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The problem isn't that you can't scale, the issue is that you can't scale with the current business model.

Looking at your website (Applingua), I have noticed a few things which can be done to solve this.

First of all, your pricing strategy is wrong and part of the reason is what, you yourself admit that you don't charge enough as a small project is costing you money and a large project costs you time.

To fix your pricing strategy, I would implement the following changes:

First of all, I would implement a set fee for a certain amount of words and then $0.xx per word afterwards. This would instantly prevent "small projects" costing you money as for example you can decide upto 500 words = $xx then $0.xx per word after so words under this amount would be "profitable" for you so to speak since you're getting paid for more words than you are actually translating.

Additionally, I would also offer an "express" service like PSD to HTML services offer with premiums being charged on delivery times. Many small teams/single devs use these and pay for the "premium" feature of express service - you definitely should implement this into your service.

For example, turnaround time would be offered to all customers for instance at 5 working days, and then they can pay an additional fee for the express service i.e. $10+ for 3 days, $20+ for 48 hours , $35+ for 24 hours and even $50+ for the same day (providing it is before a certain time) - Obviously, these are example express pricing fees and turnaround times so you can edit these to suit your needs.

Upon, doing all of this I would also slightly increase your prices slightly by a couple of pennies on each of your offerings.

This would mean that you would have a new pricing structure, that would give you an inital set fee for your work and even more money for certain jobs than you would initally receive as well as, additional revenue from your express service. Likewise, the slight increase will also help your profitability and help solve the fact that you don't charge enough.

With regards to being able to take on more work via employing someone then, there are a few methods and options available to you for this.

First of all, you could employ a student on a part-time basis (since you can't guarantee a full time position) meaning you could take in more work as well as, provide them with relevant work experience especially if they are a language student.

Secondly, you should focus on automating as much of your service as you can - even more than you are already doing. This may mean having to refer to vWorker or Automated tools etc for various aspects and using your language/freelancers language skills to "tidy" up the work so to speak whilst, maintaining the quality.

Moreover, you could also employ a Virtual Assistant as well to automate/scale-up some of aspects of your work. You can hire some VA's for $250/month and they'll work pretty much full-time for you - and you can "train" them to do various tasks for you - whether thats focusing on the marketing etc to take some burden off your shoulders and automate/scale up other aspects of your business.
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Seems way more likely to me that it is all part of the scam going on here --

1) Hype up mystery technology

2) Invent "anonymous corporate sponsor", lead other investors into thinking it is The Google via a simple domain redirect

3) Profit? (Hopefully not)
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Why should they be illegal? Why should any government regulate what you can and cannot put in your body?

For the record, yes I would rather live in a society where drugs were freely accessible.
For JavaScript that's a mostly valid point since 99.9% of all JavaScript is executed in the browser. When we teach basic JavaScript we include a week on accessing the DOM because we know that's where people are going to go with the language.

For Python and Ruby, it's best to have a handle on the languages first before throwing in Web stuff. That's the case for two reasons: first, particularly with Python, the web might not be the student's ultimate objective. But more importantly, you want to start in manageable chunks and throwing in web stuff can muddle things early on.
Well, I first guessed topic right from the title, but then I noticed domain name and second-guessed myself, thinking that this is witty title for what you described. Then again that may be like the second-level of wittiness by the author to host this blog entry on the github. Reminds me this classic scene from the "Princess Bride".
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The issue with Panda is that it tilts the playing field towards brands. This, along with predictive searches and Google-owned companies filling out search engine results, makes it much harder for newer sites to come in and gain traffic.

While it's good that scraping sites get heavily hit, what's not so good is that it will become very difficult for a future startup to gain a foothold in an existing industry. The likes of stackoverflow overtaking EE in a short time frame might become less in the future.

Much of Google search results is becoming useless with spam pollution, but at the same time, they have to be careful they don't just solidify searches around already 'knowns'. The true utility of search is turning up unexpected good results from time to time.
That was because prohibition funneled gobs and gobs of money into the hands of criminals.

See also: the current Mexican civil war.
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RLX really needed scale-out software and DevOps, but neither was widely available in 2001. Also, Calxeda is claiming a larger advantage than RLX did.

And wasn't RLX technically a success since it was bought by HP and then canceled?
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> You guys should add a "Do you know this person?" option to friend requests received from new accounts.

As long as the profile is a young attractive lady, that option will rarely be chosen.
What Facebook does is to discourage people from adding people they don't know in the first place; evidently this hasn't worked. One interesting thing they used to do but don't anymore: back when they kept track of where people knew each other from, the dialog box for adding someone as a friend would ask where you knew them from, with a whole bunch of checkboxes. One was "I don't know them"; checking this would, rather than displaying boxes so you could enter more details, instead display the message "Then why are you adding them?", and change the "add friend" button to a cancel button. (I may have the exact details wrong there.)
All of those drugs are more dangerous when they are unregulated. Compare to the personal liberties/responsibilities of firearms please.
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Dear Clipper Cardholder,

On behalf of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the managing agency who operates the Clipper® program, I would like to apologize for an error that occurred this morning. You and approximately 1,700 other Clipper® customers received an e-mail that showed the e-mail addresses of all recipients. The purpose of the e-mail that was sent this morning was to inform you that your credit card is expiring in January. In no case was your credit card number or any other personal information disclosed.

