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I assume you have not done business and accepted online payments before at any volume, or you would not put forward such a naive argument.

If I had to log in to the PayPal website and manually copy the full transaction details for every payment 50-100 times per day, I would have to hire a full time employee just to do that. They'd also need to manually log in and re-review every transaction any time there is a refund, bank reversal, PayPal claim, chargeback, eCheck failure, etc. There is no way to calculate the resulting changes yourself -- only PayPal knows what exchange rate will apply to a given payment or refund. Merely recording payments will not provide an accurate financial record.

All this to replicate the "generate report" button I click once a month. And I'd still not have accurate information as there is no other place some of the items get reported, like chargeback fees passed on from 3rd party banks to PayPal then to me.

Providing statements is one of the basic responsibilities of any payment processor. They simply have to provide it or you can't accurately file a tax return.
Couldn't Apple keep those assets offshore and either do the investment through the foreign entities, or borrow money in the us on the basis of that offshore cash (or issue more shares, kinda the same thing) to do it?

If Apple had a productive use of $50b in the USA, I think they could raise it.
hi pramit...will definitely shoot you an email when I get there :)
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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 07:44:51 GMT
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Last-Modified: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:51:24 GMT
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I'm referring to the many productivity cloud solutions out there vs Sharepoint. Not "old vs new" digital distributions etc, but instead between big and established company like Microsoft who can still able to execute (ignore Bing and WinMo/Tablet/Phone) vs the so-called nimble and agile smaller companies.

When comparing Basecamp vs SharePoint Online, there are people who don't care of the warm fuzzy feeling of Basecamp.NEXT "paper" UI and would probably go with SharePoint Online due to Microsoft brand.
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Xamthones merupakan sekumpulan molekul biologi yang sangat aktif di dalam kulit (pericarp) buah manggis yang berwarna ungu. Struktur berbentuk cincin segi enam dengan ikatan karbon kembar untuk memberi kestabilan kepadanya. Lebih 200 Xanthones terdapat di alam, dimana 40 Xanthones terdapat dalam buah manggis, terutama dibagian kulit (pericarp) buah manggis.

Fungsi xanthones adalah menjelajah seluruh tubuh, menetralkan radikal bebas, sehingga tubuh kita menjadi lebih bersih dan lebih sehat daripada sebelumnya Xanthones yang terdapat dalam kulit manggis mempunyai sifat sebagai anti kanker, anti inflammatory, anti mikroba, menurunkan cholesterol dan lain-lain.
Sounds instead like they should consider contracting a video team to do episodes for a website, and to push on Hulu/DVD. Push themselves as a brand.

I could see it working. "SpaceX: Mission to the Moon". Then reedit it into a film when done, sell that with merchandise and begin the "SpaceX: Mission to Mars" series.
They can, but that hurts if you make any real revenue. If I invest $100 in a business, it spends the $100 but makes $60 as revenue, then the $40 is a loss. (And can be offset by profits in future years)

With this new clause, the calculation will be: income = $100 (investment) + $60 (revenue) = $160. Expenses = $100, profit = $60, and you'll pay tax.

It's like taking a loan from the bank and being taxed on the money as income. You still have to pay the whole thing back! (Effectively, any equity investment is a "liability" on the books; any investor will demand return on his whole investment, not just the portion that wasn't paid as tax)
That's what I went straight for, too.
Thanks - I wrote the original post (http://capitalmind.in/2012/03/angel-investors-beware-funding...) and have a few more that the recent Budget has introduced, at http://capitalmind.in/category/startups/startuptax/
The fact that many compilers will warn with '-Wall' about code which is clearly incorrect, but due to the rules of C they cannot simply reject, is irritating.

The rules of C are actually stricter than many reople realize (add -std=c99 -pedantic-errors to gcc and you can get an idea about that -- this, however, still won't catch semantic errors like aliasing violations).

Personally, I'm using clang with -Weverything and remove warnings as necessary. On gcc, there are a lot of useful warnings which are not included in -Wall. My current warning levels look like this:

-std=c99 -pedantic -Werror -Wall -Wextra \
-Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith \
-Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wredundant-decls -Wcast-qual \
-Wnested-externs -Winline -Wno-long-long -Wconversion -Wstrict-prototypes
Wow, I wish some of the KONY 2012 hype had spilled over to help these poor people.
No, don't believe this. The world is a very complex place, and what makes for a good story is often very different from what reality is.

