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A complete rewrite of R-Type for the Amstrad CPC6128.
My app got rejected by the same reason, apple said I have to use usual subscriptions, not auto-renewable.

Evernote, Dropbox, they seems to be forced to use non auto-renewable-subscriptions.

But, Greplin is using auto-renewable-subscriptions on their iPhone app. I don't know why they can use it when other SaaS apps are rejected.
There are numerous such situations; it's a common pain point.

The problem with taking it as a business opportunity is that it usually results not from anyone wanting to "fill the gap" but rather from licensing conflicts.

There have been a few specific examples of companies profiting from this e.g. companies with roots in anime fansubbing who license material then port it to the US shortly after the Japanese broadcast and with higher standards of translation. However, these cases are very rare and usually hinge on the company's ability to negotiate with underserved rightsholders - not underserved end users.
Whether you can own a UK company with a foreign address I don't know.

I do know many virtual offices can be your registered address. These tend to be companies that receive your mail/phone calls and forward them on to you or let you rent desks or offices for meetings in town/city centres.

For example: http://www.westone-business.com/ or http://www.mwbex.com/page/business-address

NB: Those companies are just some of the first in Google search results, do your own research first I recommend.

Whether they will do it for a EU citizen I do not know. But that should at least give you a hint of where to start looking.
Same in Switzerland.
"Scientists have predicted that it may not be long before [the transistors'] performance is compromised by unpredictable quantum effects"

It is comforting to hear that the unpredictable quantum effects were, in fact, unpredictable. Science wins even when it fails.
Have you ever seen the fetchmail source code?
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Do you have any links that backup your assertion regarding antidepressants?
It's a good book to read, but not in anyway essential or required reading and its badly mis-titled as it contains very little discussion on actual UNIX programming.

The main issue I had with the book was that ESR seem to conveniently decided that the only post 1995 UNIX worth talking about is Linux, largely ignoring the *BSDs and OS Xs of the world. The later sections on licences seems out of place and drift a little bit too far into Open Source dogma for my tastes.

In summary its a bit of a curates egg as it seems to be a bunch of separate essay's that ESR has tried to jam together under a single topic that don't quite fit together.
That 41% that I've mentioned is just income tax on my brutto salary. Pension fund is ~15%, health insurance 8.5%. In addition to my taxes on brutto salary, the employer is levied additional taxes for my health care and my pension (so called employer's mandatory participation). In total, the cost for the employers quickly adds up, so (for example) 3000EUR brutto will give me 1700EUR netto and the total cost for employer will actually be 3483EUR.
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Now that html5 defines how to parse all html fragments there is really no reason not to use that algorithm.
How is the UK better compared to other competitive EU jurisdictions like Ireland, Luxembourg and Cyprus?
Funny story, I am dyslexic and it took me close to 2 minutes to figure out why you where telling the author that what they wrote was wrong by writing the same thing that they did. 2 minutes to spot phantom/fathom in 4 words, it's going to be one of those days. I assume that English is a second languadge for the author, but I could easily make that same mistake, then choose a spell check word and never see it until someone pointed it out.
People do use hydrogen, but most balloons still use helium because it does provide a slight safety advantage when launching. (It's also sometimes an insurance requirement.)

I expect to see an increase in the number of hydrogen-filled balloons as helium prices rise in the next few years.
It seems that is not always true. For example I searched my comment which is upvoted today several times a few hours ago, but it still show 1 point. But old comments are shown with their true upvote points. Needs sometime to save things in database by HNseach
Talking to someone the other day about copyright and patents, she asked the standard question that if big companies couldn't protect their markets, how could they pay for research into new drugs.

I countered that most increases of quality of life and longevity come from what you said -- basic knowledge of the value of exercise, nutrition, and sleep -- though I haven't researched it deeply.

The money going for all this drug research and prescriptions comes from somewhere. Whether directly related or not, schools could use more money for recess, gym, teaching nutrition, and healthy lunches.

I expect the return (in quality of life and longevity) on investing in improving school programs to teach such things would surpass what you get from investments (such as by creating limited monopolies) in drug research, and you wouldn't get the side effects (no pun intended) from the monopolies like this article suggested of marketing to people to buy drugs to fix what exercise, sleep, and diet would for free.

I'm not saying never give patents for drugs, but evidence like the article's, combined with knowing the value of diet, exercise, and sleep that we aren't teaching and practicing, suggests the net value of public support for drug research is not as high as you'd expect and could even be negative.

Anecdotally, I feel my regular exercise, regular sleep, and healthy diet create a stable foundation for me to enjoy my life much more than when I didn't have them.
>"He argued that birth control should be illegal and that states should have their right to arrest, prosecute and imprison people for their private consensual sexual conduct," Savage says.

