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While that blog post is a fun read, it's a bit of a stretch to quote it in this context don't you think? ;)

"Once you're optimizing the runtime performance of Objective-C code, you're suddenly writing in C."

1) in idiomatic obj c you have already more control over runtime behavior than in managed environments, simply because you don't have to worry about a GC kicking in at a bad time (like "user has touched my interface, expects immediate GUI response").

2) If you do want to dig deeper, yes you go into C programming. However, I don't see what's wrong with that. In a managed environment it's not even possible to do that.

"The "close to hardware" thing is an illusion created by the "-C" part."

It always depends what you mean by "close". In Obj C it's abstracted away but accessible. In a managed language it's hidden by the runtime environment and not accessible anymore. Don't get me wrong, I think that managed languages certainly do have their merrit for many applications. It's just pretty obvious to me that they won't replace languages like C or C++ in the near future. Obj C is something in between - and I like its balance. Obviously it's not well suitable for cross platform development, but that doesn't defy the idea behind it.
She's on Twitter, too. I'm hesitant to link to it, lest we unleash the internet lynch mob.
Well said. I think a good "public shaming" can be appropriate in some cases, but I'd consider it more of a measure of last resort. As we've seen in the past ( cough Duke Lacrosse Case cough ) trying people in the media can lead to some really bad situations.
It matters a LOT. A you-said they-said dispute over a verbal contract can be expensive to resolve --- almost certainly way more expensive than the total value of this dev contract.

Startups who hire outside vendors should be very careful to foreclose on any potential verbal contract --- "do not start working for us until we have a signed master agreement and a statement of work" --- and that's for a lot of reasons, not just misunderstandings like this.

Obviously, if a company operator deliberately leads a vendor to believe there's an authorization to start work, they're morally on the hook for billed hours. But in reality, consultants go into engagements like that knowing that they're on the hook if anything goes wrong. This comes up a lot in consulting, because legal negotiation over master agreements can take weeks and sometimes threaten to ice deals that can be kept alive by just starting ahead of the contract.
What is your problem? Again, do you have anything to say? You realize that by calling people names and not engaging in discussion, you're acting precisely like a troll, right?
Interestingly, the Bad Judgement module looks like it's a legit check on other non-serious modules:

This module provides an explicit dependency for modules whose usage requires bad judgement. Joke modules often require "bad judgement".
What am I doing? Not giving a fuck about who is hung over or takes drugs
Hey everyone: can we hold on for just one minute before forming an Internet Lynch Mob and maybe try to get the other side's perspective?
Because we only have one side of the story right now.
How do you know the OP isn't lying? Or that OP isn't a competitor trying to destroy this company's credibility?
Or, maybe this was just a simple misunderstanding/miscommunication?
I'm not accusing the OP of lying, but there's zero evidence here right now. Think rationally and consider every possibility.

I don't know the founders and I have no connection to the company in question (other than participating in a previous YC batch).
This is what you don't do if things don't work out. Go to small claims court, do not post it on the internet and open yourself to getting sued for libel.
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I disagree. It's impossible to tell from a screenshot how long something took.

I could easily recreate that screenshot in a couple hours in photoshop - but that doesn't mean it TOOK a couple hours in photoshop.

The majority of design is thinking through how the app will be used, researching similar apps, figuring out intended user goals, etc etc. Then theres a long process of experimentation until you get to a point where you're comfortable to send it to the client.
A popular adage, brought up each time something could feasibly be attributed to malice; sometimes it is malice. There is much idiocy in the world, and there is much malice. Given BOA's track record, I'm more apt to attribute this sort of scheme to the latter. Perhaps I am cynical.
Ask HN: What's your LOC-to-Developer Ratio?
I work on a small but amazing development team that has been churning out high quality software for the past 6 years. We've added a few people and lost a few people to normal churn, but basically have written and now maintain close to 3 million lines of code (LOC) with 5 developers. (General break down is 1/2 million in Java, about 2 million in HTML/CSS/JS, and remaining in various XML configs, property files, and etc.)

We're trying to make a case that although we've been able to do a lot that we're well past the sanity point of LOC-to-dev ratio with each developer responsible for maintaining about 600K LOC.

I do realize that it's not a perfect science, but am curious to hear the ratio that you have on YOUR team and what breaking points you've identified in the past or thresholds that you're using to identify when to add people.

