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The ongoing discussion about outsourcing on HN is getting slightly tedious. Outsourcing is like a good api and makes sense ...

- if it abstracts things away from you

- if is much cheaper and yield better results than if doing it yourself

- if the communication, specification and resource management overhead is in a healthy relation to the actual work

- and most important: if you stay independent

So, some good examples which make sense to outsource: tax, simple content work like writing and all areas which are not related to your core competencies. The problem with outsourcing IT and dev stuff is that even if you are yourself a developer that you still quickly get dependent on the contractor and over time your influence on this contractor will vanish away until the contractors dictates timeline, priorities, features for slowly raising day rates. Changing the contractor leads to new costs for training or for a total rewrite. Thus, if you want to outsource development, outsource those parts which do not belong to the core of your product or which can be isolated from the rest with a clean API and no dependencies to other modules.

I believe that most development stuff should be done by the founders themselves. Not because they enjoy coding, no the reason is simple: A founder or business owner basically build a business systems consisting of business processes. Business processes and a business system are the premises for a scalable business. And we are doing tech business anyway, so our code is nothing else than efficient representations of our business. Our code reflects our business processes. Thus, I wouldn't like to let third parties decide on the core of my business. I'd code even a simple website for my product myself because it's easy and it's reflects all the Marketing processes of my company and I want to control them myself.
if you want to quickly fix number 2 (overlapping text)

add some line-height to your banner class (40-45px looked good to me)
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On a side note if you'd like some legitimate logo design advice, read here: http://www.davidairey.com/

He blogs about the process, the concepts of branding, what to expect etc. In general David has been a good source of logo design info for the past several years.
You need a license to use their engine for all commercial purposes. It's vague enough to capture using it for a film.
When I first looked at your homepage, I was wondering if the site was active - Will I ever get my order, if I ordered something?

This has do do with the fact that the site news was last updated almost a year ago.
You Can't Engineer Around Taxes
A fund manager experiments with PC OSs
Congratulations. You've re-invented the menu.
This seems ridiculous. This belief doesn't scale past a few programmers/employees.

If you are "doing it right", your time should be worth far more than a programmer's salary.

I run several websites/businesses. At one point I was doing all the coding, marketing, blogging, customer support, etc... I was crazy busy. Over time I've managed to hire for most of this, so I can work on bigger picture, managing what is to be done, architecture issues, and a lot more.

Every few months I try to reasses what things I'm doing that are not worth my time. Programming was one of the first to go. It's so incredibly time consuming and I can hire
someone better than me.
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I'm bored. Let's make a funny Chrome Extension together.
> Each to their own though.

I'll agree with that wholeheartedly.
None of this addresses the fact that the author has set up his company such that the person doing the marketing/blogging/sales/etc has zero experience doing any of those things. By attempting to do them himself the author is completely disregarding their value!
There's a nuance there and it's called an amateur. If I use this concept I could be anything and if everyone tells they're everything than what's the use of titles?

You can be a passionate, an amateur but to be a programmer, a professional programmer there's only one way of becoming it and it's by doing a professional job.
The best way of serialization at present. I like the thought, performance and various implementations.
Ask HN: Want to split with partners
I founded a startup in 2010, but I want to negotiate with my partners for them to leave the company, but to maintain profit sharing. I plan on negotiating for sole ownership of the company. We have already agreed on the share of the profits that each of us earn from sales of our apps long ago.

What are the legal options available here, if my partners are no longer members of the company?
The difference is convenience. You don't have to reposition your fingers to access the menu. IMO, the best example of this UI pattern is Android Browser (at least on tablets, don't have an Android phone yet) - you slide your finger from either side of the screen and get a circle menu, which looks rad and is really much more convenient to use.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

Richard Stallman's "The Right to Read"

I find myself wanting to post this link more and more frequently these days.
tmux really shines for me when starting or switching between projects. I can fire up a rails app with a single command and have all the tabs I like ready to go. Check out prag prog's tmux book for a quick intro: http://pragprog.com/book/bhtmux/tmux

Also, tmuxinator is a nice addition if you do start using tmux. https://github.com/aziz/tmuxinator
Part of me thinks this guy is a bit of a tight ass for choosing the absolute cheapest places to outsource, i.e. Philippines* then Ukraine, but then, that's just how global manufacturers work anyway, and why should coding be any different.

According to this infographic:
https://www.staff.com/blog/web-developer-salaries-infographi...
Philippines has the cheapest web developer salary in the world at an average of US$6874 per year.
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OK, but here are your outcomes if you are good at X and need X and Y:

You do X, hire Y - You have one skilled person, one question mark.

