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But I bet you have many more $9 and $29 than $199 customers?

I'm sure the equation still favors your theory, but I'm also sure by a lower number than what you'd like readers to believe.
Where is his perspective useful?

A disappointed guy telling the world in his Wordpress blog that 'there is nothing to negotiate about' instead of just confronting his client? Very useful and brave btw.

Working as a contractor for clients IS the problem and not his client (which he hasn't realized, yet)—contracting isn't just the best business model to follow. Everybody who's done client work is aware of that and for those who aren't the advice should be: pursue better business models if you can
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Thank you. For some one like me – yes, it is.
Listen, I think many of the people responding to you are sympathetic to your argument (as in, pro gun ownership, not being alarmist, etc - I certainly know I am), but you're hurting the cause more than you are helping it by comparing "discharging firearm" with "owning swimming pool". Your Freakonomics example was about gun ownership, not shooting it. I don't see how you can reasonably argue that shooting a gun is equally safe or unsafe than is "owning a swimming pool".

Of course the risks of firing a gun can be mitigated and controlled, but to do so, one needs a lot more rules and procedures (both on the individual and societal level) for guns than for forklifts and swimming pools. If you disagree with that, I'm afraid I (or, I suspect, some or most of the other people responding to you) won't be able to have a real discussion with you since our fundamental assumptions would then appear to be so far apart that we'd have to regress to a much more fundamental level and clarify those assumptions first before it would make sense to come back to the relatively high-level argument at hand.
The problem at the moment is the suspicion that the economy is being used as an excuse for greedy cost cutting (by both government and business). If my client were genuinely in some sort of trouble, I would be open to helping, but most clients don't disclose accounts.

As an example, one client had the cheek to have next upgraded executive cars delivered to their offices on the same day redundancy notices went out. A day later the contractors arrived to reconfigure the car part because the new cars were a bit too wide for the existing bays.
'reduce expenses, learn to cook, sleep well and get a six-pack (get thin)' are the last things you want to do in your 20s.

Well, get a six-pack or better a case of beer and meet your friends. 20s passed so quickly.

In your 30s there is plenty of time to save money, read useless crap, educate yourself with propaganda, do a lot of programming and 'get known for 1 thing'.

I wish I spent more time doing nothing but unfortunately couldn't afford it...
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An attempt to get karma, by any chance? :-)
On a previous post made after getting into YC (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3992581) they said:

>We're sticking with our goal on Kickstarter - if we hit 300k we'll definitely do it. There's a decent chance we will either way though.
> Drug dealers and gangbangers aren't stupid.

Dispute the premise.

The head capos might have some smarts, in a cunning sort of way. But the footsoldiers and unaffiliated who get into gunfights on public streets? Not so smart. Disorganized American urban criminals aren't at the level of Al-Qaeda or the Mafia.
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First off:

1). any business will start to decline at some point, including you(rs). So cost cutting is a proven solution. You are not buying a business, you deliver a service

2). the whole point of hiring subcontractors is to reduce risk (in my opinion). You are an expert they want&get when they need, probably with some strict clauses.

3). agree that the request is pretty left-handed

Secondly, about negotiations:

Everybody likes to feel special or more exactly that they "won" something. Why not make them happy by giving them a 2-3% (negotiate) and ask for this a contact-commitment of minimum 20/30/50 hours/month. That way you also minimize your risk of looking for work.

If you do have too much work however, then you have the upper-hand in negotiations. Play it now!
Not that I'm aware of out the box. There are multiple good practices to follow. YSlow and Google Pagespeed are both great indicators of what you're doing wrong.

What you need to remember is that you should only 'load' what you need. Don't load a 1920x1200 size image if you're only displaying it as 240x150. Combine your stylesheets, create sprite images, load only javascript you need - try to stay away from flash and similar embedded objects. Make sure your files are served compressed (except images) and that proper caching is in place.

You can't always blame the technology.
Great article. Between TDD, dotting constraint checks all around my code and actually knowing what I want before I write it, I rarely have to use any debugger.

With respect to people feeling like TDD is a waste of time, this thought is immediately extinguished the moment you see an accidental regression get flagged instantly, resulting in you NOT having to spend hours finding it.

Debugging is one of those tasks that you don't really want to have to do either. If you're debugging all the time, you are doing things wrong. I don't find debugging fun - I find problem solving fun (not problems I've created!).
Depends how you look at it. There might not be an individual incentive for you to do it, but there is a general incentive for us to do it. You can choose to contribute towards the move to IPv6, or not. I prefer to contribute, because I recognise how important it is.
The ProAsic3 is a commercial FPGA. So no, it's not military. The military may use it, but that doesn't change that it is a commercial part built to commercial specifications.

To call it a military chip is inaccurate.
Great post and that's the usual counter-attack: use this situation as an opportunity to improve your business relationship—the other party wants something, great, so counter and ask what you can get if you give him this. Easy as cream-pie
Looks good to me; you've managed to avoid the common caveat of ugly or over-imaged HTML e-mail. This is a message I'd certainly welcome into my inbox!

