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As another early adopter, the value prop is clear to me. I mostly see it as fitting nicely between tweeting and blogging. Unlike a blog, I get immediate feedback (since few people use RSS anymore) and unlike Twitter, I get an easy-to-follow conversation in one place and I can search for it later on.

However, I'm only talking about the value prop for early adopter types. There's still more to cover when it comes to explaining to people why this is better than Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr.
I am interested in collaborating with other remote hackers from around the world, starting with email-chatting, on these aspects:

- discuss experiences to get a better view of the opportunities available.
- make concerted efforts around specific projects.
- concerted marketing efforts.
- or anything that could be useful.

My email is in my profile, for anyone interested.
I don't think there's really anything unique about spamming... I was also referring to the previous posters loan idea/business model.
So you do agree that there are options beyond forking it or merely "raising a ruckus on the mailing list". My point was precisely that there are additional answers and that just glibly saying "Well, just fork it or accept what the mailing list result is" isn't a good summary of the alternatives, and in the context of what you were replying to borders on deceptive.

In the meantime, the fact that I am rich with options doesn't negate the original discussion, which is that the Apache processes are becoming distinctly suboptimal for the context they work in. The fact that I can just take the software and run with it doesn't fix their processes, and the fact that anybody can do so doesn't excuse broken processes. The fact that we can fork does not mean everybody should just stop discussing Apache processes; it doesn't follow.

I'm still in context: "I was was almost driven to start blogging last week by ASF's poor job of maintaining its projects. There was a small bug in Solr. I was not the first to find this bug, and someone had not only reported the bug, but filed a patch on the bug tracker a year and a half ago. The patch was never merged in, nobody provided any feedback as to why the patch wasn't merged in." "You can just fork it" is not an answer to this problem. I'd say in its own way it's a disguised confession that in fact the problems with the project are indeed so bad that your only hope is to fork it yourself. Well, that still says bad things about the project, regardless of whether I have mitigation options.
Cool, I haven't seen that before.
The tech is pretty simple, it's ruby on rails, and a cron job grabs the RSS feed for the Reddit home page, then downloads all of the posts that link to images hosted on imgur. The images are all uploaded to Amazon S3 and the server is on a free Heroku plan.
The next feature I plan to add is a link back to the Reddit comments for each image.

I did find out that if imgur will block you if you retrieve too many images too fast.
Thanks a lot for the link. Good way to review and compare with online class.
"It's important. It's not enough to just be a bunch of dudes hacking away at stuff."

I Disagree. This is the most productive environment for me. The issue is that people set out to start a company and not solve a problem. A bunch of dudes siting around hacking to start a company might not be the best idea but a bunch of dudes sitting around trying to solve a problem is the best way to start.
Your English seems great so getting UK or US clients shouldn't be a problem with a decent portfolio and some sales skills.

I was recently researching contract development in London which seemed to range from £250-450 per day. Even at the low end of that you're earning far more than 1000 euros a month.
What would happen if corporate taxes were lowered to zero, but capital gains were taxed as ordinary income? Corporations are not people, etc., and maybe taxes should only be imposed when they actually enter a human being's possession.
It's funny, but reading through them you start to develop a common thread that it started for many of them at the hiring process, almost as if the quieting started at the hiring process and built from there. Also correct me if I am wrong, but didn't Google pretty much fix the compensation problem. Are these emails a little old? It seems to be the other common thread among the complains, but I was under the impression that they where competitive now, given the talent war.
As a spanish ex-freelancer I understand your situation, basically you have three options:

* Try to move to another country, in Berlin you can find a lot of startups and is not an expensive city.

* Give a try to Exquisite Jobs http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3244078 , odesk.com of elance

* Get a couple of small, cheap projects and do it really well in order to create a good portfolio to show to the next clients. Also you can collaborate in open source projects.

If you manage to get an regular income portugal is a nice place to live, I lived in Coimbra for one year and it was great.
The comparison is between improving the product and traditional marketing. We found, over and over, that improving FogBugz (sometimes by adding new features, but not always) was much better at increasing sales.