If the quote from Dan Savage is true (which NPR should have verified) then Santorum deserves what he gets. It goes against the ideals of both parties which are already heavily polarized.

That said, it is also scary how someone whom has a vendetta against you can leverage search algorithms to harm you.
I'm a Greek citizen with a UK company, I created it in ten minutes on companiesmadesimple.com, who also provide mail forwarding services, if I recall correctly. The biggest pain is the accounting, but FreeAgent (the app referred from the article) sounds good, and I guess 300 GBP a year isn't too much for it.
It's because the scope is co-terminous that having different names is so important. IANAL, but trademarks don't have to be distinct or novel to be legitimate. They are allowed to be descriptive (like Windows or iPhone).

The fork of OpenOffice.org was named LibreOffice, because it would be unfair to name a competing product with the same name. I'm glad the author of this library has decided to do the same.
I assume in any relationship both parties can abuse their position.

But, as an employer, I feel I am clearly at a disadvantage.

It's easy to put clauses in a contract, but it doesn't actually mean they could be enforced in a court of law, even in one as bad as Romania's.

Having seen the restrictions the local Labour Department (ITM) puts in place, including the kind of stuff you may add to a contract makes me doubt what you say is more than a scam. I have never seen such a contract nor do I know somebody in IT working under such conditions.

Even a non-compete clause is something that I cannot add to a contract because it's super-expensive. According to the law if I want a non-compete on an employee, I have to pay him at least 50% of his salary for the duration of the non-compete.
Dynamically-loaded views in rich web apps w. KnockOutJS
In the bad old days, parsing real-world HTML was a horrible task because every web-browser had a huge collection of undocumented corner-cases and hacks; some accidental, some the result of reverse-engineering other vendors' corner-cases and hacks. Most standalone HTML parsers could generate some document tree from a given input file; whether or not it would match the one generated by an actual browser was another matter.

These days, however, we have the HTML5 parsing algorithm, reverse-engineered from various vendors' web browsers but actually documented and implementable (still horribly complicated, but that's legacy content for you). Not only is the HTML5 parsing algorithm designed to be compatible with legacy browsers, modern browsers are replacing their old parsing code with new HTML5-compatible implementations, so parsing should be even more consistent (I know Firefox has switched to an HTML5 parser, I think IE has made a bunch of noise about it too; I don't follow WebKit all that closely, but I'd be surprised if they haven't moved towards an HTML5 parser).
Why can't social responsibility be handled at a different layer, though? Why is it the individual businessman who has to pay special taxes for things like that? Why not just take it from general taxes across the board?

Here in Sweden, employing people can be a crippling move for small businesses.
Sounds like Kerry Fucking Packer, the goanna.
I went to a friend of a friend who specialises in small businesses. I suppose asking for recommendations on HN might also work.
Ask NH: Would ur startup pay to get relevant content to ur social medias chans?
Problem:
Every B2C startup has a Facebook page and Twitter account, but they don't have time to manage it effectively, or they're just spamming (just offers/buy/discount/non-relevant). So the fans/followers are just few and none is interacting.
This way your social media marketing is meaningless.

Solution:
A web service where you add the company's Fb page, Tw account, G+, etc. and automatically will be published good content, relevant to your startup.

You have just to reply to few questions (10 min) a week and your social media channels will be in autopilot.
Questions will be something like:
-what are the features that you're working on this week?
-what are the interesting articles, about your market, that you've red this week?
-how the team have spent the weekend?

This content will be aggregated with other generic content built by our team, like "What's the best feature of the last version?" or "Good day! How your day is started? Our in a great way!", and automatically scheduled along the week in the peak hours, with cool images and links.

Value proposition:
You'll start to have a great presence on the social media channels, attracting fans/followers and engaging them with content that is relevant to them. This way your social media marketing will be effective and can be used to communicate to your customers.

Question:
Would you pay $20 a month for it?
My accountant did the company registration free for me. I'd caution against doing it yourself unless you know exactly what you are doing.

This is because, although the company creation itself is pretty simple, there are lots of legal requirements that you need to get right, and plenty of details you want to get right first time.

Just as one quick example- if you've been operating as a sole-trader, you'll probably find that there's a significant tax saving to be made by selling the goodwill and any other assets of the sole-trader to the Ltd Company. If you've been going a couple of years, this is likely to save you thousands in tax.

