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Well first off, he can value his time however much he wants. As a partner at a major law firm in SV, he's incredibly busy so his time is extremely valuable (any distraction like consulting only makes sense at a rate of ~700 per hour for him) and as a partner, he's probably making millions at the firm. If he spent 5 more hours at the firm and was able to generate a multiple of what you're paying him for 5 hours of work (3500), then he's probably not charging enough, right?

If you want general legal advice for startups, talk to startup-friendly law firms. Many have packages where you give up 1-2 thousand bucks only for X number of hours + turning your startup into an INC or LLC or whatever + a small equity stake. For other law firms, you'll just have to talk to them and figure out what their rates are. Most are more in the 50-100 dollar range. Don't skimp on legal expenses, if you get sued for a few million dollars, you'll regret skimping on paying a better lawyer a few thousand bucks more.
WindowsPhone runs on the windows kernel, so theoretically, this would be able to run on phones as well.

Unlike RIM, would Microsoft support running Android apps on WP?
I'm not, at least not intentionally; I'm familiar with iPhones and not with the market for Android phones.
You missed out meeting a lawyer early in your life. You didn't get to see his lifestyle. But I am guessing you did meet a software coder early in life which left a huge impression. That's all. Remember, life isn't fair... you're a digital ditch digger! (DDD)or(3D)or(D3)
White rappers aren't exactly some crazy, new phenomenon. Vanilla Ice, Eminem, Everlast, The Beastie Boys, MC Frontalot, etc, several of them have been hugely popular. I don't think mentioning race is useful.
Unless things have changed recently, Quora requires users to sign in to simply read a post. The problem with that should be obvious. A user is not there to serve Quora. Quora is (theoretically) there to serve the user.

Users not familiar with Quora (i.e. outside the SV bubble) may not have any idea what Quora is, or what value it provides. Upon stumbling on a link from Google, they click it, are sent to Quora and are immediately asked to create an account. Or maybe Quora will show a portion of the post or a few comments, but you have to establish an account to read more.

Quora is essentially asking to have sex without a first date.

At its core, Quora is (roughly) Stack Overflow: knowledgeable answers to questions, albeit across a broader spectrum of topics. There's good stuff in there. I established an account about a year ago. But when I'm presented with a prompt to log in to simply read something, I don't. And yet I have an account. I simply move on. I can't explain it but it feels offensive, like I'm being gamed.

Stack Overflow and HN provide enormous value to lurkers. I barely comment on things here on HN...but I visit daily. Multiple times a day. Every day.

When I feel the need to comment on HN, I log in. It's actually a pretty simple concept that somehow eludes Quora. One can't help but question why are they so insistent on requiring a user to log in to simply read. Reading is not participating. It is consuming. Imagine requiring a user to login to read a blog post. That's crazy.

There is some motive to requiring a user to login to read. I don't know what it is, but it feels wrong. At the very least, it's not user-friendly. They are discouraging visits and turning people away.

The closest example I can think of to requiring a user to sign in to consume content is Twitter. Somehow it feels different, maybe because Twitter is a microphone for anything you want to say vs. writing up an intelligent answer to a question (or asking a question). Folks can spout out nonsense on Twitter. And part of it is gossip/entertainment. That content won't fly on Quora which desires quality content.

I don't know. That's just one perspective.
Hey I don't know why, but the same happened to me in the UK. Bought a phone outright from Three, then later paid them to unlock it. Silly.
Generally, a lawyer has a lot more responsibility that a software engineer. The repercussions of a bad legal error can be felt for a long time. A software mistake? easily fixed.
When I was in high school (or shortly thereafter) I was working on a circuit that would use 74-series logic to let me clock out 64 LED states 8 bits at a time through my PC's parallel printer port, but got distracted by more pressing projects.

There are some serially controlled LED lighting strips, where each LED shifts its state to the next LED when it is given a new state. Thus, to set the state of a strand of 100 lights, you write a new state to the first LED 100 times.
Usually the problem is that the APIs are like typical XML apis which are a royal pain to use requiring various hoop jumping in order to say which tags are of interest in which container and relationships with siblings. If you are lucky you have to learn some sort of XPATH like syntax. Meanwhile you do a view source, and can trivially see exactly which lines you want, and say sod all that nonsense - I'll use a regex.

My recommendation is to find a library that provides jQuery/CSS selector style syntax and semantics, and then suddenly it is a lot easier to deal with the document. For example for Python there is soupselect or cssselect.

Amusingly the latter shows that the selector "div.content" translates into the XPATH "descendant-or-self::div[@class and contains(concat(' ', normalize-space(@class), ' '), ' content ')]".
Maybe it makes more economic sense in some cases to purchase the subsidized phone. There are plenty of perfectly reasonable use cases that do no affect the carrier's ability to recoup the subsidy and or have no other practical effect on the contract.
In addition to the other reasons here, I think when it comes to lawyers and doctors, people typically want "the best".

