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Thanks for sharing this and I hope Folyo is getting off to a good start. I know a lot of designers who struggle to figure out the market rate for their work and will find this really helpful. Design can add huge value to a business and good work costs money.

But I find the way you've approach the survey to be flawed. The cost of design work is generally a factor of how complex the problem is to solve. Most designers I know charge effort * hourly rate = fee, much like developers and other professional services.

So quantifying prices in terms of a homepage, additional layouts etc is meaningless. I don't find your distinction that only web apps (and not other parts of the web) require both visual and UX design helpful.

@JonWood gets it pretty spot on: handing over a pretty PSD file is getting less common as more design agencies get involved in prototyping and front-end development. Creating a visual language and building blocks is far more useful.
> We’re still supporting all Delicious APIs and feeds

I would beg to differ:

$ curl http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/json/recent?count=20

curl: (6) Could not resolve host: feeds.delicious.com; nodename nor servname provided, or not known
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CalTrain is a pain, and as a government service, seems to constantly fighting to be recognized. It seems that few who live in the valley care about their only public transit artery. And, those that do are not commuters themselves or have little involvement in the tech scene.
The CalTrain service must highly inefficient at the moment. I've lived in many major cities around the world, and never have I seen a regular commuter train being run by full locomotives. Since the cargo isn't heavy, I can only imagine what the fuel costs to run a CalTrain service are. That might partially explain why CalTrains run no more than once an hour.

The Google shuttle works well because there is one focal point - everyone is going or coming from the Googleplex. Optimizing routes would be harder for anyone trying to open a similar service to the public, since employers in the valley are spread out.

There is also a sorely missing off-hours service. Even at Google, I know several times that friends would have stayed for an extra drink/game if there was a shuttle that left later than 10pm. And, how many have you been caught in SF after just missing the 10:20pm and having to wait for the 12am? Or, had to cut a night short because you had no way of getting home after 12am? Brutal.
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This was a good resource when I was learning objective c. The Apress objective c book, as well as the apple documentation are also good resources.
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I used Google AppEngine for a mobile game that sent email to notify players. While there was a link to turn off emails in every email and a setting in the app, enough people clicked "mark as spam" that we got shut off.

It happened a couple of times and each time Google turned us back on. My general experience is that Google is more heavy handed than a true ESP like Sendgrid or Postmark. ESPs take spam seriously, but they also know spam reports are a fact of life.
All their work are external(acquiring links). I didn't get any kind of updates from the provider for the past 5 months. We own a portfolio of successful sites and know the basics of on-page techniques. Since the network was mentioned here on HN in one of the Show HN posts, I some how fall for that, hoping in any case of dispute the network should resolve the issue by taking a fair position. We never paid for a SEO service before and this one was to pretty much to test if it is really possible.

We spent around $5k on popular freelance networks each month for various tasks(not SEO). In many instances the networks takes a fair position in disputes. But I was dealing with the founder of this network and he wasn't reasonable. It is a great lesson for me, since it is a startup doesn't mean they would treat their clients with great respect.

As an Entrepreneur the lesson is, sometimes we may loose a valuable client by our not so good attitude and judgement.
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Can it be scripted though? I want to set up a cron task to gzip a directory and send it to GDrive every night.
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The maintenance of Strawberry Perl is not in parallel with the development of Perl in general. I'm sure the developers are working on it. It has its own architectural issues that go beyond merely compiling Perl and releasing it.

If you really want to know the release date, check in with the guys at #win32 on irc.perl.org.
Referring to the USD as a "secure asset" made me giggle a bit.
In fairness, when you compare 2 things, you should use the same units, and they didn't. They should have extended Dropbox's plan to the year to show the difference.
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It ended with Google buying YouTube.

Do you think they're going to buy DropBox too?
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Since one of the main features of GDrive will be to share files between Google Apps, I doubt that's plausible.

There's nothing stopping you from encrypting each file before upload, but then that file won't really be usable with Google's apps.
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u can encrypt any file you upload to google docs or dropbox, though i know thats not what you mean :)
that said, does any one know if google docs deduplicates?
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Like many of the commenters, I'm not crazy about the changes. But I do notice one marked improvement, though I'm not sure how many others will share my experience.

I've been using this Delicious bookmarklet for Chrome (http://www.techlifeweb.com/2008/09/11/delicious-bookmarklet-...) and noticed that about a year ago, it was displaying only the five suggested tags, instead of all the recommended tags for that site. To make things worse, they didn't even seem to be the most relevant five — nearly every site was tagged "inspiration" or "design," undoubtedly by web designers looking for ideas.

Now that it's relaunched, the suggested tags are back to normal! I know I should just enter my own tags, but it kind of defeats the purpose of tapping the wisdom of crowds.

Now it's time to go back and re-tag a year's worth of bookmarks...er, links. A delicious prospect indeed.
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>What stops us from all having startups?

In the US, I'd say health insurance. If you want a second reason, how about children.
"I think this is an interesting direction, though I wonder to what extent the real problem in urban planning is not having the resources—money—to do anything about it," says Sam Madden, an associate professor at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory who studies wireless sensor networks, including GPS units.