One thing you might consider is changing the wording of the message, assuming that a balance update always means rewards being earned (rather than deducted). It might have more positive connotations to state something like "You've earned rewards!" rather than the cordial "your balance has been updated."

I know I always get a nice feeling when I get the Paypal email "You've got Money!"
There is something very wrong with the concept of 'runtime' macros. How is a 'runtime' macro any better than a function/procedure? TBH, I have no idea what a use case would be for a 'runtime' macro. A macro is generally a compile-time source transformation. If you need that at runtime, use EVAL.
By reading the Kickstarters comments I sense that the most of money came from Python supporters. It would really suck if it falls short by 10K.
I found this blog post useful because it reminded me to keep challenging self-appointed authority. The author was upset that the client changed their prices, and decided that, no, it was up to him not them.

I found that quite inspiring as I ate my breakfast, ymmv of course.
It also looks like it was a jokey throw-away comment in the middle of an interview which was then turned in to a headline by the journalist that wrote the piece.
I agree that businesses should always been looking at costs, but only in relation to the benefits. Just looking at costs and trying to reduce them is meaningless.
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Really, leave the costs alone?

My inclination would be to assign an annoyance premium to that client. If they fail to come to agree to more next time, move on and find another one that you like more (even if they pay less).
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I also agree, but probably they know more about their business than I do.

At least they should
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There have been lots of single idea blog posts on the front page, which means they have obviously resonated with people that are on this site to the point where they upvote it.

I think that this is a good post for new entrepreneurs who may not have faced this type of thing before and get suckered in. For us more weathered business people it seems like fluff as we're used to people trying to pull dodgy moves, but hopefully this kind of post will stop the younger crew from getting burned.
Have you ever made or used one? For the record, neither have I, but in the rural environment I grew up in, it was common 50 years ago to make them for poaching purposes, so I heard a lot of stories and spoke to many people who have made or used home-made ones.

For one, while it's not 'hard' in the same sense that writing an OS isn't 'hard' (after all, it's a widely studied design, many have been made/written, there is much information available, so how hard can it be to write an OS, really?), it still requires tools that aren't that commonly available (a lathe, for example - how many people do you know that have one and would be willing to make a class 3 device with it?).

But also, the home made ones aren't that good. Yes, you can make a silencer for a .22LR good enough to not be heard several miles away when you're hunting at night. But those purposes are very different from silencing a caliber powerful enough to be used against humans; meaning at the least a .38 but preferably 9mm. Furthermore it's not so easy to affix silencers to hand guns and still have the gun be concealable, you have problems with semi-auto weapons to get the next bullet into the chamber, etc etc.

So, all in all, having to use silencers, even if they would work 100%, would still cause a significant barrier for perpetrating gun crimes.
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I think you mean: There has never been less hyperbole in a headline, in all the history of the world.
Have you tried simply charging for it ? Put in a pricing grid with the corresponding app restrictions. Of course, grandfather in all existing user to a free tier with a generous grace period. The free tier may or may not accessible to new signups. Call it the "end of beta".

Seriously, try it. You obviously are providing value to users. I'd love to hear from you on how it goes.
My problem is more that I never know what to test. I mean, suppose I have some nontrivial code -- one of my latest random projects contains this:

def permute(tpl):
"""Gives the set of valid permutations for this tuple."""
if len(tpl) == 0:
yield ()
else:
for t in permute(tpl[1:]):
for n in range(0, len(t) + 1):
yield t[0:n] + (tpl[0],) + t[n:]

It's a recursive generator-driven permutation engine. Technically I suppose the order of the permutations doesn't matter, so long as they are all distinct and there are n! of them. Is that what I should be testing? That is, should my test code read:

permute_test = tuple(permute((1, 2, 3, 4)))
assert(len(permute_test) == 24)
for i in range(0, 24):
assert(len(permute_test[i]) == 4)

for i in range(0, 23):
for j in range(i + 1, 24):
assert(permute_test[i] != permute_test[j])

...? And if so, how does that help me write the original function? Or am I supposed to test a base case and one or two recursion steps, so that it helps me write the function, but "hard-wires" a particular order?
>It's the fact that the server stores no archive of content.

And that's still not a problem of email. That's a problem of your
employer's competence. They should have an archive. Everything else
you mention are client problems.
Given all the demand for python support in Light table, I wouldn't be surprised if some else is already working on it.
Ah very good point! I should have mentioned the subject line (very important to email design) is:

Your Referly Account Has New Rewards

do you think it would be worth repeating in the body too, or overkill?
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The massive difference between the Internet and space (at least in my current opinion) is that the internet represents instant communication and it didn't take long to figure out how that can make money. Space on the other hand, what opportunities does it provide? Putting things in orbit, that's good. Maybe mining asteroids, but then what? Perhaps better solar power collection or something, but what potential profits would lie in colonizing mars, for example? Trying to travel outside of our solar system?

I'm not an anti-capitalist, I just find that often when it comes to capitalism we tend to have "I've got a hammer" syndrome. It's not the best solution for every possible problem.
Then that's not a partnership!

The other party just want to squeeze every drop of value before finally disposing of you. They say it's "just business, nothing personal".

Personally, I think good partnerships are always personal.

