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by skue 14y ago
While there are some US states that have considered taxing legal fees, this is certainly not the norm. Services are typically exempt from sales tax. From page 19 of California's guide to sales/use tax exemptions: > SERVICES—The sale of
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The book the OP mentioned, Delivered From Distraction, is a great resource. The author is a psychiatrist who does a good job of presenting med and non-med options in a balanced way. He has ADD himself and did not find that meds helped him (
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First, you are not alone. Many high achieving folks have ADD, and many discover it later in life. Very bright people can get through grade school without realizing they have ADD until they eventually hit their wall. It sounds like you are r
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> At a hospital with modern software... That's one helluva qualifier when talking about hospitals. Our company creates web-based software for hospitals, and we have yet to talk to a customer who doesn't need IE7 support. (We draw the li
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It's surprising to see so many people on HN of all places arguing that Sony is not competing with mobile. The previous poster used the term "disruption" for a reason - this is straight out of Innovator's Dilemma. Sony and its advocates will
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No, it's actually this: do_stuff while(some_condition): do_stuff The advantage of do/while in this situation is avoiding the duplicate code.
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> ballistically destroy stuff Not just "stuff," people have been killed this way. http://www.mrisafety.com/safety_article.asp?subject=39
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You make it sound like these issues are unique to this one motel, when it comes with the business. > * The hotel owners made no policy changes after a methamphetamine lab was discovered in one of their rooms. http://www.sfgate.com/news
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> DrChrono has it quite good, because the government will pay their customers Only if their customers can document, attest, and verify that they meet the standards for Meaningful Use as required by federal law to receive their subsidies
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HL7 is often characterized as a "70% standard," meaning that instead of getting complete agreement from vendors, they decided to standardize most of it. (HL7 3.0 is an 80% standard, but no one really uses HL7 3.0, at least not in the U.S.)
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Wow, and downvoted too? Sigh, I quit. I'm done posting to HN. The graybeards are right, it's just not the same. Snark and dogma get upvoted, and there's no point trying to fight it. This isn't meant as a reply so much as a final comment so
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You realize you are making the OP's point? He alluded to HN posters who make broad IP statements without the experience or training to back them up. I'm not arguing the other side -- I was just trying to point out that the issue may be more
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IANAL either, but I would certainly not presume that your example describes the same thing from an IP standpoint. For example, you could start with the first sentence in Apple's claim: it applies to a "touch-sensitive display." What you cit
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Do you really believe companies should have the freedom to clone successful products and flood the market with knock-offs? Imagine if some up-and-coming auto maker started making cars that look exactly like (insert your favorite luxury bran
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If meat is murder then gunning down ranchers and blowing up meeting packing plants would be justifiable too. But it doesn't happen. A bunch of non-meat-eaters taking their clothes off for PETA ads or throwing red paint on fur coats is a loo
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I think his point is that being quick to throw out exaggerated extremist views when describing a group can be tedious (if not offensive) to other members of the group. Honestly, how many mentally-ill extremists who happen to be vegetarian d
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You can't wait to drive her home first?
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> You don't have to have perfect solutions to edge customer cases and you can always iterate on the solutions. This isn't a high tech startup. These units would be placed in very public places, so initial impressions would have an enorm
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I've had the same reaction and gone for long periods without reading Gruber for this reason. I do agree that he has toned down - far fewer jackass awards (which always seemed unnecessarily petty). I wonder if some of his gentler tone has to
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Everything you so aptly described also applies to the healthcare industry, which is mired in a language from the 60s (MUMPS).
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If you're coming from Eclipse, did you check out IntelliJ's VIM plugin? I'm a decades-old Vim user, but I still fire up IntelliJ for Java Android development. Java is less painful in an IDE that was designed for it, and with the IntelliJ pl
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Sure, and if they had called themselves artists no one would have questioned this. Where they go wrong is when they throw the term "humanitarian" around to describe something that is anything but.
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> Guess what, those who drink diet sodas are more likely to be overweight. I guess diet sodas make you fat? Not the best analogy - because there is some evidence that artificially sweetened beverages have fueled the obesity epidemic (b
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Absolutely agree. Taxes do not matter to young startups, and I get frustrated hearing politicians (mainly from the right) argue that we need to cut corporate tax rates on behalf of entrepreneurs - when the primary beneficiaries are clearly
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I agree they could have done a better job of explaining the why for starring, but I assume that starring is a way to keep track of repositories you are interested in, but which you don't necessarily want to see filling up your activity fe
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I wrote another comment above questioning whether some of the early multicore promises of Erlang have become less relevant with the rise of single-emulated-core VPS servers. That could have dampened the hype. Also, I'm not an Erlang expert
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Most of the comments here talk about additional advantages of Erlang without commenting on the point of the original article -- which is that servers would move towards multi-core systems where Erlang excels. Of course, this hasn't really h
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Right... that's like saying "The root password was strong, however it is entirely possible that it could be an empty string." Fortunately, someone on the main article did respond that having trace.axd enabled could result in 500 errors dump
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Great analysis except I'm puzzled by his claim about trace.axd -- is it really a security risk that tracing is enabled, given that it can only be accessed from the local machine?
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So what happens when someone's email account is compromised? Currently there's a fair chance that the victim can reset passwords and change contact info for their online services before the hacker bothers to do so. But this would be impossi

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