You do Y, hire X - You have one unskilled person, one question mark.

Seems pretty simple to me that the first is better. I suppose that you could make the argument that Y may be easy to pick up, but if that's the case it should be all the easier to just hire someone else with a proven track record.
I'm confused - why is it wrong to make an arbitrary assertion in response to an arbitrary assertion?

Are you suggesting that we should take a link to a CNN story as something more credible than an arbitrary assertion?
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The psuedo-Ruby code posted there is characteristic of someone who is having a knee-jerk reaction against something they don't understand. The person we are arguing against is obviously a Java zealot that will never consider using another language, so as long as he's going to accept that different people like different languages I think that's good enough for today.
Don't forget the time delay of finding someone local. You could easily spent weeks rummaging through responses to Craigslist ads, interviewing, verifying competence, etc.

The nice thing about outsourcing services is they tend to give you tools to screen along with a deep bench.

If a project is big, sure, look for someone local. But if its medium, I'll add oDesk/RentaCoder to the mix every time.
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Instead of the image box with just a border, maybe have the image inside an image of the container it comes in.
Thank you. However:

>author of this post refers to himself as a developer.

It doesn't matter what he calls himself. If you can pass FizzBUzz, you're a developer. Maybe not a John Carmack, but a developer nonetheless.

There is no sacred law written on tablets of stone and handed down from volcanic mountains that states "Developers who found startups must code or face eternal damnation." Rather, there is a holy precept that does state "The founder (whether a dev, UX guy or bizev guy) shall find the most efficient path to profitability, or be condemned to the lake of failure."

So if a founder is from a UX background, but in his particular context, it is more efficient (faster to profitability) for him to outsource the UX and read 'MBA for Dummies', I would argue that that is the rational course of action.

Again: Your priorities as a founder are not whatever background you are from. Your priority (and you must accept it :)) is to become profitable. When that is achieved, THEN you can go up the Maslow Heirarchy of business-actualization.
I just think it was a waste of time. I guess they had to find an easy target, and they probably did it for the lulz (which is a douche move, but it's their MO).
> In America here, it's a state recognized religion with a Church of their own.

So what? There a lots of state recognized religions, and it doesn't mean much. (The state of CA recognizes weddings performed by folks who bought their "ministership" from an advert in Rolling Stone.)

> Hell, Tom Cruise is a Scientologist.

Again - so what?
Well, China is power-centric culture rather than money-centric. This means you cannot assume market participants are all there to maximize their monetary gain, which is assumed by most economic theories.

For example, a large force behind the housing bubble is the drive to increase local GDP, which is a vital promotion metric for local officials; another force is local bank executives' desire to pretty-up their promotion metric by pushing for more "safe" yet profitable loans. Construction companies are mostly just there to ride the train.
I was thinking this should have been the topmost comment on this story- Surprised that not many people here seem to have read this,for if they had- this 'story' should have been the first thing they commented on.
I think the reasoning behind this is that credit card numbers have a very low life expectancy after they are leaked. One or two fraudulent charges, and the CC# is generally cancelled.

Medical records, however, usually include full personal details (address history, medical history, SSN, phone numbers, etc.) and by definition can't be changed. Therefore, should someone access this data, there is a whole range of fraud and identity theft that can be executed. Most people don't have credit monitoring services, and it's way easier to take out a fraudulent credit card and rack up charges that will never be detected (until some of the bills go through or the credit card defaults) than it is to use a legitimate one.

So, it's not the medical data per se, except maybe blackmail or insurance fraud (not common), but more generic identity theft. PHI is basically someone's whole identity in a file!
Note "working relationship" rather than "license": the obvious advantage of building a movie in a game engine is that you could quite possibly very quickly commercialize a game based on the movie if it turns out to be a success.

And with that thought I felt my third eye open just a crack, revealing a vision of how movie/game franchises of the future might be funded and marketed. :) Interesting stuff, or at least, in a few years it might be.
They're just adding fuel to the fire.
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The death of the dreaded dashboard is very welcome, but "side navigation" is nothing but a half-baked transformation of the same idea into a pseudo-fragment implementation.

Google+ is a particularly bad example how to do this. The Google+ layout is much better than it used to be, but it needs a real two-fragment layout on large screens, which it still does not have. Why have a layout that is half-hidden on the right, especially on large screens when two fragments could easily be placed side by side?

