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by jcnnghm 16y ago
I tried it, and it is much better. Thanks for the heads up.
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some of us go to college because we will learn things we could not or would not otherwise learn. And some of us went to college because we had to prove to HR people that we know what we know with very expensive pieces of paper. I stopped
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by jcnnghm 16y ago
What’s not great is mobile Safari’s penchant for refreshing a browser window nearly every time I return to it, regardless of how long the window has been idle. This is my biggest and perhaps only gripe about the iPad. It doesn't have eno
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by jcnnghm 16y ago
The US did intend to invade the mainland with Operation Downfall. In fact, they ordered so many Purple Hearts in preparation for the attack, that in 2003, there were still 120,000 left from the order. All military casualties since WWII ha
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by jcnnghm 16y ago
I use a receipt document scanner for this. Unless this will categorize and store receipts, I'm not sure how useful it actually is. Paper receipts are a pain point, expense categorization isn't.
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by jcnnghm 16y ago
These infographics never seem to be created by people with hard water or well water. Life does exist outside of San Fransico, and even with a water treatment system, water can taste bad. Sometimes people take action for reasons you don't
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by jcnnghm 16y ago
And if he gets audited before then for under-reporting his income?
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I would guess that almost all companies in the United States spend over $600/year with Office Depot.
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Except that defending the nation is all over the constitution, whereas giving people health care for free isn't anywhere. Specifically in the preamble, when referring to the "common defense" the framers used the terminology "provide"; when
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The massive processing fees charged by the colluding credit card duopoly? Why aren't checks, electronic funds transfers, and electronic checks included?
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Democracy would be allowing the populace the time to read and digest multi-thousand page bills before voting, and not allowing totally unrelated sweeping changes hidden in bills. This has nothing to do with health care, whatsoever, in any
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This is at least a full time job, probably two, and maybe three depending on how many of our clients get the reporting wrong. That's a cost of $100k - $300k each year just for the accountants. Let's not forget that some clients will misre
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by jcnnghm 16y ago
This will be an unmitigated disaster. Office Depot will get 50 million or so 1099's. How do you deal with that many accounting discrepancies? How do you match that many transactions to all those forms. What about under and over-reportin
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by jcnnghm 16y ago
Cool so where do I send the 1099 for SAMs club, Office Depot, and the restaurant down the street to? Will you come deal with the reporting discrepancies for me. I'll be getting at least 1000 1099's a year, will you deal with those for me
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by jcnnghm 16y ago
I don't like his interpretation for several reasons: 1. When I log into stack overflow, the status bar at the top usually contains information I want to know. 2. The use of negative space is better, but the question title and question bod
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Ask HN: Concept Testing
3 points by jcnnghm 16y ago|2 comments
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by jcnnghm 16y ago
I had no idea that Scribd could do this. I think I'd rather just use the Scribd API than do it myself, and I can probably use some of the other functionality as well. Thanks for the heads up.
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I did something similar to this some time ago. There is software that will convert from html to postscript (html2ps), and then there is the ps2pdf project which will convert the postscript to a pdf file. I had success with this approach, t
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by jcnnghm 16y ago
Interesting. I was able to solve the quality issues that plague many of the other solutions for this problem. Do they still use something like that?
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I was thinking a Twilio style model. Sign up, account gets charged with a few dollars for testing. Then there would be a small fee per file, I was thinking $0.05 to $0.10 per file, or a penny a page. Haven't really gotten that far with it
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by jcnnghm 16y ago
Because you can't do that programmatically from a system that isn't running windows, like a linux web server processing files for display.
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Ask HN: Any Need for Office to PDF Conversion API?
16 points by jcnnghm 16y ago|29 comments
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With the number of page views you all are getting, why don't you bring on a developer on a commission basis to really focus on driving revenue. I'm sure you can find an ambition, business minded developer that you could give a percentage o
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by jcnnghm 16y ago
I stopped going to concerts because I got tired of either getting gouged by ticketmaster, or gouged by scalpers. I hope they go under.
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It's questionable whether she had no role in creating the money he made while they were married; marriage is usually a bit of a partnership, with a lot of mutual support. You can allege that he would've been just as successful if he hadn't
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by jcnnghm 16y ago
The "reasonableness" test is bullshit also. Last I checked, a salary is a predetermined amount of money that will be paid over a predetermined amount of time, for a predetermined amount of work. A reasonable salary for the owner of an S C
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by jcnnghm 16y ago
I think this is not nearly as much of an issue as many people think it is. Most software hasn't been CPU bound for some time. The declining CPU performance improvements seems to be leading to more rapid advancement on the storage and memo
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by jcnnghm 16y ago
Headers are manually created whenever programmatically sending email messages To clarify this a little, in case anyone isn't familiar, to send an email message programmatically, you basically just send a string with some headers and body
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It's possible to forge headers in certain circumstances. It's not easy. And this is the first time this has happened. It's ridiculously easy to forge email headers. Headers are manually created whenever programmatically sending email mes
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by jcnnghm 16y ago
The vast majority of people aren't capable of managing their time effectively. If people do abandon the office, expect to see a shift toward pay-for-performance compensation models.

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