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Outside of a small subset of companies, it's not a career known for stability or long term employment prospects.
Thanks. I didn't know it was so quick to turn a web app into an Android app.
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When managed properly outsourcing doesn't have to be a problem. Bad hires do tend to take a bit longer to show themselves and could end up leaving a bad taste to everything outsourcing related.

A few years ago I did some work via oDesk and ended up with a permanent contract for a US/Mexico based company that allowed me much more freedom than I would have had working at any South African company in my area.

Overall I enjoyed working with most of the other employees from across the world and some of the brightest people I've worked with was part of the team. I do think however that it probably put a lot more pressure on our manager than most conventional environments would.

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The second candidate was offering $8/hour. They are competing with each other, this is the ugly side of this type of bidding marketplaces.
He's not being racist, he's basing a decision on previous experience. He didn't just decide "I won't hire anyone from India" - he tried it (it sounds like he tried it more than once) and didn't have a good experience so he's decided not to repeat that mistake. He doesn't think all Indians are bad programmers just that it's easier to find a good one in Eastern Europe that meets his requirements.
Changing every half-hour or so – anyone up to crack the (probably) SHA-256 checksum[0]? :-)

[0] http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=101043&si...
So, you're Friendster one year, Facebook the other? Don't most industries work in the same "it-girl" cycles?
I'm from Europe and I somethimes feel like that.
North- and West-Europe (France, Germany, Sweden, UK and stuff) is mostly Okay, but the South and the East is like they are stuck in the past.
Let's clear up a big misunderstanding about Buddhism.
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The miniproject is not the reason why I hired him.
I was hiring a web developer to help me work on weekplan ultimately, the developer over the course of the year will cost me much more than 6h*3 worth of work.
A few points I would like to mention about the interface:

1. Make it easier to find a country. Code an autocomplete textbox or something of the sort.

2. Keep the form on the page after searching. If a user wants to make a second search they shouldn't have to press the back button.

3. There are a bunch of links on the bottom that are very difficult to see with the background.

4. The body is perhaps too transparent. The text on your "About" page blends in with the background a little bit.

Overall, it is a good idea and can be perfected with some simple tweaks. Good work!
Hello Jason.
As a freelancer, Im really curios about life in Japan. Is there any source of information, which could provide details about moving/living in Japan ?
Im asking, because I saw that you have some people from other countries in your MakeLeaps team.
Thanks.
Yes, the standard of living in too much of Eastern Europe is quite low. Perhaps not as bad as some of the _worst_ of 3rd world countries, but low enough to make the $12/hour the author paid quite high.
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I'm from eastern bloc. It's just an expression.
People who can't afford to be paid $12/h don't apply for the job.
Usually, I think Ukraine / Belarus / Romania web developers are ok with $12/h.
+1 to fade effect out. It looks nice the first time, then it tires you like an old bull.
Integrity is a big problem with outsourcing projects. How do you know that your dev wont make a spin off of your product or give you a little "present" within the code in case you decide to fired him? I am sure that the people who outsource their projects for $12/hr won't even care about legal binding.

Not to mention, integrity is just one of the many problems. So, I don't see why you should be worrying.
I'll grant you that a reply calling me on being on the asshole side of the fence being downvoted, and a dickish post getting upvotes kinda sucks.

That said, I don't subscribe at all to "I tried hard so tell me I did well". Like I said, I would have loved to see something the guy had written.

One thing that /really/ pisses me off though if trying to give advice you're not qualified to. It's dangerous and destructived. If you were trying to quickly knock something up and this guy told you that "CodeIgniter is the web framework for PHP" and then you burned days on it, would you be pleased?
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I think going with that nomenclature most of those countries (Ukraine, Hungry, etc) would be second world countries. If I remember correctly folks in the US coined those terms during the cold war. The first world countries were the US and allies, second the USSR and allies and third world the unaffiliated countries. Third world has come to be used as a term for impoverished countries as many of the unallied countries at that time were rather poor, but that wasn't the meaning. Somebody should definitely spot check me on this postulate before they accept it as fact.
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Oh, as a side note. The company I ended up working for also used a timed "mini-project" to filter out some candidates, it wasn't much more than 2 days worth of work. After that I also went through a telephonic which was more of a introduction to what the company was doing as well as a bit of a culture check to see if I would fit in.
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Corrected. Thanks
Yes but how much does a 3-star chef make in Eastern Europe?
I'm an Indian, and I didn't perceive that comment as being racist. It appears to stem from the OP's experience. And it is true: there are a lot of low-quality developers in India (but also a few very good ones.)
What if it just occurs on home page for the first time?
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Just to give some perspective (minimum hourly wage):