When American journalists write about the world, they write as if the world is America. Stories are broken down into us vs them, people become black and white, some people are assigned the label 'good' and some the label 'bad'. Everything gets americanised, even the american obsession with skin colour or racial differences works itself into every conflict that is reported on.

Whatever the real story in mauritania is, it's made of centuries and centuries of history, a land caught between the arabs and the africans, a culture that has lasted hundreds of year.

This cannot be captured in a short article on CNN that reduces it all to the archetypal american "black people enslaved by people who are not us". After reading this article, you still know nothing about Mauritania. You have no understand of the complexities of their society. All you have is this single story, this opinion piece by a single author.

Your knowledge is second hand and it's second rate. You do yourself, Mauritania and history a great disservice if you read the article and believe it. A single story should only ever be something that invites you to discover the real history of a place and people (http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_...)

When you read an article like this about Mauritania, don't read it. Realise that it's like overhearing a conversation between two strangers. You lack context, you lack understanding.

That's why you should not believe this story. It's a single story about a place you know nothing about.
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Di Indonesia Manggis disebut dengan berbagai macam nama lokal seperti Manggu (Jawa Barat), Manggus (Lampung), Manggusto (Sulawesi Utara) dan Manggista (Sumatera Barat). Manggis (Garcinia mangostana) sangat bermanfaat untuk kesehatan tubuh karena diketahui mengandung Xanthone sebagai antioksidan, antiproliferativ, antiinflamasi dan antimikrobial.
Apple is a company that vertically integrates. What they're missing from their verticals is content. They already have a content provider, iTunes, so I don't think they'll buy Netflix or Hulu.

I expect Apple will make a move on a content provider soon (Disney? HBO?), but not tomorrow.
Oh, alright. So, he's talking about "being employed by some organization", rather than just "having a job" in general. The article definitely makes more sense now.

I guess, maybe naively, I don't care as much about the arrangement between employer and employee as I do about the apparent dark side of rapid efficiency gains through specialization. I wanted him to say, "Hey, look, specialization is awesome until we're so efficient we don't need all the humans we're giving birth to!" But I'm slightly disappointed because I think I just read something about how evil and oppressive corporations are.
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I think they ship it out of Nashville.
My father grew up in a very rural, very uneducated part of the U.S. and had a deep "southern" accent (though "country" or "rural" is probably more apt). When he was 16 or so he ran away from home and landed in Chicago where his accent immediately marked him as a country bumpkin. This made him tremendously shy in the city and he spent most of his time in isolation.

He spent years retraining his accent, reading Webster's, practicing day in and day out. To this day he can't even successfully fake the accent of his youth. My best guess as to what he sounded like comes from his brothers, all of whom have a rich rural accent to this day.

As part of his effort to get over his shyness and his accent, he joined several public speaking clubs. While they helped with his accent and his shyness, they also taught him a great deal about hesitation noises and he's passed on two things to me (which of course I didn't truly appreciate until years later when I had to get out and start talking in front of groups).

1) Hesitation noises are usually just a way for our brain to catch up with our mouth, interestingly and helpfully, it's also a way for an audience's brain to catch up with their ears.

2) It's funny becoming aware of them, it's like suddenly becoming aware of breathing, it's very automatic, and when you start to think about it, the first thing you do is take a deep breath. The same with ums and ahhs, once you are aware of them, the first thing you should do is take a deep breath instead of saying them.

The audience will be glad for the pause, they'll have time to absorb the complex thought that you are in the process of putting together anyways. And you'll have time to put it together.

If the deep breaths aren't your thing he also recommended I turn my "ums" into "mmms" and then the next step is to turn the voiced "mmms" into a silent outbreath through my nose with my lips in the "mmm" position. It doesn't make a distracting noise and the effect is a thoughtful pause.
With regards to scalability, I second this.

We are developing a web service with it, and as our project has grown we have had no problems moving from decorated functions to class based views.

We looked at Django but quickly realised that our service didnt need to be that heavy.

And because of its Flasks clear modularity, unit and functional testing things has been fairly easy.
No support for login/comment yet.But m working on it!
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Freelancing is always an interesting profession. Its flow of work is best referred as ‘fast and famine’, meaning that people can experience extended periods of no work followed by periods of complete overload.
Yeah, I like this part:

"The communist answer to this question was just to distribute everything evenly. But that sapped motivation and never quite worked as advertised."

Wow. Understatement? Volumes of economic thought have been written about why communism doesn't work and he just kinda brushes it off like, "minor bug, nbd".
When I read it again.