I also welcome other suggestions for alternative metrics than LOC that do a better job of showing load-per-developer and any benchmarks for what's reasonable. Thanks!
Ask HN: Javascript block on The Pirate Bay
The default settings on my chrome browser will not let me open any links from TPB. It says there's a Javascript block even when I enter the hostname as an exception. Has anyone else had this problem? Solutions?
Sure. 5 hours @ somewhere between $67-20/hour* is $337-$100. Since the post doesn't mention a specific amount, we have no way of knowing if their bill was for more or less... all we can guess is it was > $100 (three $'s used when blanking the price).

*http://www.howdesign.com/design-business/pricing/hourly-rate...
Yeah, the whole story is missing the part where the legal email address says "we won't pay you." Could be that's the person who is going to pay.
Important note: the prices are not different. Just that more 5-star hotels are shown in the search results to Mac users. If they were charging more for the same hotel, it would be evil not brilliant. :)
Are emails legally binding in CA? See here:

http://www.linkedin.com/answers/law-legal/corporate-law/cont...
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Do most YC S12 companies have a legal department? Or a finance department for that matter?

Im sure this particular situation is nuanced, and both parties seem to be unhappy. I haven't worked with many contractors yet, but my 2 rules of thumb are:

Don't ask people to do work for you unless you plan to pay them for it.

Pay promptly and in full.

It's pretty simple. If the CEO was never planning to pay, the conversation shouldn't have gotten that far and the contractor shouldn't have had the idea that they should go and make something.
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Welcome to HN, the show where everything is made up and the points don't matter.
A lot of people have attempted to copy that UI element from Path. There's a few open source libraries for the iOS SDK that will accomplish that. Of course, it looks much better in Path in this case.
But it's not a verbal contract if it's over email, right? It's right there in writing, we both have copies of it, it can (theoretically) be verified by a third party.

If I go to small claims with a copy of an email, what can they say that they couldn't say just as well if I go in with a piece of paper I claim they signed?

I've never seen someone say "Don't start working without a notarized contract", but that's the hidden message, right? Otherwise we're just playing at semantics.

Edit: As above, I notice now the OP did have a purely verbal contract. I was referring to emailed agreement which is common in our line of work, though.
My advice - Watch Mike Monterios talk: Fuck You Pay Me. http://vimeo.com/22053820
That's the same thing unless you have some kind of double authentication to prove the person who bought the ticket is the same one using it at the show. Like, say, matching it to an outside-authenticating number, like SSN or driver's license number.

Otherwise a scalper can just use "employees" to purchase a few tickets (the limit) at each venue, and resell them.
I outsource my startup development heavily and I didn't bother signing anything either. Yes, I've lost a few hundred (probably even a couple of thousand) this way, paying for the job that went directly to the dumpster. It's a cost of doing business. And I didn't raise money this time, this is all my consulting revenue, I could have paid an income tax on it and put it in my pocket. But if you want to build a beautiful house there will be sawdust. These money is the sawdust.
I'm getting this on Snow Leopard (x86):

--- Checking for updates...
--- Starting server... (this takes several seconds)
--- Server up!
The application cannot be opened because it has an incorrect executable format.

But, hitting localhost:8833 does bring up the app.
Surely the lesson for start-up CEOs is even simpler: you are responsible for everything in your organisation.

Like most here, I wouldn't have let myself get into the position of this freelance designer or chosen to air my dirty laundry in public. On the other hand, if I had sent a legitimate invoice and a CEO tried to fob me off with the kind of attitude claimed here (he says, noting that we haven't heard the other side of the story yet) then I would be extremely unsympathetic to flippant comments and requests to mess around with underlings. I imagine my response would be to send the final claim letter by registered post with a note that legal action would follow if the invoice remained unpaid after a reasonable period.

