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I did stumble across that form 5471 while googling. Ouch. I will PM you, thank you for your advice.

Thank you for your tips. Can I retroactively subcontract (the books) canadian --> US? That makes a lot of sense, otherwise I think I'm facing a double taxation problem.

OK, but you can't get more "open" than interchange plus :)

So I run a company by myself that has a physical and legal presence in both the US and Canada. (Business Banking, address, merchant processing, etc). The Canadian company is a Corp…

Stripe, Balanced, Braintree, etc all look like much better technical solutions (Apis, ease of integration) than what I use currently, but the pricing is SO prohibitive! Are there a…

My biggest obstacle with Sidekiq is communicating back to the frontend client when jobs are done (i.e. credit card processed, FacebookGraph friends cached, etc). Right now I use Pu…

My bank required that I could only use a 6 character alphanumeric password when signing up. Kind of scary, but then again, it made me choose a super random PW like v3Ff78 whereas m…

I can't remember what it was, but someone posted here before with a library to help build clean, easy to use API Docs. The one that looks like a split-pane with examples on one sid…

I'm a SCUBA instructor (trained and living in Vancouver BC), from Seattle.. and I can definitely attest to the character of pacific northwest divers as being very pro-environment, …

Imagine you are one of the engineers behind traffic lights. That's something to be proud of, you've built something that keeps people safer, can allow emergency vehicles to pass th…

Some of the newer gateways (Braintree, Stripe) don't have monthly fees - but there is a tradeoff. Both of those guys have a high per transaction fee (25-30 cents) and also a relati…

Yeah I'm an American who went to school here in Vancouver, started a company, doing well, but probably moving myself and the company back to the States soon as it's very difficult …

Own a SaaS (my baby) and also do contract work: primarily iOS apps for the biggest brands in Canada, and the occasional RoR app too.

When I first started goodnights http://www.goodnights.me & http://www.guestmanager.com I had a grand vision to take on a huge goliath, raise money, get employees, yada yada, the wh…