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In the event of catastrophic data loss at Xero, you could at least take your debits and credits, transactions, invoices and other basic accounting data with you to another vendor. …

I was an early adopter in the US. I've been relying on Xero and it's APIs for my business to operate since 2009! This is the first time I can ever remember an outage like this. The…

Could IPv4 address exhaustion be staved by opening some of the currently unused /8 blocks? For instance, Apple has the entire 17.0.0.0/8 block. If IPv4 addresses are really becomin…

Totally serious question.

Do large SaaS firms tend to carry the same kind of cyber-liability coverage?

And it's equally trivial to "recover" a password on most Microsoft Access databases with Access PassView: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/accesspv.html While some would argue that any…

And just to prove how cool @mitchellh is (or at least to prove the fact that he takes HN comments seriously), he has added another committer to Vagrant today. https://twitter.com/m…

Jason Fried is so cool, he knew how terrible Filemaker Pro was before it existed! (Alright… it was probably 1990 already. Just had to point out the potential anachronism of 25 year…