Recently, that's begun to change somewhat, mostly due to patio11 coming around periodically to tell us everything we're doing poorly in our marketing.
I lived in Berlin for a few months some years ago and it's an awesome place to live generally. Plus relatively cheap for a city of its size and cool factor, especially if you get a place in the ex-East.
I don't consider this to be 'true' non-terminating compilation then. Interesting cases to me would be ones where the syntax itself throws the compiler into an infinite loop, not one where you explicitly tell the compiler to execute an infinite loop.
TBH I can't stand the amazon app store. The only reason it's still installed is because I have like 2 free apps that I use daily (SwiftKey X and sometimes QuickOffice Pro) the free apps mostly suck anyways, and the annoyance generated is extreme. Google market's superiority is pretty big. Problem is that its not Amazon.
I got the same impression. And even on the government's side, surely the step this situation suggests is to close loopholes rather than lower taxes?
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1.5 seconds for 95% of traffic is very ambitious, considering the users are geographically disperse. Say someone from across the globe(RTT=300ms) visits the site, it would take them minimum 600ms to even start rendering the page...
Work with some code on github. With any luck you'll attract the interest of a startup or recruiter.

Be careful though. If they can get away with it, people will always try and get the most out of you for the least amount of money.
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It's not easy to make money online, but it is probably much more profitable. A developer salary here with a couple years of experience is roughly $1000. I made $1500 this month doing some freelancing hours. I'm putting the remaining of my time on personal projects. I think, I'll be making $5000-$7000/month a year later. Probably not something crazy, but by any standards, above the 99% of my country.

Don't miss growth opportunities. I doubled my rates 2 times the last year and I'm still getting a few gigs every month. I'm working less and earning more. I'm developing more personal projects and the future seems promising. Don't try to convince people that don't value your work. They'll never pay you what you are asking for.

In the end, you are doing a favor for your country. You are paying more taxes, improving your living standard and the living of those who can now give you quality services.
"Because that means the tech world is getting flatter."

If an 800 lb Google can't make a dent in 1600 lb Facebook's enclosure, then how flat is that, really?
Now and again on HN threads like "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2011)" pop to the top:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3181801

If you are unhappy with your pay situation then watch these threads carefully for better paying contract work. There is also a running google spreadsheet of contractors you should list in:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlD_6iEb8Ed9dGs...

My company contracts with several remote/international HNers with great results.

I like that HN only occasionally has a jobs thread and mostly talks about other things. In support of that, I'll say that my offer is posted to the other thread and I welcome your email to johnny@cpap.com if interested or just to say hi.
I disagree. I think it looks quite nice for normal prose.
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It's a post from almost 3 years ago, so yeah I think this is very old...
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I read BBC D&D Labs and it all appeared more exciting...
Here in Brazil is not very different 1k to 2km entry to medium skill range, but our money is worth 0.402 euros, so for us it's not a bad salary at all it's more less R$4500k.. which is quite enough for you to live a decent life.
Implemented a cool new Google docs integration feature on job-buddy.com, thought it was going to really shake things up... Except no-one understands why it's there, how to use it. Back to the drawing board.
And in addition tax cash stock piles to help drive re-investment, research and growth.

The combination says: You'll be taxed individually if you withdraw it, or taxed as a company if you horde it. Why not invest it instead?

Which might lead to greater employment, or more innovation.

* This whole post was a 2-second thought, I'm pretty sure it's flawed, but it amuses me.
Yes ! here in Brazil we think as monthly salaries too... not annual like in the US.
It's around 2.3k eur/m for the worst case scenario, more than double what he gets currently and the cost of living is London is probably around 1.5x to 2x more expensive than in Lisbon. It's enough for London but I should also note the website I linked to shows much more than that (around 50k eur/y average), I just like to work with worst case scenarios all the time. :)
I'm Portuguese. In average, a Computer Engineering graduate (Msc) from the top university in Portugal with 0 experience, earns about 1000 euro, before taxes, per month.
That seems the most logical solution to me. But I think corporate taxes are also aimed at "pushing" companies to invest/spend more of their revenue than they would if they could funnel all profits straight into accounts in the Cayman islands or wherever.
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Cost of borrow went from like 95% to 30% over the past two days so shorting recently began in earnest, it seems.
Checking for null on every method call certainly sounds nuts to me. Furthermore I would argue that doing so decreases consistence in your program. For example, in Objective-C I can count on nil being returned every time I call a method on a nil object. The opposite is true for other languages. The point is, it renders me able to make certain assumptions about how my code will behave, and thereby reduces the amount of code and tests I have to write.

