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So does every other factor in starting your business: your parents wealth, your education, access to certain resources, etc. It all helps, but business is about dealing with what is your reality and making the best of it.
I enjoyed the comic. There is a typo in the last panel. It says "Doug the developer and and the others could now return to their programming, no longer in fear of bugs." The word "and" is repeated.
> shifting from open source to collaborative source to create closer cooperation between Firebug core and extension development

What does "collaborative source" mean?
> There is no equivalent to the Firefox JavaScript console [...] Chrome console sucks.

So there is indeed an equivalent, which you don't like for reasons you refuse to explain. I am disappoint.
Stock options are a loaded question but I’ll discuss it in general terms.

There are two types of stock options. Qualified and Non-Qualified.

Qualified stock options are those given to employees. So, all of the first employee hires that get equity are essentially going to get qualified stock options because they are getting an incentive. These options are not included in your gross income, but you may have to pay taxes on the year you exercise them due to the Alternative Minimum Tax (this was meant to be a tax on the rich back in the 1970s but now its hitting everyone in the middle-class).

Non-qualified stock options are those that you get if you’re not an employee generally. This means that you’d have to include the value of stock options in your gross income. This is where Section 409a hits you. Section 409a has a bunch of requirements as to when you are allowed the options for example:

1. The employee’s leaves or separates from the company (if you're a key employee, then you need to wait 6 months later, before you can get the distribution of options.)
2. The employee has an unforeseeable emergency
3. The employee becomes disabled
4. The employee is dead
5. A fixed time or schedule specified under the plan
6. A change in ownership or effective control of the corporation, or a change in the ownership of a substantial portion of the assets of the corporation; or

In reality…

If you’re a startup and you’re giving options, there’s no way for the IRS to make you include these options in your income because they have no real value yet. The IRS requires income to be (1) accurately determinable and (2) reasonable assured. As we all know, options and common stock equity in startups is anything but determinable and assured. So realistically, this won’t make a difference initially. But, once you start getting traction and get valued from VCs, this will come back to bite you.

You could also choose to use a variety of valuation models. There's even a "startup model." The startup model is basically where the VC thats funding you will tell you what the valuation is lol.

Conclusion: Stock options are not part of gross income if your getting qualified stock options.

But, later on when you sell the stock or equity. It'll lead to capitals gains. By then, you'd probably of had the equity for over a year so they'd be long term capital gains, which are taxed at 15%.

sorry for the long post. its late and i'm probably babbling.
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The article is not talking about applications: it is talking about applications which fulfill requirements.
I use a whiteboard in my room. I write down the things I have to get done over the next week or so, and erase them when I finish them. I can't forget about it, or misplace it, or forget my login since it's right in front of my bed. I don't write every little task down, but rather general things like "CS Assignment #2", "Time Card", "Call <so and so>" and due dates, if relevant.

A more extended version, if you want to take the time to do it, could include sending yourself an email at the end of the week with what you did, what you plan to do, and your problems. That way you can keep track of what you've accomplished, and your plans. It's pretty helpful if you need to go back and figure out when you did something or where your time's going.

But if you're having trouble with planners and stuff already, just try using a whiteboard.
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I will be labeled uncooperative if i stuck with my headphones all day. I am surrounded by non-programmers. Thanks a lot though!
So a default linux install shouldn't support perl? If OS's supported Java from the install just like they support exe's people wouldn't have to deal with downloading and configuring a runtime.. it would eliminate update managers and configuration issues.
I'll have to test that, that doesn't seem to happen in the resource viewer of Safari 5.
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1) Sony uses open source, they do like it. PS2 and PS3 could run Linux.
2) Sony-Ericsson already makes the Xperia line of Android phones. The Playstation phone is the same thing, with buttons.
3) Sony has another strategic partnership with Google Android in its new line of Google TV enabled televisions and Blu-ray players.
Who designed those? They look really good.
I pay for 3g on my smartphone in the US and it's pretty much wasted. I have wifi at home, work, and school, and even inside and outside most of the downtown places (bars, restaurants) I frequent. I literally only use 3g when I'm in my car (which isn't very often) and when I want to listen to Pandora or Grooveshark (also not often given my 30 GB music collection on the phone) or if I want GPS directions (my only real use of 3g, and that's at the most twice a month).
> one click node editing

Yes the Webkit DOM inspector lacks that.

