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I know it's trite, but when people ask me, "How much would you charge me to build a website?" I always reply with something pithy like, "Between $100 and $100,000."

What's more interesting are the responses. It's almost like a litmus test for who I'd actually want to work with. A person that I might actually want to work with will laugh and acknowledge that the question was ridiculously vague. A person that I don't want to work with will show some level of frustration and will usually dismiss the remark, pressing for a greater level of detail. I'll talk to the individual with a sense of humor and even a basic level of introspection, but the person who is frustrated with me isn't getting very far.
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That's not a solution, that's giving up and saying "we won't let you live there".

My experience is the opposite anyway - the more sprawl the less traffic. Very congested areas with tons of people were always horrible places to live, never a place to park, and it takes forever to get anywhere. (And please don't tell me your "solution" to that is making it so people don't want to go anywhere because it's too much trouble.)

Putting underground subways like some cities have is simply unfeasible in most places. Buses are just too slow in congested areas.
Your assumption (also the assumption in the article) is that the pricing won't change after it gets easier to fully use the space.
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sometimes when you mention Google to non-technical people they get an overwhelming deer-in-the-headlights look.

That's interesting, I've never seen that. I always thought Google was the most beginner-friendly corner of the internet.
Maybe that's because your interactions with this account weren't deleted. Maybe you still were mentioned in walls, or people you chatted with still had the history of messages.
That's just a guess, I don't work at facebook, but I think even if they delete everything, they won't delete every piece of data you may left on other people's profiles.
It costs money.
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I think Paul was spot on about a giant claw ripping these startups into shreds somewhere along the way. By intensifying the hub effect, YC circumvents the claw.
you are right, my bad i missed that. Even so, my original comment is still relevant when you look at how google eventually realized their own product wouldn't catch up to a startup's, and bought them out.
I've had cases where I've had sites penalized for no good reason. Sometimes Google makes mistakes. Plan B, for me would be buy another domain (maybe an old one with some Google juice), and transfer all the content to that one. Plan C would be to redesign your business model so it places less importance on SEO, and more on recurring traffic, and traffic from other places
What New York/New Jersey does have is an army of operations staff capable of building and maintaining some of the most hardened data centers and networks in the world. In many ways, New York is still stuck in "enterprise" mode. That needs to change before New York is really incubating local startups.
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I would be really shocked if Google charged for a service like this, it fits in with Docs and Gmail which have both always been free and have made storage space easier to fully use. If anything, they will profit off of it by people investing in even more storage with them.
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"They provide a user friendly synchronization service for files between all your devices."

....

And users!

For a small company who has a geographically dispersed user population, Dropbox is a great tool. The key is the dead simple setup and operation.

1) Install software

2) Use tool

Sharing folders is about three clicks from logging in to the website, and you can get there directly through shell (Explorer, Finder) integration in both PC and Mac.
You can use a similar setup with:

"Just then, one of the group said '42' and everyone chuckled, apart from person explaining [who probably needs an identity for this variant to work], who doubled up in paroxysms of uncontrollable laughter. After a minute or two, he mastered himself and wiped the tears of laughter from his eyes.

The stranger said, "What's the matter? Are you OK?". The other man said, "Yes, sure. It's just that I hadn't heard that one before."
Whenever someone asks me this question, I ask them, "how much does a car cost?"

Well, it depends on the car, they answer.

Precisely. So do you want a used Honda, a new Corvette, a BMW, or a Rolls Royce?
I found the whole stage event engaging (every speaker held my attention). Took me a little while to decode the color stripes on everyone's name-tags (my own olive stripe seemed to represent something to do with databases), but at least it gave a starting point for networking conversations. I found it amusing that the startup speakers wanted to encourage people to start their own startups, but almost apologetically also wanted people to join their startups instead.
I do wish that there had been an easier forum to speak to people who were looking for developers etc. to join their startups (even a simple sheet/board of paper stating who's looking, and what they're looking for would have been good).
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Please do. Most entities expand when they are successful.
i just added a new delicious bookmark for pinboard.in
that will teach them!
For an entrepreneur: M-shaped: really good at a few things, and not afraid of many other things that need doing.
> I don’t like being cryptic, but in this case, I am not
> going to elaborate further

This reminds me of the "The Gervais Principle"[1] from the same guy. That drew people in with an appealing story mapped onto a complex domain in a vague, simplistic way that in the end led to few novel, actionable conclusions. It's great rhetoric, though!

