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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 w…

> 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 t…

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.

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 …

I'm in Hells Kitchen, NYC but the internet in my AirBNB is down. Any suggestions on quiet places with good WiFi where I can get some stuff done?

Uber has a rating system for passengers so I would have figured Lyft did too.

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://googleonlinese…

+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.

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…

I did the exact same thing!

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 sor…

I use a similar service for here in the UK. http://www.ukpostbox.com/ So far no problems.

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% agr…

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 MTG…

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…

Shame that Microsoft still have such a terrible bug bounty programme. http://www.microsoft.com/security/msrc/report/bountyprograms...

This comment by a Google employee seems to suggest that it wasn't incorrectly flagged: http://productforums.google.com/d/msg/webmasters/puLmvjtK0m8...

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 …

I love that the Max reward is $3133.7 dollars. Made me chuckle.

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!

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 …

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 fo…