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by alanbyrne 8y ago
I agree with this 100%. As a SaaS business they are going to be spending a lot of time working out what state their buyers are in and what tax to add to the sale. For this reason we incorporated in the UK (We are London based) and charged
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by alanbyrne 9y ago
> IBM when it takes over operations often hires the IT staff of the firm it is taking over operations from and runs systems on multiple-year contracts. I've seen this happen many times and it's always been successful. They can
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by alanbyrne 9y ago
As someone who works closely with these teams within Microsoft, I can say that these team members are having a huge, positive impact on the Office division.
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Patched vulnerability in Office 365 allowed potential unauthorised data access(itunity.com)
2 points by alanbyrne 10y ago|0 comments
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by alanbyrne 11y ago
I use a British Airways branded Amex here in the UK and put almost all my spending through it. Thanks to their Companion Voucher my wife and I get a couple of business class trips on the house each year (Spend £10k in a year on it and get
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Ask HN: My NYC AirBNB Internet is down, best place to hack near Hells Kitchen?
3 points by alanbyrne 12y ago|1 comments
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by alanbyrne 12y ago
Uber has a rating system for passengers so I would have figured Lyft did too.
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by alanbyrne 12y ago
Does it bother anyone else that when you try to visit the Google post explaining that they are using HTTPs as a ranking signal via https it redirects to http? http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/http
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by alanbyrne 12y ago
+1 for a Nomad Package. I'd love it if someone met me at the airport with a pre-paid SIM card and suggestions for accommodation and public workspaces.
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by alanbyrne 12y ago
I agree with paraschopra. Many places I have worked have included a clause in the employment contract that says something along the lines of "Anything you create whilst working for us, including in your own time, will become property
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by alanbyrne 12y ago
I did the exact same thing!
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by alanbyrne 12y ago
Interesting. I've only ever had good experiences with black cabs. Especially if there are road works or traffic, they seem to know exactly which street to turn down without any sort of aid. The Uber drivers I've used in London h
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by alanbyrne 12y ago
I use a similar service for here in the UK. http://www.ukpostbox.com/ So far no problems.
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by alanbyrne 13y ago
I can't speak for the rest of England, but there are some amazing burgers in London. A good starting point: http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/restaurants/burgeracs-20-... 100% agree about Mexican food though
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Vulnerability in MSOffice 365 allows unauthorised Administrator access(cogmotive.com)
6 points by alanbyrne 13y ago|0 comments
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by alanbyrne 13y ago
Firstly, that's very cool. Well done! Secondly, I know hardly anything about bitcoins - but here all I see is an arbitrage opportunity. Buy bitcoins from BTC-e and sell them on MTGox, which seems to be consistently around 150 (I assu
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by alanbyrne 13y ago
Here I am as co-founder of a SaaS company that has actual customers, pays 3 of us a salary and still makes profit and I almost feel like a failure because no-one has valued my hard work at millions of dollars, let alone billions.
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by alanbyrne 13y ago
Shame that Microsoft still have such a terrible bug bounty programme. http://www.microsoft.com/security/msrc/report/bountyprograms...
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by alanbyrne 13y ago
This comment by a Google employee seems to suggest that it wasn't incorrectly flagged: http://productforums.google.com/d/msg/webmasters/puLmvjtK0m8...
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by alanbyrne 13y ago
I attended a lot of these webinars to pick up the basics. http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/events/ Then downloaded the manuals to my kindle for further reading. Once you've got the basics, take advantage of th
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by alanbyrne 13y ago
I love that the Max reward is $3133.7 dollars. Made me chuckle.
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by alanbyrne 13y ago
I had 3 months worth of pay in savings. My plan was to start looking for work if there wasn't enough income to keep me going after month 2. 1 year later and still going strong!
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by alanbyrne 13y ago
In a 300,000 user mail system I've seen mail queues grow by many thousands of messages a minute causing hundreds of gigabytes of email to be queued on the disks. Once the issue is resolved and the queue starts flowing again it can take
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by alanbyrne 13y ago
In my experience it's very rare to get any sort of real job security these days. Whilst working in the financial industry throughout 2008-2010 I saw many of my colleagues let go for no reason other than that they were told to reduce he
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Ask HN: Is the PHP 5.5 password_hash() function secure enough?
5 points by alanbyrne 13y ago|0 comments
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by alanbyrne 13y ago
Yet if you browse to the IP's directly, it is up... http://170.149.168.130
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by alanbyrne 13y ago
I write a technical blog so people only really come to my articles when they are looking for a solution to a problem. Until recently I did zero "audience building" and had about 80% new visitors with 500 visitors a day. I just wro
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by alanbyrne 13y ago
I've been blogging about my chosen field for about a year now and I've seen similar rewards from it. Most recently: - I was asked to provide an article to go into a sidebar of someone's book. - Someone I met for the first tim
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by alanbyrne 13y ago
Does this mean it will now support Surround Sound?
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by alanbyrne 13y ago
As a recent Puppet/Chef advocate I think this is a great idea. I've recently gone to a lot of DevOps conferences/meetups in the London area and they are becoming quite popular. I am sure a similar thing is happening where you are based and

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