[1] http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...
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Google Android operating system still dominates the entire tablet and Smartphone platform marketplace but now so leading that it almost doubled the market share of 2nd spot Apple iOS, according to Millennial Media Mobile Mix’s reports.
Median is probably an even better measure here than average.
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In fact, the whole Ubuntu App Developer site is pretty interesting. They've got a tool called "Quickly", which is something like Python's distutils, but for creating, packaging and distributing GUI-based applications for Ubuntu.
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So, if it's not coding, not even HTML coding, then this isn't about websites. It's how much do you charge for a PSD file. In my experience that's a pretty useless metric. Converting a PSD to HTML can be trivial if you just use an export tool, or it can be incredibly time-intensive if you do it by hand and turn it into something dynamic.

I haven't had a straight-up "Design me a website" contract in years - it's always been applications, or a Wordpress theme. Is there actually still a market for simple static web sites anymore?
Terribly inspiring.

The pizza was ok. The place was big enough. The talks were awesome. The whole thing was really inspiring. The lack of "yes NYC is awesome" but instead honest "NYC can't compete with SF" was refreshing.

ps: I have an evil theory that the "put an X on your card if you're looking for a cofounder" was just a trick to mark people they'd want to avoid talking to.

I would have loved, somehow, to see a list of urls and "X of Y" pitches for all the hundreds of startups there. Maybe on a wall or something?
Its appealing simply because a compute by bus is generally faster.

You're right that the public transportation situation sucks, but wrong that people shouldn't want a new solution that works for them personally.
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I think it's more useful for your iPhone apps to edit documents on Dropbox, rather than for the Dropbox app itself to do it.

For most people I've seen using their computers, Google is the search bar and website launcher at the top of their browser window.
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It seems that the xml file is full of FALSE values.
Too bad...
had a great time, only comment though is, while I figured it out, it might have made sense to tell people what the color codes on the name tags meant.
If you're living in a very densely populated area and you "never have a place to park", you're doing it wrong.

(To be clear: what are you parking? The whole point of a densely populated area is that you don't need a vehicle.)
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Like with some of the others here I 'test' clients to see if they're someone/a company I would like to work with. For others who refuse to believe that websites are hard can cost more than $200 I refer to templates.

So, templates are good for some people/companies. It's the same with any product/service, really. There will be those who just want the cheapest x and are indifferent to quality, investing in their purchases, etc, and are happy with knock-offs and things that will break down in a few months.
When freelancing I tend to work a simple system.

£250: An update to content - an evening or two's work.
£500: A tiny static site with some original design. <5 pages
£1000: A full static site for a SME. Full Design. ~5 pages.
£2500: As above with some dynamic elements. ~10 pages.
£5000: Medium dynamic site. ~20 pages. 2-4 weeks work.

I then slide upwards for jobs I don't want and down for people I like. I've never gone above £5000 for a 'homer'.

I also have a mate-rates scale that appears below this:

Free: Family. Charities I like. Updates + tiny static.
Bottle of Wine: As above but close family friends.
Bottle of Whiskey: As above but good friends.

If I get a request for a bigger job from friends or family I tend to pass them on to a developer chum these days — experience has shown it's for the best.

Having a fixed, doubling scale like this works well. Each next price needs to be big enough to make a difference to me as I am essentially very lazy and I like my free time. Also, I am a terrible soft-touch and would probably charge everyone mates-rates if I didn't force myself to do this.
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in addition as time progresses the cost of storage has gone down and can be expected to continue to do so.
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But this can mislead users with where to do data entry for registration.
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> I'm not sure I get your point

If it helps, it doesn't look like you did. :)

> without prejudice of putting each format to its best use

Doing what you can to the extent of what's possible with multiple mediums (yeah, mediums, I said it) is real pie-in-the-sky, false promise kind of stuff.

People can't manage today to put the web to anything you could mistake for its best use. Why should it inspire confidence when anyone says it's going to happen when their resources are halved?
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I love Dropbox and Google Drive would have a hard time getting me to switch. Dropbox seems to "get it" when it comes to simple, easy to use file synchronization.