- San Francisco as of January 1, 2013 - $10.55

- The state of California - $8.00

- The state of New York - $7.25

With that in mind, $12/hour for qualified CS or any other engineering work is Ridiculous.
I've been toying with autocomplete fields recently. I came across this great article on improving the country selection experience.

http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/10/redesigning-...

jQuery UI Has a cool autocomplete plugin. I've used it recently, figured I'd leave a link for the curious.
http://jqueryui.com/autocomplete/
A 3 star chef in the USA probably only makes about 12 dollars an hour considering the amount of hours one works per day.
Same goes for Poland, I wouln't consider working for anything less than $20 (not including taxes, so with those it would go ahead even higher).
According to the original definition, the region in question was all Second World. According to the modern definition, there are developing nations in Europe (eg Albania, Belorus).
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I agree entirely with this. the world wide web lacks any "engineering" at all. It just happened and is as a result, a bit of a mess.

Even standards such as html5 don't get anywhere near making something coherent and consistent.
Odd, all my friends from Canada and South America find it entirely unremarkable.
Square UI, flat design
HTML5 is being designed by "professionals" and I have never seen such a mess. Functionality is being introduced that shouldn't even be part of HTML, just look at the amount of new input types.
Yes, daily for 1-2 hours. I feel happier, more energetic and enjoy life more.

Search for "Kundalini awakening process" if you want to learn something amazing (I'm not related to them, I just took their KAP1 and loved it).
Works neat. One question, why the background image? such a waste of resources and it doesn't add anything at all.
Help kickstart Openshot. Receive a nice Pythonic video-editing API
I did it before so I knew how to do it.
As much as I dislike Oracle, this article is pure crap. It's only general speculation with no information or value. Then it starts talking about Datastax like they are the ones causing these (made up?) problems for Orcale.
Somewhat ironically, he misspelled the word misspelled....
He is right. But that's why the web is so wonderful - it is clearly man-made.
Wow....thanks for this.

I LOVE this girl. She built Nasty Gal in the most healthy way possible. LOVE IT!!
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I hate this. On one hand you get something good: more money to charity, but on the other hand you get someone else taking all the credit for it.
Somehow

- sql server

and

- reliable

don't really belong in the same sentence.
The idea looks good. The concept, I have my doubts. I think the email concept for reading is outdated. Things like Flipboard or Zite are much much better for reading news, why no make it better like those?
When is hash table lookup O(1)?
About this RPG Camp kickstarter program...
Right around the corner from where I live there is an old fire station that the municipality doesn't know what to do with. For the last 2 or 3 years it was used by artists for various purposes but that turned out to be too expensive, last I heard is that they're converting it to be used by startups as of coming summer. It has a huge yard behind it with enough room to park 50 fire trucks (old industrial zone). So, if anybody is interested in doing something with an old fire station in the city center of an historical European city, I'm sure the municipality of Maastricht would love to hear from you.
Originally, first world = NATO + allies, second world = soviet bloc, third world = countries that were politically and economically too poor to warrant investing much effort in. It was a Cold War thing.

These days, first world is synonymous with 'developed', third with 'developing' and second doesn't really have a meaning.
That's a great way to bring a racist, closed minded attitude into something that you apparently know nothing about. Way to go.
Someone else explicitly says "Don't use bcrypt" [1]

[1] http://www.unlimitednovelty.com/2012/03/dont-use-bcrypt.html
The first thing I read on the page made it sound generic. "WE MAKE COOL STUFF FOR WEB AND SMARTPHONES." - who doesn't?
I wonder how you keep the visa requirements up to date. I've worked on a visa project before and I know that visa requirements change all the time and there's no central place to get those updates.
actually yes, many of our companies generate revenue, and a good number are profitable. in fact we probably have a slight bias for revenue over growth.

btw, our initial investment at accelerator or seed is more like $50-100k, and follow-on investments at Series A/B are between $100-500k. in about 10 companies we hold aggregate basis positions of between $500K-$1.5M.

500 Startups Fund I has ~256 companies, and currently Fund II has ~220 companies (and will likely be around 275 total). out of each of these funds, we aim for perhaps 50+ companies to get to Series A/B rounds led by institutional investors (in which we will also continue investing as well), and from these perhaps 10-20 may achieve larger exits of $100M or more.

as to performance & exit model expectations, our rough model expects that 5-10% of portfolio (~10-25 companies) will do 20x or better, and perhaps 10-25% (25-60 companies) do 3-5X. at a median initial entry valuation of ~$4M, 20x would be an exit of $80M, and 3-5x would be an exit of $12-20M.

so far, 500 Startups Fund I has had about 10 exits in the $5-30M range, and 1 exit at $350M (Wildfire). still private and growing are 5-6 companies that are valued around or above $100M (Twilio, Sendgrid, Taskrabbit, Makerbot, Viki, Smule). we also have about 25-30 companies valued at between $25-$75M that look promising. with luck, hopefully some of these companies will find exits at or above current valuations (tho likely not all of them).

also different from the earlier SV Angel portfolios, 500 Startups doubles down (& triples down) selectively on our top 20-30% of portfolio companies in later rounds. we believe this enables us to weight our portfolio more towards winners, rather than a pure scattershot index strategy.

in any case, it will take a few more years to see if our strategy works, but so far it looks like it's not completely irrational.

