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No computer science in your default subjects on the right? >=p For shame!

Anyway, here's a review from the perspective of someone who currently uses Anki off and on as his study aid du jour.

Your samples ("Browse by Subject") look like they're targeted at high-school level education; that was kind of a turn-off. (That is, I was expecting this section to give me an incentive to switch, but I already know this stuff pretty well - I was hoping to see higher level physics and chemistry stuff.)

I was worried that I wouldn't be able to insert images, but I found that.

Add LaTeX rendering and I would almost be sold.

For me, the biggest draw for Anki is that it exploits SRS (Piotr Wozniak's forgetting curve, etc).

If Quizlet did that (and showed me how it did it) and maybe e-mailed me when it was time to review cards (or maybe a digest of how many cards I need to study today) that would be enough to get me to switch over, and to recommend it to friends over Anki.
That is another way of saying the same thing. The two countries spend about the same. Canada is actually balancing its budget. Therefore Canada needs to be collecting more in taxes.
Unfortunately I'm not in the US so I can't sign up. I be would interested in email or Skype instead of phone.

Also, a couple of small things I noticed:

* The background image on your header doesn't repeat which leaves whitespace on a wide monitor (change no-repeat to repeat-x in your css).

* ie. should be eg. for the examples on the Add my listing page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases:_I#id_est, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.g.#exempli_gratia).

* "dial your TekTim extension" should probably say TekBob on the Add my listings page.
I appreciate the sentiment, but isn't that kinda in the StackOverflow space, where you'd get far more eyes on it (tho potentially of far more spread ability)
> Nobody walks past a vacant block in a prime real estate location

Vacant blocks in prime real estate locations are taxed at their market value though, no? So if you've got that land sitting idle, and you're not collecting income from rent, nor using it yourself, you're going to lose money on it. This is an incentive to sell it to someone who will make money, or otherwise find a way to employ it more productively.

That said, I don't think I'd really like to see property taxes on domain names.
It's a trap! They will advertise that you can use it as a phone and a gaming device... but then they will claim that people might badmouth sony or something using the phone feature, and they will make you choose... phone or psp.
If you're looking for something flexible, powerful and straight up good, http://www.goscomb.net/ gets my vote.

Not the cheapest, but definitely one of the best. We used them for a dedicated pen testing server, and when you're running port scans and exploits across the Internet they were surprisingly trouble free (other hosting providers had their IDS' go off, had filtering for various ports or would just randomly shut our systems down for 'hacking', despite us telling them what they were being used for.

We've replaced it with a beefier office link and a smaller VPS (also from Goscomb). Goscomb are UK-based, so you might find that it's less suitable for Asia-Pacific users due to latency.
We just completed a Titanium-based-App for iOS and Android and are much more happy with the result than we would have been with PhoneGap, what we used earlier for apps. Titanium is not only more powerful and speedier but also makes development cleaner and flexible.
Suck at planting trees? Use your programming skills to do something charitable
Just volunteered my time to start building a website for a guy and his team are doing great things for child labor issues in the Himalayans. He is only 25 and his persistence and caring attitude was truly inspiring. If you can't donate, then facebook like and if you can't do that, give an upvote =D<p>There is a campaign starting for November to build heaps of renovations before Christmas, it would be amazing if the kids could have a renovated hostel and school to take into the new year.<p>The organization takes orphans off the streets and gives them homes and best of all an education. A small donation is priceless<p>Edit: http://nepalesechildren.org
Yes, something like that as I believe a portion of the recurring fee is used to fund regulatory bodies like ICANN.

I'm not surprised to see my comment being both up and down voted, but anyone down voting my comment, at least take the time to share your reasons for disagreeing. If there is any place a well considered domain purchasing discussion should be able to occur it's HN.
Awesome question!

Sales tax is a crazy world for software developers because there's a shitload of exceptions and rules. I'll tell you the general rule though.

Software is taxable IF

(1) it is a retail "off-the-shelf" program. A retail "off the shelf" program is anything that you created to be sold without further customization. So any standard program your selling copies of would be required to pay sales tax.

But, if you customized the software then it could be exempt from sales tax. because then it would be considered exempt under the professional services exception.

This is a very complicated area of sales tax because its new. I actually have a 50 state matrix somewhere that gives detailed instructions on every state that i prepared for a client. Its a fortune 500 company so i cant say its name but if youve ever done ANY financial or legal research, then you're using their name. I'll probably post it up later on as a separate HN post.

2. Well for payroll, its a complicated area because you have federal, state and city withhold taxes, plus FICA, Medicare, FUTA (Unemployment) and others so u want to make sure that this is done correctly. Trust taxes are payroll taxes and if u F-BOMB this up, then you are PERSONALLY liable. It is one of those taxes that if u screw up, the IRS is going to literally levy you bank account.

