime or one committed with malice) become the judge.

That's an incredibly slippery slope.

And in this case, whats the officer to do? He can't just magically arrange free or reduced cost medical treatment for the man he was just called to arrest for attempting to rob a bank.
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In this case, I did my own design. I always liked design my own stuff. So, I spent only time on this one! ;)
This is an incalculable loss.
Hey Matt,

It's one of my biggest priorities to figure out how to help our developer customers communicate our value to other people. Was there anything in particular that's worked really well for you so far?
It's about who is first in the consumer's heads. iPad is like Coca-Cola.
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I just created this account to comment on this. I am a generalist. I started out as a hardware and software designer, but then focused on software for many years. Later moving from Development to Operations where I can write code and deal with sys admin stuff at the same. Writing monitoring tools, installation packages, automation for release and builds, as well reading all the developers code that gets checked into the Source Code repository. Troubleshooting servers, permissions, network issues, software bugs in websites, client/server apps, SQL... whatever it took.

I got my previous first job about 8 years and I remember the person hiring me saying that they wanted “specialists”. I firmly replied I am a generalist. I didn’t hear back for a month or 2 but then got the call that I was hired. For the first few years, the generalist mentality was actually how things ran. Everybody was expected to dive into code, databases, server, etc. Suddenly, they said that silos were forming and in order to improve the organization, a re-org was needed and you had your various teams of architects, dev, support & ops, DBAs, Q&A, project management, etc..you get the idea.

A year after this process the whole team spirit was crushed. The whole “not our problem, it’s that team’s problem” starting gaining ground. People that were once team mates were now (using the someone eles’s words) throwing problems over the wall back and forth. People also threatened management that if they ever got put on team ‘X’, they’re quitting. Yup, they made specialists out of the wrong people. If only they had just left the generalist structure be. For me, understanding something from the beginning to the end is VERY important. How can someone write programs if they don’t understand how security is handled on the web server, or how SQL statements affect performance, or how deployment is done? I think having an assembly like structure (specialists) can work, but it’s not as responsive as a generalist structure. Products will get shipped with less silly mistakes if you know what the destination looks like. Release and deployment is so misunderstood by many developers. People need to get their hands dirty.

I have since left that organization and I’m now back to a generalist position where I can get my hands dirty. It’s tough because you’re starting from scratch again and trying to hire once again. Hiring is hard. Typically, new organizations need generalists more than established ones. That is not to say that established organizations should have less of a use for them. I tried to change the shift from specialists to generalists at my previous work, but you start hurting your career if you’re constantly grinding it out with upper management. You have to know when to let go.

I really like this term Devops. Because you Developers do need to be able to understand Operations, and vice versa.
I will look into those, thanks.
> By default they are stored unencrypyed (Security -> Saved Passwords -> Show passwords ... That button wouldn't be there if they weren't unencrypted).

Once you set up a master password then firefox encrypts them in the password database. That button is still there, but using it requires the master password before actually it shows you the stored encrypted password.
In computers Apple are not competing on price. In fact they maintain atypically high prices there. In tablets they are.
The vast majority of people don't think "person interested in startup culture" when they hear the word hacker. In the eyes of the public, a hacker is someone who breaks into websites or writes viruses.
Why would they be tired? Is it a pain to upgrade? (I admit I've become used to chrome upgrading in the background).
Ask HN: Google is always hiring talent? How?
I'm finishing "The Google Resume" ebook I bought on Kindle for iPad. I'm determined to have several job offers by summer's end. I keep reading "Google is always hiring raw talent". That's all fine and good, but having applied for about 15 jobs, 5 at a time, through the online job shopping cart, damned if I can find a way to add "raw talent" to my basket.

I have a bachelor's degree in business management and taken several HR classes. I've concluded that "hiring raw talent" is only what the stakeholders are after. Human Resources, however, is after hiring people with good resumes. The reason is that if the candidate doesn't work out, the HR people can at least cover their own asses by saying "we gave this person a job because they had a good resume."

My resume was directly forwarded to Google HR by a Stanford PhD already employed by Google Research that personally referred me to Google. I also personally run two websites that track over 300 high-tech start-ups. That said, I got a form email a week later basically indicating "don't call us, we'll call you." That's ridiculous.

