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Hi untog,
The following answer was taken from a blog post. I hope it helps:

"If you are working currently in US on a H1-B visa, You CAN start a business (a C corp) just like any other, as long as YOU DO NOT work for that company. You can only work for the company that sponsored your H1B and only the kind of work specified in the petition. There is no deviation of any kind to this rule.

However, you can establish a company and appoint a director or CEO to run your business. For someone who is just starting the Entrepreneurial dream, it is a serious obstacle. But, the positive side of it is you don`t have to kill your dreams or delay. You `can` participate in some restricted activities of the business, in the role of investor, but certainly not of executive nature.

Many Entrepreneurs partner with Permanent Residents and/or citizens to start their businesses. They remain as passive investors in the business, but they can own everything (if desired) about the business and leave all the management to the rest of the team.

So if you have a dream and you are serious about it, talk to an attorney to get started. Clarity and a trusted Legal partner are very important to realize the dream of entrepreneurship."
contacts, contacts, contacts!
I thought Bethesda was a city in Maryland. Talk about name confusion!
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It looks like this has been out since 2009.

From http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2009/06/wagn-blazes-a... : "Created by the non-profit Grass Commons and jump-started by a grant from the Meyer Memorial Trust, Wagn has been quietly honed into a tool that breaks new ground in collaborative software. What makes Wagn special is that it takes the wiki that you know and adds database structure and functionality. Also a simple CMS, Wagn can handle data like no wiki you've ever seen."
I've had an app rejected for something very minor, but still something to consider. The app required a login and I didn't include a test account login/password for the app reviewer. Even though there was a way to register via the app, they wanted a test account.

There's a spot when you submit where you can add notes for the reviewer, that's where information like that goes.
It helps if the companies want to come back again.
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If tapping an icon on a home screen takes the tablet a fraction of a second just to provide visual feedback for that, I'm sorry, but this is simply not a good tablet. Not anymore, not with iPad in the picture.
I'm not sure your stance is accurate. Google does allow OEMs to use Android in ways I can't see where it clearly benefits Google's bottom line.

Seems there's been quite a few Android devices that have shipped with much of the Google services stripped out, and replaced with Bing/other vendor apps. This was going on at Verizon Wireless, at least for a while, and is again occurring with a recently announced Android tablet.
No one in TES's fanbase calls it "scrolls", we call it TES ("The Elder Scrolls"), because that's what Bethesda calls it, over and over and over again. Or we mention the particular games by name and leave out the series title: Daggerfall, Arena, Skyrim, etc.
Is there something interesting in the comments to the original article? The link seems to take you right to the comments (at least on a mobile device), the actual arstechnia post is at:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/08/best-buy-wants-t...
20 years is too long for patent protection
Harvard: http://cs50.tv/2010/fall/
Considering that they're the guys making "Dota 2", I'm inclined to agree.
What a wonderful precedent. The future of law: gamers
I've definitely been paid more for jobs than I felt they were worth. I had to take a look around at cost vs benefit, what others are willing to work for, etc etc... In the end, I didn't have a problem with it.
If you were in a day care center or school, it might not be a good idea ;-)
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Bethesda's parent company owns Quake 3, so it's an away game for Notch.
The most successful technique I've found to fight my own periodic recalcitrance is to get enough sleep. Seriously, being even a little tired weakens my focus so much.

The second is, when I'm having very bad days, I will try and recognize that and bust out the Pomodoro method. In general I don't need it, but I've worked with it a bunch and it's "just 10 more minutes" philosophy and ever-ticking-timer help me play a carrot-stick game when I'm otherwise unable to get a good cognitive state going.
This is not without precedent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_airlines#.22Just_Plan...

Southwest Airlines was sued by Stevens Aviation over their use of the phrase "Just Plane Smart" in their advertisements. Herb Kelleher, CEO of Southwest, offered to settle the dispute by arm-wrestling the CEO of Stevens. He lost the match, but got rights to the phrase anyways, and both companies got a lot of good publicity out of the match.
> I understand what you are trying to say, but I don't think it is entirely accurate to say that being able to define any point by a single coordinate is what makes it "one-dimensional."

You're missing the fact that several different definitions of dimension exist. If we're talking about topological dimension, then yes, the fact that you need exactly one parameter to define a point is what makes it one-dimensional.
Some of the comments on the article are really sad. People justifying the "I can't find a high paying job, so I'll just mooch off society" mentality.
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"Their business model is profitable"

Dwight Schrute: False, they are losing $ [unless you don't count marketing ;-)].
Yep they are very suspect, and just so happen to be right on the verge of HP publishing their revenue figures, so may be some market shenanigans at play.
I think such finance practices are deceitful and shouldn't be allowed.

