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by jwh 15y ago
Why spend money when you don't have to? Go direct to the relevant UK authority at http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/ , read the guidance notes carefully and incorporate away. Pay special attention to your articles of association as they're
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by jwh 15y ago
Thanks for the downvotes, I'll take them on board
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by jwh 16y ago
Did you not RTFA? The article is about a PHP hosting company that is getting merc'd because of the security flaws inherent in PHP that lead to their design decision to use Amazon EC2.
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by jwh 16y ago
Have you tried NetBeans? Whilst I couldn't find a way to automatically include header files, once they're added NetBeans automagically switches on autocomplete and finds documentation where available. I've used it for my own C++ projects (u
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by jwh 16y ago
Whilst I don't think a profitable business like Groupon will 'burst', I think it will slowly deflate. Why? Does anyone remember the company from over a decade ago, backed by Paul Allen, who were going to revolutionise ecommerce by offering
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by jwh 16y ago
"...if you have to raise thirty million to start your business, its probably not a good business (at least for me)." I've lost count of the number of articles I've read saying "Startup XYZ Inc just raised $X million!" and a dearth of the "S
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by jwh 16y ago
"The growing use of Ruby on Rails, a Web application framework, in recent years has created developer shortages everywhere, said Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson...Many developers who were trained in Java or PHP simply need to be retr
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by jwh 16y ago
What about the effect of bad students? Isn't education a two-way process involving a supplier and a consumer? I got my highest grades in subjects I enjoyed (Business and Mathematics) and my lowest grades in those I didn't (English). Was my
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by jwh 16y ago
As other comments have drawn attention to, it's a shame that the first things to go in any government austerity drive are sciences and things too complicated for the average, TV-educated Joe to care about. Imagine how different the world wo
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by jwh 16y ago
I agree. It's a fact that men far outnumber women in I.T. for a variety of reasons ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women,_girls_and_information_te... ). One interesting point from the article: "From a two year research initiative published i
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by jwh 16y ago
The problem is the 'rich guys' are using the average Joes money, often lent to/invested with them by banks and pensions funds to try and secure the largest return possible. Even if they're using their own money, the cynic inside me predicts
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by jwh 16y ago
The video shows perfectly why unwritten/verbal/implied contracts are to be avoided at all cost. Against my better judgement I recently completed some work without a written contract. It was exactly like the restaurant scene: they'd received
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by jwh 16y ago
Part of that slow GDP growth can be attributed to having to absorb an entire communist country (East Germany) into a capitalistic society (West Germany).