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Your business is doing well enough that it should be set up properly - proper legal structure, proper accounting, etc.

When you do this, your accountant (at least in America) will happily tell you that to be 100% kosher, full-time employees should get paid full-time salaries at market rates, whether they're owners of the company or not. Both the IRS and individual states take a dim view of small-business owners dodging 15% or so in payroll taxes by paying themselves solely via corporate distributions.

You can and should also pay yourself out of corporate distributions, of course, but to be legal your salary should come off the top first, and only then should you be splitting profits 50-50 with your cofounder. If your cofounder also wants a market salary, well, he'll just have to come work on your business full-time with you.
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All right, that's true. Google Toolbar for IE was also "bundled" similarilly to some software as long as I remember, and the behaviour of Google Updater on Windows is also almost like crapware. You are probably right.
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yeah i thinks it's normal a 10%, but still awesome numbers.
But thats backup only and theres no real Windows client.
It's not as crazy as you imply: it's a configuration management system - it has complete control over your machines. Giving it root or not is irrelevant.

Password-less login: if your ssh key uses a passphrase, combine with keychain or ssh-agent.
I personally use SpiderOak[^1], which gives 2GB for free and 100GB/month for 10$ (5$ for edu accounts), and encrypts your data locally, before sending it to the cloud.

Moreover they don't even store your password in the server (sign in is locally handled), and they claim to have a zero-knowledge policy. As other said, you have to ultimately trust them; however the want to release under an open source license their client software, so one should be able, eventually, to check their claims.

[^1]: https://spideroak.com/download/referral/b26d996944aeed4254f6... (careful, it's a referral)

Edit: removed the link inline.
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I'm not going to waste my time and energy trying to refute someone who believes black people are not as clever as white people, and wraps it up in nice words. Go through his comments or any article on HN that mentions race. He tries to make the same point over and over again.

I'm not interested in any kind of debate about this. It just wastes my energy and brings me nothing. I will just point out that that's what he does when he chooses to do it. The onus is not on me to prove that black people are not dumb.
Here is my road from blank page to final product:

1. Start with pen and paper. Thinking a lot about usability draw everything there. You could use balsamiq.com & similar, but for me paper & pen works the best in this phase.

2. Look for design inspiration at dribbble.com & similar

3. Look for colors inspiration at colourlovers.com, kuler.adobe.com

4. Create PSD

5. Create HTML+CSS

6. Implement

That's it. At least for me it works very well.
It can work, though. Some retailers do it properly.

I have had use for it for a printer and a portable CD player. The extra warranty was about +10% of the product price, and they said it covered "anything, including kids dropping it on the floor or you spilling coffee on it".

Unsurprisingly, the CD player lid stopped working because the kids managed to knock it off a shelf. I took it back to the outlet and got a new one with no paperwork or questions asked.

A few months later the printer broke down because my hamster defecated severely into the paper feeder mechanism. This, too, was replaced with no cost to me.
The story is misleading. It say's that Comet sold 94k counterfeit Windows CD's.

Comet seem to say that as manufacturers stopped packaging computer's with CD's they decided to make their own.

Assuming this is true. Each computer had a valid Windows license. Comet decided to burn the CD's itself so users didn't have to try to make their own recovery disks.

I don't seem the harm. I mean.. users can make their own recovery disc's anyway can't they? Comet was just saving them a step?
Perhaps in this case - but how about a case where you partially iterate over the file, but then the file object goes out of scope? CPython would close (and free) that immediately, but other implementations probably wouldn't.
My last three phones have had qwerty keyboards. The Nokia E90, a G1 and now a HTC Desire Z. Typing on them is so much easier than using a touch screen. I regularly tap out emails and use ssh and vi on mine.
When an illegal activity doesn't stop, maybe the laws and the business models are inherently broken.

Maybe "sharing" is a basic human need, just like doing sex. Maybe making "sharing" illegal is exactly as having to get a certificate to be allowed to have sex.

Music artists have always made good money from concerts. And they are still making much more money from concerts than from album sales. And in a time when album sales where justified by the scarcity created by the distribution model, it made sense. But now that distribution costs over the Internet are zero, the scarcity is only artificial.

The music industry also considered tapes and CDs to be the plague that will destroy their industry because anyone could make copies. But then they embraced these storage mediums and made even more profit. So what the fuck?
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I just took a couple of minutes to figure out how baud translates to kbps. Turns out, it doesn't.

