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by jhancock 16y ago
I like what I've seen in Outright. Outright is focusing initially on the "single member LLC". This suits me...except: I need to account for me as a person in addition to my LLC. I want both accounts in the same system since it is common
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by jhancock 16y ago
There certainly are some people that are put off by automated voice systems. Its hard to say if that will have a large negative impact on Patrick as he's an extra step upstream from the annoyed person. An idea to counter this would be soot
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by jhancock 16y ago
Do these laws have any tests for determining if the owner of a "trade secret" is protecting the secret appropriately? I'm not looking for a defense of the clearly unethical and illegal behavior of Chen, Hogan, etc. I do worry that a perso
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by jhancock 16y ago
The last 4 were copies of Windows XP. You simply can't buy XP retail anymore and I have clients with old PCs that must be reinstalled. Perhaps software purchases is a corner case. Each time, I chose a different seller, each with a "top s
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by jhancock 16y ago
I like this kids competition better. The Stanford competition was "won" by a team that cheated. They didn't just ignore the $10, they violated the time constraint. my comment from the Stanford thread: "From my perspective, they made nothi
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by jhancock 16y ago
I'm sure most on HN would agree that you get what you pay for in outsourcing and oDesk has little liability. However, in your comparison to eBay, I'm not sure it holds and there may be a lesson here for how online marketplaces evolve. The
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by jhancock 16y ago
I have noticed this about people I know that have good vocabularies and were top students when they were young: Their fathers don't do baby talk. When I've seen their fathers interacting with young children, they talk to them as young adu
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by jhancock 16y ago
Well of course Tony Stark can do everything better.
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by jhancock 16y ago
sort of...webOS, or more specifically, the mojo and ares framework/tools provide javascript libraries for doing hypercard-like things. The Palm Pre's main UX is very hypercard-like. Now that Ares is out, ares.palm.com, you get nice visual
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by jhancock 16y ago
You'll have it by Q3...HP-Palm says its webOS tablet will be out then ;)
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by jhancock 16y ago
<snip> Gary Phillips purchased a $400 airline ticket to Hawaii three months ago. He was homeless in San Diego for years, but is now earning cash from Hawaii's 5-cent redemption program for plastic bottles and aluminum cans. "I recyc
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by jhancock 16y ago
Work-fare programs have been attempted to varying degrees in the U.S. (not just for homeless). The trouble is things that work for city-states like Singapore, don't scale to U.S. size. This can be said for many things Singapore does. Its
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by jhancock 16y ago
"In the film, Pepper Potts, played by Gwyneth Paltrow, demands action from "patent attorneys," but Stark Industries obviously hadn't patented the technology, or else the government would already have access to the information needed to repr
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by jhancock 16y ago
FANTASTIC!!! I just planted half my garden last week. Going to do the other half next week. I will use this and recommend to a few others on my garden project...its my first time ;) I think your pricing segments make sense. Recommended q
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by jhancock 16y ago
Can you name any large government that consistently promotes innovation/change over stability/status quo? Not making excuses...but isn't this the nature of the beast?
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by jhancock 16y ago
Many Chinese forums are abuzz with complaints about the censorship. Many of these postings get removed or partially censored, but there are millions of people online complaining. This is certainly protest and anyone on the web in China ca
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by jhancock 16y ago
I'm surprised people have been using dropbox from China. Most SaaS run from the U.S. are too slow and long connections are very likely to get dropped. I suppose the dropbox client must be highly fault tolerant. As to it being identified a
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by jhancock 16y ago
In many cases, blocking foreign sites is an opportunity for a Chinese home-grown competitor. Blocking sites that only foreigners use isn't impeding business much. If you want to target China as a market, you have to have a company there an
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by jhancock 16y ago
its a holding action...not sustainable...hopefully, they'll pull out of this heavy-handed tailspin they've been in the past year...but...this behavior is mostly driven by fear of problems with the wide economic divides and its going to be a
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by jhancock 16y ago
"let is crash" is critical to the erlang approach. erlang's approach to concurrency fails without it. I recommend reading Joe Armstrong's thesis: http://www.sics.se/~joe/thesis/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf Your comparison of erlang and nod
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by jhancock 16y ago
I've been using the Palm Pre for the last month after using an iPhone for more than a year. I feel the Pre is as polished from hardware to software as iPhone. They are two different animals, but webOS and the Pre are fine examples of good
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by jhancock 16y ago
Requires an invitation code.
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by jhancock 16y ago
Its my understanding that GS is being accused of playing both sides: telling clients to continue to invest while GS was internally hedging for a fall. This article possibly points out some evidence of this.
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by jhancock 17y ago
Ikea makes one (or at least did a few years back). I bought 3 of them along with tall Ikea chairs. Total cost for chair and desk ~$100. Fantastic desk at the right price.
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by jhancock 17y ago
"damn thing looks and works great" If this is the case, don't worry so much. If your app uses a well-understood (by you), proven (by others) software stack and you've been testing well enough, your worries may be for naught. Some folks aro
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by jhancock 17y ago
I'm not picking on Taiwan when I say that some aspects of their fortunes are based on passing the buck to the next developing nation. As you point out, this is the well worn path of economic development. I don't ascribe moral value to thi
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by jhancock 17y ago
Its a pretty special app that can't handle a few seconds of downtime. The first thing I would do is be very certain this is a requirement. I thought it was a requirement for a couple of webapps I manage and I now think otherwise. I have s
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by jhancock 17y ago
Wikipedia is a fine source of information. I don't set my moral compass to it.
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by jhancock 17y ago
Broadly speaking, your probably correct. I was referring to the ingenuity and skills that seem to come from much practice of using your hands.
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by jhancock 17y ago
I include Vietnam in the current status of China. Robots would be cool. Although I have a high degree of respect for people that can make things in factories...it would be a shame to lose this skill set to robots. Keep in mind that China

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