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Hyderabad, India | Developer | Full Stack Profitable B2B Startup by Ex-Google + Ex-Microsoft + Ex-Amazon folks. Full Stack Developer with focus on JS/CoffeeScript/BackBone/PHP Full…

We're a US C-corp.

Its tax time for our (bootstrapped) startup, and we're deciding the best way to do it. We have subscriptions that people pay for using stripe, and we offer discounts on longer dura…

Hundreds of calls and meetings. When does one work on the product? I'm a bit disillusioned by the apparent focus on funding over product in the valley. I hope it is a misconception…

There is no small instance type in any current generation instance types anymore.

The unsubscribe link in the marketing email took me to this page directly. The marketing email was targeted to existing customers.

OP here. I sent them a tweet, and they replied with a link to a complaint form that - guess what - required me to enter my account number :)

But they want my Credit Card + Bank Account No + Cellphone no. This is a link that was in the email. My first instinct was that this was a phishing email. Then when the link appear…

How many spam reports does it typically take to affect IP reputation?

One of the great advantages of third world countries - good education is cheap. A student at a top rated engineering school (iit/nit) in India pays less than ~$2k/year in tution, a…

Now I feel quite stupid that I got pretty lost and overwhelmed in the Moscow Subway System when using it the first time. I had a printout of the map, don't speak/read/understand th…

Such stuff is a challenge for code reviewers. Reminds me, just to bug my code reviewers, I'd put in things like: // TODO Remove this comment

Oh ok - good that the image was not picked up from a path in the install folder. I thought that was the case! That would have been bad.

The way this code looks, it opened up a backdoor into the app to load any code embedded in the image, and execute it with the app's credentials - including access to app's in memor…