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by loumf 13y ago
I didn't see the letter linked to or quoted on the site. I doubt it was like JD, but it might have similarly tried to explain the trademark issue.
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by loumf 13y ago
It's hosted on Google App Engine. He has ads on the free version and an ad-free subscription option. You can self host if you want and it would probably stay under the free tier on AppEngine if it's just you (depending on the nu
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by loumf 13y ago
Which we are trying to eliminate with tail-call-optimized mutually recursive functions.
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by loumf 13y ago
I like this explanation http://www.ericsink.com/item_10174.html from 2004 from Eric Sink, and this recent application of his own advice http://www.ericsink.com/entries/mobile_database_sync.html
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by loumf 13y ago
That's why he also recommended a vesting schedule. Your case is a hard one, but it works for the case where someone gets 50% and then decides to bow out. For 9-5 vs. long hours -- you need to have this conversation up-front. If there&#
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by loumf 13y ago
This is surprising. I would expect the investors to renegotiate to get the deal done or the acquirer to pay the CEO and employees via signing/retention bonuses and salary. A $100 million dollar pie can be split in a way to make people
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by loumf 13y ago
Interfacing with iOS frameworks is exempt. It's the third-party (not you, not the OS), pre-written software that matters. My experience is that that is no where near 10% of the work. If it is for your specific custom app, you should
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by loumf 13y ago
I am generally sympathetic to this point of view -- I am not against sales taxes, and as someone who has been in shrink-wrapped software for most of my career, I've had to deal with sales tax pretty much forever (and it's not a bi
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by loumf 13y ago
That and the fact that the line between custom software and customizations of pre-written software isn't very clear (or if clear, draconian). The way they wrote it, a custom WordPress template sounds like a customization (therefore tax
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by loumf 13y ago
It is an open secret that compliance in the US with use taxes is nearly zero. Yes, but at least in MA, they pay when they get audited. Small companies may not be complying without audits, but anyone big enough to use invoice processing s
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by loumf 13y ago
If you are writing totally custom software, you are exempt (IANL -- but, it's pretty clear in the FAQ). If you customize pre-written software, you might have to collect/report tax (that's where it's vague what customize
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by loumf 13y ago
You can trademark using a round M for burgers, but that doesn't get you the trademark for banks. Witness Apple Records and Apple Computers. In this case, the products/ideas are straight-up competitors.
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I think making toys for children is a good idea. There are lots of examples in the physical world that don't progress towards the adult version that are fun and educational. My problem with this is I'm not sure kids would find it
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by loumf 13y ago
Didn't I just read on HN that the Valve thing was BS? http://www.develop-online.net/news/44746/Valves-perfect-hiri... I know Chas fairly well, and I'm reasonably sure this isn't what he was talking
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by loumf 13y ago
A better way to verify that I own the username is to make me put a token in the about of my profile.
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by loumf 13y ago
I think there might be a disclosure requirement or perhaps it only matters if they take board seats or what kind of access they have to internal matters. At latter stages it might arise if a company pivots into another space. See this on ho
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by loumf 13y ago
I really wish the Guardian would get someone very technical to talk to these sources and then write a technical report of exactly what's happening. These dumbed down articles make it hard for me to understand what is happening. The sp
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by loumf 13y ago
Also, it says it in the cab. This is how I, as a New Yorker, first learned of these rules.
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by loumf 13y ago
I had a question closed on Cooking and was notified. There's a notification area to check (usually gives some signal in the upper-left to look).
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This is a feature of the closing process on StackOverflow -- don't use the other SE sites as much. You pick "off-topic" and is asks if it would be "on-topic" somewhere else and offers some suggestions.
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by loumf 13y ago
Your depression doesn't define you, and there's no reason to bring it up. It's perfectly reasonable to explain a work-history gap with "training/investing in yourself for a new career". It wouldn't be a ba
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by loumf 13y ago
They already curate projects for a lot less than this, as does nearly every store. YouTube doesn't host every video, HN doesn't post every link, B&N doesn't sell every book -- it's actually hard to think of counterex
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by loumf 13y ago
To my understanding the two sides of this issue are whether or not Kickstarter has the right to choose what is on their site. I say they do. I do not understand the position that they must allow any project even if they don't want to
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by loumf 13y ago
And yet, Kickstarter can decide that they want nothing to do with it or anything else for pretty much any reason they want. Kickstarter is claiming that they won't allow seduction manuals period ("we are prohibiting 'seductio
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by loumf 13y ago
Kickstarter is a private company that can decide what they want to have on their site for whatever reason they want. They have to answer to their customers. If you disagree, don't use Kickstarter. But the idea that they have to comply
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Of course it wouldn't. Is that surprising? Fiction is different from a how-to manual and should be treated as such. It's not just the literal words in a particular paragraph, it's also the surrounding context.
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by loumf 13y ago
"Freedom of speech" is a limit on the government, not on private companies.
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They think the clear denial and resulting walk-backs are enough.
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Even better is if you make the mark think they are complicit in the fraud. Then, they cover it up.

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