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In the case of a corporation (C-Corporation or S-Corporation) business expenses are paid by the corporation and most are tax deductible on the corporation's tax return. So if a corporation has revenue no taxes are paid on the money used towards deductible business expenses. This is one of the nicest features of corporations because there are so many deductible business expenses.

No. Business expenses can be deducted even with no revenue: milage, business supplies, equipment, lunch about business dealings, etc.

Did you get this working?

EC2 is built on Xen.

Has anyone out there run FreeBSD on EC2?

In Virginia you must use a real street address for your office. You also must have a registered agent and an address where the registered agent can be contacted.

Incorporation is a state-level activity, but it's generally the same in all of the states.

Use a parent's address with their permission.

still no vote-down button...

It really is a simple and effective tutorial. I like it.

Here's something similar I wrote a while ago based on my experience:

http://extantproject.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/being-smart-is...

This is about ten years old:

http://www.irongeek.com/downloads/hpnt.c

Do a "whois" on the domain to get contact information for the owner, call them and ask them if they'd like to sell it.

or

Get Go daddy or another service to do the same thing ("Domain Buy Service"): https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/broker/landing.asp?ci=8995

This hasn't been news for about thirty years and it's been in archives since at least 1999:

http://www.phreak.org/archives/The_Hacker_Chronicles_II/phre... http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.phreak.org/archives/...

wc -w [file ...]

Computer Science is about understanding what computing is; it's about what it means to compute.

Let me guess: you're not a big fan of Knuth either?

Knowing how algorithms work can easily be the difference between a program finishing in ten minutes as opposed to never.

I generalized my personal experience. It may be different for different people, but I'm tired longer the more I use stimulants. But I've also had one to two cups of coffee in the morning every day for about four years now. If I drink more at other times I generally feel worse for a longer period of time and don't gain much in the way of concentration.

It's not your "old" age. I'm 23 and I absolutely agree. See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=55250

As a recovered Mountain Dew head, I agree. The sugar in Mountain Dew is the worst of it. I used to require five or so Mountain Dews every day. When I slowly stopped drinking it (I switched completely to coffee to avoid caffeine withdraw) I stopped getting really hyper then crashing five times a day. My concentration is much better without Mountain Dew. It took me about five weeks to switch (one less can per week).

Not too long afterward I got my caffeine intake down to whatever is in two to four cups (or shots of espresso) of coffee a day, where it's been ever since.

Now, a few years later, I'm in the process of limiting myself to two cups (or shots of espresso) a day. I'm down to three, but it's fairly difficult to go lower -- which sucks.

Don't drink all this shit! Drink water and sleep when you're tired; maybe have a cup of coffee a day. Your concentration will be much better. There's natural variance in energy levels throughout the day. Stimulants just make the highs higher and the low lower -- but they also make the highs shorter and the lows longer. Check up and really pay attention to yourself through the day -- you'll likely want to reclaim your energy back from all these supposed "energy drinks" and other garbage.

Since there were no replies either here or on HackrTrackr the Gordon Biersch meetup is cancelled. Maybe some other time we'll get together.

What a convenient meta-narrative...

Any Virginia, DC, or Maryland YC users out there please check out a potential meetup here, thanks to HackrTrackr:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48001

How about a meetup at Gordon Biersch in McLean, Virginia at 7:00 PM on September 5th? Everyone that can make it out is welcome. Reply here (or on HackrTrackr since he's doing a good job with it) if we'll see you there.

Write your projects as successful outcomes and make sure each has a physical next action. Review your entire system weekly.

Submissions about startups or technology? What do you think this is? Startup News?

What does this have to do with "Hacker News?"

I think I liked "Startup News" better. It may have gotten boring sometimes but it was on-topic, at least.

Twitter is the next distraction.

Remarkable!

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd_config

I use an iPhone daily and there have only been a few times I've missed copy and paste. Usually it's been when I'm tapping out a reply email or posting on a site such as YC News and need to quote someone. To route around the lack of copy and paste my replies end up being similar to using a word you know how to spell instead of one you don't; I just write what I think rather than writing about what someone else has written and think nothing of it. There are certainly cases when this analogy doesn't hold and copy and paste functionality would be nice, but it's definitely by design that there isn't one.

Constraining developers and themselves to create simpler ways to do things is smart of Apple. Emailing photos is the perfect example: I want to email this photo that is on my screen -- not open my "photo application", copy a photo, go back to the main screen, open my "email application" and paste the photo. Most of the copy and paste scenarios can be handled in a similar way: links to maps, links to phone numbers, links to URLs, and so on.

Maybe there are better ways to perform actions on mobile platforms instead of following the decades-old clunky mouse way to do them?

Habit is more important in a successful endeavor than "luck."