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It is so fun to call someone's bluff like this. "The offer is fixed, take it or leave it." "OK, bye." "Waaaaiiiit, we didn't really mean it!"

I've only had the chance to do this once, with pretty small potatoes stuff, but damn if it wasn't absolutely delightful.
They just spent <insert large sum of money> to buy the company you work for. EVERY acquisition, at some level, is a talent acquisition. They're buying not just the IP, but the people who made that happen. They need to have everyone who knows how to contribute on board. There is no point in your career that you will have more leverage than on the day a company you work for is acquired.

Which is why they put out these silly "take it or leave it" offers. They're trying to pressure you into giving up that leverage. When you call their bluff, you'll find you have a really nice negotiating position.

There are exceptions of course. Failed company acquisitions for instance generally don't leave you a ton of negotiating room (although even then it's not zero).

So in short they're going to call in a panic because they need you much more than you need them.
I agree with you. I think that if a nation lacks in organization and logistics (de facto any nation under occupation does) - terrorism makes a lot of sense as tactics. Thinking of it just as of war tactics that happens to work when confronted with organized, stronger enemy. That's how you fight such an enemy. I know, I sound controversial here, I'm not a proponent of terrorism though, just noting a fact.

Where I would be a proponent of terror is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orv1kmkiEpk

And I'm not Marxist. I'm a liberal-conservative. Yeah, Zizek is a dangerous guy, lol.

Why we loose with Radical Islam? Because we have no teeth behind our values. It's not like we're going to guillotine muslim radicals taking away women rights. It's not like we're going to guillotine bankers and politicians destroying capitalism in the name of crony capitalism with zombie banks ran on the back of tax payer. We need a liberal revolution, and I hope one will come in my lifetime.
This is a common arrangement for consultants in the ERP sector. It's a nice way to start a software business. Your customers provide you with seed capital, user requirements and a reference site. I've seen a couple of people start multi-million dollar businesses with this approach.
This was quite bad and IMO it shows that they have some bigger problem that surveillance isn't going to solve.
I guess that makes sense now that you explain it. Conceptually, each epoch value results in a different type for the other field, meaning it works like a union, even though it's actually implemented using the same primitive type for each.
That is true, but would cost orders of magnitude more to do that.
There is no way how you can "take and hold ground" with tens of thousands of troops in a place populated with tens of millions.

Proper occupation can be and has been done many times in history, but it takes a force at least somewhat proportional to the population; which the west doesn't really want to afford.
What I meant was that the scale is not linear. Certain tasks take nearly the same amount of time whether you're a rockstar or a standard developer. Would there be any point hiring Ferrari F1's lead pit stop technician to change the tyres on your Prius?

Maybe you can get someone to do it good enough for three days at 10/h, whereas the other guy would have taken "only" an afternoon at 100/h. 240 vs 400 total.
They grasp it alright, but they haven't figured out how to monetize it properly yet, especially compared to their established physical business model, which already has all the infrastructure in place, and they are trying to exploit to the very end.
I know skeumorphism has its critics, but I'm concerned Ive's final product will look just like what Microsoft and Google have been doing. That's not a bad thing, just uninspiring.
Why the hell!? :)
There is some risk here for Apple. A good part of the reason people like their products is that they don't have to wander through a mish mash of paradigms and it is fairly intuitive. Breaking existing patterns, while overdue, is going to aggravate some users while being seen as not going far enough by others. I will likely be in the latter.
Find which sites your buyers are visiting and advertise there directly without Google. your customers are using google.com for a few seconds a day, but reading relevant sites for hours.

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Search for your keywords.

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Click on top 20 sites within organic (not paid) results

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Strike a deal with these sites to advertise.
Very interesting! I'm currently on a strength training/bulking diet, so I'll need about 3-4 times as much protein, but there are some interesting tidbits in here that I'll probably try and incorporate into my diet. I currently spend probably 10-15 dollars per day on food, so if I can cut that down to something like $5 that would be a huge accomplishment. If successful maybe I'll make a blog post about it ;)
> its hard for me and Americans maybe all westerners, to understand Afghanistan and the people there

It's not hard at all. Country A invades country B. Wreaks havoc and assigns a puppet government. Army is in disarray, civilian life is disrupted. It doesn't take a "reasonably bright American student" to guess the conditions and sentiments of the local populace.
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So a question I've had is, what do designers do at corporate companies (this includes sites of very large tech companies, such as Microsoft.com, etc.), given that there is so little that is quickly changeable? Do they have endless design projects where nothing is actually done except having meetings? Or what kind of iterations do they work on that may not be noticeable by the casual to moderate user?
How is this near the top of HN? This news has been out and suggested to be false for weeks now.
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Having a bottle of spray paint isn't a license to decide what other people's property should look like.