(ps - altho they are usually higher valuation, about 10% of our portfolio is YC companies. since median valuation at YC demo day is more like $7-8M, you might have to double the target exits noted above... however we also have many of our own accelerator companies where our entry valuation is more like $1-2M to offset)
Given that the URL you posted links only to your homepage and seems to have a fair bit of tracking information, I'm rather skeptical that this is a real question. By which I mean it seems like you're really only trying to drive HN traffic to your site.
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At risk of downvotes I must ask why? New input are added probably to bring them more in line with system inputs of the operating systems.
On a related note, check out

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5424493

We built a A nodejs native extension which allows you to use the popular CLIPS system to build expert systems.
CLIPS is a productive development and delivery expert system tool which provides a complete environment for the construction of rule and/or object based expert systems. Developed at NASA in 1985, CLIPS is now widely used throughout the government, industry, and academia.
Check out the online CLIPS documentation: http://clipsrules.sourceforge.net/OnlineDocs.html
> Best of both worlds

How is this best of both worlds?! You add one more layer where things can go wrong, for mostly no benefit nowadays. Now people need to know how to properly configure and secure two pieces of technology that do the same things. I know this is the most popular setup nowadays for new php deployments and this is why I hate it so much! Why does everyone have to complect anything from software to devops nowadays?! If you start with something like this and use the same mindset of "just the best tool for the job, nothing else, not matter how many tools you use" for everything from devops to frameworks to your app you'll end up sooner or later with something that makes asp.net and iis setups or even spring based enterprisey ones look like a breath of fresh air! Better spend some extra effort to make your php app work great on the nginx+php setup. My advice for anybody doing PHP: remember why you are using PHP and not something else in the first place! because you want everything to be drop-dead no-think simple, from devops to framework, to app! because this way you can concentrate 90% of your effort on front-end, design and pr (and it's not necessarily bad if this is how your business should work)!
actually, the founders of IconFinder made it possible... we were quite fortunate to be investors rather recently.
it's still down for me
Firstly, call me suspicious. but this looks more like you're submitting a URL as an advert, and putting that comment to seduce people here into clicking on it.

Secondly, just put in a test so that the next GET from that IP brings up a specific page that says: I see you're investigating our web site in depth, is there anything specific we can help you with?
Do you have any citations or information to indicate that? My understanding from the sqlserver DBAs that I know that the platform is rock solid. Have you heard otherwise? Genuinely interested.
No, you misunderstand. I never mentioned whether I was right wing or left wing. I was simply pointing out that the the position you mentioned is extreme right wing on the political spectrum. You imagined it to be centralist?
According to this survey(please use translator) http://jobs.dou.ua/salaries/#period=dec2012&city=all&...

Median salary for junior .NET developer in Ukraine is $1500/month.

This data comes from full time employees, not freelancer.
It is obvious that freelancer should spend more time that full time employee to get the same amount money.
So, $12/hr is below the average for Ukraine.

I am RoR developer from Ukraine, with 4 years of experience and 'Rails Core Contributor' achievement, my oDesk rate is $40/hr. And I consider it low.

TIP: Don't hire developer from Ukraine for less than $25/hr, or you will get into trouble.
Anki is great to recapitulate what you already know.
At the moment, I'm trying to use it for learning new stuff. I am preparing for lpic-1 certification exams, and I use only Anki as tool to study. For now I'm really satisfied.
Oh yeah, I was gonna write the same thing. This is a great book. I'm actually going over it again to reafirm.
Definitely looks good, congrats.
(a bit puzzled to see this #1 though)
You have to watch the video. These slides alone mean nothing.
Thanks. Well yeah me too.
I live about 20 minutes away from Manchester, would love to come down and lend a hand if beer is involved somehow?
I should add that what I really like about this method is that chi kung (awareness of energy) really supercharges the practice. If you can learn to feel, use and channel your energy you can enter different states much more easily - such as the state of having a very quiet mind.

A quiet mind - or the state Zen practictioners call 'no-mind' - can be experienced by energising an area in the centre of the head. Many different techniques will do this as a by-product, but cutting out the middle man and charging it directly (along with several other places) can lead to a much more consistent and beneficial practice.

There are many different methods and techniques regarding meditation, but a lot of them are secret and not taught openly. These techniques are however found even in the major religions, and once you know what you're looking for you see parallels everywhere. The major failing of the main religions to my mind is that I believe they know practices that could help ordinary people experience transcendental states, but they keep them hidden and only share them with high ranking clergy, etc.