Back in The Day, 300 baud translated to 300 bits per second, but "as modem technology advanced, compression and other techniques were able to get higher bit per second transfer rates without a corresponding linear increase in state changes. Baud became an outdated term because it wasn’t able to accurately and proportionately express transfer rates, so bps became the standard."[0]

There is some more in-depth information about what "as modem technology advanced" means on Wikipedia[1]. Interesting stuff.

_____

[0] http://www.tech-faq.com/kbps.html

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baud
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IIRC, baud rate is the number of states you push down the line per second. If you have 1200 baud and 4 different states, you have 2400 bps. IIRC, phone line modems never got much past 9600 baud - what increased was the number of states (I think they were called symbols) you could pass through the line and hence the number of bits per state.

Baudot is also the 5-bit code you see on some paper tapes.
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Getting 100k people to MAKE a new years resolution is not true success, (thought its definitely fantastic)

Its more about being resolute. If Code Year can keep people involved and coding for longer than a few months, that is a success.

I would be interested to see retention and participation numbers as the year continues.
Google didn't say, "We will stop manipulating search results."

Instead, they said, "We were manipulating search results, and therefore we are so sorry, we are going to manipulate search results."

Promoting Chrome through the manipulation of search results was not the root problem. It was merely a symptom. Manipulating page rank for their own benefit is the problem, and that is their proposed solution.

It came only after the manipulation came to light and does not appear to be part of a larger project to end all manipulation for their benefit.
The problem seems to be that they haven't been giving their customers these discs, but selling them.
In my country, Vodafone and Orange, the biggest mobile carriers in Europe are doing commercials for Android phones like crazy.

And in every commercials I've seen, the Android brand is emphasized, which doesn't happen when they are promoting feature phones with Symbian or whatever.

That people aren't buying Androids, that's a myth promoted here on HN that I haven't seen in the wild.
You CAN get a great sounding violin on eBay for $200, but you might have to buy and return a couple dozen violins to end up with one you like. My story is, that for my kid, I bought a $5,000 violin from a dealer after doing blind testing among a range of violins with ourselves and my kid's high-powered teachers. Everybody agreed that this was a great sounding violin. A couple years later, I wanted a cheap violin for myself so I bought a $200 violin on eBay. It arrived with a fallen soundpost so I needed to take it to the violin store for them to reset it for $15, plus, I put new strings on it for $40. I ended up selling that one and buying another $200 violin, which needed a new bridge, which costs about $75 at the local violin shop. I didn't want to spend so much money for each of the violins I was trying, so instead of getting it fixed at the shop, I ended up learning how to shape a new bridge myself, to save money. What followed was a couple year period where I bought and sold about two dozen $200 violins. I would buy them on eBay, fix them up into playable condition, and resell them from my home via Craigslist.

So, the buyers would come with their own current violins and I would put my eBay specials AND my kid's $5,000 into the mix for the blind sound tests. The $5,000 violin was always one of the leaders but not always the winner.

Eventually I settled on a single violin that I liked the best to keep for my own. I took it to the violin shop where people had much more skill than me and spent about $600 to get a nicer bridge, soundpost, and for some repair work that I didn't have the skills to tackle. So, yes, I got a great sounding violin for $200, a couple years of trial and error learning, and then another $600 for rehab.
If Google's integrity and good standing depends on not manipulating search results, there isn't a relevant case study for making such a determination - Google is still manipulating search results relative to Chrome.
An interesting point is made by George Colony (of Forrester research) about social media saturation.

And the need for more utility per unit time, for success in the social domain,

http://youtu.be/BiYNs5uPPEE?t=15m13s
It wasn't until I came back here that I found out you should use arrow keys to navigate. Scrolling with the scroll wheel is so bad most people would think it was broken. With the arrow keys it works but doesn't make up for the first impression of it being broken.
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What an excellent idea. Giving free reign makes the class more enthusiastic, and more enthusiasm will hopefully make the learning process that much more effective.

My prediction: You'll have 1/3 of the class do something completely stupid just to pass the course, 1/3 put in some good effort but a mediocre idea, and 1/3 who do something pretty interesting.
> I'd imagine it's an implementation bug.

No, it's a code bug.

> Once the iterator finishes, the file should be closed and the file handler freed.

There is no reason for that to happen, let alone for that to happen deterministically.
The money looks to have been sent - in good faith - by the buyer. Otherwise, why would the seller have dispatched the goods? The seller dispatched the goods in good faith that the money had been sent by the buyer (to Paypal, acting as an intermediary to the seller).

The buyer most likely disputed the item after he received it. The dispute got escalated for reasons that haven't yet been established.

The goods were deemed to be counterfeit (perhaps the dispute was raised because of that, or it became a material complaint after the dispute was raised). Something/nothing happened which resulted in the seller and buyer unable to reach an appropriate resolution, and the matter was escalated to Paypal for action.