So WTF does raw talent gotta do to get in the 'Plex?
You can't retroactively change the license on the software once it's already been released. You can only change the license for future releases.
I'm not interested in rebelling just for the sake of it. I also didn't clearly mention this, but I'm going to sit down with the guys at work and make sure they know what's going on. I want to discuss it with them and ask their advice, and maybe we can sort out something that works for everyone. I'm making sure I stay aware, I'm making sure that I don't overlook anything. This is not a random impulse, it's based on a development I've taken some time to think about.

But none of that changes the fact that I'm beginning to realize that I'm not really happy with this kind of environment. I don't feel comfortable explaining every detail of what I think, and I don't feel comfortable trying to justify myself. I gave a bit of background information in order to provide a bit of insight into the situation, but at this point I'm essentially asking superficial questions:

Suppose I've already decided to leave - how much are they allowed to control? What can I do to prevent them from 'punishing' me unfairly?

I don't want to sound entitled or impulsive - that's not what's going on. But I want to cover all the bases, and that includes educating myself about how much power the school really has, and what my options are.

EDIT: I didn't choose the job blindly either - I would have been perfectly happy working for nothing if it was meaningful work in Calgary. Coming home was my first priority for a number of reasons. Pay was never a factor.
If were carrying-on a conversation in the media and you post this story, you are calling me a hacker. I am not a hacker. Fuck You.

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The GDP of the US is about 7x the GDP of the UK. So the UK isn't freeloading.

I'm also willing to bet the UK spends their medical research dollars more efficiently. In the States, big Pharma researches ways to make money. Elsewhere, research is done mostly by universities & hospitals, who are more interested in fame than fortune.
Since we're going the route of analogies.

I'm sure that the Canada is not alarmed that the US is stockpiling napalm amongst other things. Whilst, it has no legitimate purpose except to burn people to death---Canada is not the enemy of the USA, and thus feels that it has nothing to fear from its neighbor stockpiling weapons.

Weapons are meant to be used against an enemy. If your neighbor isn't the sort to begin wars of conquest, then what do you really have to fear?
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IMHO, a constitutionally mandated flat tax of no more than x% (with war time and emergency exceptions) and no deductions, credits, exemptions or any type of offset allowed is the best solution.
Everyone pays the same % and can plan on that happening every year.
But this will probably never happen because politicians can make many things happen through the tax code and many special interests make extensive use of tax code. There is both good and bad that these lead to.

Anything else we do is tinkering, because new codes that close loopholes will eventually lead to new codes that create new loopholes. Still a tinker here and a tinker there and maybe your can create a teapot out of a cauldron. Tinkering a plane out of a car may be easier than tinkering our income tax into better system.
My story isn't unique (for decent iOS apps) so I didn't bother writing about it. If you want information from iOS developers making buckets of cash read tap tap tap's blog or Tapbots' blog or Loren Brichter's Tweetie stats chart or Trism's story or Pocket God's blog or...
Your customers ultimately care about the end result and their costs. Concentrate on meeting their expectations and stop feeling bad because there is nothing to feel bad about.

Deliver earlier than scheduled ('cause you know, you managed to squeeze "extra hours" late into the night) and your customers will be even happier.
Jesus christ what an asshole. He got scooped by his source so he drags her through the mud. I won't air her dirty laundry, but please speculate and spread rumor amongst yourselves.
Firefox 5 will be released tomorrow. FF 3.6 support will be discontinued?

This would cause problems for anyone on Debian squeeze.
AVM v. Cybits: An Attack that Goes to the Heart of Free Software
The fact that Perl's OO "layer" has a name isn't very reassuring, even if it is a nice solid name like "Moose."
To those people making the argument that IPad will be unbeatable because there is no carrier lockin unlike the IPhone. Here are some stats:

In Germany, the IPhone is available at the 3 major carriers, O2, Vodaphone & TMobile.

Marketshare for Android in Germany is 35.5% versus 24.4 for iOS.
Not hard/easy, constrained/unconstrained. For decades now constraints have been recognized as drivers of greatness and innovation. By relaxing the constraint, you make greatness harder to achieve, because the developer has to make more choices, and precision/accuracy/focus suffer.

It's like a laser. If you put lots and lots of light in a very small (constrained) pinhead-sized surface, you can cut steel like it was butter. If you put as much light in a surface the size of a plate, you might barely heat the surface.
>Aside from anything else it's an interesting Nash equilibrium -- I want to find a mate with an average-looking face so that we can produce children with average-looking faces who will be the most desirable breeding partners in the next generation.