But re: biz model viability, remember it did take Amazon seven years to turn in a profit. Everyone was nervous, but Bezos was determined to build brand reputation before making money.

Maybe that's what Groupon is doing too.
Are you referring to Wikipedia?
Seems like a brilliant move on Notch's part.
Lots of discussion about this over on Precental.net about this today: http://www.precentral.net/hp-touchpad-selling-poorly-best-bu...
"CyberSource's patented invention is simple: when validating online credit card purchases, use IP address information (such as IP addresses) as a check against fraud. Thus, the patented method might raise a red flag if someone attempts to make a large internet purchase through an IP address that had previously been used for a fraudulent transaction."

IANAL and this is not legal advice, but the guys (probably) that tried to patent this should go f* themselves.
This is interesting:

"In 1895, George B. Selden, a patent lawyer and inventor, was granted a broad patent on the automobile, covering a machine with four wheels powered by a gasoline engine. Henry Ford and other early automakers fought the patent for years, and it was eventually pruned back in 1911."
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Isn't the point of media queries not to try and guess what type of device is being used (are people really doing that?) but to make a layout decision based on the available device information.

The author seems to be claiming that media queries are saying "I reckon this is probably a phone so I'll show them a mobile layout" whereas surely the point is for the media query to say "This device has a screen width less than x pixels so I'll move the left column underneath the content"
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After listening to TAL's "When Patents Attack" episode in the car this morning, I'm inclined to agree with your proposal.
I was coming here to write almost exactly this.

Markets are provably not 'instantly' efficient because arbitrage exists. Arbitrage is simply not possible in an efficient market, because it's an exploit of inefficiency.

However, exploitation of abitrage (and of knowledge generally) is what makes markets largely efficient.
I'm not saying you would, I'm saying PR wise Mojang and Notch have everything to gain from settling this matter of law in a game of Quake, while Bethesda has very little.
Great point. I have also noticed the decline in Groupon quality recently for my area.

That being said, once you are the 500 pound gorilla in the market, will people really have a choice but to go through you? I don't like ebay, but I deal with it because that is where everyone is. There must be some point where the hassle or loss of income is overcome by the potential benefits of advertising through Groupon. Even if that means they may have to tweak their % taken some, I could still see them being wildly profitable.
There's a science fiction book in this. Get writing!
I really wish countries wouldn't fuel China's fire(wall). Statements like this by idiotic prime ministers and presidents, etc. just make it seem like the fight toward freedom of information is one not really worth fighting for when its not in a particular politician's best interest.

That is exactly what is happening in China...
we do remote coding mostly for the pairing and code reviews. two or more people connect to same server, first tmux (or screen, which we used in the past) and vim from inside tmux for editing.

to integrate Facebook and and PayPal remote coding usually not required, it is simple to configure a dyndns account and a port forwarding on the router to continue to work on your own local development machine. Any hassle of configuration pays off pretty fast due to increased pase of development and lower overhead.
In some contexts "version" only applies to release numbers like that, but this is a more general sense of the word. It explicitly includes add-ons and expansions. I think it's reasonable to expect it to apply to everything minecraft, though I personally accept it if their wording was a mistake and only intended to apply to the pc version(s).
Or maybe Groupon declined the offer because they knew they couldn't scam Google once they started their due diligence.
As soon as I first tried Hangouts I was impressed with the quality of the video, it's neat to find out a little bit more about the behind-the-scenes bits.
This is silly. Media Queries aren't the non standards-compliant nightmare you make them out to be. With the ability to check for greater than or less than values for a variety of widths and devices I can create a site that looks perfect on an iphone or ipad at horizontal or vertical or an htc or a notebook or laptop or desktop.
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I was real impressed by the Wistia guys when they came in; they do some great work. Of course, in my humble opinion, they had some good material to work with.
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Old startup designs
I've got a set of old startup designs, a concept, a few mindmaps, etc that I'd love to get rid of. To someone that would be able to produce them into a startup.

The designs are of an exceptional quality, I really love them, and would hate to see them go, but I really need the money and I'd love to see someone produce them.

Here they are: http://pastebin.com/sW1PMknX

Would love your thoughts, and if anyones interested, I'd be happy to chat with you about the idea for hours :-)
Though with ink "drying out" (either for real, or digitally expiring) it probably does make sense for some particularly low-intensity users.