Now if the language you're using behaves opposite of your wish, you're either using the wrong language or doing things the wrong way.
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What constitutes a "cash stockpile?" Does this disincentivise saving? Is it even legal to tax funds without a transaction?
Yeah, it's definitely appreciated!
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I tire of this argument. They do. They pay taxes according to the laws of the land.

Are they being fiscally responsible by paying less to the tax experts than they'd pay in taxes? I don't know, but I'd suspect either those experts will always continue to justify their existence (e.g. "Yes, Mr. CEO, we've saved you oodles of money") or corporate boards and executives just prefer not to think about taxes and accounting and such and just keep some accountants and lawyers around anyway.
The idea is to include all javascript in a single HTTP request. Sorry if that wasn't clear in point #2.
Well, if the allegations are true, Universal says Grooveshark employees personally uploaded tracks they did not have rights to in order to fill gaps in the database.
If a script is supposed to run when the DOM is ready but external scripts/stylesheets/etc are still being loaded, it should not attach itself to the load event. The load event is supposed to run when the page has fully loaded. By the way, IE9 now supports DOMContentLoaded and there are hacks to simulate it in earlier IE versions.

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It wasn't a difficult task for some funds/investors to do the maths: the cash yield of Groupon was lower than US 10y govt bond, blue chip dividends plays, etc. This implied that (i) either Groupon was a safer investment than the above, or, (ii) that Groupon was completely mispriced. By method of elimination we are left with the later one. Groupon has HUGE execution risks, facing large and tough competition, image deterioration, reducing margins, etc, while still needing to achieve espectacular growth to deliver such value. How can you price something at such a ridiculous valuation when its equity risk is way higher than those other safer investments? To price Groupon at 20usd/share was just wrong. Some of us know how much did Groupon+investors push the underwriters to make this possible, and how many sales calls the equities' desk had to do to get this thing going. No surprise this is going underwater.
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It would be cool, but the latency would drive me crazy.
Yeah, I don't really understand taxing business at all. They create jobs, then don't create a tax burden (like say an apartment building full of families attending local school, yet the govt constantly subsidizes building apartments). Why would you tax an entity that enables citizens to earn money and pay their taxes?

A business profit isn't profitable to anyone until it is distributed to employees or shareholders, at which point it is taxed again.
One problem. Let's say I own a corporation and the corporation decides to use it's profits to purchase a G5 Jet, a mansion, a fleet of limos, an entertaining budget, etc. I'm essentially going to live like a king tax free. While I wouldn't technically "own" the items I would benefit from them. How can you regulate benefit? Where do you draw the line as a costs of doing business and a direct benefit to the CEO?
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They ruin it with the last step, where you add random bolts, vents, etc all over the robot.

By ruin it, I mean to say, up until that step, everything is just "select from this set of body parts". If you kept it as a "select from this set of body parts", they could use any material they wanted and just injection mold all sizes / all body parts, and assemble them to order, just like dolls. That allows moving arms, legs, and head as well as allows rubbery material selection and color options.

The option of using standard molded parts only goes away on the last step, when you add the random features which then force them to use 3d printing. In my opinion, those features are not worth the loss of manufacturing flexibility that they cost.
GE does pay their taxes. The issue is that they structure their business in a socially inefficient way in order to minimize their taxes. They do pay the taxes they owe.

I'll speculate that what you may really oppose is structuring transactions in order to avoid taxes. But then again, you may not.

Do you oppose employers providing health insurance, i.e. untaxed compensation? Do you oppose individuals buying a home when the mortgage interest tax deduction tips the scales in favor of home ownership? Or corporations switching to green energy sources when tax subsidies make it economical [1]?

[1] Incidentally, this is one of the bigger tax breaks GE used.
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Why would it be any different from taxing property that you simply own? In fact, where I live, blighted, disused buildings are taxed at a punitive rate.
Please get this off the front page:

1) $200K is for Android +iOS + BB apps

2) Source code is available

3) App works as advertised and does not Crash (installed)

4) Selling to big Gov. is expensive (not 10X but surely 2-3X)

5) The poster wildly underestimates the total project cost and puts in some arbitrary coding estimate

Linkbaity title + Misleading facts + Moral outrage at big Gov != HNews Frontpage
This idea that people/businesses "horde" cash is simply bizarre to me, yet I see it again and again in discussions about the economy.