I don't believe its realistic for a trading Ltd company to deal with its tax affairs and annual accounts without an accountant (you may think you know what you're doing- but if you make a mistake, be aware that HMRC will be not be lenient on you just because you're not an accountant).
The author claims, with no supporting evidence, "the truth is that we seem to be experiencing a cultural shift in our relationship to medications - perhaps evidence of the creeping medicalization of life". While acknowledging there may be other factors, it is still a huge jump to make such a claim.
On a side not one of the areas mentioned is "a 20% increase in migraine drugs". One of the reasons for this in my own anecdotal unscientific experience is that medications have improved substantially in the last few years with fewer side affects. People who were simply unable to avail of medication a few years ago can now do so, improving the quality of their lives.
Hungary might be an outlier but right after it comes France and I'd say that the French get quite a lot for their money.

So like most things, "it's complicated". This article oversimplifies to the point of it being flat out wrong.

And not only that, it's completely unoriginal, being an exact transcript of what every shopkeeper in Europe will tell you after you've bought him a few drinks.
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Haha you sound like you're from the region. That and proxy employment agencies, and the employees end up with a lower salary (agency takes a cut) and lower protection. Ironically predictable.
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esr is a complete idiot fyi

why would you read a book about unix programming from someone who never wrote a unix program that was worth a crap?

read the unix programming environment instead.
Theoretically- yes you can. In practice NO NO NO!

An accountant shouldn't cost more than 60 quid or so a month for a Ltd company. It will pay back the investment many many times over if he's even in the least bit competent.

On the specific question about registering as a sole trader - no this isn't the way to do it. You should be paying yourself a salary from your Ltd Co to make use of your tax free allowance. Even if the Ltd Co hasn't got the cash to pay you- this is still fine, as you will build up a balance in the Directors Loan account which you can draw down on when you need to.
Agree. In a startup or a small business, the employer is the weakest. He/She must pay a high enough salary to get a competent worker, must pay for training, must pay salary while the worker is employed even if the company is not making money, must be aware and comply with labour regulations or risk a fine...

The employee just has to show up and do a barely acceptable job to get a steady pay.
Look, of course it's possible to find workarounds. But the issue is still valid. There's a huge problem with work ethics. People too often feel they have the right to steal whatever they like, unless of course I can stop them. And the issue is still there. Our justice system does not do justice. I don't want to create an 1984 work envorinment. I do want to trust the people I'm working with. And if they - after signing all the good contracts - in an environment that is built on mutual trust, they steal my property, I want the justice system to do justice.
Do you realize 50% of a Hungarian salary is way less than 30% of a Dutch one?

The problem here is that Hungary's cash salaries are much cheaper than average, whereas Hungary's non-financial compensations are merely quite cheaper than average.

The only systemic problem described in the article is that private bosses have to shoulder the burden of helping mothers and older workers. Helping them is a societal decision, it ought to be supported by society: if you want to help pregnant women, let bosses fire them, then have the government compensate them with tax money coming from all companies, not only from those which hire child-bearing-age women.
Except that when you have a small company like mine. I have 3 employees. If anyone leaves it will hurt me as much as if I fire them.
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You can file online (see https://ewf.companieshouse.gov.uk/help/en/stdwf/doclist06.ht... ). Bear in mind that signing up for webfiling can take a long time. Don't leave it to the last minute.

Life is much simpler as a sole trader though. As far as I can see the main reason to form a ltd company is if you want to employ people. I started a company because its the most tax-efficient way for me to invest consulting money into a future business.
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> Have you read a lot of those actual blogs, not just the selected few celebrated in our media?

I read books about Iran, watch Iranian cinema, and in a few days I'm hopefully getting my visa, so I couldn't care less about comments on boingboing or propaganda in American media, as my subject of interest exceeds their international affairs. But I know what's your point (from the previous post), and we probably share a common view on that, I was just a bit surprised you put a label on activism that they're idiots, just because mainstream media selectively presents only information targetted at idiots. And the video was just to illustrate the numbers of online activity from Iranians, nothing else.
In future there may be softwares that help us develop apps without even writing code.
Yes, 3 months. 3 weeks was me trying to think clearly late night doing a lot of things at same time :P

AFAIK, visitor are allowed to stay for 90 days (3 months) in U.S. with a travel visa. nandemo info was really useful, I will read that careful.
IANAL, but "at will" doesn't actually mean that a person can be fired for any reason, even without cause. That's something employers say to discourage lawsuits. It's not actually true.

"At will" means there's no contractual agreement and an employee can be terminated for documented performance issues or for business reasons (i.e. layoffs) without it being treated as a breach of contract.

In a contractual arrangement, for either party to walk away (even for business or performance reasons, unless stipulated) is a breach. In at-will employment, it's not a breach of contract. That's not the same thing as saying that people who are unjustly fired (e.g. pregnant women) have no recourse.