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It's automated social engineering.
More like what illegal activity will criminals try if drugs are made legal.

There are bars everywhere, cigarettes are everywhere so other than a little bootlegging of alcohol and cigs there isn't much profit in those things.

Whatever people want and whatever makes criminals money is what they will try.
Bullshit. As if criminals simply avoid other vice because it's less profitable, totally false. Dangerously false.

There are not open markets just floating around waiting for criminals to suddenly discover them.
Self-taught-programmer here.

I've done a lot of pondering about how to teach programming because I tried to learn several times myself, both on my own and in classes.

I bounced off each time, until finally sticking. I always wonder what made it different that last time, and if it applies to others.

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Have you considered starting with something with less conceptual overhead than java-in-a-shell? There's so much you need to understand before you can even get to writing code that way. You need to learn how to start and navigate a shell on your computer (different on each type, and depends on your system configuration). You need to learn about paths, and java versions, and sdks, and what 'compiling' even means, and the concept of source code vs a binary.

This doesn't seem like much to people in the field, but I remember it being really intimidating.

In contrast, I really love codecademy.org:

http://www.codecademy.com/

You're writing code within seconds. You can access it on any computer and it always works the same way. Which is to say, it works like any other web site. You start seeing things happen right away, and you don't need to understand all the infrastructure initially.

===

I feel like getting people to that first high where they see their code generate output is really important. If you can get them quickly to feeling a little bit of that power that comes from software, that starts the fire, and they'll have more motivation to figure out terminals and paths and verisons and OSes and everything else.
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Wish the article was substantive, but it's mostly conjecture without a real conclusion. I guess we'll find out in the next year or so.
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You'll find that there's never a shortage of cool work to do. What if you didn't wait for your boss to come to you, committed to (mostly only) your own stuff, knocked it out of the ballpark, and then only committed to boss-driven stuff that was at least as cool as what you'd otherwise be doing by yourself?

That's actually a really good way to 1) be known for hustle 2) be known as a finisher 3) work on mostly cool stuff.

There is no shortage of awesome possible work. Ever.
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This is hyperbolic, unreasonable and valueless.
Any estimate of the number of bots posing as people on facebook? Any way it could be like 100 million? Can facebook could prove or disprove either way?

Seems both advertising prices and their valuation are linked to this number, I'm curious what kind of due diligence has been done if social bots are as easy as article makes it sound.
Used to be like that on iOS. On iOS5 they attach to the viewport but zoom "normally", destroying most sites where they're used.
Or it could just be tongue-in-cheek
I'm doing scratch with some middle school students (grade (6-8). Most of them got looping within a class or two. Hell, we had kids doing chase games in the first hour and a half of messing with it. Oe of the kids now is working on space invaders, and star ting to get where scratch falls down on maintainability and repeating onesself. and the royal pita it is when you can't type in things, and have to rely on shaky mouse movement.

At some point soon, I'm planning on moving to something where they can distribute what they're doing, either as JavaScript, or pygame, or something. I'm hoping to be able to literally translate a scratch program to the n+1 environment so that they can see the equivalence of the looping constructs and the event handlers and everything else.
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Are you suggesting that the lower profits mean a crime ring can't be organized around them? Because history would disagree with you.
How do they determine engagement time or whether the email was deleted?
Most are overlooking the change in thinking with these servers.

Think of servers with ARM processors in the pipeline which will come with 64+ cores, available for cellphones. The biggest problem in a datacenter is not space or processing power, it's energy consumption and heat dissipation. Walking into a datacenter gives you the feeling that the place looks empty with plenty space to fit 6x more servers. Today this can't be done because there's no capacity for more air conditioning to cool more servers in the building.

Also, the way of processing has changed in the last years, for example with map reduce, which makes having many cores way more useful than a single server with a massive 5 ghz core. Actually today, many servers are IO bound, not CPU bound. There's exceeding cpu capacity.

Think of having a server, with 64 ARM cores and and array of SSD's. This won't heat up as much as mechanical disks or today's cpus, with very small IO constraints due to SSDs speeds and far more parallel processing power.
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According to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard [1], /bin was originally designed to hold programs that are "required when no other filesystems are mounted" or commands "used indirectly by scripts".

Which is a fancy way of saying that you don't want basic functionality to break just because a mounted volume is unresponsive for some reason.

The /bin versions of programs can also be less powerful (e.g. to keep them extremely small), although that's unlikely to be an issue these days. For example, when local disks were small it wasn't unusual to see a bare-bones /bin version of some program while also having a /usr/bin version that was capable of large file support and other niceties.

[1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
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It is a "marketing tool" so to speak; is much cooler to say "I am a self-taught computer scientist" than "I am a self-taught programmer". And like you may know, with kids, coolness matters.
I suppose it's a bit of a bigger problem than that since a lot of information on Facebook is shared with friends of friends.