Also, if your in NYC. We have a bunch of special taxes =D. For example, you get to pay taxes on your rent. the CRT or Commerical Rent Tax is a tax that people in manhattan have to pay if they pay more than 250k in rent LOLL. So, it really depends where you're located and how your business is being run. You should email me privately to discuss this further if you really care too.

3. Well, if u hired an accountant then they should know what they're doing. (Assuming they're qualified). But, YES u need to keep records of everything. I suggest you scan everything because it makes life easier. But, honestly it doesnt matter how you're keeping track as long as you ARE keeping track. Obviously, there are better ways to do it but thats for another discussion.
I'd say that the very name of the GTD system, Getting Things Done gives a big hint as to what's the "right" system. It's whatever system lets you Get Things Done. It doesn't have to be some fancy complicated system. It doesn't have to require any software or notes. Whatever works for you. Try several things, see what sticks and is effective for you.

Personally I've discovered that a combination of project TODO files, and general TODO files, plus iCal events, plus my brain, is an effective combo for me.
I was going to mention TortoiseHG as a possible reason, I've found running git on windows painful, but then I found TortoiseGit just now.

Personally I prefer Git, it's what we use here, but we don't really have a hard and fast rule - I think we have some subversion-based code trees knocking around too.
I just spent the weekend building a website for a charity
http://nepalesechildren.org

I always feel guilty and I'm from a very poor Australian family.

I actively went out and sought a worthy cause. healed the guilt momentarily and I look forward to doing more work for good causes using my abilities
- added repeat-x to background

- good catch on "ie." :) learned something new.

- fixed.

Thanks a lot! Those were some great, detail finds.

I am still wrestling with the international issue. For now, I am mainly targeting this at US developers. Most of my clients(and profile of clients I'm trying to attract) want to work with someone within the US(even if not locally). They already get tonnes of emails from offshore shops and have a hard time making a decision.
I have a hunch it was the "assholes" comment that set you off, and led you to going back through a mental list of things he'd said that you disagreed with. For what it's worth, I think the original meaning behind that comment was clear, and that pg is now splitting a really fine hair in defending it.

More broadly, that comment comes across as symptomatic of a peculiar attitude among some startups and programmers towards investors, angels, and other "business" people.

Regardless of the intended meaning, there was no reason to use that word there. It didn't enforce or strengthen any point; putting "investors" in its place does the job just as well.
I don't doubt the quality of LW, I just doubt that 64bit can be considered an optional feature these days.
I try to get 9-11 hours if I can on the weekends, but generally I run on between 4 and 6. I can do 4 overnight, then 2 in the following afternoon/early evening quite comfortably. If I miss those two extra hours I end up sleeping for 6. Lately I've been managing 8 and sleeping terribly. I'm hoping to try to get it back down to 7 to see if that improves.
A whiteboard sounds great, you know you have too many things on your list if it doesn't fit on your whiteboard anymore :)
Well played. One of my favorite things about HN is that people act on opportunities.

Sounds like a smart move for both of you.
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The Firebug team is worried because Mozilla have been passive-aggressively antagonistic towards them for a long time. Mozilla heavily promoted their abjectly useless "Web Developer Toolbar" extension for years, even bundling it with the browser by default. They also have not been shy about breaking Firebug with every major release, basically not taking it seriously at all.

Now they've started down the usual embrace-extend-extinguish path that they've taken before with Firefox extensions — bake an unremovable inflexible implementation of the basic functionality into the browser, with a perspective twist of some kind, and major core API changes that make it difficult for the original extension to continue development.

They're worried about them doing AwesomeBug in a future release.
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I've helped start a couple companies and have some thoughts about how to be a good board member, but I am now on the board of a company for the first time. Any resources (books, video, articles, mantras, etc.) I can use to figure out how to be good at this job?
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Bean-based diets have issues, and could lead to bloating and other not so pleasant things, especially if you aren't a solo founder. Easier-to-digest proteins, flax seeds and nuts, cottage cheese, tofu, mixing it up can help a bit.

You should smell what happens when a vegetarian starts eating meat again. With any new diet it takes your gut microflora some time to adapt. There is absolutely nothing wrong with eating a lot of beans. They are a cheap and healthy protein source. Still, it's always a good idea to have a varied diet.
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Slapping a Playstation controller on an Android phone is one of those weird last gen/this gen mishmashes that highlights Sony's struggle to cling to relevancy, imo.