The one area that GDrive might wiggle into is making it even easier to use Google Docs. I really like GDocs but I don't use them very much because its just not convenient to do so with local files. However, if I can "upload" a file to a directory on my machine and have it available in GDocs, that might turn the tide.

NOTE: One thing that Dropbox doesn't do well is file segregation; some files I want only on some machines. For example, I want me personal finance stuff on all my machines at home but not my work laptop. Or I want large ZIP archives on everything but my phone. Maybe GDrive will tackle this problem...
It's in areas like this that Google sometimes oversteps the mark and veers dangerously close to "being evil" territory... in MY opinion.

As I see it: Dropbox innovated, and they innovated well. It's inevitable that competition would arise, but competition on the scale Google can offer could well mean total annihilation for Dropbox, if annihilation is what Google pursues.

Google doesn't "need" to enter this market. And yes, I know that there's no rule that says you have to be nice... but it feels crappy to me. Dropbox has earnt it's success, and Google could easily let them grow and secure their future before releasing G-Drive. Google is in a position to be something of a patriarch in the tech world as opposed to eating it's young.

If I was working on a Dropbox competitor yesterday, today I'd be finding something else to do. That's bad for innovation.

if G-Drive actually exists that is.
I always browse with all plugins and java disabled. If a site uses Flash, I typically will just move on unless it's something absolutely essential to what I'm doing. Surprising how many sites that use Flash don't have any usable fallback for clients that don't support it or have it disabled.

I don't think I've come across a Java applet in the last 5 years. I see NO need to allow Java in the browser unless it's for a trusted, internal-use application.
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Hi,

On the one hand I hope his friend is right: RDBMS isn’t suddenly a useless technology.
It does, however, suffer from an image problem. Both in terms of the ‘cult of the DBA’ (and their friends the ‘priesthood of storage’) as well as more emotional reactions to limitations of certain widespread and freely available engines. It seems that RDBMS as a whole has been tarred with that brush.

From where I’m standing, most of the NoSQL advocates have had a bad experience and want something else. That doesn’t mean that the big, professional, commercial engines haven’t been pulling their weight for a long time on enormous data sets. It’s just that perhaps NoSQL users have never had the opportunity to either see that, or afford it. I find it hard to believe that the average NoSQL user today has significantly more data than the biggest RDBMS users of yesteryear.

Of course, there are other factors in play as well. RDBMS has always had a reputation of being difficult to use and difficult or costly to architect for. Data Architecture as a discipline seems to be well and truly out of fashion and I’m guessing that the majority of NoSQL deployments are still small enough that it’s possible to brute force the way through, especially with hardware being what it is today. It remains to be seen whether this becomes a problem, or is admitted as a problem, in the long term.

There’s also the issue of talent. Using NoSQL allows you to attract the kind of developer that likes to use modern tools and keep themselves current. We have a quote on file from a CTO of a large web company that attests to the fact that his decision to “Go NoSQL” was motivated more by his desire to attract a generation of new talant than the feature lists of the engines.

Finally, whilst it may be the case that NoSQL users currently have relatively small datasets, the fact that it’s now possible to juggle large amounts of data inexpensively will almost certainly open up a whole host of opportunities that would previously have gone unexplored.

Regards,
@ndy
The appscript documentation is excellent and I find its syntax (at least in the Python case) a bit more "natural" than ScriptingBridge.

However, it does have to be installed separately. ScriptingBridge OTOH comes installed with OS X.
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While I understand the usual practice is to redirect one to the other, what is the reason they both can't be a valid address?
Docs and gmail let you slowly fill available space while being exposed to Google Ads. A Dropbox clone would let you fill available space quickly without ads.
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After the fact that you read the article? or after the fact that you submitted it to YC?
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These are great points. Is it possible to fix the architectural issues using "noindex" and "nofollow" on the empty pages? Are there other good strategies to clean up issues as detailed above?
Can someone explain why this link is here? Am I missing something? Genuine question.
This article confuses volatility with liquidity.

