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by mhp 12y ago
While there may be something to your concern, the example you give confuses the idea of how taxes work for companies. Reddit is already getting a "massive write-off" for its developers salaries. It's called a payroll expense
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by mhp 12y ago
This could be a plus for some people, but average low temperatures are at or below freezing for half the year. source: http://www.holiday-weather.com/stockholm/averages/
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by mhp 12y ago
This post is doing something a bit different and probably more useful, but it reminds me of the people that search Twitter for mentions of their competitors and then try to convince those people to use their product instead. I see this eve
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by mhp 12y ago
Open source US tax filing application. Basically TurboTax but free.
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by mhp 13y ago
Your thesis is that "StackExchange itself is becoming a little bit backward", but the statements you use to back that up have been part of Stack Exchange from the beginning. Also, the things you point out that are 'broken&#x
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by mhp 13y ago
If the only goal was to present what exists in other languages, this would be a great idea. Your suggestion results in translations for all the people searching for content in a language other than English. But it doesn't allow those
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by mhp 13y ago
I wonder if - Apple told them they had better stop - Adoption was lackluster - The privacy complaints overwhelmed any benefit (or all three)
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by mhp 13y ago
You underestimate the power of marketing, design, and timing then. A good product is not a prerequisite to being popular by any means (although it certainly helps).
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by mhp 13y ago
I'm not Joel Spolsky, but yes, nerd celebs do wander around HN.
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by mhp 13y ago
Here's a PDF spec that we wrote for copilot.com back in 2005, which basically did exactly what you are saying (except in a cleaned up, hands free way): http://www.joelonsoftware.com/RandomStuff/copilot_spec.pdf
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by mhp 13y ago
This is exactly why we created Copilot.com almost a decade ago. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/AardvarkSpec.html It's still available and is free on the weekends.
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by mhp 13y ago
Copilot.com - It's free on the weekends! source: I am a founder of Fog Creek Software, makers of Copilot.com
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by mhp 13y ago
"If Yale grants students access to data, the university does not have the right to specify exactly how students must view the data." I disagree strongly with this statement. If the data is owned by Yale, they do in fact have the
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by mhp 13y ago
I'm sorry you got that reply. I don't doubt you received it, but it doesn't reflect how I believe my company should have responded to you. This is actually a feature. FogBugz DOES send email in UTF-8 (just copy some hebrew t
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by mhp 13y ago
One consideration is how much control you give away when you take funding. If you retain control of your board, and generally take beneficial terms on the funding, it doesn't have to change the way you run a bootstrap business. Cas
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by mhp 13y ago
You cannot pay for a white label subdomain. You can however license the engine for internal use only (but pricing makes it only make sense for large institutions). citation: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1605
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by mhp 13y ago
"So far the only physical thing created is the models by the orthodontist." Actually at this point, the dentist can take the models entirely digitally. My dentist did this a few months ago with a new scanning machine. There was no
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by mhp 13y ago
Even after researching the definition of burnish, I'm not sure if you meant that he makes his reputation better or made it worse by his statements.
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by mhp 13y ago
Does your org use Salesforce? (not being obtuse, just trying to figure out if your organization really doesn't use any cloud products, or if there are certain exceptions).
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by mhp 13y ago
VAT is not sales tax. http://taxtalk.co/sales-tax/sales-tax-vs-vat/
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by mhp 13y ago
While sales tax is usually a state issue and our disconnect may be the result of working in different states (I am in NY), you can see from the American Bar website that it's clear that sales tax is not usually levied on lawyer fees: http:
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by mhp 13y ago
Huh? I've paid a lot of legal fees and never remember seeing sales tax on them. I don't understand what you are saying.
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by mhp 13y ago
recurly founded 2009. Braintree founded 2007. When this code had to be written? 2005.
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by mhp 13y ago
In 2005, what was the variable pricing billing system that we could have used instead? It's easy to look at Stripe and Braintree today and say 'Ha! Those Fog Creek dummies! They should have used one of these awesome companies with great API
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by mhp 13y ago
There will probably be a blog post in a couple of months about the latest infrastructure changes that we've added. Keep an eye out for that.
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by mhp 13y ago
"Fogcreek [sic] haven't always stuck to their word on how they will keep their systems up and running". What do you mean by this? It sounds like you are suggesting that "how" we keep our systems up and running is required to be the same at
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by mhp 13y ago
Trello is not and will never be designed for software developers. Can software developers use it? Sure. You could track your bugs in Excel if you wanted to. That's not Trello's audience. Regarding Kiln for self hosted: At Fog Creek, we've
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by mhp 13y ago
It's complicated, but the sentiment that charging your most price insensitive people a fixed price is nutty is still true - I don't think that's wrong. Although Jira has a fixed price ceiling, Confluence is not priced that way: http://www
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by mhp 14y ago
trello -> FogBugz integration - should adapt to any and all usages: https://github.com/danlec/Trello-Bookmarklet kiln could have something more interesting. We're working on it.
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by mhp 14y ago
Not sure if it's assumed, but you can move cards to a different board in the web app (just not yet in iPad app).

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