Because of this it's not just a problem for the bad user (like my aunt on FB), but also all of their connections (like me and 300 other people).
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There are many dangerous things out there that are legal and for good reason; if you choose to ingest it you have that choice and in the end you are responsible for that. Are you also for prohibition on smoking because that gets in the way of a "viable effective lifestyle"?
As for #1, I've just implemented it. https://github.com/zhemao/chainsmoker
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We have a special tracking code that figures it out over the email clients' use of HTTP and with some fancy server-side node/mongodb stuff.
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I have no idea (didn't find out from a quick browse through the site), but the first thing that came to mind was an image in the mail, pointing to a server that slowly trickles a response without ever finishing so it can measure how long the other end is listening.
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The point i'm trying to make, the super glamorous "send in the military and take out the boss" kind of tactics are ultimately doomed to fail. You have to do the sucky work of grinding away at the base. a tax evasion conviction here, a conspiracy charge there. Keep enough pressure on the base of the pyramid that it starts getting a little tougher to find people willing to deal or be mules or enforcers or whatever. It's not a huge change, it just ups the cost of doing business a few percent, but that's a few percent that would be making a larger organization, that now they're spending staying the same size.

Those sorts of tactics, over decades seem to really effectively grind down gangs. Swooping in with helicopters and m-16's is expensive and (i think) not very effective. Perhaps there's a counter example i'm overlooking. However, if you take the long view of the question how do you fight organized crime? I think you'll see the only effective solutions take generations. Just slowly tightening the noose around more and more unacceptable activities.
When doses are measured and regulated, safety restrictions are adhered, and users can receive help for their problems instead of incarceration, then legalization becomes socially responsible.

I would like to point out that usage of these dangerous drugs does not decrease with their legal status.
Most of my FB contacts are "friend collectors", they would accept any request. Most of them have 1000+ "friends". I have no clue how they can even remember that many people, let alone have meaningful relationships.

I delete contacts that don't post anything interesting after my list grows beyond 50.
We discussed this in September, but I just now see you left me another reply(though I don't think it alters the argument that much): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3031449

I'm on my phone at the moment and don't really have the time to write a long article in any case; but in a nutshell I think you are making too many assumptions about the meaning of the SCs words without considering their meaning as legal terms of art.
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The wavefront-expansion pathing algorithm described in the paper is very similar to the approach in the roguelike game Brogue [1], whose author refers to as using "Dijkstra maps". The game uses it for many purposes, such as seeking the player, fleeing, finding food and treasure, and even auto-exploring [2]. It was also one of the discussion topics when the game featured on the Roguelike Radio podcast [3].

[1]: https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/home

[2]: http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=T...

[3]: http://roguelikeradio.blogspot.com/2011/10/interview-brian-w...
The circuit board of this clock is rather a work of art. Impressive. I recall an old professor of mine built something similar using two hard dive platters as the base. He skipped the seconds ring though, so his only had the two rings. Never saw the circuitry behind his clock, but I doubt it was a nice as this example.
Our solution to infrastructure/performance problems which dates back a fair way is to simply throw more hardware at problems.

Lately we are starting to hit a limit - a power limit. We are actually limited in the data center we use not by space, but by our power consumption, so we now have a pseudo KPI of "reduce our power usage". It's a good goal, but certainly not one I had ever contemplated.

A (future) stumbling block is our reliance on x86. Would love to be able to move to ARM =\
Don't forget some BeagleBones for good measure. http://beagleboard.org/bone
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Bullshit. There's not a single major client that executes code from emails.

You might be able to have some <img> link back to your server, but even those are blocked by default.
I'll be grumpy and say I'm surprised of how fast it reached first position on HN. However, I have to agree that there's a huge difference between deleting an email and opening it :p Great idea, good luck with it.
Yes. Superficial, non-technical safety via obscurity which lasts forever since OS X will never break 10% worldwide usage market share.

iOS might be another story, but smartphone and tablet usage in general is still dwarfed by Windows usage. Despite that, within the realm of smartphones there have been more iOS threats than there have been threats for Windows Phone 7. Shocker? Nope. It's based on popularity.

Interestingly enough, this year's Pwn2Own left the Android and Windows Phone 7 devices undefeated while the iPhone was one of the first to fall. - http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/03/hacking-android-windo...

Take from that what you will. Ciao.
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Lies. There's no way to determine if an email got deleted (unless you somehow buy data from GMail, hotmail, yahoo mail, etc).
I absolutely would, I live in a society where guns are freely available.

What's the difference? We have to assume reasonable personal responsibility. What's the alternative?
Pretty genius idea but easy to replicate by the big boys..
If you live anywhere in North America, you're already living in a society where they're freely accessible, so in that respect prohibition has clearly failed.

I understand we've all been propagandized to believe that drug use is inherently evil, however it's a mistake to lose site of the fact that (at least in the US) the prison system is largely a subcontracted for-profit industry. An industry with a clearly vested interest in maintaining soaring drug-related conviction rates as well as mandatory minimum sentencing.

I, for one, would absolutely prefer to live in a society where drug dependency is treated like a disease and treated.
Downvoters: care to weigh in why you disagree? I expect more from HN readers.

Edit: nothing like a good race discussion to bring out the lurkers and trolls.