middlegeek

Friend, I think if you look up, you may see the point of his comment going over your head.

"For someone who makes a living doing this type of work and relies on fair pay"

The rest of the world doesn't owe you anything. If 5 guys down the block are all charging less than half your price and you have a harder time getting clients, it is YOUR fault for not proving your value. As brands, Cadillac, BMW and Volvo do very well. They charge a lot of money for their products in a space where others sell their products for less than half the price. You need to build your brand and prove your worth to your potential clients, assuming your work is as good as your prices indicate. Forget about others, justify yourself or settle for Hyundai and KIA rates.

That's a great app. I have wanted something similar for android. It combines the ease of text messaging without the commitment and participation required for Latitude or the like.

This is great, thanks!

This is part 2, folks may want to check out part one as well:

http://marakana.com/forums/android/general/230.html

I don't have one typical visit. Of an evening if I have gotten a lot done, I might spend an hour looking at articles and links (Not every night.) Over lunch, maybe 5 - 25 minutes, depending on if is stuff there I am interested in. I would say 0 - 3 times a day, I find myself waiting in line or on hold or something and check for anywhere from 30 seconds to 10 minutes on my phone.

Making money may not be the primary goal of these apps. I for one have been working on a few things that probably will not make me money but are great experience, are teaching me a lot and hopefully will give me a little notoriety for the day I build my first money maker.

Thanks so much for showing me that sub-reddit. Wish it was more frequented though.

Nice, I signed up for a class. Is there a way to mark other classes in a queue of sorts to be taken when you are done with the one(s) you are currently taking?

Thanks!

I am not 100% sure if this is what you are asking but with a state based drop-down, hit the letter "N" six times in a row and New York should be highlighted. Hit the enter key and you have selected it.

"your site is ugly and you charge too much"

If reddit tells you that, it is a sign that you are probably doing okay.

Amazon is not banning the book, they are a private business that chooses not to carry a product whose title seems to (even though the contents do not) advocate rape.

"is acting in a way that I find ethical."

"But I do find it to be distasteful."

"hold these companies to a higher standard"

Quotes from your comment. Are you aware the title of the book is "How To Rape A Straight Guy"? I mean the book could be about bunnies and rainbows and cuddly kittens, but if I owned a business I am not sure I would want to sell a product that seemed to advocate an illegal, unethical and (universally deemed) immoral act, even if it did not and the title was just for shock value.

"Amazon is withdrawing these items from circulation."

They are not withdrawing it from circulation. THEY are choosing to not circulate it themselves. The author can circulate it where ever he likes as long as it is not Amazon. If Amazon was the only place that sold books I would be with you.

The first result on a Google search, but feel free to pick your favorite as the test still stands: http://www.google.com/search?q=censorship&ie=utf-8&o...

Amazon is a media outlet but they are not suppressing his speech. They are not stopping him from publishing the work or even stopping him from writing it. They are choosing not to distribute it. Thus the suppression test fails and it is not censorship.

(As previously posted) They are a media outlet but it is not suppression. They are not stopping him from publishing that work and they are not stopping him from writing it. They are simply not taking part in the distribution.

They are a media outlet but it is not suppression. They are not stopping him from publishing that work and they are not stopping him from writing it. They are simply not taking part in the distribution.

"Censorship is suppression of speech or other communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the general body of people as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body."

It's not censorship.

This isn't censorship. They are not suppressing his speech, they are choosing not to disseminate it.

Another thing, if the title of your book talks about raping someone, some people are going to find it offensive and some businesses are not going to want to put it on their shelves.

To me, reddit is like a really cool charter school with lots of AP and college level classes with a few brilliant geniuses, but at the end of the day it is still a high school. HN is more like a fine graduate program at a respected university. That's my take.

I think you are being down-voted because your statement seems to imply that a person could not get the other news from anywhere else. I would like to see HN as just or predominately the far left of your diagram. I see news about everything everywhere, but I highly value the niche I see here and cannot find anything like it anywhere else. I'd like to see it not diluted.

FYI -- I did not down-vote your comment. I rarely ever down-vote anything on HN.

I am sure there is some great content and all, but did anyone else click on the story just to see if there was going to be audio or video of her awkward laugh?

Many people have complained it is too long and complicated the user doesn't have to fill everything out. I think it is great but just make it obvious that they fill out what they need and ignore as much or as little as they like.

Please port it to the Android platform!

The Magical Musical Thing was. But it took some coaxing. I could remember the name was longer and had some rhythm. I was Googling "musical wand" and trying mot to think about it. Then it sort of fell into my head and I Googled MMT and saw the pictures.

With the Merlin, I kept thinking "Simon". I can't remember exactly what I googled but maybe something like "retro handheld electronics red" and saw a picture of it.

I want an MMT now. I remember playing the HELL out of Greensleeves on that.

The one on the bottom was called the Magical Musical Thing. I had one and loved it.

And the red handheld was called Merlin. That's all I got.

They were just showing that their blog post was the second most popular on WordPress and it so happened that the Oprah post was number 1.

Warning, link dump ahead.

Start with: http://tryruby.org/

Then try: http://railsforzombies.org/

Other people have asked the same thing and received helpful answers: http://www.reddit.com/r/rails/comments/dchql/what_is_a_great...

http://ask.metafilter.com/165590/Rapid-Ruby-on-Rails-indoctr...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/55574/learning-ruby-on-ra...

Free programming books here, there are some RoR examples: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-ava...

Rails tips: http://railstips.org/blog/archives/2010/10/14/stop-googling/ (I liked this article but the whole site might have good resources.)

There is a community specifically for mentoring: http://www.railsmentors.org/

And here's a general Rails community link: http://www.workingwithrails.com/

Not my favorite site but here's a good article on freelancing: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/10/26/successful-freela...

Rails Rumble, get some app ideas from here once you build your skills: http://railsrumble.com/

Of course, Google "_why". Read about "why the lucky stiff". Read lots about him and see where it leads you.

Reworked by the 37Signals guys.

It fit with what I needed at the time. It gave me some great new ideas and confirmed others I had already been both coming up with on my own and brewing from others around me. I will probably re-read it again soon.

They do recurring billing, but not recurring payments. We want a "set it and forget it" option for people to choose.

Thanks, though!