I'm guessing at least part of the price disparity is that they assume anyone with a clue will shop around and order online in advance of running out, whereas a harassed, last-minute shopper will gladly pay over the odds for the ink they need for their current printer rather than deal with the horror of installing new printer drivers in XP.
I find this to be very helpful:

https://github.com/leftnode/get-shit-done
WikiWikiWeb

http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2010/03/0325wikiwikiweb-f...
1.0 since 2009, but has been around longer than that. https://github.com/wagn/wagn/blob/master/CHANGELOG back to 2007, but I vaguely [mis?]recall hearing about it before then.
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Well, okay, that's true (but not my primary point, since i've not read/seen Game of Thrones).

My point was that Bethesda is under no obligation to do this, and it's not clear to me that this would have legal binding. So in that sense they'd be accepting based on Notch's intentions (honorable or not), and I presume that Mojang would only agree based on their honorable intentions.

There are of course many ways to weasel out of straightforward agreements. That's why presidential debates are always so terrible.
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Well they did hire the creator of Dota to work on it for them, not like they've stolen the name from him..
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Freestarbucks.org feedback welcome
It's exactly that...whip out your iphone point your safari browser to freestarbucks.org and in one click you'll be sipping on some starbucks for free.

http://freestarbucks.org

Still fixing a few things...working on getting a 15 second video up with a friends 7d and his girlfriend as the model lol. Not to mention "refill alerts" and so forth.

Let me know what you guys think.
He forgot to mention Groupon brought in $878 million in the second quarter of 2011, 10x more than they did a year ago at $87.3 million. And $334M of the $1 billion of venture capital money went to buying stock from early investors, not pouring into the company.
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Disclaimer: I work for a sustainable deal site for local businesses.

One factor that hbr is not mentioning is business owners (national and local) that participate on Groupon, for the most part, are having bad experiences. Obviously this depends on the industry (sky dive plus all around, coffee shops down all around) but not all industries can live off of 25% of their goods sold. I know many local business owners who ran a Groupon and promised themselves that they will never Groupon again because of the poor customer experience, and the large financial loss per Groupon.

The scale part is what worries me. I don't think Amazon needed as much money as Groupon needed to scale which is the biggest worry. At some point, the financial well will dry up on Groupon.

When that happens, I don't know what will become of Groupon. Maybe they should have taken the purported Google deal of a buyout for $6 billion :).
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I think a key difference between Groupon and Amazon is the opportunity cost. Amazon spent tremendous amounts on warehouses and inventory, among other hard costs. Groupon has mostly burned through their money on customer acquisition.

Amazon spent a lot of money on developing an online shopping system that has a high degree of reliability, ease of use, and functionality. Groupon's web functionality appears to be something that cloners can copy pretty easily.

This past week, I saw that my local "alt-weekly" newspaper was launching their own Groupon clone. If they can do it, it obviously doesn't cost millions; thus, the barrier to entry is low.

Even worse for Groupon, potential competitors, such as the alt-weekly, already have sales staffs; their salespeople can sell the "daily deal" proposition as an add-on to their advertising offerings. They already know the local market, which is another advantage in competing with the out-of-town giant that has to learn it.
I think the problem is that people still don't care about or want tablet computers; they care about and want iPads. All the companies jumping on the tablet bandwagon forgot what happened to 95% of the mp3 players that sprang up to compete with the iPod.
I actually recommend Judo/BJJ as a form of exercise that lets you apply and sharpen your problem-solving skills, aside from getting you very much in shape. I tried keeping track of stats and stuff, but often give up because it's too much work. The mirror check is far more effective. (Am I fat? yes/no)
Well that's not much different from how we play right? Make the future happen, literally. But they ultimately have to face what we will face. The markets may not buy. All that real estate stock for example.
> Following precedent set by Benson and Abele, the court here held that an unpatentable mental process remains unpatentable even when restricted to use on a computer.

Really, really hoping this logic survives and becomes widely applied.
If you're maintaining a somewhat older system whose RAM has not been maxed out, max it out before your RAM configuration reaches the scarcity-based upswing in price that eventually occurs.

Even if you're not keeping the system, you can pass on a perfectly usable system to a family member, friend, or good cause. (Or help same to keep their existing system useful for an extra year or three.)
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I don't know, I think it's pretty good and certainly better than yours. I assume you don't write software because that's not how porting works. Mojang didn't do a copy/paste job to create the mobile version they actually had to hire a _separate developer_ for the sole purpose of developing the Android game. It probably reuses some assets and code but it's not an easy task to optimize a game as heavy as Minecraft for a mobile device.