Deutsche Bahn, and I wouldn't be surprised if a huge majority of their customers agrees with them, thinks trains should look in the way they've painted the trains to look.
This title is mostly flamebait. Obviously, they are talking about a very, very high functioning Autistic way of thinking and not talking about the non-verbal (stimming and behavior issues) end of the spectrum.
> No one said that.

People say it all the time. It's the go-to retort whenever anyone brings up the fact that new technologies allow criminals to coordinate and plot in new ways. "Why do we need new laws to fight Al Qaeda?"

> That is, you are not accounting for new technology when you make such silly comparisons between addresses scrawled on postal mail envelopes 100+ years ago and today's sophisticated electronic communications intercept and analysis capabilities.

It's not a silly comparison. The internet may not have existed 100+ years ago, but people did, and the mechanics of people are remarkably stable. The underlying dynamic: certain information not falling within the scope of privacy rights because its made plainly visible, is mechanically similar whether you're talking about addresses scrolled on postal envelopes or e-mail addresses in an SMTP header.

> here should be no such term in this "debate", because per the Constitution, privacy should be the default.

The word "privacy" does not appear in the Constitution. The word "private" appears just once (in the phrase "private property"). The 4th amendment has certain guarantees that protect certain kinds of privacy,[1] but not the broad guarantee of "privacy" that you imply. Specifically, the 4th amendment protects your house and your person from unreasonable searches. It's not a blanket right of privacy that protects your communications, even in contexts where those communications are disclosed to numerous third parties.

[1] But the 4th amendment need not be interpreted in terms of a broader concept of "privacy" at all.
I'd like to offer my opinion as someone who LOATHES the SaaS model.

The first and only thing you need to consider is who you're selling to (power systems engineering businesses, as you said) and what they do.

They make power systems that need to be reliable and last for fifty years or more.

You probably know banks use 30 year old COBOL software to make the world tick. Why? Because it's reliable and rarely breaks. When it breaks, they have people there to fix it. Same goes for power and manufacturing industries, they have old control systems that rarely break, because failures are very expensive.

So now you come along trying to sell them software as a service. Can you GUARANTEE that your service will be available for the next ten years? Of course you can't, you can almost guarantee that is WON'T.

So now maybe you understand why they want to BUY the product and maintain ownership of it; because that means they can manage the risk, they don't have to trust you.

And this is why I never, ever buy SaaS, because I don't trust that whoever is providing me that service is going to be there next year, or even next month (the only exception is recreation, because if Netflix shuts down tomorrow, I don't lose any value). That's why I don't use an online album to store all my photos, why I don't use SkyDrive to store all my personal documents, because I can't TRUST them.

tl;dr: SAAS == No trust (in my opinion). Either you don't trust your client (like Adobe are doing with Creative Suite) and the client can't trust you, because despite your best intentions you just can't guarantee that you'll stay in business for the next fifty years.
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This is really painful to watch. Stupidity like this saddens me. Hope they'll figure out how to catch these people or at least teach them a lesson.
I'm just waiting for the Ruby guys to contribute with their generally sarcastic comments against Java. :-)
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> Maybe you can get someone to do it good enough for three days at 10/h, whereas the other guy would have taken "only" an afternoon at 100/h. 240 vs 400 total.

Again, the OP was complaining about quality. The difference is not just that the better developer gets it done in less time, it's also a better product in the end. Even on simple tasks, the better developer can serve as a consultant and help the customer make sound decisions about the project, whereas the stereotypical el-cheapo web dude will be struggling just to keep up with the customer's requirements.

>Would there be any point hiring Ferrari F1's lead pit stop technician to change the tyres on your Prius?

If the F1 pro explicitly advertises that he would like to change Prius tires, I'd rather hire that guy. Besides, this is about building stuff, not performing repetitive maintenance tasks.
awful stuff.. good job calling them on it...
Awesome work Alex!
The Ethics of Being Invisible
http://www.codecademy.com/ has some nice lessons in CSS, including positioning.
Do you talk? Why would you have something worthwhile to speak to someone but not to write?
I'd hate to be the one in charge of that type of transition. I think you can say one good thing about all the different UI changes manufacturers make on top of Android, it let Google start clean with 3.0 and 4.0 without changing it on a bunch of current users.

After all, not many use the default theme anyway. :( I think it looks the best, but try telling Samsung and HTC that. At least they all need to include the Holo theme from now on so apps can choose to use it if they want to.
This is relevant to my interests. As I develop my own enterprise SaaS product, my first-pass solution was to develop first as SaaS (to reduce my time to market), and later make an "enterprise" version that they could install themselves, on their own hardware, using a more traditional pricing model. I was dreading this because it sounds like a lot of work and support, but then my target market is businesses that have pretty severely broken internal processes, so they're probably backwards about pricing as well.