Unless it's stacks of paper underneath their mattress, it's in a bank, essentially an investment, and is able to be lent out as capital.
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Totally agree, if I'm not wrong Jay just packed the Liu Liu code into a jQuery plugin, right?
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That doesn't make for good class warfare rhetoric though. We're headed into an election year!
Although GRPN is undoubtedly a money-burning scam of a company that is doomed to inevitable failure, it should be noted that the broader market is currently suffering from sovereign debt contagion in Europe and the associated liquidity scrambles. It's not only GRPN.
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I think it depends on the market. There are some markets where complexity is really a pain. There are other markets where existing products are already simple enough for the given users that this is not the main concern.

Unfortunatelly in markets where complexity is a huge pain nowadays it is very hard to find or build the relatively simple solutions. Otherwise others would have found/built it already.

So yes, yet another bug tracker will not win in the market just by being even more simple than the other simple bug trackers.

But in a market where users are actually fustrated of the complexity they have to deal with - it can hit big. For example in case of programming languages, frameworks it is a big selling point to be simple: programming can become fustratingly complex if the tool is not designed with simplicity in mind (see enterprise Java). That's why things like Ruby on Rails are successful.
The demand to pitch or meet a VC is far greater then VCs.
Seems that way to me, really trivial to be asking for donations and not giving the majority of them to Liu Liu. So sad to see a fellow developer taking someone else's hard work and trying to piggy back off it to make money.
do you have a website/github with your projects?
if not then I would recommend you to do so.
Making an open source iOS library will also help you get recognition and will be easier for you to get gigs.
I did the same thing. I'm pretty bummed about it because I don't have time to go back and do it again. Anyone know what happens after that?
groupon is a pseudo ponzi scheme. For any market X there exists a high variability for profitable, volume adjusted, daily deals (resource {R}), which people want. After time t, the most desired deals r in resource R are exhausted, leaving behind lesser deals (deals which make substantially less revenue-share). So as t >> T, only less desired deals remain for market X, hugely eroding profits margins, given the high fixed cost to set the deal. So the only way to maintain margins is to enter a new market Y, where r (very profitable daily deals) is in high supply. But eventually this market will be exhausted of r, and margins will again collapse. Therefore Groupon must continually enter new markets to maintain margins, which it has been doing. But there are only a finite number of markets. So eventually Groupon will collapse. This is an intrinsic problem of the daily deals market. Google may overcome it, if it can implement it's near field communication strategy, or automate the bidding process. But other daily deals site, like Living Social, with high employee counts, are bound to fail.
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As of 1986 (in the US), such things are taxed as compensation.

Before 1986, most compensation to corporate executives was given out in such forms. In many other countries, executive wages are lower and the difference is made up with non-wage compensation such as what you describe.

Incidentally, this change in tax law created the biggest spike ever in (measured) income inequality: http://www.scottwinship.com/1/post/2011/03/what-would-it-mea...
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Okay, redundant though this is, I should underline that this Doodle is very specifically about Stanislaw Lem's Cyberiad, which is great and I highly recommend it. As joshu says, English speakers should look for the Kandel translation, which is unbelievably good. Meanwhile, Polish speakers should count themselves fortunate that they can read the original!
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3. Took part in Warsaw Startup Weekend in Poland

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Well, he credited the author, built a plugin around it, developed and designed a website so more people could use it.

Plus, he only recommends a $3.00 donation, and what indication do you have that he isn't sharing the money?
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if by match you mean whether that face is someone specific, then no. this is purely to find faces in an image, not identify who they are.

i.e. it's face detection not face recognition
It is certainly an inexact science, but in this case the insiders tipped their hand ahead of the IPO about what they thought of Groupon's valuation. That the last pre-IPO raise went almost exclusively towards cashing out insiders and early investors rather than shoring up a pretty serious capital problem obviated the need for me to do speculative modeling of discounted cash flows. More so than any of the other recent high profile IPOs, this one just looked like passing the bag to folks with far less information about the company's actual prospects.
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