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If you want to max out on hours, sure. If you want to max out on quality I disagree. I find my work is incredibly better due to the communicative nature of the open plan.

I also find as a designer this is far more acceptable than when I worked as a programmer.

To be honest, I never go "Damn. I wish the Hacker News articles were more focused around me." Most of the articles here are universal, the rest still make a difference to me.

As far as I am concerned it's a post dedicated to piss the audience on which he used to promote it. Thus creating debate. Nothing more, nothing less.

But I think you strike on the point that big problems are relative. To me a huge problem is the lack of tech scene in my new area I've moved to, yet only a few hours away is a bustling one. But to most people that's a tiny problem.

If you're talking about ones that affect everyone, there are at least a few startups that I can name off by head (though mostly stealth) that are tackling big problems. It's quite an over-arching statement to suggest he knows every startup's mission.

You really negate yourself when you say "I don't know who these guys are."

The truth is from what I can gather and what this posts says, they're very passionate people. They don't want their name attached to a half-baked product. Nor do they want to deal with it anymore. It makes a lot of businesses sense to deal with things they ARE passionate about. $75k is small change. They don't need the hassle.

Knowing your previous skill and knowledge would give more context. Did you know any other languages? etc

Spain isn't a superpower like the US is.

Because if America passed such a law, it would give precedent for other countries to do something similar. Making sure everyone is aware is a valiant thing to do.

I can't say WHO, but I've been leading the UX on a large newspaper site. There's huge feedback loops, tens of people to sign off per page and a ton of usability testing.

They have their own in-house development team. I can bet you we've not come anywhere close to that and the site is absolutely HUGE.

I suspect somewhere someone was given this as a budget and they had to spend it, or lose it.

I believe I've seen similar a post with this exact name here about a year ago. Nice to know Google have fixed it -_-

I personally am a designer as well as a developer but you are assuming that a designer couldn't learn git? It's a bit of a struggle but to simply clone, branch and push said branch this is pretty easy. You could deal with the merges if you wished.

I currently work in a designer studio and I'll be introducing everyone to Git soon. But most designers I know have some programming knowledge (for implementing) and would be able to use Git :)

Bill them for time and materials. Price your product before you start and let your client know how they should expect to spend.

It was a late article camouflaged as brand new opinion.

Well done TechCrunch for finally jumping on the bandwagon.

The first line about people no longer trusting Paypal. People haven't trusted Paypal for many years, but used them anyway.

This post seems a bit too proud of itself. Love the first comment in the article though:

"Here is a list of stuff that tracks you installed on the page talking about how cyanogen will never track you. Note you need not interact with any of these to be tracked. Just browse the page you're reading.

Comscore Beacon Disqus Facebook Social Graph Google +1 button Google analytics Quantcast Twitter Button

Not saying cyanogen is evil, or that these are unusual or unreasonable, or even missing the point about how carrier bloatware will inevitably lead to truly evil things like Carrier IQ. It's hard to get away from this kind of crap these days. The irony just struck me, that's all."

Hit the nail on the head. Exactly a point I am trying to make :)

Of course. But if a for-profit company came to me, I would consider doing the same for them. I may take it. I may not. But my point is that it's not evil. It's a case-by-case thing and that if a designer wants to work for free, why are others getting up in arms about it. It DOESN'T affect them.

That's not a problem with spec work. That's a problem with the company. If they are happy for your work, and not trying to short change you anyway, then they'll not complain.

Interesting. Both programming and design internships I've seen personally have been severely lowered pay. Because mentoring is meant to subsidise that (Though I've seen little mentoring in those cases.)

I disagree.

I think a lot of people are taking people's anti-spec to be very black and white, especially from the email and private communication i've received from this. :)

True, but any work counts. Having a logo crowdsourced by Moleskine would be a great honour. Something which the AntiSpec campaign is up in arms against.

Oh. Doomed was taken out of context. I meant it in a light-hearted way. :)

However, I think we had the issue that Lloyds Cardnet wouldn't play nice with SagePay as it didn't do 3D-Secure. I could be wrong though.

And thank you for your offer. :)

I do not. I will look into this after my move.

I do hear great things about Barclays but it was a horrible service for us.

Honestly, I was going to go the SagePay route. However, they wanted the Lloyds Cardnet stuff in place first.

I'm whining about my problems because I know countless others have had the same issue. I want to incite discussion on what problems people should expect to face and how they can go about it. So others can learn.

To be honest, I do network. I have access to plenty of business contacts in and outside of my family. (Thus the reason I asked my father to help. As his businesses are run through Lloyds.)

However, Cardnet is a separate entity to Lloyds technically and that's how they saw it.

I've recently come back to the UK from living abroad so I have been rebuilding contacts.

But you are correct; networking is incredibly important.

It was a possibility but I have not heard of enough people using it to have been sure if it was wrong or right for us. :)

The reason we did not go for Paypal first was handling the transition from Paypal subscriptions to a different payment gateway would be a pain. We didn't want two sets of funds. Knowing possibly we would probably not get our hands on the Paypal funds for a good 5 months.

I will be following up as the business furthers on. I hope that some of my experiences will push people and help people build their own businesses.

I whole heartedly agree. :) I do some of this as is but I need to get better at it.

Oh, I agree. I was lucky to have $5,000. Compared to the $80,000 being asked it seemed like a godsend. But I think the entry point should be free so that it promotes startups. :)