Are you willing to take a risk with your health or getting into legal trouble?

So the price of the best people just keeps going up and up.

With developers, there is more of a concept of "good enough". As long as you find someone that can build the thing and it works, that's good enough.
To the creator of this petition: You know that the legislative branch writes laws, right? You are effectively asking for the White House to act as dictator and simply decree that this is legal and that is not. You are part of the problem and a reason why the United States is falling apart at the seams. Stop attempting to invest authority in the Executive branch that doesn't belong to the Executive branch; they are already doing enough unconstitutional things.
She seems to be a relatively inexperienced recruiter (a few short stints at big-name startups) who decided to start her own firm.

Check her site: main.is

It renders horribly on my non-retina desktop display in Chrome, and is unbelievably slow - I guess she really does believe in hiring the inexperienced and puts her money where her mouth is!
Sophistry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophism#Modern_usage
It might be useful to consider life _after_ your startup emerges and becomes successful. There are several advantages to owning a business in Canada:

-low corporate tax rate of 15.5%

-over the past 10-15 years, individual tax rates have steadily fallen. Roughly speaking, if you're making less than $150k, very comparable to the U.S. but there's tons of factors (including province, how you pay out - dividends vs salary, etc...)

-onetime capital gains exemption of $750k for selling your Canadian private business. Add your wife as shareholder and you're looking at $1.5m tax free.

-availability of tax credits to help fund innovative startups (it needs to be novel, non-obvious, and involve technical uncertainty at the outset - so a typical website stopped qualifying years ago - but perhaps underlying aspects might partially qualify)

-future stability. Whether U.S., China, Europe, (or other?) prospers in the future - they will likely be needing resources - which will likely exist in Canada, thereby ensuring a base of prosperity and tax revenue to fund infrastructure for many years.
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He is very bright and hard working, but can anything justify $700/hr.

Are you going to employ him at the $700/hr rate? If so, you would have justified it. Unless the $700/hr were just a ploy to start a pricing negotiation, rather than what he typically bills, the cost is being justified by the people keeping him in business.

That aside, if he works for a big firm, it'd be fairer to compare his rate to that of what a consulting firm bills out its developers (which is very far north of $100/hr).
Is it fair to compare a major law firm with an independent software engineer? At my last company (~3000 employees) when I did billable work they charged the client 300/hour. From a few minutes of googling I am reading that typical lawyer fees (not big law firms) are 200-300 dollar an hour, eg: http://www.topix.com/forum/city/utica-ny/TDV8TU0N3HTLL1UMK.

I've never hired a lawyer and I've never directly contracted myself out so I am by no means an expert on this topic. Great question though.
Possibly it's due to your poor grammar?
And, typically, a far more expensive education.
No answer?

I guess the business model is to sell the e-mail addresses after all.
Because you're getting a steal from the iOS developer and you're also going direct vs through a firm for the attorney. To keep the situations similar you would need to hire a consulting company and see what they charge you per hour (or find an indie attorney).
Les absents ont toujours tort.
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Can someone who understood this post all the way through tell me what m refers to? It first shows up in this sentence

> Therefore we're faced with a series of decisions, at each number of conversions n, m more turned up A than B (m can, of course, be negative).

which I am not able to parse.
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With what little knowledge I have of erlang, I'd have to agree. However, since go is intended for high concurrency, I wonder if there's some value in creating an OTP style framework. I'd love to see a simple (well, relatively) and robust way to create distributed service in go.
The road network is society's circulatory system. Everything we do is touched by roads.

They have essentially created remote realtime monitoring systems for society. Human traffic, weather, parking, etc. As well as solving the biggest optimization problem that exists today.

Truck shipments can now be done overnight without worrying about driver fatigue. Emergency vehicles can take the most efficient route, as well as efficient avoidance of other vehicles. And traffic lights can be optimized as well.
I thought that too. It seems weird to include a setting in plain sight in a writing mode that's supposed to be completely focused on writing.
That's not it, there are too many attorneys as it is (new grads aren't finding jobs).

One big difference is people brag about a high paid attorney (it's considered a good thing to pay a lot for legal advice) but never brag about how much they pay their developers (it's considered a good thing to pay less for developers).
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1. A top iOS developer usually costs more - between $150/hr and $200/hr in my experience. In the valley, it might be even more. Maybe your guy should be charging more, maybe he doesn't feel like it! A lot of guys I've worked with don't realize how much they're worth. Either way, hold on to him and give him a bonus when he finishes the project on time.