Resources-- and political will. It doesn't matter what your data shows if the residents won't let you build roads through their neighborhoods. In Cambridge, MA there are roads that actually already exist but rush hour traffic is deliberately blocked from using them. (eg Whitemore ave / Seagrave Road between Alewife Brook Parkway and Mass Ave)
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Not a very good option in my experience. Google has some pretty complicated abuse detection algorithms in place. For example, if an account sends email through SMTP, but never receives any email, logs in via POP, or through the web interface, the account may get shut down. Also, Google's tolerance for "Mark as Spam" on the email you send is very, very low. It boils down to this: Google Apps isn't the same as SendGrid, Postmark, etc. Google Apps is intended for use by people, not web apps.

Having said all that, these are my experiences. I've tried it on three separate occasions in the past, and every time, I ended up fighting deliverability problems until I finally moved to a different solution. The most common is that the Google Apps user through which you send email gets disabled for "abuse", and you have to log in through the web interface in order to re-enable it.
initially psyched when i heard this news but hard to see where this is going so far with most of the previous greatness stripped out. even a url like http://delicious.com/stacks/figital would have previously been http://delicious.com/figital/stacks. maybe they've set this up for rapid/iterative development but my excitement will last for about another week.
They appear to have broken Delicious Bookmarks for Firefox.
if its a desktop program like dropbox with a synced folder, you can write a script to place the gzip in the synced folder, and then it will sync automatically
Google Video launched a month before YouTube fyi.
You're right, of course. Maybe this particular example was poorly chosen, but I just wanted to illustrate the fact that web apps are often more complex than you think.

(plus it's been my experience that some clients do want mockups for each screen, even though I always tell them that the "building blocks" approach you describe is much more efficient)
If this means I can combine the seamless syncing and "available anywhere with an internet connection" of Dropbox, with the convenience of being able to make easy edits in Google Docs if I don't have access to MS Word, I'm all for it.
I just did this. After registering, they sent me a confirmation "click this link to prove it's your real email address" message. After completing that, they sent me a (plaintext) confirmation email, containing my username and password.

Email around my password is bad enough. But the fact that the final confirmation message, containing my password, was several minutes removed from my initial registration, probably[1] demonstrates that they're not using one-way hashes for password storage.

If this is correct, then it may just be that Facebooks' stewardship of my data is better than MOG's.

[1] IIRC, the "prove it's my email" linked page asked me to log in. If so, then they might have intercepted that login request, and sent that back via email. That's possible, but I'd be surprised.
Right on.

I'm no fan of Zynga and their work (as a gamer), but they have many, many (many!) people who enjoy playing their games. That alone is reason enough that should exist.

Zynga have been a massive factor in the evolution of video games, for better or worse.
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I was looking for a conclusion, but couldn't seem to find it. Anyone? The closest thing I can find is that going from A to C clogs up B, so city planners should create a direct A to C route.
Because in DRM is security through obscurity. The data/programme/file is encrypted to hide from the user, but must also decrypt it from the user, and the user has full technically and legal rights to that code.

If you have a DRMed music file, and (say) an open source music player can play it, then the file is encrypted and the encyrption key is kept with/in the file. You can just look at the source code of the music player and see it extracts the key from the file (or from your master key file), and see how it decrypts the file. You can then decrypt the file yourself. ergo drm breaking.

DRM can also force restrictions like "Only allow person with account id X from opening this programme", that could be implemented in the code as a function that says "doesUserHavePermission()". If the code is open source, then you just change that function to always return true, and to always allow everyone to use it. (Since it's an open source programme, you can then distribute your code with your 'fix' applied)
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Many thanks to the YC team for putting together the excellent YCNYC event last night. It was great seeing so many founders that I've only read about until now. The turnout was also amazing and way beyond my expectations. The presentations were extremely motivating and, as a native New Yorker, PG's keynote was inspiring in many ways: (1) It further validates NYC's position as a strong tech/startup hub; (2) I now know that there are many other people in and around NYC with similar interests and complimentary skills; (3) I want to work even harder to prove that NYC can compete with SV (why stop at second place).

Regarding the event, my only suggestions for next time [at YCNYC 2012 ;)] would be to create designated areas based on common interests (e.g. looking for a co-founder, looking for a job, specific technologies, industries, etc.) and give the option of including company name on your name badge. With so many attendees, although very exciting, it felt a bit overwhelming when getting started.

It would be interesting to hear feedback from other attendees.
The technology side of it seems easy enough. A quick search revealed quite a few scheduling software packages, and a few hosted options. But look at all of things I've had to schedule over the phone recently: dentist appointment, eye doctor appointment, and a physical (the last one I put the request in online, and they called to confirm). It seems like the winner of this industry would be the one who could convince businesses to sign up.
Dropbox is a brilliant piece of software however it's hard to justify more than $10/month for backup as a consumer. Since 50Gb only now covers my photos and docs, doesn't cover my music and even my photo collection's needs trimming to fit I would move to GDrive very quickly rather than double that spend to get to the next tier.