Isn't it a wrong Nash equilibrium? You should choose a mate with someone on the other side of "average", so your children will have average faces. An average face and your (more likely than not) non-average face do not make average faces.

This "other side of average" effect is to some extent seen with the major histocompatibility complex.
Oh god, people actually do this? I kind of feel pity for people who create companies with "creating t-shirts" being their end goal... unless they are a clothing company. I just think in your case, it would help and its silly not to do it on the aforementioned principal alone.
One great example is DoHS shutting down gambling sites without due process.
Why not just sentence everyone to death for any crime, no matter how small?
The problem is you're not attacking the market of people who prefer 7" tablets, you're attacking the market of people who prefer a 7" tablet SO MUCH they're willing to not get an iPad because of it. Who are these people? Probably geeks. Regardless, it's a much smaller slice of the overall pie.
With income taxes, self-employment tax, state business & income taxes and 3 kinds of local business taxes, I'm losing more than 35% of every dollar and I'm not even making enough to reach the higher tax brackets.

About "little people" in general, "little people" don't form C-corps, they trade under their own name (sole proprietorship), a DBA (sole proprietorship), or as a pass-through LLC or S-corp. There's no distinction between a company's income and your own, so you don't get to decide what is salary and what is profit, they're one and the same on the tax return.
Convince the loophole abusers to support a new tax system that incentivizes what needs to be incentivized, and funds what we as a society decide needs to be funded. The hard part is finding that tax system. I think the needed change is possible, but I think it'll require things getting so bad that even the worst of abusers are convinced that there's a problem.
the predators don't typically eat their own kind, so there is definitely something in their mind that facilitates that separation. In the case of humans that "something" is the idea that "we are better and they are stupid".
Here is an interview I enjoyed with the director of the title sequence - it includes sketches and concept art.

http://www.artofthetitle.com/2011/05/12/game-of-thrones/
For a US-centric view, this may be true. You know the stats for the rest of the world?

IPhone is not locked-in to a specific carrier unlike in the US and Android has the largest smartphone market share worldwide.
This is old news:
http://www.techspot.com/news/44076-google-to-drop-support-fo...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2608717
The IRS, that's the top income tax bracket. They're listed in the form 1040 instructions if you want to see it on paper.
or you can pay the dude the $9 and have your problem solved quickly and easily
Yes, you can zip up a repo easily. But where do you store it? Do you really want to save it in your email instead of saving it in some kind of source control so that you can use it as such if you need to quickly commit some change?

Saving it to S3 is an option, but then you have to create that account too. Why shouldn't you be able to just use one account?
Very good point. The development of Linux I think of as an English-speaking effort, but that's because Linus conducted all the discussion about it in English (because, as you say, English is the lingua franca of the technology world).

So I guess the actual truth is that the vast majority of technology developments have come from people who speak English (some Ruby stuff excepted), not necessarily native English speakers.
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Um, no -- Canada has been borrowing to offset a shortfall in general revenue for years. We were under an austerity program when we needed to be, but rather than going back to normal business when the deficit crisis passed, we inexplicably decided to lower taxes and return to a deficit condition. Health care isn't the problem; the idea that we can get services (of any kind -- health care isn't all that the government provides) without paying for them is.
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bitch, please. let the good man have his time building an app. be openminded. otherwise we would be discussing launchpad and sourceforge yet.
The old Microsoft would respond by pushing out 2 major releases in 6 months to reduce Google Apps penetration.

Ballmersoft? Notsomuch.
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I agree. I think people will surround themselves with a filter bubble with or without personalized search results. Ever tried to convince an avid Fox or CNN reader to read the opposing view's site?

From my personal experience, people rarely search for something as simple as "Egypt," and instead, search for "Egypt travelling tips" like your example.

If your Google-fu is strong, you'll write a query that targets your desired results much better than a generic shot-in-the-dark query.
LulzSec exposed by Ninjas Who are these guys?
LulzSec, the mischief-making bunch of hackers, slackers and whackos has fallen victim to its own sort of tactics, with a blog appearing on the world-wide wibble aiming to expose those behind the outfit's antics.
Flickr Co-Founder Announces New Mobile Startup
Ask HN: Hacker's Prison
With the suggestion that hackers might face stiffer sentences in U.S. [1], I thought it might be fun to see what the HN community would suggest for sentencing guidelines.