That said, it's usually not in a person's interest to pursue a wrongful termination lawsuit. It's much easier and less risky, in most cases, to get another job.
Sure I understand that different parts of Europe are different, it was just nice to see someone explain it, because we in the states keep hearing regulations are overbearing in Europe. I understand that it's not all of Europe, and that was my point, we tend to get the rolled up news over here and not being close to the situation it's can be difficult to understand the dynamics. This article helped me understand the nuances of the gripe.
Well, it's not so much that he can't write code (he can) but more that he markets his hacking skills to an extent greater than what his open source software indicates.

He compares himself to Stallman and Torvalds without having anything nearly as impressive as an OS kernel, C compiler or debugger.

I will say though, that he's good at introspecting on code and articulating points about programs better than most (hence the high quality of the book)
Head's up, I've started working on both:

- PUSH/PULL + PUB/SUB support for ngx_zeromq (transport module),

- ngx_mongrel2 (upstream module).

Should be ready sometime next week.
This technology is saving lives in Africa
Terrorhedron: 3D Coop Tower Defense Game with 8bit music
"""I'm sorry, if I'm Iranian myself does your reply still applies? Just wondering."""

Yeah, it totally still applies. You can find dissents in any country.

And, btw, you are not. Here's an older comment of yours on HN: """I'm from a country way more developed than iran in technological/scientific terms""".

"""This "everybody has the right to their way of living" is getting old and stupid.""""

Really? Sorry, but I don't find the "let's demonize them, force them to our own way of living, and basically use it as a pretext for invading their country and steering their natural resources / political personnel our way" any more modern or wiser...

"""Have you ever visited Iran?"""

No, but I have visited other countries in the region of which the same are said.

"""I find it interesting that when I talk about this subject with people from muslim countries, they understand me very well and mostly agree with me"""

You are probably talking to the wrong persons from those countries. Maybe mainly people that immigrated because they wanted to live differently, i.e huge selection bias?

"""Anyway, your comment is almost semantically null. Why wouldn't it be obvious that anyone's judgement has whatever credibility you want to give it? Furthermore, By assuming that everything is subjective you're basically stating that you won't dare to stand for any opinion of yours""".

I haven't said that "everything is subjective". I said that I respect the right of societies to live how they like over the right of any outsider to force them otherwise, especially if the outsider is a big mean war machine.

In re: objective/subjective etc, I said that you don't liking how people in Iran live just means Iran is subjectively bad for you. I added that if the majority of Iranians didn't like how they live, then Iran would be objectively bad.
For what it's worth, the WCCC's Rule 2 seems to be a lot like a university honor code (if you do borrow code or ideas, make sure you cite it.) I don't believe that's too hard to follow. Maybe someone should fund a kaggle competition to design the best chess-playing program, with the final requirement of making the code open-source after :)

Given that most of what you'd implement a computer chess engine is pretty much available online (at most,behind a paywall), and digging through the source code of GNUChess and Crafty would give a lot of insight into the scoring function, so, yes, the score function would be pretty much similar in most parts unless someone comes up with a radically new way of doing things.
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This is linkbait.

Joel's article makes it quite clear that he means Trello is different from existing FogCreek products. I don't see him suggest anywhere that it is unique within the marketplace. First sentence of second paragraph:

"Trello is new kind of development project for Fog Creek."
That's not the issue. It doesn't work with a clean URL either. What I see now is strange. It doesn't work with Firefox, but it does with Chrome. I have this issue for half a year now with likes disappearing.
That is the one I was thinking of. Thank you.
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Well, there's this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=923775

But my point was not so much that he's a bad developer but that his software resume is not as impressive as those he compares himself to.
I personally use taskwarrior as a less minimal todo handler. It's also very easy to setup onto the screen with conky (as is done here).

http://taskwarrior.org/projects/show/taskwarrior
Without going into details, it really isn't.
Try using another database:
I've implemented optional support for ipinfodb.com, however, the code is fairly modular to add another service.

http://codejoust.github.com/session.js/ipinfodb_demo.html
U.S. Intervention in Iran
Still not three years. You wouldn't get three years in Italy, nor in France or UK, i bet not even in Germany.
Good point about services that you don't want/need/like but is an employee really providing a service? Isn't some onus of responsibility on an employer as the One in the position of power? I think employing someone should be a long term commitment that involves education to bring them up to a level that you consider good enough. Otherwise shouldn't you just outsource the work?
Ah, thanks for the advice. I considered paying myself a salary, but then I'd have to register and pay for employee benefits, no? That's just wasted money for me, since I don't live in the UK :/