> css editing

It does have that on the other hand.

> the fact that it live updates the DOM as it is changed via any JS running on the page

My DOM inspector does seem to do that as well, though it doesn't highlight the altered subtrees the way Firebug does.

> DOM/JS object inspection

Has been in for a long time, though it could be missing some bells and whistles.

> having XHR logging in the console itself and not on another tab

Matter of tastes there, we'll have to agree to disagree as I'm not fond of this at all.

> Plugins such as FireQuery also make a difference for my needs.

Yes that I will easily give you.
Thanks. I had been waiting for this book for a long time.

After some 3 attempts of download, I could download the book. All I can say is that this book is really awesome!
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Hi Conrad - glad to see this available now - I saw your preview at the DC HN Meetup. I love all the art!
The CSS file is a thing of horrifying beauty. I don't know whether to hail it as my savior or try to drive a stake through it.
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We'll being a minor means that you're still a dependent on your parent's tax return. And, that actually sucks haha. Sorry. As a dependent, you don't get a personal exemption but you'll get a standard deduction of $5,700 (in your specific case). Its important for you to pay your taxes on that income because you're parents are legally required to pay any tax that you owe.

Also, you're going to have substantial income tax (remember to pay your self-employment tax as well: 15.3%) because you have limited expenses.

As for incorporation, it really depends on what you're going to do with your apps in the future. Incorporating will help you facilitate selling them in the future because you could simply sell the company and easily move on or you could be the next Zynga and use the legal entity to get funding haha.

I dont see apps having any liability issues, so you're main concern is going to be business related decisions. I'd suggest that you incorporate as a S-Corp because you could avoid paying self-employment tax (SE) by planning around it. Make a reasonable guaranteed salary payment to yourself and you can at least avoid paying the 15.3% for self employment tax over the salary. I think 40K would be a reasonable salary. So, you'd save somewhere around $5,355 dollars in tax. This is just one simply way of saving on taxes.
"But one thing that may save them to some extent is the uneven distribution of startup outcomes: practically all the returns are concentrated in a few big successes. The expected value of a startup is the percentage chance it's Google." [It is your inclusion of this sentence that caused me to characterize your change of heart about it as "grudging."]

"Most data structures exist because of speed. For example, many languages today have both strings and lists. Semantically, strings are more or less a subset of lists in which the elements are characters. So why do you need a separate data type? You don't, really. Strings only exist for efficiency. But it's lame to clutter up the semantics of the language with hacks to make programs run faster. Having strings in a language seems to be a case of premature optimization." [Processing strings is a huge part of today's computing landscape. There are premature optimizations to be sure, but efficient string processing isn't one of them IMHO.]

"But it was mysterious to me that the super-angels would quibble about valuations. Did they not understand that the big returns come from a few big successes, and that it therefore mattered far more which startups you picked than how much you paid for them?" [The implication here is that because picking the right companies matters more, then it doesn't make sense to "quibble" over valuations. But this is a false dichotomy. Picking the right companies matters, of course. But valuation matters as well, and questioning a ~10M valuation for a company that has no revenue is not "quibbling."]

"... jerks who give you lines like "come back to me to fill out the round." [I have no problem with advising founders to avoid wasting time on reluctant investors. I do have a problem with impugning their motives and character.]

If you really want to engage in a debate about this I will hold up my end. But to be perfectly honest, I'd just as soon see this bruhaha fade into obscurity. It has already gotten much more attention that it deserves IMHO.
> working with advance web service consumption.

From a strictly technical perspective, I can help you here. Others have already done the hard work.

Here's TouchCode for parsing just about everything:

http://github.com/schwa/touchcode

Here's ASIHTTPRequest for pulling down any file from anywhere:

http://allseeing-i.com/ASIHTTPRequest/

And here's MPOAuth for OAuth:

http://code.google.com/p/mpoauthconnection/

Then go hunting around for things with public APIs. Netflix, Facebook, Twitter, solve a problem there.