He contacts paypal support from another email id associated with a different paypal account. Paypal support sends him the report for that account and closes his ticket.

While there is no question that paypal has to get its things in order (able to generate the report correctly), but I think the blogger was also responsible for part of the confusion.
Very simple system. It's so simple you dont even need to use any credentials on login page. Just click login and you ready to go :-)
The problem I had with Django wasn't that it didn't scale in the sense of "heaviness", but rather that the moment you wanted to do something that was outside the typical expectations Django had about a webapp's behavior, it punished you for it.

A more extreme example might be the agony you go through in attempting to get Rails to do something non-standard.

The client testing in Flask is a GODSEND. I love it dearly. It even supports the session context properly!
This is a good point. One thing I always get when I've heard pg in an interview is that he seems comfortably informal, and also wonderfully excited about what he's doing. The uhms get kind of infectious and convey that excitement to some extent.
Protip: Put class "btn btn-primary" on the login button. Ref http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/base-css.html#buttons
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Buying Back Stocks or Dividend doesn't do any good for Apple, Apart from its shareholders.

I am thinking on Worldwide Data Carrier Network. But Apple doesn't own ANY frequency spectrum. And there isn't a single worldwide common Whitespace for them to use.

Buying Intel isn't out of reach. You only need 51% of Intel Stocks. And Apple can afford that. IT fits them in many ways. And i think Intel is pretty cheap for its price in terms of investment.

Although i doubt that is realistically possible.
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What about (in Chrome) Inspect Element -> Network -> source.html -> Response?
Just 9 percent of American get their news from Twitter or Facebook
If that is supposed to say Evil people are a subset of dumb people, then I have to disagree. There are brilliant people who are also evil, like a good portion of the Nazi leaders, or Rupert Murdoch, or emperor palpatine.
So far, I don't see the value proposition. People who don't like big banks use credit unions. Credit union deposits are insured to $250,000, so any risk created by lending is not borne by the consumer. There are plenty of credit unions that still offer free checking with no (or a very small) minimum balance. [1]

The only way you could possibly make money to cover your still-not-insignificant costs (you still need all the accounting, marketing, etc, plus paying Allpoint's access fees---they charge a fee to institutions for the privilege of access, there's no free lunch here) is to charge a monthly fee. [2] You're competing against free, and the "we're not a big bank" marketing card has already been played by the credit unions (there is an ongoing radio campaign that plays on just that point).

[1] E.g., https://www.navyfederal.org/products-services/checking-savin...

[2] You could also sell data about your consumers or do other questionable things, but that won't help your "better than a bank" cause.
Not entirely true. It's possible to have threads enter infinite loops if you don't synchronize properly: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1003026/hashmap-concurren...
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While I think it's reasonable to ask reader to consider secondary sources, you have offered neither actual evidence that the article contains falsehoods or "Americanized opinions" nor alternative sources that contradict this article.

I would argue that it is an equal disservice to brush aside issues in foreign countries as being the result of "centuries and centuries of history" or cultural complexities. Based on your rationale, I should not believe anything I read about any place I am not intimately familiar with because I "lack context" about it.
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Locking out the region that pays most of your company's salaries is especially comical...
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Developed countries have in fact lower birth than death rates. In those countries, population is increasing only by immigration.

What stops population growth is political and economical stability, empowerment of women, and education. E.g. check this video http://vimeo.com/m/2905893 to see what research on the matter has to say.
A better idea would be to just build a small system whose security was obvious. Computer scientists are right to mimic mathematics. They're just mimicking it too directly. Mathematics is based on construction from simple axioms and cross-checking of different theories. Computer systems should be reduced to small parts with redundant checks against human error. If you prove a kernel "correct" that just means it will be that much harder to rewrite it if it turns out not to be what you wanted.
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Reading it on an iPhone and it's not allowing me access to the article.
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My educational startup uses them in our printed assignments. Teachers fax completed tests to us and we can grade them by identifying the assignment through QR.

Example: http://kiteedu.com/assets/print.jpg
He mentions pinboard. the idea of pinboard is the same: no free users. So we have more trust in this service sticking around for the long haul. Also it's simple.

Maybe he should make a small table first listing the differentiating facts between his service and Delicious and Pinboard.

