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by zenocon 15y ago
Thanks, I guess I should have clarified -- I think PayPal will work fine to actually handle the transaction. I guess the thing I'm wondering about is how to handle the tax / reporting side of things.
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Ask HN: How best to pay offshore resources?
1 points by zenocon 15y ago|4 comments
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by zenocon 15y ago
just ordered the samsung series 9 from costco 1549 free shipping. read some ubuntu forum pages that said natty works great on it.
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by zenocon 15y ago
i'm shopping for a new laptop to put this on. i'm looking for something maybe like the samsung series 9. ideally, i'd like it to be as slim as that, but have a 15" screen. anyway, looking for laptop HW recommendations from others here.
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by zenocon 15y ago
About 6 months ago, I left an ipad on a plane. Unsurprisingly, all my attempts to recover it led to dead ends. I didn't have the mobileme / findmyiphone app installed on it. I understand privacy concerns, but I'd actually like it if Appl
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by zenocon 16y ago
my wife is a cpa/cfp, and this is how i set up my company. i write off most stuff (car, office supplies, computer equip, internet, phone, etc), and pay out yearly dividends on top of a base salary. for a one-man corporation, the overhead
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by zenocon 16y ago
many years ago, i was a fresh grad with an ms in comp sci working at a bay area startup. i sucked at negotiations too, and my starting salary was 75k, which actually wasn't too shabby (or so i thought). long story short: the company implo
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by zenocon 16y ago
I have always approached learning in exactly the same fashion. Seek out multiple sources of information on the same topic, and browse them all. You'll quickly find the source (or sources) that explain it best to you. It's a total waste o
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by zenocon 16y ago
Self-education, discipline, etc. require passion. This could apply to your coursework at MIT or downloading copyrighted technical textbooks off USENET for free to teach yourself mathematics and programming, etc. The internal drive is the
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by zenocon 16y ago
Wow -- thanks for that. Great lecture. Little golden nuggets like this are what make HN so great.
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by zenocon 16y ago
As someone who has done this for 5+ years now (before that 10 years at various large / medium corps. and startups), I'd advise you that you won't find good opportunities via Dice and Craigslist. Nearly all of my contracts have come from re
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by zenocon 16y ago
Couldn't part of this be mitigated by having the user input their exact measurements? That's the first thing that happens when you visit a custom clothier. Having this input, it would be possible (not necessarily easy) to match this with
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by zenocon 16y ago
VS 2010 is free if you sign up for their webspark program http://microsoft.com/web/websitespark/ -- so is MS Windows Server 2008, SQL Server, etc. Look, I'm no MS proponent. I'm an independent developer and I use all platforms, all tool
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by zenocon 16y ago
Honestly, every time I see one of these articles with even a hint at criticism towards Apple, I cringe slightly before I click the comments link...because I know what's coming next. Not that you care, but I'm also tired of Apple hi-jinks
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by zenocon 16y ago
I used to use these tools much more extensively when working in more formal, water-fall-ish, slow, more arcane development environments; nowadays I use UML only for documentation after the fact. Specifically, the only place I use UML is af
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by zenocon 16y ago
There are so many features, integrations, interesting things, etc. that you could do with your platform, userbase, and data, it just seems like after the acquisition, all future dev. halted. It is a shame, and I'm now looking for an altern
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by zenocon 16y ago
Quick question: Are there plans to develop auto-complete for 'X' language, and if not, is it possible to build your own auto-complete feature for 'X' language using the plugin API? When learning a new language, and especially when learning
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by zenocon 16y ago
If you're on a Java stack, use DbUnit; furthermore, the combo of Spring Test & DbUnit, and staying away from putting too much logic in stored procedures / triggers means you can unit test against the database fairly well -- leaving zero
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by zenocon 16y ago
Whenever I have to do this, I find it helps tremendously if I can socialize with my audience prior to the talk, as opposed to just getting a cold intro, and stepping up to the podium. 2000 people is a lot to socialize, but perhaps if you c
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by zenocon 16y ago
http://biblioflip.com -- just a landing page right now. this is a cross-platform (mac/linux/win) desktop elibrary app. drag-n-drop pdf, chm, etc. into it and it 'figures out' what the content is and populates all the meta-info (i.e. aut
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by zenocon 16y ago
I am building one now, and they do allow you to create a native installer for all three platforms. The only thing that sucks is that you have to build the installer on said platform. Not that big a deal with vmware, but still kind of anno
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by zenocon 16y ago
I live and work in Grosse Pointe. There are at least 2 of us here on the East Side that consider ourselves hackers. We have informal meetings at the local coffee shops. We're both working on various projects. Most of the tech scene is c
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by zenocon 16y ago
As someone who is quietly lurking on HN, and working on my own product nights and w/e, this gives me hope. I think the ISV model just feels right...at least for me. I've been wavering on quitting the day job. Kudos to this chap. Long li
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by zenocon 16y ago
who cares? you can say this about any major release number OS. go ahead and throw out netbsd stats all you want. no one tries to hack that b/c no one cares. stats are a funny game, my friend.
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by zenocon 16y ago
there are a large number of sites that also demo html5 sucking just as bad. video=FUDcrap. 230+ points for this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1646430 really? ...when it sent smoke rings out my dual core with 4GB of RAM? i most ce
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by zenocon 16y ago
It would be nice to add the ability to install open social apps. I'd like to add my own custom Gmap application. Will fridge have any integration capability with open social standards http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSocial ?
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by zenocon 16y ago
I get the premise of the article, but I think that you can quickly look at some code and determine if it passes the sniff test. I've been guilty of rewriting sections of code just b/c I didn't like the formatting and other minor annoyances
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by zenocon 16y ago
+1 for mate http://mate.asfusion.com -- it is so much simpler than all the other frameworks, and works right out of the box. i've used it on several projects.
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Upcoming tax changes for S-Corps(s-corp.org)
2 points by zenocon 16y ago|0 comments
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by zenocon 16y ago
I know this has been covered here before, but here's a real-world example of succeeding at this: http://www.balsamiq.com/blog/2010/01/03/a-look-back-at-2009/ This guy is my hero.

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