2. I think you're paying $700/hr because you 1) went straight for a partner and 2) you went straight for a major law firm in the valley. It's also a mindset difference. I think lawyers charge based on the value they add, not the hours they work, whereas developers typically think about hours. A developer who writes a piece of code that saves you $1M should charge $100k for it, and a lawyer probably would. On the other hand, your developer would probably charge you 1.5 hrs * $100 / hr.
:)
* Full disclosure: I'm a developer and I have lawyer friends, but
You would have got more attention here if you said patio11 instead of Patrck McKenzie :)
50% is awfully rich. A better way to structure this is to offer a smaller percentage (less than 10%) which vests on completion of agreed upon milestones (i.e. completed angel round, N licensing deals, etc). If the person delivers, and you enjoy working with them, negotiate a longer term agreement with 3-4 year vesting. You may find that he/she delivers, but is a nightmare to work with, so its important to have an out if that's the case.

I don't really like the idea of charging them up front. If someone is as good as they say they are, and are working full-time, their opportunity cost for salary is $10,000 to $20,000 per month.

My personal experience is that people tend to greatly exaggerate their ability and connections, so its important to have clearly defined deliverables/milestones, and a solid legal contract that covers less than ideal outcomes.
Easily the best joke in this discussion.
Better shit code that gets the job done than beautiful code that gets nothing done
Indeed. The "don't you want to be REALLY rich and famous?" and "don't you want to be heard on the radio?" FUD has been a pretty powerful selling point to up and coming artists, I think.

The fact that there are so many examples of successful musicians doing it a different way only helps at the point where someone is trying to counter-sell, but for obvious reasons there aren't roving gangs of salesmen out there pressuring artists to go it alone. In order to make a big dent in the nature of the industry there needs to be a shift in the popular perception of how one succeeds in the music industry, and this sort of thing can have a big impact on that.
1. Lawyers incur more liability with their work.

2. The quantity of workload they provide per job is less, thus pricing is more dense (i.e. companies realize programmers work thousands of hours for a project and that the project viability would collapse at $700/hr)

3. In many cases you have no choice but to hire a lawyer, while more often you can say no to a programmer should the economics not support the project.

4. A lawyer has to go to school for approx. 6 to 8 years (at least in Canada) while programmers have a wide variety of education levels.

I'm sure I could list more...
Awesome offer! I wish I had a tech company and lived in SF because both of my service companies could use help with SEO!
My carrier didn't subsidize my phone. I bought it from Google, and put my old SIM card in it.
I truly hope he is not a great iOS developer because that rate is criminally low.

There is something magical that happens in the 100 pennies between 99 per hour and 100 per hour, a mental chasm that is in reality no different than 98/hr vs 99/hr but we make it into a big deal. Why he chose that number, and why people choose any number for an hourly rate is always a curious thing to me. We pick numbers that we think are palatable with no real regard for the same rigor we put into other processes. Has he tested his rate?

But the idea of hourly rates is accepting of the premise incorrectly...

My guess is that if he is truly great he could make some lawyers jealous. Charging $700/hr may seem far fetched for a developer but making 700/hr is a very different thing. 70K bill to a client for something that took 100 hours to make is a much more salient strategy if you give them what they want.
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You sure it isnt $700/hr that hes with the client? Not trying to justify it but theres a lot of backend work like research that goes into legal advice and that cost is usually lumped in with the cost of the hour he actually talks to you. Also law school is very expensive and people know that so they can mentally justify paying more. You can make $100/hr programming and have no education. Plus their are tons of programmers who make more than $100/hr
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Because if they were paid anywhere close to the same amount, who would choose to be a lawyer? Being a software engineers is way more fun! =)

Regardless, I wouldn't worry about it because software engineers will be automating away lawyers soon anyway. ;)
I'm also a developer of a workflow processing system, though not open-source, and fairly specific to our company. A few more things that are desirable if you have a lot of data or need to do processing that takes a lot of time is the ability to run stages in parallel, and also to distribute the computation over a cluster of machines.
Unless, of course..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-critical_system#Software_...
This is why I built LawyerClock. I got pissed off at the long calls with corporate attorneys for $600+ per hour (per partner!).

http://www.lawyerclock.com

* I coded this during lawyer meetings.
People just don't work that way; at least, I don't.

Who reads code without thinking of the author? When I'm derailed by a bug in some library I'm depending on, or see code that works in a way I find unintuitive, clunky, etc., I absolutely think judgmentally about the person who wrote it.

When I'm reading someone else's code and find a solution that's significantly more elegant than I was imagining, I'm impressed by the person's accomplishment, and they basically get points in my head. If I meet them in person I'll quite possibly shake their hand a bit more warmly.

This is normal and natural, and I have to consciously counter-balance that with the learned (but not instinctive...) knowledge that I've written bad code myself, released buggy or clunky code, taken questionable shortcuts, etc..