Of course, in this case, it doesn't matter: the Internet hype machine has been started, and if the reported claims are accurate, it is presumably a matter of time before everyone who has anything to do with this start-up starts forgetting to return their calls. Who wants to be associated with someone who thinks it's funny not to pay their bills, particularly when it's a small business working with another small business?
Asgard's not yet as sophisticated as Wealthfront's continuous deployment system. Stay tuned for more automation goodness later this year.
That was my read also, that the CEO realized that she may have screwed up, and therefore the situation called for her to stop talking and let someone more familiar with contract law decide what she had or hadn't already agreed to, before digging more holes. That doesn't necessarily mean that legal@ is actually going to refuse to pay the invoice, though I can see how you could interpret it as an unfriendly hint that they may be looking closely at whether they really have to do so. Forwarding it to something called finance@ instead for the same decision is an interesting PR suggestion, since it suggests merely bureaucracy rather than opposition, even if it amounts to the same.
Actually, I found that Craigslist was the best resource for apartment hunting in NYC. None of the other sites (with better UI) had the same quality of listings. By quality, I mean good deals.
It's not so much bad, per se, as it is just... well... inert. There's no there, there.
Until I read the comments I didn't get what this was supposed to be --- ghostery for the win, blocks Facebook Social Graph and Facebook Social Plugin.
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Upvotes are not hollowpoints. They are blanks, just making noise "Hey, look! Something might be wrong here!"
Freelance on sites like elance. Seriously.

As a developer, you never know what kind of applications people need or are looking to create, but you get ideas from the projects that are posted. Most projects I'm interested in are clones with a "twist". For example, there was a request to clone zocdoc, but with a twist. There was project for rental items management software that I worked on. Another that combined invoicing and job scheduling for people such as plumbers and landscapers. Currently I'm working on a clone of elance but for a different industry. I would have known NONE of this if I weren't freelancing.
One key point is that YC is a great brand in the tech community. If you are a YC graduate, your have the credibility of it behind you as if someone was a Harvard grad. Doing stuff like this erodes the brand for an trivial amount of money.

Work was done here, and if they weren't a YC company and some other guy, it is less likely that a designer would work for them without some kind of written agreement.
>Malthus introduced exponential growth rates, but not equilibria; he assumed a runaway growth would lead to collapse.

Malthus said population growth exceeds the potential for food supply growth, which is compatible with either a collapse or logistic growth.
Um, your goat is trying to eat your head or something.

That said, nice goat!
Some people don't trust black boxes because they have been burned too many times in the past. I don't want to make this an age thing, but in my observation the people who are chomping at the bit to jump on the next big thing are generally those who haven't yet really suffered because of someone else's mistake.

Cryptography's got the right attitude. Don't use things that are proven to be broken, but at the same time don't trust anything that hasn't been under the harsh glare of professional scrutiny for a while.
It's not a research tool... you're missing the point.
The other lesson people may take away is don't do contract work for startups.
There are plenty of banks with free accounts. The big regionals tend to be good, as are credit unions. USAA is flat-out the best on the planet if you can get an account with them.
Inevitably, this will make people like me (Mac user that considers $50 a night overpriced) book through other sites. Does orbitz think I only price through them? Most people I know price at least a half dozen locations before deciding, so as long as everyone doesn't jack prices for Mac users, Mac user's business will naturally migrate to whomever doesn't try to screw us.
Actually some schools are facing class action lawsuits for inflating reported JD salaries and placement rates.

But Biglaw/MBA Consulting pay so much because the firms are oligopolies with gentlemen's agreements not to compete on price.

That's not going to happen in a field with mesurable results.
No. All cameras have a IR filter over the sensor. You would need to remove that first which specialists on the web can do.
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What you post is fascinating, that is why I am asking all these coming questions.

Are you able, in good conscience of course, to point out antivirus software that would not qualify as "POS"?

Do you think that installing said not-"POS" antiviral software would be constructive or a big no no, at any given time ? (if they really exist and based on your own deep behavioral security know how, of course, that would be of great validity)

This "switch" you talk about, is it restricted to members of your family that you refer to in your post, and if so, are they older than you, or younger than you ? Is it a quick process ? Is it a deep life/computational altering moment for the intervened party? Do tell :)

Do they follow your "plugins off" recommendations to the letter, or do some of the "switchy's" stray from the path at times ?

Thank you in advance. Any and all details you post would be very helpful to enable a complete picture to be formed. For deep insight is only a post away, at last.
Especially you're responsible for what you say in the email.
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I don't see having legal council review the invoice as a cost effective strategy.

At worst the invoice is for less than $2000 (3 days at top rate). No attorney can just make it go away for less than the cost of paying the invoice.

What should happen is that the attorney will say to pay it, and send their own invoice on top of it.
obviously I'm using facebook wrong then.
$780.
It uses backbone routers, so try something like:

http://prose.io/#MyOrganization/my-repo

Worked for me.
I wonder how long this post will be up before the designer gets paid.
Thank you so much for taking the time to type that.