Surely the iOS phenomenon (and Android & WP7) -- particularly the iPod touch -- shows that for handheld gaming a chunky controller isn't necessary.

As Gruber often points out, where _is_ the iPod touch competitor? This is likely to be too expensive to compete with the iPod touch, and too chunky/niche to compete with iPhones and other smartphones as a platform in its own right. And that's what Sony needs -- an iOS-like platform, not this strange bit of hardware.

It's pretty sad that for a company that has built some of the most popular consoles of all time, all they can come up with in 2010 is the mutant child of their controller and a generic smartphone.
I don't think anyone's going to honestly yell at you for disclaimers if you feel you need them, but I think it's safe to assume that the folks here know how to use Google and Wikipedia and are fairly smart.

So long as you're not talking about something extremely esoteric relative to the sort of stuff that shows up here on a regular basis. I would feel comfortable referring to the Sieve of Eratosthenes in an offhand manner. Anyone on HN can probably look at the Wikipedia page and figure out what's going on.

If I refer to Negishi coupling, on the other hand, I should probably try to explain what they are and it might be prudent to provide a disclaimer that I'm going into esoteric O-chem stuff.

Cool?
I don't know if I'd add email.

Filtering out the freelancers who don't have a dedicated business line and who aren't reachable by phone is a good service to provide to your clients, and it is a reason I'd use tekbob over any number of your competitors.

There is no excuse not to have a phone number. Get google voice and Skype. As a freelancer you are in the customer service industry, one. Two, your competitors have phone numbers.

I regularly look for people to subcontract work to and I persons's skills or experience are great but if I can't call them and reach them by phone to have a conversation, that is an immense disadvantage when I'm comparing one worker to another.
This isn't that useful an article without explaining how trick-or-treating started.
Interesting idea.

'^' doesn't feel right in the text flow, and as answerly noted, it's already used as an alt signing symbol.

I think a ':', '>', or even '//' would work well, still likely to be clear in context, suggestive of the original form. Examples:

:bit.ly/cYrNb3

>bit.ly/cYrNb3

//bit.ly/cYrNb3
Hmm.. thats a complicated set of facts. I hope that the sale was done through a stock buyout instead of a sale of assets.

When you sell a company there are two major methods. A complete sale of assets (which it sounds like you did) and a sale of stock (which is preferrable).

the sale of stock would guaranty you long term capital gains.

I'd say that you should be taking a capital gain on everything generally

But, intangibles like copyright are funny. The creator can sell the copyright and sell it, but when you sell it theres a problem. How do you determine the basis of the copyright. Generally, companies buy copyrights and etc so its easy for them to have an adjusted basis or cost for them to calculate. But, you developed and created the copyright so your basis is probably going to be pretty small and the gain is going to be HUGE. You can say that you're hours spent is an increase in basis. Same rules apply to songwriters and etc.

You can sell the IP, but the gain is going to be significant.
I've tried all kinds of stuff but I keep coming back to this:

Create a file (mines called todotoday.txt)

Add the following lines:

Now
---

Waiting
-------

Done
----

On the Now area, put everything that needs to be done now. When you're in progress and stop partway through, put "- X" after the entry to signify that it's in progress. Once it's complete, remove the hyphen and move the line to 'Done'. If something stalls or is waiting on someone else, move it to 'Waiting'.

It's simple enough for me to keep track of what I'm doing, what I'm chasing and what I've done.
from all aspects, softlayer would be my choices.
Sigh....I get these all the time, and delete right away.

This is all about you, your company, why you're so great.

What about me? I'm a blogger. Bloggers have egos. Play to my ego, at least try to give me the sense that you spent at least 5 minutes getting to know something about me.

Who are the publishers using the system? Why not list them.

Stop talking about yourself, talk about me, write a blog post and link to me, then maybe you'll have a shot.

Bloggers you don't have any previous relationship with are tough nuts to crack.

Good luck.
Could you tell us a little about what the startup and hacker cultures are like over there? How does it compate to what you know of the US / SV and somewhere smaller like NZ.

I'm over the ditch in Auckland currently but I spent a year living in South Yarra and even met my wife there.
It's discussed at length in Eric M. Jackson's[1] The PayPal Wars[2].

[1] Former PayPal marketing executive

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_PayPal_Wars
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What are your preferred DNS management services? I've heard people talk about both DNSmadeeasy and Zerigo but thats about it. I've been using slicehosts DNS management but I just bought a 3 year reserved micro instance on ec2 and need some advice. Definitely don't want to run my own. Cheers!
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"balance weasels on a rake .."

Too funny .. :-P

Conrad, you're awesome!
... but if I can't call them and reach them by phone to have a conversation, that is an immense disadvantage when I'm comparing one worker to another.