I find this despicable, maintaining and enhancing the wedge we feel between ourselves and the "something greater" we can experience.
All I get is:

INTERNET EXPLORER? SERIOUSLY?
Please come back with a modern browser.

ummm.... No. (could you be any more condescending or hipster or alienating?)
Top answer attributes difference to web pioneers being "not standards people", wtf? professional standards committee attendees aren't exactly known for technical excellence.
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Capturing the moment

The great GIFs of our time are short, seamless, and salient. Technically speaking, there’s not a lot to master to make top-shelf animations; you’ll need to hone a few skills to nail image fidelity, file size, and framerate, and there are plenty of tools available to help streamline the process. But true masters eventually transcend technique, and you’ll need to fully enter the world of the GIF – to exploit its possibilities by knowing its limits. You’ve got to be the GIF.
Defunkt's hub tool adds a ton of GitHub-friendly commands to git, including the ability to check out a pull request and create one from the command line.

https://github.com/defunkt/hub
You like big players using their vast resources to steal from "up and comers" who have no way of defending themselves? I find that attitude utterly disgusting.
This simple site uses knockout & requirejs for just setting a variable++ in localStorage...

Is this the real purpose of JS MVVM Frameworks?
Nice. I figured out sum(1..n) = n(n+1)/2 in a slightly way (well, sum(0..n-1) = n(n-1)/2). My grandfather played chess in a club, and he had these sheets of game results where everybody played everybody else once. I wondered how many blocks there were in the table. Well, it looks like a right triangle of height n and base n (which has area nn/2) but with n little triangles notched out (total area n/2). So the area of the blocks is (nn-n)/2, and each has area 1, so there are n(n-1)/2 of them.
Crashed my machine for about 30 seconds. Pressed back as soon as it came back.
500 has invested in ~50 YC companies to date. I believe there are about 30 or so in our first fund.

YC has invested in 2 companies that went thru 500 accelerator first (9GAG and Vayable), and also a few others where we invested at around the same time as YC (Scoutzie, Virool, Microryza, Referly).

also, we are investors in ~20 TechStars companies (including Sendgrid), and also ~10 companies each from AngelPad in SF, and SeedCamp in Europe, and StartMate in Australia.

altho we run our own accelerator program at 500, we are frequent investors in other accelerator programs, including several around the world in East Asia, South Asia, Latin America, Western & Eastern Europe, and the Middle East.
OT: What upvoters like in this post? Or am I missing anything in my Chrome?
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What's wrong with being founder?
I really, really like the logo. Most companies today don't go through the effort of coming up with a good one (or with one at all), but yours does it's job very well. But yeah, the fade effect ought to go; Would be nice if it only happens the first time you go to the page (ie. when a session is initiated or the visitor comes from a referrer like google).
I tried a few destinations and found no information for any of them (from Canada/France to China/Taiwan for example).

Also, "French Guyana" doesn't have different requirements from the rest of France, it does not make sense to include it in the list while not including Martinique, Guadeloupe or any of the other French overseas regions. However, the overseas territories have different requirements (New Caledonia is included, but not French Polynesia).

There's also an encoding problem with Monégasque and Burkinabé in the dropdown, and a mistake in the info page - it's Burkinabé, not Burkinabè.

Also none of the place I mention in this comment seem to have information.

Also, I see "French guyanese citizen" in the list (which doesn't exist) but no "French caledonian citizen" (which does exist) even though both places are lisited in the right-hand dropdown.
"it has been considered sacrosanct that deposit holders be protected, no matter the cost"

I've never had any such expectation and I don't know anyone who does - banks can (and do) go out of business and generally there is an expectation that in such cases deposits might not be safe (although they are generally insured up to a set amount).

If everyone assumed that there money was always safe in a bank then there would never be runs on banks - which seem to have been around as long as banks have.
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Well that should only happen on IE <= 8.
:D I used to do that on my personal websites, too. Probably will with the next one again.
Be sure to read the full discussion (as of now) - it mentions further options (like global configuration) and some important points - like the order of fetch config statements.
I like this. It has nothing to do with hipstery. If you don't want clientele with IE, this is perfectly acceptable.
A warehouse is my dream, too. A huge warehouse that's kind of run-down (but still safe to be in). That Simpsons episode is what did this for me.
Thanks :) My good friend, Arash Asghari designed this logo.
and yes, I'll fix the fading thing.
I want my time back, three pages on basically nothing.
I broke into my house last year because I lost my keys -> brb writing an article titled "How I became a burglar and locksmith"*

*I took my keys from in the house so... by ars standard that's serious theft.

Rather than reading that article might I suggest having a gander at moxie's https://www.cloudcracker.com and read his blog too for all the goodies.