"None of us can claim a total lack of crazy or total lack of asshole" really hit the nail on the head.

And I'll remember "If you stop communicating, you're robbing yourself of a chance to practice." for the rest of my life.
There isn't just one definition of "violence" and the word is sometimes defined to include a malicious intent. Rarely would one say that a surgeon violently injures his patient when performing an operation or that the first responders administered violent CPR. Usually people project their own moral value judgements onto the word so that only what they deem as bad or evil acts are "violent". This is less a matter of fact than it is a matter of definition.

As for whether spanking is the most effective option, the jury is still out. It wouldn't be surprising to find a correlation between spanking and slightly lower IQ or later behavioral problems, but does spanking cause either? Can scientific literature that relies on self-reporting by parents show anything useful?

Regardless of effectiveness, should one spank? Is it morally wrong? What basis do we decide the morality of it?
Originators lend the money and sell the loan. It is agreed that the originate to sell model has perverse incentives. However, the point is that home borrowers are not the victims of this fraud. The people who bought securities backed by these loans are the victim of the fraud.

The homeowners got the money, the investors lost the money because the homeowners can't pay it back. The originators and the securitizers (Citi) facilitated the fraud, because they got their cut as the money passed through the pipeline.
There's a lesson here on the other side, as well: when you're hiring any kind of contractor (designer, lawyer, etc.) you need to specify not just an hourly rate, but also an estimated number of hours. One person's idea of "getting started" on a project may be an hour or two of work, another's may be several dozen hours. Getting an invoice for many times what you thought you were agreeing to is an unpleasant shock, regardless of how it's resolved.
I think the legal@ was meant to be equivalent to fuckoff@. That was my reading, at least.

Lesson: Get paid first when working with new clients. There just is no other way.
This is off-topic and I couldn't really figure out what it is that eligibleapp does, but why would they not come out with a web app first? Restricting whatever it is they're doing to the iPhone seems shortsighted.
It's a brilliant plan, really. What they really wanted is for everyone to list their real email address, but they knew that if they forced that, everybody would be up in arms, so they forced the opposite change instead.

;)
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> by consensus and executive decree

Man, some people around here really love the 'sound' of their own text.
the "CEO" of any YC startup early enough to need to outsource product development isn't promising anything despite their words.

Well... Yes. Yes, they are.

There is no probation period when you start a business and become a legal officer of a company. If you want to be a CEO, you'd better act like it from 9am on day 1, because chances are you have the power to commit your business to any obligation it can legally undertake. Once you do, your business will be on the hook for any such commitments you make, forever. And depending on where you are, you might get away with failing to honour a commitment if you made an honest mistake and the business failed, but if you were just blatantly negligent about your responsibility to run the company properly then your corporate legal shield might not be as solid as you'd like either, leaving you on the hook personally as well.
BTW, I'm looking for a designer. Contacts open.
The problem was that they were so ingrained with the Windows experience that they were resistant to change. They had their way of doing things and whenever I presented them with alternatives they would refuse to change, no matter how I presented it. Textbook examples were things like switching from Internet Explorer 6 to Firefox. They just would refuse to adapt.

When I switched them over to Mac they treated it like a newborn baby. They wanted my input on everything. They were so much more receptive to change because they had never used a Mac before.

Human beings are just so resistant to change and when they were learning how to use a computer in the 90s the user experience could be really grating. It seems like they just latched onto what worked and refused to let go.
Here's one reason why putting it in writing is best, even if forgery is possible.

People are way more likely to argue about what was agreed to, than about whether an agreement was made.

With verbal agreements, most people won't lie and say that no conversation took place. (The "whether" part.) But many people will misremember or distort the exact words that were exchanged. (The "what" part.) And those exact words are what count, legally.

Likewise, a person would have to be really slimy to claim that your signed, written contract is a forgery. Most people won't dispute that they signed it. (Again, the "whether" part.) And since it's in writing, and there simply is no room for disputing the "what."

To put it another way, getting a written agreement raises the moral and legal stakes for a potential welcher. They'd have to accuse you of forgery, instead of just shrugging and saying "I guess we remember the conversation differently."
You could use a virtual machine running Linux for more security.
They're redirected to this: http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/torval....
It's also worth noting that Apple acquired Intrinsity a few years ago, a semiconductor company. They actually design ARM chips. Samsung is a customer.