You can't copy Minecraft from your PC to your Android phone like an MP3 (well you can, but it won't work). My analogy was trying to get to the point that a smaller house would be able to reuse assets (scaled drawings, design, etc.) but it still requires someone (similar to a new developer) to create it and port the existing design to the less complicated design.
If you apply the 3.0.2 patch (an over the air update), it resolves most of the performance issues with webOS on the tablet. Unfortunately all of the online reviews were done using 3.0, so the misconception that webOS on the Touchpad = slow has stuck.
When did HN become a design review site? I understand giving helpful pointers to a startup, but Wagn isn't a startup...it's a free utility.

Don't dismiss it because of the look. It's a pretty powerful system once you get your head around it (which can take a bit of effort).
Aren't those just direct translations? I imagine the resulting Java must look lovely!

Whereas if you had a COBOL parse tree as an s-expression it might be much easier to write "smart" code to do the changes and then write out the results back to COBOL.
It seems more of an essentialism issue than a contagion issue, though maybe they are the same thing underneath. People will pay lots more for a ball that has been actually used and signed by a star than the same exact ball from the store. It retains their essence. The essence of sewer water is that it will always sewer water. It's unlikely any amount of reasoned arguments will change that.
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Seein as Bronn won the duel dishonourably by running away until the opponent was tired, does this mean Bethesda will win the match by camping?
This is great. But the items mentioned in the article (pizza, pasta, mac and cheese, lasagna, bean burritos) don't give me much hope. Even freshly made, these things are hardly health food.
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I am not surprised. DuckDuckGo is a pretty good search engine. I am getting more and more dependant on their bang "!" syntax.
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A quick "du" over a fairly stale source tree shows the "external" tree as larger than the rest of the source trees added together. And that's not including the kernel, which is (by far) the largest single component.

Really: you need to get your head out of app space if you want to talk about platforms. There's an immense amount of code in a modern system that you never see. And Android (correctly) sucked it all in from linux instead of reimplementing it.
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That breakup fee would have been paid right after due diligence.
I see, it's some sort of search engine.
While I'm pretty much a free-market zealot, I'm also a Hayek groupie. It seems to me that Hayek's work should show us that markets approach perfect efficiency.

Because the market is a hideously complex system that only produces its information as an evolved, emergent system, then it is likely that its output is not precise but only extremely close to optimal.
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There were a few precedents from the 1980s and 1990s where Japanese firms in a few industries settled commercial disputes in the $ZOMG region via rock-paper-scissors. This nearly caused an aneurysm or three in my Japanese economy class, but the prof explained "It's fair, cheap compared to litigation, and even if you lose your CEO is not going to want to stab an icepick into the eye of someone who he is almost certainly going to have to do business again with."

I'm mostly telling this for the "funny anecdote" angle, since without a social connection (either direct person-to-person or inferred by being a member of the same fraternity of elite megacorps), the likelihood of a Japanese firm agreeing to this method of dispute resolution with a firm of Notchs' size is zero.
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You get a plus for that one. I always like when people provide evidence to back stuff up.

To me though, how can someone trademark or copyright a single established word in any language, it just seems ridiculous really.

PS: I hope Bethesda takes him up on the offer.
It's not a misconception. If I use webOS on a touchpad - as it comes out of the box - it's slow.

There were 'misconceptions' that Java was slow too. And Java was slow. And still is in some use cases. But somehow that's the fault of the user, not the technology?
There is no abandoning or diluting going on. The trademark is still intact, and they take the word "Scrolls" off the table as an issue.

Now if you decided to create a game called "The Younger Scrolls" they could still go after you! The fact that "Scrolls" as a singular word is no longer contestable would hold no baring on the legal action taken against you.

O.
it would be nice to be able to downvote users themselves.
As others have echoed here, the solution has been and will continue to be: Media Queries.

The entire point of Media Queries is to provide a functionally identical site that modifies its layout automatically based on a few properties of the browser viewport, most commonly width and height. Media Queries, when used properly, get rid of the entire need for a toggle between mobile and desktop "versions" of the site. Instead it's the exact same site.

The only tricky part then becomes complex javascript interaction that changes drastically for the mobile "experience." Modernizr helps here, providing javascript a way to tell which Media Queries are active or not. You're going to run into some hairy problems if you want to use something like jQuery mobile, having it only be usable for certain screen sizes.
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Why do you insist on it being black or white? You wouldn't agree that more of Chrome is open source than Safari?
The choice there is not to go through anyone at all. It's not like all businesses wanted to hold flash 75% sales and just didn't know how before Groupon.
How is fighting intelligently "dishonourable"? If you can't beat someone at their own game, force them to play your game.
I can imagine certain individuals making a lot of money as expert witnesses, demonstrating the execution of patented software processes completely mentally.