Is is possible, even easy, to do a single code-base that "auto-magically" adapts to one Fragment object visible, or two, depending on the platform's choice of layout.
Interesting idea. A few problems I had browsing from an Android tablet: the categories pages show up empty (no item, obviously, but I mean empty as in blank page), the dropdown and search box show up on the how it works page. Also, I'd make the search field larger. But the star is the super-simple submission process, congrats about that!
You're doing it right, and that's exactly where I'm headed. Mind if I email you?
The fundamental problem here is demosclerosis - any low-hanging fruit have long since been plucked. Essentially every plank in the Socialist Party Platform of 1928 has already been enacted into law. Nowadays many of the issues government tries to address were caused by the previous round of government efforts to solve problems.

But the longer you apply patches on top of patches, the more rickety the whole structure becomes. Eventually you reach a point where you'd be better starting over with a complete rewrite from scratch. It happens for software languages and OSes; it happens for governments too.

As for what to do about it, I always liked Heinlein's suggestion (in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress) that there should two houses of congress: one whose job is to pass new laws, another whose job is to repeal old ones. Without that second house, the legal code invariably becomes a cancer or an impenetrable thicket.

Another idea is Seasteading. Basically there needs to be some way that brand new from-scratch ideas of how to govern can be tried out and demonstrated. The same way stodgy old companies can learn by stealing ideas (and people) from tiny new startup companies, the stodgy old governments need a way to learn by stealing ideas from tiny new startup governments. Any change that helps big old countries break up into smaller new ones or allows brand new smaller ones to come into existence would be a big help. Seasteading (forming new societies in international waters) is one such option; another is the "charter cities" movement, where existing governments are convinced to voluntarily allow other legal systems to flourish in small areas that would otherwise be in their domain.
>This makes printing money as a way to finance the government very dangerous, though.

Well… It depends, is what I hear.

If you use debt to finance economic stimulus (i.e. World War 2) then you're making a bet that the amount of money you spend now will be offset by the jumpstart in economic growth you're creating. A crazy amount of things affect the economy.
That's a very small amount of money for a feature film. Pixar would likely spend an order of magnitude more.
HIGEAR Girls - my first site
murtazahussain.com

I just took all our images from Higear photoshoots (P2P car sharing for high end cars) and made a cute little site out of them. I'm teaching myself how to code and this is my first live project. Built on bootstrap (loving it!). Would love feedback. Thanks!
There is always the rest of the world, and given they are already using it for bone replacement - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16907104 - I don't see what the issue is for pumps.

[edit] Also, remember that the end users at this stage are medical geeks of a level of educational qualification that would put the vast amount of people working in software to shame. Some of these people are already making organ printers. I'm sure they can work out medical good practices for in-house manufactured parts and get it approved in most of the world, especially when the full benefits of custom parts as fast as possible becomes apparent.
The problem with dashboards is that they do nothing. Imagine slapping a dashboard screen on the top of the GMail UI: You would only interact with the dashboard to get someplace else. Ugh! A literally useless place. You always want to be someplace else.

The problem with "side navigation" is that it is only a visual change. It tantalizes you with the idea that you are someplace else, sort of, with a mostly-useless, partly obscured view on the right. Otherwise it is the same as a dashboard.
where is the perl one-liner :P?
Sorry -- it's just a promotional piece for a software retailer (software-asli.com); the Photoshop CS4 UI done with real-world tools and materials. The text menu is Letraset rub-down sheets, the swatches are watercolour half-pans, the visibility markers for the layers are loupes, and so on. Good concept, construction and photo, though.
Hehe, ok ok.
Europe eventually will move beyond the clay + iron phase of the last few hundred years and become the big thing.

Powers that be will 'force everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark . . .' Makes for interesting reading anyway. No more cheating on taxes in those days.
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the URL is murtazahussain.com
I suspect not. Your bank unlike some random website likely salts their passwords, will disable your account after a few failed attempts, and will ban IPs after a few failed attempts spread across accounts, tracks who you've sent and received money from so they can reverse transactions that are fraudulent, and artificially rate limits the whole process so that it can't get out of hand too quickly.

The OP (ostensibly) using the same password at their bank and at LinkedIn however is a security vulnerability.
What is it about Denver or Austin that you find so obviously superior to SF? (I don't much like SF, but I'll bet that my reasons have nothing to do with yours.)

As far as Paris goes, it's in France. That has consequences. If you're trying to start a biz, how do Paris' "better than SF" properties help you? Do they make up for SF's "better than Paris" properties?
>Typesetting and "putting into ebook format" are a copy-and-paste affair, taking at most a day.
I suggest you try doing it for someone else's work. Try signing up to be an editor at one of the story-writing sites.
It's not a copy-and-paste affair. And doing it well requires non-trivial amount of attention and time.
In Australia it's called "restraint of trade" and is totally illegal. eBay tried to do something similar by forcing users to use PayPal and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) struck it down.