That's been my experience as a developer. I can credit so many deals to being the first guy to get on the phone with the client.

More likely there are many different segments in this market. I can easily see why some folks almost expect email. But I think I am going after a very specific segment of contractors/clients who like to get on the phone. It may or may not work the way I've implemented. We'll see.
Focusing on quality of client could be an approach.
On the iOS device you're moving the document, on the WIMP computer you're moving the viewport.
Ah yes. I did that one. I called it the "Starcraft diet".
You should look again at Roth IRAs. Income limits were lifted this year, and you might be able to convert to one or start one now.

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I'd like sources. This article, while believable and fascinating, provided no evidence of its claims.

(Which is about what it aimed to accomplish.)
I think this kind of approach can only work in certain situations and modes of teaching. For biology or anything that requires more memorization than conceptualization, I think it is key to have a running tab of the topics/key points. This is especially key for fast speaking lecturers or topics that you are just being introduced to. I think your approach is really helpful in topics that are more conceptual. Math, CS, and logic are much better learned with full concentration.

That said, I think pre-studying and post-studying immediately before or after class is really, really helpful - regardless whether notes are taken. The only challenge is that it takes much more time and a lot of effort. This is another clear example of the relationship between effort and reward.
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seems like a portfolio link and/or email address would be helpful.

I also don't like the phone-only thing. It's 3am right now, I don't plan on calling "Timothy" just to ask to see his portfolio, but I'd certainly like to look at it right now. Am I going to come back to the site tomorrow during the day? Maybe, but probably not. Would I email him right now to get a link to his portfolio? Sure.
Why not look into SEP, simplified employee pension plans. The limitation for last year and this year is $49,000. You sound rich lol, so why not just get this plan and start socking away money. You can put up to the lesser of 25% of wage income or 20% of self-employed before self-employed tax deduction is included (turns out to be about 18.25%)

Other options depends on what you're income is. But SEPs are great ways to just shove massive amounts of money away.

Note: If you have employees, the SEP can get a bit annoying and complicated. Its best for the small business owner that is operating primarily on his own. but, it could still be a great idea, even if you have employees.
That's what I was thinking... I'm looking to build a memorable brand name (more like digg, reddit, google etc) and a domain packed with keywords isn't the best way to achieve that.
Release early, release often.

Just don't forget to set up a repository (maybe a PPA you're targeting Debian/Ubuntu first), so when script will become more robust users will get it automatically updated without any additional worries - otherwise they'll be stuck with ancient versions.
Yup, sales taxes are a state issue. Like i said, state taxes are complicated and i'll try to find the time to dig up that 50 state matrix which is a guide to all the states and how to treat software sales...

that sounds very useful to this audience...
Fair points - thanks!

- Will add portfolio link.
- Not so sure about email quite yet.
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Thanks - I'll check that out!
Fascinating how large the gap is from Neutrinos to Quantum Foam/Strings. I can't help but wonder if it's filled with stuff we don't yet know about.

Also, a Giant Earthworm that's the length of a small car? What what what?

Really great data viz, thanks for posting it.
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Seriously though... pick a modern, popular language which has lots of resources available and go and build real world useful things. Once you have the basics down you spend a long time learning style. A lot of this comes from having made a great many mistakes before and being able to draw on a huge pool of ways not to do it.

Attempt big programs that are a bit beyond your means and learn how to break them into small pieces you can build. Then learn how to build those up into abstractions that let you make the big program. Learning the different types of abstraction available to you in your language and how to apply them with style is what will turn you into a great programmer.

(Languages: Python, C#, Ruby, Scheme, Clojure etc)

(Abstractions: Functions, modules, classes, closures, aspects etc)
I dont know if you guys heard, but the Obamacare health bill requires everyone to receive a 1099 that gets paid over $600. It used to be that only individuals and independent contractors were the only ones that were really required, but now they require it by law from everyone. But, its hilarious because if people actually obeyed this rule then the IRS would stop functioning. They dont have the staff to effectively enforce this rule.
It looks like Total DNS is supplied with godaddy domains. Are there any performance issues with using one DNS management service over another or rolling your own?
that's deliberate. At the moment, we don't have any users in either category - we have to get the photos in before we can start selling them, so that's my priority to start with.
If I go to a coffee shop to do a bit of work on the WiFi, is it legit to buy the requisite coffee or two on my company card and treat it as a business expense?
I'm in new york city and that's where I currently practice. I'm working on a nonprofit 501c3 startup/webtool for education from 1am to 3am. Its nothing as interesting as the stuff you guys do, but I like technology and really want to do something that helps people not follow the same roundabout path through life that wastes time.