Restrictions on who can buy/sell and how often increase volatility at the expense of liquidity because it shrinks the potential pool of buyers and sellers. Real volatility is not waking up one morning to see that your publicly traded stock that you can sell at a moments notice is down 10%, it's waking up to see that no one wants to buy your illiquid assets at any price.
We could see much better syncing for Android devices for one. It would be nice if you could have the same kind of syncing that Chrome has when you log-in with your Google account, but for Android. So you could sync everything from SMS messages, photos, videos, documents, and even apps. When you buy a new Android phone, you would just login with the Gmail account, and everything would be there.

I really hope that's where they are going with this, and it's not just a rebranded Google Docs that allows you to store different file types.
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Yes, it does. If you're interested in long-term web-based storage of personal bookmarks, Pinboard's fee is a type of improvement over Delicious, since it helps the service stay calmly stable over time.
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You can use a web-based ui here: https://www.interstate53.com/

It is free, pretty well done and they haven't stolen my AWS credentials yet.
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Why do HN commenters have so much Facebook Connect angst?
Every article that mentions a company tying their authentication to Facebook Connect unleashes a horde of people saying "I'm going to cancel my account", or "this is the worst idea for their business ever" ..

Why is having a central authentication system a bad idea? How many times have we seen articles where companies are storing information (password included) in plain text or a weak cipher? How much developer time is wasted rebuilding authentication systems? How much user productivity is lost trying to remember passwords if they use different ones (or lost managing things through a tool like 1password)? How many security breaches are caused because people use the same password across many sites?

Facebook Connect is a good thing. I understand that the data mining and privacy concerns. These concerns aren't real, not because Facebook isn't collecting information but because everyone is collecting information so any privacy you have left is an illusion of privacy, not actual privacy.
Don't think I'll be leaving DropBox, but redundancy is nice.
This article comes off as being both disingenuous and a significant exaggeration of what is actually happening here. I think that saying that "Facebook doesn't actually log you out" is overstating what is actually happening here. The fact is that Facebook is collecting analytics on your browsing habits when you visit sites that have any of their integration on them, regardless of whether you are currently "logged in" to Facebook or not. We are conveniently ignoring the fact that any number of other sites, including Google, collect the same information everyday, but we are suddenly enraged at Facebook.

Saying that they are not logging you out is incorrect, they are logging you out of Facebook, they are turning off integration, they are preventing websites that use integration from collecting your info. What they are not doing is ceasing their data collection. At this point I think people need to understand that this (analytics, whether used for good or for evil) is a very regular activity on the internet and move past using hyperbole to try and attack the companies that use it.

</rant> I am just tired of hearing everyone bitch and moan every time x company touches their interface.
+1 definitely check out Ash's work. great content around customer development, lean and also bootstrapping.
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The OP stated web traffic was declining, not overall traffic.
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Is this a joke article? I’d say the only valid point here is ‘Type Book Code Examples By Hand’

‘Write Your Own Framework’ and ‘Re-Invent the Wheel’ are not good ideas and won’t make you a better coder, you’ll just end up writing more bad code. Instead I’d recommend aspiring developers to get involved with an established open source project; its easy to find something on github.com which piques your interest and needs help/bugfixes/new ideas. Learn the codebase inside out, commit patches and you’ll pick up a tonne of good practices which you can then apply to your own projects.

Becoming a better coder doesn’t entail using a vanilla text editor and no browser tools. These things are there to help you and make writing code easier; it’s still important to understand the underlying technologies, and why things work the way they do, but forgoing the development tools of the last 10 years isn’t useful.

They are indeed crazy tips, I hope nobody follows them.
But I do need a vehicle - you try going grocery shopping with a bunch of kids and bringing back 10 or more bags without a car.

I do know there are people who manage it, mainly by shopping almost every day, or by buying from stores very close to the house (and paying extra and dealing with a low selection).

But, mass transit is not a complete solution. There are other use cases which you are not taking into account.

I find very spaced out living, with a car, to be best. Ideally you have a centralized shopping area, so you only need to make one trip and get everything. (And of course no houses anywhere near it - keep all the stores together instead.)

Even better is if the store area is right off the freeway so most of the time it's on the way to/from the commute. And if not, it's quick to get to.
Delicious is limited only to storing bookmarks and it would be better if it were made more comprehensive to cover the various sources of content that we access on a daily basis. Anybody here tried Zukmo as an alternative ? its a free cloud based tool to build your Personal Digital Library with bookmarks, documents, google docs, tweets, rss feeds, notes etc.