Paypal offered a return of the money to the buyer on condition he destroyed the counterfeit goods. Buyer destroyed item. Paypal took the money destined for the seller and gave it back to the buyer. The buyer has satisfied his part of the process.

So the outstanding part of the process is between the seller and Paypal. There either the contract was validly enforced, or Paypal need to compensate the seller.

IANAL.
Well I have tried to put my money where my mouth is in ref to this, just ordered the following from amazon.

SICP (Wizard book),

Practical Electronics for inventors,

Code Complete,

Javascript: The good parts,

Programming Android,

Arduino Cookbook

Now the question is , what order to read them in?
>because MS didn't want him to have one

I thought the PC manufacturers were the ones that used to give out recovery discs and not MS?
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Sounds like we're in exactly the same boat :-)
>MS have frequently insinuated that rescue disks are not clearly within the shrinkwrap TOS

BartPE is a live environment, not a restore disk by any means.
I'm from the UK and have been using 4sq for just over a year. I use it mainly for the gaming aspect between friends (about 4-5 friends, who live in the same area), i also like using it to see what my friends are up to, where they are going/eating/drinking etc.
Democracies (or just "advertised" democracies) can't have it both ways. They get to tell the world about their superior system of government where citizens have a say in how their government runs (sometimes they even invade others to impose this "superior" system on them). And that's great. But then there is the other side of the coin when the said govt. screws up, then citizens should man up and take responsibility. I am responsible for US invading Iraq and Afghanistan. If I am in those countries and I would be afraid for my safety (and rightly so). I didn't vote for it, and I don't think realistically people have the power and the voice in most advertised democracies. But then, one can argue, they are also responsible for now changing the system (and therefor the 99% Occupy stuff is happening all over, it is not about economy it is about who has the power, control and responsability).
How much for?

It would be reasonable for them to charge a small fee for the disc and burning, as long as they made it clear the customer didn't have to buy it from them and that they could make this same CD at home.

I think Microsoft need to defend their IP, but not at the expense of a business trying to provide a genuine customer service. A conversation, rather than a court filing, may have been more appropriate in this case, especially as Comet has no money.
You have to document it and then present it to the class.
What's new there? How is it different from "just project"?

The thing about 20% (supposedly, I don't have first-hand experience) that most of results would go straight to the trash. Because you had this idea but it didn't end with anything. And that's the beauty.

Also, you're not forced to do it. You can't allocate creativity in time slots.
For those interested in some neat examples, http://mediaqueri.es
If you have thoughtful comments to write, please start a blog and respond at your own pace!
4000 baud is more like 0.5KB/s
I don't know all details but what I know:

- Wuala runs on dedicated machines in (i think three) different data centers. It isn't their own data center though.

- Data is encrypted on the client side.

- Wuala is hosted outside of the US or US jurisdiction
i don't think so.

i don't want to flood my facebook friends with checkins everynow and then. That's why i use foursquare.
it is specialized for discovering places and know where your friends are.

foursquare is not a feature, it is an experience. Foursquare is for checkins like instagram is for photos or Google maps for maps. Since facebook has photo sharing,it does not mean instagram is in trouble.
when you are really good at what you do, it does not matter.
Foursquare really matters for cities. in 5 years from now, almost everyone will have a smartphone and people will(already are) start adding more useful digital information to real world places. These informations are going to be their assest. in longterm,foursquare is going to be huge if they execute in the right way.
>"I thought Google couldn't mess with rankings. Like, at all."

Google has done this before. Binggate was one very public example.

As in the case of demoting Chrome, Google's rationalization was that the ends justified the means.

It would be somewhat unsurprising to me if that was also the rationalization behind promoting Chrome - keeping in mind that Google is a publicly traded company with an obligation to its shareholders not its users. Google is not a moral agent.
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I think it's fair to point out that a part of computing history might never of happened today, owing to the current legal situation w.r.t. software patents. And owning up to stealing is unthinkable, despite the fact that we all do it.

That said, I am sorry for bringing up software patents, cause usually the topic generates more heat than light, and I hate reading the inevitable screeds, too. It was early, I'd had no coffee, and the brain wasn't working.
That's not the same lag. I'm not talking about the time it takes for the TV to completely change pixels -- that lag happens after the TV has decided to put the image on screen, and is largely not a big deal -- as long as the image has started changing, the player can understand the new scene.

