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by joelhaus 16y ago
Read it. Take copious notes. Highlight areas of potential concern. This should help keep your legal costs down, as the attorney can focus his or her time on the issues most important to you. EDIT: My brother practices this area of law with
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Fiber Networks Go on the Block, Traffic Finally Catching Up w/ Bandwidth(online.wsj.com)
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by joelhaus 16y ago
No doubt. That's why specifying project requirements and writing proposals is usually so important for both client and coder. Managing expectations is key.
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by joelhaus 16y ago
Generally, short-term (assets held less than one year) is taxed at your personal tax rate. Long-term (more than one year) is currently taxed at 15%, but will revert back to 20% beginning in 2011. [EDIT: based on US law]
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by joelhaus 16y ago
Test the limits of your speed reading ability with this app: http://spreeder.com ( pointed to in the article ) Kinda awesome.
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by joelhaus 16y ago
Picky, picky. Semantics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype#Semantics
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by joelhaus 16y ago
If something is bad, less of it is always good. The problem with this statement is that very few "things" are either all good or all bad. P.S. You both make good points and it's encouraging to see thoughtful discussions like this on what
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by joelhaus 16y ago
Wasn't sure what "Apple's 10-3-1 prototyping process" involves; it ends up that the title is pretty self-explanatory: Apple designers come up with 10 entirely different mock ups of any new feature. Not, Lopp said, "seven in order to make t
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by joelhaus 16y ago
Was too distracted by this message to read the rest of the article: Do you mind if I ask a favor? If (and only if) you like this article, could you please upvote it on HN? Is the author misreading HN culture or is it a clever marketing ta
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by joelhaus 16y ago
Should say easterlies, not westerlies. Sorry about the double post; went over my HN limit for the day.
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by joelhaus 16y ago
Not necessarily true about NYC. Pre mass-transit, wealthy citizens of Manhattan vacationed on the northern part of the island. During the early 20th century, as the subway system and metro-north were developed, these same people migrated to
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by joelhaus 16y ago
Not necessarily true about NYC. Pre mass-transit, wealthy citizens of Manhattan vacationed on the northern part of the island. During the early 20th century, as the subway system and metro-north were developed, these same people migrated to
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House passes increased tax on carried interest, and VCs hate it | VentureBeat(venturebeat.com)
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Google's Latest Launch: Its Own Trading Floor(businessweek.com)
39 points by joelhaus 16y ago|5 comments
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by joelhaus 16y ago
Carl Schramm, President and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation, was interviewed on Charlie Rose last night. Had some interesting statistics and thoughts on the relationship between politics, culture and entrepreneurship: http://www.charlierose
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by joelhaus 16y ago
This HN post was a pretty good example of what you describe (not complete to your specs, but a nice start): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1365807 The professional logo goes a long way toward making it feel legit. > If you are t
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by joelhaus 16y ago
To summarize an interesting bit from the video; here are a few transcribed slides about: The Three "Google Editions" Revenue Models 1) Direct Sales from gBooks Users access eBooks online via Google Account ("the download disappears"). 2)
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Business of Books - Panel Discussion: "The Book on Google"(booktv.org)
1 points by joelhaus 16y ago|1 comments
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Taking exception with some of the above statements on valuation. There are actually three relevant methods for deriving a value, with the circumstances & audience dictating which approach (be it single or blended) to use: 1) Income Met
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by joelhaus 16y ago
Very interested in the % of the HN audience that has self-diagnosed Asperger's and what successful coping mechanisms they have developed for various social situations (mainly for relationships with: family, friends, romantic, work, etc.). H
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by joelhaus 16y ago
I find myself using Chrome more for content consumption and Firefox more for content creation; but that's slowly been shifting towards Chrome for both.
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‘Digital genome’ safeguards dying data formats(msnbc.msn.com)
1 points by joelhaus 16y ago|0 comments
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by joelhaus 16y ago
Overreaction or Opportunistic? Considering the kind of attention Facebook has been getting, companies in the tech space who can differentiate themselves not only magnify the amount of trust they build, but also will afford itself greater pr
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by joelhaus 16y ago
Three observations: 1) Redundant Scheduling As an AR.org client, I would not revel in the idea of entering an appointment more than once; it also needs to show up in my normal "scheduling" calendar. Possible/partial solution: Google Calen
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by joelhaus 16y ago
Today, Mark Cuban asked >> "What business is Wall Street in?" ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1332422 ) At a fundamental level, Wall Street seeks to match the demand for capital (investors) with the supply of capital (savers).
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Taxing Capital Gains: A Judgment on Employee vs. Investor Value-Added(therichmonder.blogspot.com)
1 points by joelhaus 16y ago|1 comments
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by joelhaus 16y ago
Anyone can fit in a 15 minute workout, but committing to an hour at the gym can seem daunting. Setting up these micro-commitments helps me get started on things that I would otherwise be making excuses about.
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by joelhaus 16y ago
Thanks, this illustrates the first problem well, I was just pointing out the kind of impact Cuban's proposal could have on a valuation. Any tax implemented like this would still have a proportionate effect on returns. Not sure that anyone
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by joelhaus 16y ago
Two problems: 1) Acquiring a company worth $100mm pre-tax? - After tax, the cost just went up to $125mm. 2) Global competition - Foreign exchanges would under-cut domestic exchanges, attracting many US based companies to list there and
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by joelhaus 16y ago
Manually implemented something like this in my fbook account, but it was a major pain to do and doesn't provide all of the proposed functionality/openness. It would ruin much of their "walled-garden" strategy to let this work with other ser

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