This patent might work in areas of the world that don't have much consumer protection, but they will NOT work in areas of the world that care about anti-competitive practices.
Why doesn't our government actually do anything? Because no one can agree on anything to do. The examples provided all were projects with widespread approval. But today, there isn't a lot of agreement. It will take more visionary politicians than what we have today to convince people their policy is the policy to follow. Yesterday, we had politicians that envisioned a future where Americans could drive across the country or put a man on the Moon. Today, what?
The author asks, "Seems to be uncannily similar - no?" and shows screen shots of his mock up and the other team's product.

Similar? Not really, I'd not assume they were from related teams if they article hadn't pointed out the one on the right was from a couple guys that split off. The mock up on the left is primitive and uncompelling and I had no idea looking at it what it was supposed to be. The one on the right is better designed and it is instantly obvious what it is supposed to do and how it works. It makes shopping lists from recipes. It's got actual lists rather than latin and has a useful delete button for ingredients you already have.

So it seems clear the other guys were able to come up with a better UI on their own than with the UI specialist. Yeah, sucks, but dumping that guy was probably the right decision.

Looking at the other guy's completed working site at sautenow.com, it looks awesome and the interaction design is smooth and intuitive. The graphic design is excellent.

The whiteboard storyboard/workflow doesn't look all the same. It seems to have a popup menu for selecting meals? Hard to say what the long box/small box means, seems to be a popup. Very different from what they went with on their site.

As far as the basic idea of adding recipes to a recipe box or shopping list and then getting a list of ingredients and what recipes each is used in, allrecipes.com does that, as do at least a dozen other similar sites which have been around for many years.
> Besides the crime rate, especially number of murders and gang crime is really disturbing.

Averages are only interesting if you're average, and no one is.

What makes you think that you're at significant murder risk in SF? (There are folks who are likely to be killed - I'm asking why you think that you're one of them.)
You can use both in the same file; you just need to declare the dynamic ones using defvar, etc. If you turn lexical-binding on blindly, the compiler will usually tell you which variables you need to mark as dynamic.
>I'm sorry, but I find it very hard to summon an inkling of sympathy for the publishers' plea against piracy when I see measures like that.

In addition to heartily endorsing planetguy's comment (as a university professor), I might point out that this guy doesn't speak for the publishing industry either.

He is just some random asshole who managed to game the patent system.
Peter Thiel is grinning right now. This is exactly the sort of hare-brained idea that gets taken seriously when an industry starts to die. BTW go here for lots of free books. Slow but good selection. en.bookfi.org.
Ah, I see. Makes sense. Thank you!
Do you mean something else instead of 15mm? That would be a huge gift. A 15mm fisheye costs around a thousand bucks, the Canon 15-85mm ~$600.
Explain to me again why you should have something for free that I created by putting years of my life into it?
Yeah, people who think they don't need to hire graphic designers (or think that spending more than $200 on a logo is ridiculous) do...
Well, the login option is so that you can save a mix you've created. But I really like the idea about a permalink for every mix... I'm going to add that to my todo list right now.

As far as the design goes, it's really not my strong suit. Perhaps I need to find a designer to partner with...
Someone else suggested I just remove the site news. I think I'm going to do that.
I just got my Raspberry Pi in the mail last week and was disappointed about the Haskell support. Now I'm ecstatic!
Odd enough, I had a different title than the one above when I first submitted... Can mods of HN change it?

I liked how Rasheed focused on how they approached logo design as a startup and made the process relatable to others with the same set of resources.
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This is on my todo list for sure. In fact, we took some photos of the bags a couple of months ago for exactly this reason.
One-liner: $ for i in `seq 1 512`; do echo 'select @@version;' | mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -u root mysql --password=X 2>/dev/null && break; done

Via HDMOORE on twitter
This is a vulnerability in the authentication scheme used in the MySQL wire protocol, meaning attackers need to be able to connect to your MySQL database directly to exploit it. Attackers should never, ever be able to connect directly to your MySQL database directly. If you can connect to your MySQL instance directly from your Macbook in your living room, fix it right now.
To be clear myself, the point is that there are bigger fish to fry. Mandating one practice when we can't even implement another smells like issue of the week.
Who is arguing that one should pay for every previous idea that a new idea is derived from?

Oh, I don't know. The USPTO?