EDIT: to be fair, this happens on both sides. This is also very damaging to both the company and the contractors.
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>just like static web pages have been fixed to do asynchronous JavaScript to
provide dynamic web experiences

If by that you are trying to imply that email needs more awful HTML junk and
other "features", stop. Now. That would finally destroy email, not fix it.
To me it's because they provide a simple way to solve the hygiene problem in an interpreter.

That is, it's easier to implement first-class macros (which allow hygiene) in an intepreter , than it is to implement scheme-style non-first-class hygienic macros...

I only say this because I know how to implement first-class macros, but I don't really understand how Scheme's hygienic macros work...
Too late. Everyone believes the Churchill quote is the original one now. ;)
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As much as I wish you were right, digital does nothing toward stopping region coding/DRM if we're talking completely legal means. Though, the licensing fees, sure.

As much as I'd like to say you're right, I think there are still too many people (here in the US) that just don't have access to the kind of pipes make this feasible. Even considering so many places here that DO have DSL or cable as choices, you have to make the choice of EITHER streaming video OR doing something more intense than web browsing.

I was at my cousin's today and ran into the trite example of downloading something on Steam while someone else was trying to watch Hulu. First the quality went to crap, then it just stopped, and Steam was only ("only") pulling 600Kb/s.

Sure, there's probably enough of a market to make it a niche business, but you'd have to strike gold to make it turn into a reason for better Internet service. I mean bigger than Netflix. And with ISPs trying their best to turn us into a "pay per GB" society, I don't see physical media going away any time soon.
> We shouldn't be surprised by this backdoor, ... And researchers will not probably hunt for similar JTAG backdoors in other chips.

Ya. He sounds real thorough, too.

> ...[the problem] we should insist on fixing it.

Wait, I was under the impression that no backdoors exist and even if it did, everyone does it, anyway, like the author claims.

> ... there are a lot of idiots on Twitter ...

Don't forget blogspot and HN. This site isn't just for editorials from Forbes and the New York Times after all, it also features lots of PR from Techcrunch and kickstarter. ;)
Sorry, if all you have left is the (very typical) argument of
"if you think that way you just don't understand it", then I'll
consider this discussion over. I have no interest in hearing
endless appeals to tradition. I'm sure people made similar
arguments for GOTO back in the day. Good thing we moved on.
Perhaps in order to resolve this ethical quandry, he should include customizable limiting features when notifications are implemented, much like HN has. This would be unusual in a consumer web product, and might be both a differentiating feature and good for PR.

"bug me no more than once every 4 hours" might be a nice setting.
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Email is a terrible, terrible set of protocols and formats. We should really move to something less horrible.

There are several social network projects built on top of XMPP, though, which is a lot less terrible.
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I guess the alternative would be to define "apply" as a macro which evals the cons of its first argument and the other list of arguments...
That definitely makes it a lot clearer from the get-go.

It probably couldn't hurt to re-include the message (who doesn't like a reminder that they just made money?), but with the subject line in mind, the body seems to serve more as reinforcement for the original message.

Again, great job with this, it's always tricky to toe the line of much-anticipated email and spam-like messages.
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A very valid point. My advice was not clear enough. I have updated the original post with your comment and added:

"I was certainly not trying to be whiny. This is just business after all. I was just trying to point out how a single minded focus on costs without relation to benefits helps neither the company or you as a contractor. But just to be clear, my advice is to open up the conversation from just costs to a negotiation which includes other things, including the benefits."
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It's not even that hard, you can get the original files from Kindle on windows (because the decryption key is in memory), and you could script the reader UI and take screenshots anyway. Perhaps even find the text strings in memory.
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Actually, unlike your post his blog post did provide something valuable: it informs others in his/her situation that they don't have to just take this.

People accepting these kinds of demands pushes rates down for everyone (game theory), so there is value in trying to get people not to do that.
Well, I find this topic rather meaningless, as every language has it's own code writing style and conventions, which may greatly differ, between C#, and, say, PHP.
Plus, AFAIK CLR plays exactly this role in .Net, providing common functions across supported languages.
I agree- we need more thought leaders with integrity. The scoreboard in the valley these days is skewing towards MAUs / DAUs & valuation.

"Impact" is getting polluted with vanity metrics and wealth.
Please show me the software to not only do OCR, but also that will reflow these what are essentially bitmap-representations of books (or, at best, 'PDF-like representations') to a format such as epub which is required to get the full 'e-book experience'.

For the record, I've tried my hand (and failed) on software to do just this. It's a Hard problem, Hard in the CS and engineering sense, and sufficiently hard that I don't see it happening reliably in the first years, and there is to the best of my knowledge no software available that even comes close. To anyone who is going to suggest Calibre, please don't, lest you make yourself look like you know nothing about the issues I'm talking about.
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I like your idea for solutions a lot and think there's some great room for ideas to brew from there.

After reading GTD for Hackers[1], I kept thinking about ways to keep the momentum going after the initial excitement wore off… perhaps gamifying email and/or tasks (I hate that word, but it works).

[1]: http://gtdfh.branchable.com/
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DRM is seriously still happening?

For ebooks? Yes, yes it is.
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