The rest is getting out there and communicating with people. I've gotten my last two jobs through being part of internet communities (Twitter and HN, if curious). It's about building trust so people understand you're the real deal. It's not easy and I don't have guidance anywhere as clear on that part of it. Worst of all, it feels like luck when it finally happens, so it's hard to give yourself a pat on the back. Are you getting out into the world and talking to people?
You are improving but you want this to happen more rapidly!
The language you are most intimate with will not allow for rapid development of projects.

"sure you may like walking or running, but if you need to get anywhere quicker you need to fly".

Practice! Yes, but with the right tools for the desired results.
The GTD book is a boring read, but I do refer to it occasionally.

I mostly grokked the process from Allen's flow chart that's around the web, and the Wikipedia article. I stay pretty close to the true GTD way.
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pg, I previously said that I didn't think your usage of the word startup is in line with some others' and that this leads to semantic discussions all the time. At the time you replied that you think the best strategy is just to use the word properly.

I've since seen 'startup' being used by my bank, an accountant, a printer etc. They all mean 'new business.' Half the books with startup in the title mean new/small businesses.

http://www.amazon.com/Start-up-Practical-Starting-Running-Bu...
SHEREEF, thank you! I really didn't expect you to say anything about this little PPT. Much appreciated. :) blush Honestly, how nice of you!

I really hope your site does well because BETTERMEANS.COM is a super-smart idea. It was a total privilege to get involved with your website at all. I hope everyone checks it out.

BTW, I received an email from you and will get back to you pronto privately. In the meantime, much appreciated. And to everyone else who wrote to me re: help on copy, I'm happy to get back to you over the coming days: joanna AT page99test DOT com.

Go, Hacker News community!
How do you expense website acquisitions? Five-figure range...my current accountant is doing them as goodwill over 30 years. Seems nutty to me! I'd love to expense them as quickly as possible, but only within the law.
I have been freelancing pretty aggressively off of Craigslist for the past three months. Through my experiences using CL for finding work, I decided to develop TekBob. These are the things I hope to fix via TekBob that I find broken with CL:

1. Craigslist is local. But most contract work can be non-local. 100% of the projects I have completed in the past 3 months have been non-local. TekBob does not emphasize city/state level location so much.

2. The most serious clients just want to get on the phone and iron out a deal. Almost all my projects involved a phone call to seal the deal. So I decided to cut the BS and just let clients connect to the developer. My thesis is that there are enough freelancers looking for work and won't mind someone calling them with work.

3. Craigslist is a hit or miss in terms of finding new work,(in my experience). I hope to provide a steady stream of leads, even if that means I charge a small fee per lead in the future. My thesis is that if TekBob can consistently send you $5,000 of work a month via 20 leads, you don't mind paying TekBob $100 for the month.(for example)

And now...

Where Craigslist kicks our ass(for now): they have people with projects and we don't. I have a plan on how to address this! I'll start working on it once we have 25 freelancers listed.
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I will not give to cut of my hand for that but I'm pretty sure that all popular javascript engines are written in C/C++. At least that applies to V8 and SpiderMonkey.
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Thanks camz!

I am at the very earliest stage of starting an ad network and will be taking money from advertisers and redistributing to publishers (after I take my cut). What are the tax implications here?

If I take a 30% cut and distribute the other 70%, how do I show the gov't that the 30% is the actual profit and the other 70% is not mine?

What other tax pitfalls can you see?
Perhaps there will be a WiFi-only version for the kids. Although I'm seeing younger and younger children get not just mobile phones but data plans as well.

I think the phone's success depends greatly on how well Sony can leverage its game catalog. Unfortunately Sony has proven fairly incapable of exploiting it on the PS3.

Nintendo is really missing the boat by not making a Nintendo DS Phone. A DS with even the most basic "feature phone" capabilities would be incredibly attractive to the 5 to 35 age group. You know, a dialer, a contact book, basic SMS chat, calculator, calendar, and that Opera browser they already include in the newer models. Throw in a few downloadable DSi apps and it would handily beat the webOS and Windows Phone 7 devices overnight.
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Read some books about algorithms. Implement the exercises in Python.
"Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach" by Russel & Norvig would give you some interesting insights and exercises.
Maybe you don't care, but other people might.

tyrmored is cautioning those that might care. If you don't care, feel free to ignore him, but that doesn't mean the caution is baseless.
I took a Ubercab today from the Anchor Steam Brewery to Loggly's HQ at 1st and Mission. We mostly did this to see what all the hubbub was about. That, and the bus was late.