I brought this up with a friend who works in enterprise sales and he cautioned me against it. His company did the same thing - for a while. They found it so problematic to support the "enterprise" version that it wasn't worth it, and now they're a pure SaaS play. They find it easier to solve the problem on the sales side (convince customers to go SaaS, and skip the ones that won't), than to "give the customer what they want".

I suppose this is a case of choosing your customers.
Well, we ignore it by using freelancer less now. I just posted thinking you were interested in feedback :)
The three vibrations at the start of the workout might be a bit superfluous; the watchapp already has my attention when starting.
Is vacation rental site Airbnb illegal?
I don't think ethics overlaps much with law.
I am sure that AdWords works! and the reason we paused our campaigns is that I think it's better to spend time on writing articless because we don't have the time to put on AdWords. The worst thing is that I can't really outsource or contract someone to do it because they must know a lot about my niche.
That would be a nightmare for them. You can't control the service or quality that is performed under your brand name. And how would you keep track of the inventory available at each grocer? They are not identical. And, grocery stores aren't going to pick-and-deliver small orders to individuals with no added incentive. They would need a hefty delivery fee to make it worth their while. I can't think of any reason to go with this approach.
Here's the thing: The trains have already been decorated by artists that have laid out their designs in a way that takes account of the windows. When those design were applied, the windows were covered by masking tape and plastic sheeting provided by DB. In fact, the trains were taken out of service and placed in a depot for the application of the artwork. Pretty awesome, huh?
Let's let this proceed, then take anyone who supported it or voted for it and send them to the listed countries.

When do we treat this sort of nonsense as a threat, ala the Boston rapper. If I announced a business model of selling something for $0.99, but claiming its real value was $150K and then using the millions of dollars of "damages" to justify rooting through your computer, I'd have the police called on me. So why doesn't this extend to the real criminals in our society?

I doubt they'll get this, but they need to be kicked for even asking.

That's actually the fundamental problem in democracy - the assumption that everything is up for grabs if you win some popularity contest, and that there are no limits on how often you can ask. If I asked if I could do something horrible to you, you'd say no and move on. If I ask your government I just keep doing it until fatigue or human error on your part lets me win.

Lobbyists are a rootkit against democracy.
> One advantage people don't often talk about with finance industry jobs is their incredibly lax moonlighting clauses.

Interesting. My first programming job was in a finance company who had a "we own everything you make, here or at home" policy. My manager said most finance companies would rather pay people more than have them working on things outside of work, which I took at face value. Knowing that was how I enjoy learning most, it was a big factor in my leaving.
The Travails of the Closed Data Industry in an Open Data World
The fact that you got caught by poe's law is not reassuring.
This is a case of potential piracy, but it isn't theft. And it isn't 'over $20,000'. If would have been over $20,000 if the number of downloaders that the author guessed downloaded the pirated version would have definitely been going to pay for the paid version, but of course that's not true. Call it what it is, and by all means get mad about it, but don't call someone a thief when they're at worst a pirate and don't pretend pirated downloads equate to lost sales.
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2.2 default was ugly, HTC sense was way ahead of the pack on skinning and integration, but certainly with 4.0 the default is beautiful and nicer than Samsung's certainly. (I've not tried HTC since 2.x)
Isn't this why the arc is so important in structural engineering?
I used to work in a large company with internal IT that also used quite a few SaaS providers. To your point #1, yes the providers had to provide up front how they would get our data out if we wanted to switch. They didn't have to switch it, but provide the data in a typical format (CSV, tab delimited, etc...).

Why we used SaaS was a mix of we didn't want to find and internalize the knowledge of having to do it ourselves (think payroll complexities) and we liked the flexibility of easily scaling up and down the users.

What SaaS allowed us to do was focus our IT on items that added direct business value and not commodity items like payroll.
Is Workana only meant for people from the Americas?
Or charging you less but reducing their costs (eg support, testing, whatever) by more than the difference
"Write rich web applications using the latest technologies without having to host your own node.js servers [...] No matter what plugins you use, the output will always be a static website you can host anywhere."

I don't think that's a very common definition of "rich web application".
Some damning evidence you've shown. One small suggestion I would make is to compare the md5 hashes of the images. Obviously they appear to be the same as per the evidence you've shown, but I would see that as extra convincing.

I see only a handful of people have pressed the tweet button. Hopefully the front page of hacker news is a welcome bit of exposure that you weren't expecting ;)

Now the question is: Will email on acid man up? Or should you lawyer up?
Please bury articles where people claim facts without providing a single number.

