I agree. I've had multiple friends swear by Evernote and every time I tried, I'd get a few hours into it and find some annoying limitation. DevonThink gives me everything I need. They're a bit behind on having a good sync solution for iOS, but they've been actively working on it for a long time now and it should be coming soon.
I use DevonThink as well and love it... but I also don't need to sync between multiple devices. All of my dissertation sources, notes, files, etc are in DevonThink - love the tagging and search features, folder levels, etc. I'm able to quickly find, navigate, and even discover relations I didn't discover before. Also, multiple file types and I now have the PDF -> OCR stuff for older documents. I keep my footnotes/endnotes/bibliographic info in Zotero.
I posted this because it is one of the first games to get me excited since FTL. I really love what indie game devs are doing now days. You would never see this from a big design shop, but I would play this as is.
It's a long discussion, but the basics are that if you ever go public / get major VC funding you will have to switch to a Delaware C-corp because that's where all the major corporate litigation takes place and thus the law that big corporate lawyers are familiar with.
In the meanwhile though it can be considerably cheaper to file locally. It will cost more to change later, but you are going to have a lot more resources if you are in the situation of needing to convert.
So if you are looking to get funding right away your best bet is Delaware C-corp, if you are going the "lean" route then you should probably do whatever is quickest and cheapest (usually, but not always, a local LLC).
We found getting a DE LLC to be pretty much trivial; on the other hand, getting a local LLC (for us: NYC) appeared a lot less trivial, and involved things like running an ad in a newspaper. I'm still not clear on what the advantage is to getting an LLC anywhere but DE. I'm sure there are venues that are cheaper, but DE is so cheap that unless you're incorporating a whole bunch of companies at once it's hard to see why it would matter.
Did you have to register as a foreign corporation in NY after you created your DE corp?
IANAL, but for North Carolina if you have an employee in the state you must register as a foreign corporation and pay whatever fees are associated with it. It also seemed like you had to do double the paperwork each year once for DE and once for NC.
There is a trick to the advertising requirement. Since advertising in NYC is so expensive, you register in Albany and then 6 months later move the registration to NYC.
I agree though that NY LLC is not the easiest process in the world, but then again neither is NY foreign corporation registration.
Does foreign corp registration (a) not apply to LLCs, (b) normally just get handled by your accountants, or (c) actually turn out to be a detail that is trivially handled in 15 minutes? Because I don't remember this being a particularly dramatic problem for us.
Not sure how important it is for others, but I was surprised by the lengthy wait time to form an LLC in California. I filed for formation at the beginning of February and it still has not gone through. If you take a look at http://www.sos.ca.gov/business/be/processing-times.htm you'll see there is an almost two month wait time for new formations. This prevents me from opening up a business bank account and cashing checks, amongst other things.
Quick note of terminology: LLC is a limited liability "company", but not a corporation. "Incorporation" implies forming a C or S corp, etc. Corporations can issue shares, be taxed as their own entities etc. Quite a bit more paperwork and expense required, but this is what you'd want for venture funding. (IANAL, but this is from my experience).
If you are a small team (e.g., 1-2 people) already based in CA, it's less hassle (and slightly cheaper) in the first several years.
Once you have gained traction and secured VC backing, it is possible that they will ask you to convert to a DE corp. So basically, you are just delaying the hassle of dealing with DE (admittedly, it is only a small hassle).
If you end up bootstrapping and becoming a lifestyle business where you can fund your small team without ever getting VC funding, there is no great reason to be a DE corp (if your team is based in CA).
I'm not 100% sure, but my lawyers told be that if you're in CA and you have DE corp - you have to pay state taxes in BOTH CA and DE. Again, not 100%. I ended up with CA S-corp.
I am in the exact same situation. I know Ruby, as my first language, but keep running into scientific applications where Python or R is used. The languages are so similar, it is pretty easy to move between the two at a superficial level, but does take away some bandwidth trying to stay current in them both. It seems that if you are going to do web based work, Ruby is a good choice, but it you are going to be actively involved in non-weby stuff, Python is a better choice. I say this as a dedicated Ruby guy, who would rather stay with it, but am being pushed into more and more Python....
I know nothing about scientific computing, but I am sure you took a look at this,right? http://sciruby.com/
It goes like: " Ruby has for some time had no equivalent to the beautifully constructed NumPy, SciPy, and matplotlib libraries for Python. We believe that the time for a Ruby science and visualization package has come..."
But status is pre-alpha, last commit 7 months ago... so dunno how much it can help...
I don't know much about that project, other than the fact that it isn't mature yet. In my comments above, I didn't mean that Ruby _didn't_ have any libraries focused on scientific computing, just that they didn't have the community and tools for scientific computing that Python has.
Does anyone know if a similar API exists for patient billing records? I see the OP API provides information on claims, but those are not necessarily detailed bills. I would assume that the answer is no, due to the many forms such bills could take. I am hoping they are required to have/provide an electronic bill in a set format, perhaps for medicare reimbursement purposes? Thanks......
Nation States that employ offensive cyber operations will NOT stop at only targeting computer infrastructure. Many technologists/hackers naturaly like to separate the world into two spheres (the so called "real world" and the "online" world), somehow thinking that they are above the physical fray. The truth is that hackers and security professionals on all sides will increasingly expose themselves to physical attacks like this. Any militarily sound employment of cyber warfare will include a physical attack component, whether covert or overt, depending on the current stage of the conflict.
In my opinion lot of these threads completely miss the point of a tool like RubyMotion. It isn't about which solution is "better"...it is about ease of use for the large number of people that already know Ruby, and want to leverage that knowledge into exploring IOS development. Not everyone has the time or inclination to learn Objective-C right now, even though we can all agree that learning other languages is a good thing. This clearly scratches a market itch, will be supported by a great community that will layer tons of syntactic sugar and cleaverness over any verbosity/UI tool problems, and will likely grow into something truly great for the market it seeks to serve. I think it makes for one hell of a 1.0 MVP release.
As many other posters have noted, learning Obj-C is about 5% of the battle. Getting to grips with the APIs is the hard part and you have to learn them whether you decide to use Obj-C, RubyMotion or MonoTouch.
So if you think that Ruby is providing you with a significant shortcut here you're in for some disappointment.
On top of this, when Apple releases new frameworks, the Obj-C users get to use them immediately. People using weird bridges are giving their competition a huge time boost by voluntarily delaying their own access to the new stuff.
I worked for a company doing Mac apps in REALbasic for several years, and this was a constant hassle. Additionally, RB chose the wrong backend for their compiler (Carbon instead of Cocoa) and there were multiple years of setbacks due to Apple hemming and hawing about whether they were going to deprecate Carbon altogether and RB porting their entire framework to Cocoa. During that process, everybody who emigrated to Objective-C got their stuff to market sooner, and with access to newer libraries to boot.
I completely understand and agree with your comment re: the importance of the APIs, but I think the big win is going to be the Ruby DSLs built on top of the tool kit to make the APIs easier to use - for RubyMotion's intended audience (existing Ruby/Rails Devs). This is just the first step.....look six to twelve months out with an active developer community and think where this project could be.
actually, i have found that without the code completion rubymotion is forcing me to learn the obj-c framework and method names a bit more. i guess I could have just turned off code completion for that.
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