I've long hoped that Dropbox would segment their pricing plans more. It's unsettling having an increasing volume of content not backed up and if GDrive really does deliver I would move to it. My loyalty is to DB and I've yet to be convinced on GDrive's usability but it doesn't make sense to pay an extra $100/year as a loyalty fee.
Similarly, with Python:

curl -s http://random-inc5000.herokuapp.com/ | python -m simplejson.tool

I've got the last bit aliased as `json` though.
This is just a maintenance update to 5.12, ie. the latest stable version of Perl.

The next version (5.16) is due in Spring 2012 and there are regular (monthly) updates to this on the 5.15 development track:

* 5.15.0 - http://search.cpan.org/~stevan/perl-5.15.3/pod/perl5150delta...

* 5.15.1 - http://search.cpan.org/~stevan/perl-5.15.3/pod/perl5151delta...

* 5.15.2 - http://search.cpan.org/~stevan/perl-5.15.3/pod/perl5152delta...

* 5.15.3 - http://search.cpan.org/~stevan/perl-5.15.3/pod/perldelta.pod
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I highly doubt it. What i meant was that google videos failed. Google bought youtube for its community, not for its backend. This is not relevant with regard to dropbox, as file sync is a technical problem and google is fully capable of providing a technical solution.
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The construction of bigger roads is the CAUSE of traffic jams, not the solution. The more you improve a highway system, the more people build and relocate to take advantage of the highway. But you can never upgrade the rest of the city streets to absorb all the cars spilling off the highway. The only solution is to invest in mass transit and vigorously control suburban sprawl (by increasing population density, making downtown living more attractive, and restricting new development anywhere within driving distance).
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I know that you're right and I know that it is the wrong question to ask, but answering it like that is what makes a lot of non-dev/designers dislike us. Maybe try helping them ask the right question by saying something like: "Well it depends on what you want, what kind of website are we talking about?". It might take a couple of minutes more to answer their question but it has a much higher chance of actually getting a new potential client.
It's still almost 3x as much as dnsmadeeasy.com. I pay $60/year to manage up to 25 domains with 10mil queries. Looks like Route 53 would make sense if you need an order of magnitude more queries, though.
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"How much do you charge?" = bad

"What is the average of your x previous invoices for x?" = good

Sure I might charge by default $1k for a logo but the chances of $1k being billed every time are slim, every client is different. The average invoice price is the most valuable metric. Every designer will say they charge $5k when they charge $1k because it makes them feel good.
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Agreed. I charge by the hour myself (although looking back at the totals for various recent projects, I find that they end up pretty close to the average survey results).

I'll be the first to admit that it's extremely hard to estimate the costs of designing (or even developing) a site. That being said, I think even vague figures such as these can be useful, if only to establish a basic minimum budget for projects.
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Two thoughts:

- I don't think the Dropbox party is over, and won't be for a while, because of non-techies. Dropbox is drop dead simple and non-technical people have gravitate to it and won't see much of a reason to switch. Also, Google has so many different products now, sometimes when you mention Google to non-technical people they get an overwhelming deer-in-the-headlights look.

- As a technical person, I am excited to hopefully have more online and offline document editing capability with Google Drive. Back when I had a Blackberry, Dropbox's app allowed me to edit files through the app, but with my iPhone app, I can't edit files on my Dropbox.
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in the dropbox forums company representatives constantly comment that lower price plans are not feasible. That said, I've always been disappointed by companies that make you buy buckets of units (like postpaid cellphone plans) that they know you will never use rather than offering a per unit price. If the cost to provide 1gb of storage per month is higher than 10/50, than charge the higher price, don't hide it by shifting the cost of power users onto regular users.
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I don't think it's creepy at all. I share a lot on FB but I know who is on my friend's list and I trust them. For a lot of people, it's just a good way to get things off your chest. For me, I am sooooh busy with work, school, raising a 4-year old and countless volunteer activities, I have zero time to interact with anyone outside of the computer when it comes to personal issues. I don't air all of my dirty laundry but if someone is sick, etc., I might post something vague about it just so I feel better. I usually hope my vague posts will trigger a private email where I can go into more detail. Is that weird? I don't think so.
It is not "simply backup". They provide a user friendly synchronization service for files between all your devices. Sure, for simply stashing files there are much cheaper options such as Amazon S3 or simply a friend's linux box in his basement... but it is not entirely a fair comparison.
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As a subscriber to additional storage with Google (20 GB, $5/year) I'm really happy to be reading this because it will allow me to fully use the space I've paid for. I believe it was the cheapest option when I subscribed and while I have crossed the free storage limit I have yet to fully use 20 GB.

I originally signed up for it because I was sporadically transferring a lot of high-res scans between a computer which my school owns and my own laptop, so a permanent dropbox-like folder would not have worked. Now I'll also be able to back up my music/photos dropbox-style with the same service. Smart move by Google for hitting both services, although it's kind of sad to see such a great startup being approached by the web's behemoth.
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I ultimately went with Route 53 because of the performance. Glad to see your tests confirms my choice.

Switching to Route 53 from MediaTemple as my DNS was like a night and day difference. The site felt much faster.
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