I'm talking about the time it takes for the TV to tell the pixels to change.
Sure. But you remove the benefit of syncing small diffs; you pretty much have to sync the entire truecrypt volume.
Yes, it is, in the sense that it is a common factor across every *nix system that you may need to deal with. Emacs isn't going to be everywhere.
I'm not sure I want someone working on a front-end component trying to optimize for a back-end process without realizing the full impact of these front-end changes. I'm assuming/hoping in this case it's just a "hey, this is something fun I did."
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> This is just for resource allocation.

It's the same thing, you can represent the pair (operation, inverse) as a "resource". Python calls it "context management" (and context managers), the means are slightly different, the result's the same.

I agree that OP talks about something of a wider scope though, the language features described in these sub-threads are specialized solutions to precise issues, they're not generalized reversal of arbitrary operations.
Possible, but inconvenient because the whole volume will get synchronized every time you modify a file.
Anywhere there is cable, there is POTS and probably T1, DSL and Cellular. Cable offers convenience, it is not a necessity.
Just goes to show that you can never make something fool proof (or should that be troll proof?)
As Shakespeare said:

The fault lies not within our stars but within ourselves

(Hat tip F. Unger)
Yep, servers are in europe.

They say in their FAQ that their servers are in secure server farm in Switzerland, Germany and France.
Indeed. In generational garbage collectors, the file object may remain until the collector decides to collect it. But isn't the file object also raising a StopIteration error? Shouldn't it at least close itself then?
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I'm in Europe. I used to use Foursquare but stopped. Reasons:

- No deals (apparently in U.S. stores use this more often).

- Hardly any people use it (I think four of my FB connections use it, but they hardly update it. Facebook is a much better way of letting friends know where I am and it's easy for them to reach back with comment or msg.)

- Locations are double/triple counted (it's very weird, but where do I check in?)

These are just my views, don't know what other users in Europe think.
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I use encfs with Dropbox because each file is encrypted separately, rather than a single monolithic container.
you're right, now it works.
thanks!
There's also E-3s for Australian citizens, which I only just found out about! Probably about the only good thing about the US-Australian FTA :P
"Never heard of" is quite a stretch.

During my dark past as a VB programmer (early-mid 90's) I even indented the code for pairs like this.
I believe that developers, carriers, some consumers, analysts, hackers, etc., remember the MS DOS and Windows monopoly, the MS dirty tactics (it's not ready until Lotus doesn't work!) and general sleaziness, and don't want, in any way, to enable MS to have another monopoly, much less in a market so massive and so full of personal information as the cell phone market.

The actual OS can be the best of them, but we would be very stupid if we forget the last 30 years of MS history.

That's why MS image is 'uncool' and 'bad'.

The product coming to market years too late? I don't think it matters at all, if it's the right product from the right company.
I've bought a couple dozen $200 violins on eBay. If you are looking for a cheap student violin, and you don't have much experience yourself with violins, I would not recommend buying on eBay. It's too hit or miss.

For that student, spend a little more. The cost of the lessons soon makes a extra couple hundred bucks for the violin insignificant.
I'm probably mutilating this quote, but according to Steve Jobs

"Apple only has one bottom line"

Samsung thinks it has many bottom lines, and I've worked in companies where individual departments are all working to many mutually exclusive goals and they all treat their own individual budgets and success as the most important bottom line in the organisation.

I'd hazard a guess that Apple's ability and willingness to harmonise it's entire operation starts with that one very simple statement of fact. A company only has one bottom line.
"Many times in education we believe the only way to hold students accountable is by giving some form of assessment."

What is the aversion to assessment? If I did work in a class, or in any context with a mentor, and did not receive assessment, I would feel cheated.

This is a great thing to do. I did something similar teaching English writing abroad - 80% free time (except it had to be writing of some sort) and I assessed heavily. This doesn't mean dry numbers tied to a near-sighted rubric.

Giving students ownership over their learning is essential, and this is the right direction. You have to extend this paradigm to all aspects of teaching (including assessment) rather than just leaving some parts out.
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>market and design
Dropbox + encfs. Works fine for me on all platforms (Windows/OS X/Linux). It has some rough edges though: File update notifications will refer to the encrypted file, and the browser interface will only show you encrypted file names as well.
I couldn't take Responsive that article on mobiforge seriously once I read this "Responsive design does not lend itself well to low-end devices since the same block of HTML is delivered to all devices, large or small. The much vaunted Boston Globe site, a responsive design tour de force, does not work well or at all on popular phones such as the Motorola RAZR or Nokia 6100."

Come on.
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See reddit threads:

* http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/iad3q/7_good_dropbox_...

* http://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/nzdco/i_like_dropb...

* http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/im8fc/vbox_open_sourc...
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