We don't know how many total clicks this involves, did the clickthrough rate drop 1%, 5%, 90%? Was the traffic search, search syndication, content? Where there content text ads, image ads, flash ads? Did he ever add new keywords, ads, geographic markets? Did he ever change the landing page design?

I would be very embarrassed if I wrote that blog post.
Is Middleman (middlemanapp.com) an intentional omission? (Meaning, did it fail one of your requirements for review?)
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He said "conversions" were falling, which means sales: http://successfulsoftware.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/adword...

But he doesn't say whether conversions-per-incoming-click are declining.
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Organizing Data in Long Lived Applications
I'm not going to comment on wether I believe the infringement claim or not, but let's have a look at the way they calculate damage - it's the same way the music companies calculate damages for illegal downloading: They take a number with questionable origin (27 commenters), multiply it by a factor that appears from thin air (assume 1 of 50 downloaders commented) and then pretend that everyone of these would have bought the template and next thing assume that's the low-ball figure. Given that per their own claim the template sold 361 times in half a year I find it hard to believe that there was a sudden rush of I-Must-Have-This-Template.

This "I'll just conjure a number" method of claiming inflated damages just ruins the credibility of the whole post for me.
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You might want to look at Joe Gregorio's Piccolo that he just rewrote in Go.

http://bitworking.org/news/2013/05/piccolo_go
Really? Cite?
Software does indeed degrade over time - platform support (gee, do your Windows 3.1 apps run?), security flaws, etc.
Who wants a static site these days?
This was an April Fools from 2010.
I thought it was the Pope or Reagan?
Ask HN: Login credential management for teams?
Hello HN,

I'm looking for an easy and preferably free way to manage passwords and credentials in my company.
Recently there was a post on HN about a service like for this, but I can't remember the name of the website. (it used browser add-ons to enable auto-login for various services, it stored the passwords in the cloud).

Does anyone remember the name of that product?
If not, do you know a good solution for this?

Best regards,
Andrew
To this end, trains in Melbourne won't even run if there is graffiti on any surface. Creates some incredible delays, but people have all but stopped touching public trains here due to it.
Yeah, I know. But that's just nanny-language telling me to eat my veggies (and I do and that's all fine) - it doesn't tell me the "why".
I must have been drunk or dyslexic when I read the original article. I could've sworn that the URL was supplementacos.com and throughout the article, I was wondering, "OK, where is the call to action to buy a 1 euro supplement-taco?"

That said, virtually all of the ingredients listed (even oranges, in a citrus salsa) could be combined to make some tasty tacos.
That's kind of you, but horribly naive.

Being validated by prison staff as an associate of a prison gang or being in possession of questionable reading material can land an inmate in the SHU for an indefinite amount of time. The UN says more than 15 days in solitary confinement is considered torture. SHU prisoners at Pelican Bay spend an average of 7.5 years there. In 2005 (last released statistics) there were over 80,000 inmates held in solitary confinement in the US. This inhumane treatment is a clear violation of the 8th amendment and must be changed.

http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/2013/04/02/solitary...

Wise up a little bit, the USG doesn't play nice, and weev has already been subject to "special attention" due to not grokking the simple fact that he is totally powerless in the system now.

The More You Know.
I knew I'd heard of that name. THere are a couple of projects listed in the README that I've not yet gotten round to.

A user submitted a bug-report to draw attention to Middleman & Yeoman, but then closed it before I got round to looking at them.

https://github.com/skx/static-site-generators/issues/2

I'll try to find some time soon to add them, and work on the repository some more.
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After trying many, I ended up using Middleman. So I recommend adding its review.
Recurring pricing is more acceptable when:

* Larger amounts can be made monthly instead of annual with similarly short contract length. E.g. $39.95/mo not only seems less than $479.40/yr, but if they are unsure about dropping $479.40 on an unproven service, then being able to drop out after 1 month with a loss of only $39.95 is important.

* The value of the maintenance/support provided is something of obvious value to the customer and perceived to be commensurate to the recurring charge. E.g. if you are just hosting a free open-source platform that they could host themselves, choose from many others to host, some of which might be free, then even if you as the vendor are paying for the domain, bandwidth, storage, etc., all of that which has real cost to you may not be perceived to be as much value to the customer. But, if you wrote the product, it is awesome and multifaceted, no one else does anything like it, and the customer perceives your expertise in the product to be something necessary to their future success, then they may be happier making larger recurring payments.
Seriously? Theft, Assault, Civil Liability etc.. I think there's a significant overlap between Ethics and Law. Our systems of laws are based on the work of philosophers studying ethics, of course there's a huge overlap
I know that this makes me look like a grumpy old man, but is there anyone left who didn't write a static site generator yet?