The ride cost $20 for the 4 of us, so it was a tad expensive. (+1 for taking the bus outbound though) I was told Ubercab gets 20% of the take from the driver, and then charges 20% above and beyond that to the rider. Rough math, that would be around $12.80 to the driver, and the rest to Ubercab. This includes tip. All you have to do is bail out when you get to the destination, and then vote on the ride.

I'm not lying when I tell you the car (a newer model Mercedes) showed up in about 90 seconds from the time I hailed it in the app.

Very slick. I hope they stick around.
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How fabulous. I smiled all the way through that video. There is something so happy about exuberant, unrepentant nerdery.
I've had this experience as well doing research. GTD is great for doing many small tasks that are hard to remember, but I always seem to have tasks that are hard to break up. Something like "Make machine learning method X work for data Y". Sure there are lots of mechanical things like importing/exporting data that are easily tracked GTD style, but then there is the core problem, that is very difficult to break up ahead of time.
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That sounds a bit awkward because goodwill is an intangible that should amortized over 15 years. I'm going to start showing legal statutes:

"General rule.
A taxpayer shall be entitled to an amortization deduction with respect to any amortizable section 197 intangible. The amount of such deduction shall be determined by amortizing the adjusted basis (for purposes of determining gain) of such intangible ratably over the 15-year period beginning with the month in which such intangible was acquired. "

All intangibles are amortized over a 15 year life. Also, Section 179 is a deduction that lets you take up to 250k of depreciation in your first year as long as you meet the rules and dont hit over the phase out beginning at 850k i think of assets.

BUT, I must remind you that I could be missing something because I dont know your EXACT tax situation. I'd have to discuss your facts in detail to be absolutely sure.

But, again the general rule is 15 years.
You might find mytop easier for this, it also allows hiding sleeping processes etc.
"Half the books with startup in the title mean new/small businesses."

Really? I think you should recount:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/?url=index%3Dblended&fie...
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Exactly, there would need to be something like GTD for problem-solving. E.g. similar to the two-minute rule, one would have something like the two hour rule: "If you can't solve the core problem in two hours, ask someone for help".
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I was a member and was prepared adequately.
I was a member and was not prepared adequately.
I was not a member but knew DECA existed.
I was not a member but was a high school/college entrepreneur.
I never heard of DECA, wasn't a high school/college entrepreneur, but am now an entrepreneur.
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Would anyone actually use this,, and do people actually have excess inventory? I have various bits of code that together would go most of the way to building this.

(Specifically I have a Python/AppEngine link exchange app that I never launched, as well as a Java/AppEngine context sensitive ad-serving engine with clickthough tracking & optimization etc that I built for fun)
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There should be instead a occo that could have plugins written for all sort of languages that feels like it.
That makes it much more reusable.
Wow, I am just totally shocked at the response at reddit.

How many domains do you hold at a time and what are sales like?
...and you have to get the enterprise edition (+2400€) if you want the luxury of 64-bit.
WorryFreeLabs was surprisingly affordable. My partner Lance and I 'bootstrapped' these design costs with our bonuses from our day jobs (and didn't exhaust our bonuses with it). Without question, I'd recommend WorryFreeLabs if you're looking for a group to take your idea and bring it to life in design. We're continuing to work with them as we build out page99test.com, and they're as fantastic as ever.
I think it has to do with more work being "creative", in the Richard Florida sense, of being problem-solving oriented. It is much easier to estimate the time needing to complete tasks such as "milk the cows" or "build a shed", because 1) You do them repeatedly and can learn, and 2) The bottleneck is not thinking, but the manual labor, or the time it takes to use a given machine.

I might be irrational, but I always estimate problem solving time to be much smaller than what will actually be needed. Even afterwards, I will usually consider much of the problem solving time as time wasted, because I should have been able to do the task much faster.
You're right about the page load times. We're working with our designer to get that down to something more manageable. In the meantime, sorry. :(