It's just not clear and I fear he will scratch his itch alone...
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they were going to develop a new p2p protocol for anonymous filesharing

I don't remember they planned to roll their own. I do know that they advocate Tribler, maybe that's what you heard about. It makes tracker sites such as TPB redundant as the whole database is stored in decentralized form.
They let interns program the docking to the ISS? Or is this supposed to be a joke?
QR Codes remind me of the CueCat. There are some interesting and perfectly valid use cases, but I doubt QR Codes will be something that most people ever start using on a daily basis.
Ok, that's fine if you're talking about the opinions in the article, but if want to refute the items presented as facts in the story, you need to back it up with facts yourself. Otherwise I would just as easily not believe you.
Reading public Google+ posts on a mobile device doesn't work without a Google+ account. Try it.
I get email services from my VPS provider and use it with a desktop email client or, increasingly, on my phone. They have a crappy Squirrel webmail that I very rarely use.
I had not downvoted you, but I thought about it - because you are making ranty, ad hominem attacks ("lazy thinking", "dumb excuses"), and you appear to be ignoring or handwaving away all the actual points anyone makes. I have no interest in engaging you in any discussion for these reasons, and I expect that other people feel the same way: hence, downvotes and lack of replies. Feel free to do what you wish with this information.
I do something similar but instead of tmux in a terminal, I use a tiling window manager (called awesome) to achieve a similar user experience but with all GUI windows instead of only terminal windows. (it's not a daemon like tmux, though).

This way, I can also get a browser window in the mix too, or any other windowed application. I also prefer using gvim and not console vim, because I can have a different coding font and drag and drop files from my version control GUI (an enterprise VCS with a really crappy CLI, guess which one).

Switching to a tiling window manager is perhaps the best productivity booster I've had. It even allowed me to start working comfortably with one display only or a laptop display, I've always used multiple displays before.
I have stopped when I read "The concrete syntax of Standard ML [16] and Haskell [17] are every bit as bad as C++".

The author definetely has no understanding of PL issues or has a huge bias toward C++ insane syntax.
FF 3.6.26 complained "Error: history.replaceState is not a function: http://www.kurlak.com/john/source.html at line 7".
Source opened just fine.
Chrome: Tools -> Developer tools. Then select resources. Done.
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It's hard to expect a really detailed analysis from someone still in high school. On the other hand, it is good to see how the various languages look like from a fresh perspective of someone with relatively little preconceptions from years of using C/C++/Python/whatever. After all, if he has lots of problems with writing something in C++, but much less when writing it in Go, it probably means lots of us had at some point to internalize lots of knowledge that's not directly relevant to the problem being solved, but to the intricacies of C++ or whatever. If the next generation of programmers can avoid this, that's a huge step ahead in what problems we will be able to solve.
Configuring tmux is easier than configuring screen. And you can patch screen to do vertical splits. The patched screen has been the one that installs in Ubuntu for some time now.
Replace "PC" with "program". That's the key here.

Most of the code in any program is not performance critical. Yet the reason that this is the case is that most of the time of any program is spent in tight loops. Those tight loops are what must be optimized. And that is why performance-minded systems programmers use top-notch optimizing compilers.

The popular dynamic languages have gotten away with being relatively slow because programs written in them are either not CPU bound or spend most of their CPU time in C libraries. This works great for them -- dynamic languages are awesome! But the calculus changes when you're programming in a language that defines the entire stack. When there's no C-compiled code to fall back on, micro-optimizations start to matter.
Spectator here: I too am so excited about the upcoming launch I have been hanging out for it and wish them the best of luck too (even though luck has nothing to do with it and plain good engineering does).

I read the SpaceX pages, reports and updates with the same excitement I had when I read about the Saturn V, the Apollo craft the Lunar Lander, the Shuttle, and the engineering and esp. the control computers behind and embedded in all those craft.

To be involved with SpaceX, designing systems and writing and testing the software and the hardware systems they control must be very exciting right now. That would be something!
BofA has SMS 2-factor. It's hidden.

- Customer Service tab.
- "Visit the Security Center" in the left column under Security Features
- "View your SafePass settings" under the Online Banking menu when you expand it.
- I assume at that point there's an "Add SafePassDevice" option. I already have my phone added. I remember when I added it there was a snafu and I had to call the BOA fraud hotline to get it added, but they did add it.
- Once you have a SafePass device (sms-capable mobile), under Current SafePass settings, "change these settings" and set it to require SafePass to log in to online banking.

I don't like SMS 2-factor. People need to stop pretending that mobile networks are secure. I want something that runs autonomously on my phone (OATH, e.g. Google Authenticator), or a separate HW token for higher security. However, the choice between no 2-factor and SMS 2-factor is a no-brainer if you have an SMS allowance on your plan.