Let me kick the ball down the road: First offense hacking punishable by up to 1 year internship with the FBI cyber-crime unit [2].

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/18/us-usa-cybersecurity-sentences-idUSTRE75H0ZM20110618

[2] http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/cyber/cyber
What Chess Tells Us About the Value of Perception
They're not pivoting - they are simply iterating.
Good question; one person is annoyed by this endlessly a few offices down from me. It's hard to make sure that things are handled consistently sometimes, but if you use google.com/ncr or the "Google.com in English" link at the bottom of the home page, that should help. The "Language tools" link to the right of the search box should also let you set a cookie with your language preference.
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Would the U.S. Government use a hacker group to launch a campaign of global terror? "The next war is not going to be fought with bullets, guns and bombs, it's going to be fought with code and computers."
I don't think we have a preference for average looking faces.

We do have a strong preference for symmetrical faces, maybe because that indicates you've been very healthy for many years.

And averaging out a bunch of non-perfectly symmetrical faces, results in a very symmetrical face.

But that's very different from average. We strongly prefer decidedly rare features showing off high levels of sex hormones. An average face would have average sized eyes for example, but we prefer bigger eyes which indicate youth.

But I 100% agree with you on having a picture of your better looking twin, no thanks.
We're using IceWeasel which will, as per Debian's usual policy, still be supported with security fixes.
How could you suggest such a horrible thing? Just think of all the prison guards that would put out of work!
>Get a modern browser

>First things first—make sure you’re running a modern browser. My favorite is Chrome but Safari will also do. This app currently only supports webkit. More browsers coming soon.

What is Opera or IE9 then? Chopped liver? Am I the only one hating this new version of "Best viewed with IE5" and browser specific tag soup whose behavior changes even with the versions of the specified browsers?
It is if you're in a large organization, or you want to make sure thngs don't break before you release them to your users.
Groupon Responds to Haters
This would be a good thing if new TLDs represented the types of organizations, e.g. .news, .reviews, .cars, .health...

I'm afraid the real TLDs will be either more random and meaningless or trademarked.
I can tell you what happens if you call the FBI to report your site being hacked by criminal syndicates.

Nothing. The FBI has no interest at all in investigating these crimes.

Unless apparently it is from a group criticizing the government. As we see in the article, that's the real crime. Not hacking a site, but the motivation. If it's to steal and commit financial fraud, the government couldn't care less. But if it's because you want to out lies and crimes told by government, then you are going to prison for a long time.

Make no mistake. This is not about the hacking itself at all.
You seem to be allowing emotion to influence your judgment here. I'm pretty sure raw talent still means you have a set of demonstrable skills which fill a need. Either they were not in need of what your resume shown you to be proficient in or your resume didn't indicate enough talent/experience to meet their needs.
Apple is succeeding in the category because it reinvented it.

Prior to iPad, how many consumers had spent a moment of time considering what a tablet computer would be like? How many had a chance to hold one and interact with it at a local store? Most people use iPad as a reference point because it was their first experience with a tablet. It was first and it worked. People want iPads because, for now at least, it's the definitive product for the category.
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Hmm. Why is it necessary to overly generalize and disparage folks who don't seem to think precisely the way you think in order to make a point?
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Agreed. This really was the "final straw" for me in regards to respecting Techcrunch. You can't claim to exist as a resource for startups when your founder does something like this. I'll try to avoid them as best I can from now on, not that it means much.

I was fine with Techcrunch's increased coverage on BigCos and decreased coverage on startups -- they need to pay the bills, and juicy popular companies get more views than tiny startups. But this is too far. I never assumed that Techcrunch was a strong resource for entrepreneurs, but now they'll throw them under the bus for a blog post.
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I'm pretty sure the best way to ensure your link goes unread is to put it in all caps.
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The Theory That Hardware Is Easily ‘Mimicked'
After recently reading "Tonight we dine in Hell," it is interesting to juxtapose this article with that one with regard to "controlling the narrative." I'm not so sure I have the same sympathy for TC against the "PR Machine" as I did before this post. Power corrupts.

Context: (http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/17/we-will-fight-in-the-shade/)