alanbyrne

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 we incorporated in the UK (We are London based) and charged no tax for our US customers. All we had to do was call the IRS and get an EIN to provide to our larger customers, which was a fairly painless and free process.

> 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 times and it's always been successful. They can replicate the business processes they've honed over time whilst keeping that important business knowledge. It's also often better for the staff as they can hand off that knowledge and move internally within IBM to new and more challenging roles without switching employers.

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 on the house each year (Spend £10k in a year on it and get a Buy one get one free flight with points)

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://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/https-as-...

+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 us, including in your own time, will become property of our company"

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 sort of aid.

The Uber drivers I've used in London have always used GPS and gone down routes which I would consider slower and more expensive.

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% agree about Mexican food though!

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 MTGox, which seems to be consistently around 150 (I assume USD) different.

Am I missing something here?

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 work at millions of dollars, let alone billions.

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 basics, take advantage of the free tier and build up a dev environment

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 resolved and the queue starts flowing again it can take a very long time for these messages to be sent successfully, especially when you need to scan each one for viruses and account for disk latency that doesn't usually occur on these servers.

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 for no reason other than that they were told to reduce head count. Many of them had worked there for 10 years.

Unless you're working for a government organisation or similar there is every chance that you will be let go at any time with your minimum notice period.

Yet if you browse to the IP's directly, it is up...

http://170.149.168.130

I write a technical blog so people only really come to my articles when they are looking for a solution to a problem. Until recently I did zero "audience building" and had about 80% new visitors with 500 visitors a day.

I just wrote articles to improve my writing skills and now people find them in Google.

I've been blogging about my chosen field for about a year now and I've seen similar rewards from it.

Most recently: - I was asked to provide an article to go into a sidebar of someone's book. - Someone I met for the first time at a meetup mentioned that they knew who I was as my articles kept appearing at the top of their Google searches for particular topics. - Microsoft suggested a resolution to a problem ticket I had raised with them by copying and pasting my own blog into a Word document and sending it to me - complete with Screenshots.

I've also learnt a lot by researching "that extra little bit" for the blog content and from other people leaving really great comments.

Does this mean it will now support Surround Sound?

As a recent Puppet/Chef advocate I think this is a great idea. I've recently gone to a lot of DevOps conferences/meetups in the London area and they are becoming quite popular.

I am sure a similar thing is happening where you are based and it might be worth you going along to give talks and sharing your experience. It will help your site get exposure to the right audience if you respectfully mention it at the beginning or end of your talk.

Some constructive points: The copy on your site could use a tweak. There are a lot of unnecessary commas and strange grammar usage.

The mouse-over nav on your blog makes my eyes bleed, especially the colour of the tag line.

Consider putting your blog under your main subdomain (http://www.makerops.com/blog) rather than a separate sub-domain (http://blog.makerops.com). We did this recently and it dramatically improved our SEO as Google started using the content on our blog to rank our whole site.

Edit: Fixing my own grammar!

Stop coding, pick up the phone and call some of your free users. Ask them if they'd pay for your product and why/why not.

If none of your free customers are willing to pay, then it might be time for a pivot. Such as licensing your app to financial providers as a value add.

I agree. I've recently noticed a huge amount of .Net resources for the Microsoft Cloud based on Azure, Office 365, SharePoint Online etc. I expect there'll be lots of money made piggy backing LOB .Net applications off these services.

Simple, pretty, to the point and does what it says on the tin.

Unfortunately I can't seem to copy the link at the top of the design. Instead of making it a readonly input, make it a link or tell them to copy the URL from their browser. Using Chrome 26.0.1410.64 m on Win8

Great work though

Wow, that comment made me feel old.