When I'm in a position to criticize someone else's code (and it's part of my job to do it sometimes!) I usually rewrite my feedback a few times (and sometimes decide it's not needed at all) before writing or speaking to the developer, because it takes a lot of conscious thought to modify my instinctive response into something more fair and effective based on what I've learned over the years.

That's my experience.

Does everyone else actually think that differently?
You probably can't use your phone for travel if you have Sprint or Verizon anyway, since they don't use the same cellular standards as most of the world. And if you have a typical "tri-band" phone from another carrier you may be unable to use 3G data. It is unfortunately complicated in ways it does not need to be. And don't even get me started on the wonders of APNs when travelling...many customer service folks don't know how to set up data on foreign phones anyway. It should all be automatic.
That's a nice theory. But the reality is that the ignorance and complacency of the average person drives these and other abusive tactics we're treated to in our everyday business and work relationships. Ever read a standard contract for just about anything (employment, cellular service, cable TV, internet access, home mortgage, etc.) Most of the ones I've read, I think "No sane person would sign this." Yet almost everyone does, and it often makes life difficult when you fail to blindly follow along.
This is horrible news. Linksys used to make some great consumer hardware; I still have a 4+ year old WRT54GL plugging happily along from college.

In contrast, I've never been satisfied with any Belkin product I've owned.
not being a girl myself, I suspect that a girl who has been "slut shamed" would probably take offense at someone referring to our circle jerks about one's favorite tool(s) to be considered "slut shaming". Lets keep things in perspective here.
m is the number of A conversions minus the number of B conversions.
Tell a bunch of people that you're launching on Sunday and have them all come over for a "pitch" session.

Just coding is easy to give up when you're tired or "need a break". Embarrassing yourself in front of friends and family is enough incentive to get over the hump and keep going.
Well, this is a good response time from Github I guess. Unfortunately, I wanted to show my friend how ridiculous some people track their private keys in their repos and didn't make it in time :( On a positive note, Google still indexes these repos :)
I think this is a transient phenomenon. The software profession is only a few decades old, while there have been centuries of lawyering. Not all lawyers make anywhere near $700/hour; in fact, I'd say the average lawyer probably makes about as much as the average developer. A developer aristocracy has yet to emerge, but as time goes on you'll see rates at the top end rising much faster than the average, and there will be $700/hr developers.
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> And note that I've been wanting to start my own business all this time, but I can't. In fact, it would be tremendously difficult for me to switch jobs. Which makes me an indentured servant of this company until I get my green card and therefore my freedom to set my own course.

I was in exactly the same situation (Canadian on H1B) but am lucky enough to be married to an Aussie, so two years ago we moved Down Under where I had permanent residency from day one and complete freedom to work for any company, or start up my own.

Last year I got SlickDNS, a managed DNS hosting service, up and running (https://www.slickdns.com/) and I have other ideas that I'm working on.

It's tremendously liberating after the straightjacket of the H1B.
It seems people often use the excuse that a smartphone allows them to easily perform time-wasting or rude behavior as legitimate reasons for not using those devices, even though they admit specific benefits these items provide. Similar arguments could be made about using a any type of phone at all; just go visit people. Repeat with car, television, radio, etc.

You've identified behaviors you feel detrimental. That, in itself, is extremely useful. Now you can go back to using your smartphone, and try to minimize those behaviors while still enjoying the benefits of your smartphone.

Let's not blame our tools for our own bad habits.
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I am trying to set up Kivy on my Android. I have gotten through bits and pieces of the instructions but I find myself stuck at the moment because I cannot determine which specific Python 2.7 to download. My googlefu is coming up short.

http://python.org/download/releases/2.7.3/

I am guessing I need one of the three that say "tar ball" but which one? Can anyone tell me which one or tell me where I might find the answer?

I also cannot find a functional virtual box download. From what I have read, I am not the only one. Does anyone have a solution for this problem?

I no doubt have a lot more to do, but these two sticking points have me completely stalled.
It took me a while to parse everything, having no exposure to British radio and the like, but now I must understand how a lot of non-Americans feel on sites that lean towards USA-centric discussion.

Relating to the content, there's a strong analogue with a lot of the congressional testimony regarding women's reproductive health in the USA. The panel testifying in congress was made up entirely of men, which wasn't a fact lost by many involved in the discussion.

In some cases, I'd find it appropriate. You would want the foremost reproductive rights/health spokesman defending you in congress, but when there's a full panel in congress, not including a single female on the panel is a curious omission.

In the author's case, it seems incredibly odd to talk about women in tech, without actually including a woman in tech. And what seemed even more bizarre to me, was that it was a conscious decision on a program entitled "Woman's Hour"