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"Call Girl" appears to be a complete fabrication. Gold digger? Sure. Sex worker? Hardly. None of the cartoons indicate that Lilli is a prostitute. Even the Wikipedia page says she's a secretary.

"Attack on the pentagon" ...aaaand the guardian has lowered themselves to buzzfeed's standards.

Finding a good accountant isn't easy, but I would recommend looking for something better than Crunch. They were the default option "just pick Crunch", but I had to do a lot of tax research myself and recommend favorable approaches to their accountants on certain non-standard things. I also felt their first line of support is spread very thin and they put a lot of bookkeeping work on me. Then a lot of services cost extra each month, making their total pricing uncompetitive. In the end I got everything done and they did their best to rectify issues, but it was a big burden on my time and significant amounts of stress.

Maybe I would have had this issue with any accountants as a first time contractor, but I know it could have been better and I would have happily paid more to make it so. Do yourself a favor and pay extra to get an accountant that handles more things on your behalf (bookkeeping, VAT filing, etc) preferably with a simple non-proprietary interface.

I haven't tried these two services but if I go back to a UK accountant they'd be at the top of my list.

http://www.3wisebears.co.uk/ (contractor) http://www.proactive.uk.net (more startup focused, very helpful via phone)

"Why doesn't every programmer have a great GitHub profile? The same reason not every mother of 3 children looks like a fitness instructor."

Exactly this.

I get the gist of your statement and don't entirely disagree on how to optimise your own outcome as an individual, but I also think you're ignoring that most seed accelerators are a relatively new, and there's a lot of shareholder value out there that hasn't seen an exit. Case in point - add a Dropbox and AirBnb exit and suddenly the number triples...

Wonder how stable the gyro is. I can just see someone walking around the corner, bumping into this thing and crashing your telepresence to the floor.

Agreed. I wouldn't ever use this to learn Vim, but after using Vim as main editor for a few months it took very little time for me to find something new and useful, namely using s/cc/S/C to insert.

Also worth being aware of - NIST Net: http://snad.ncsl.nist.gov/nistnet/

Lets you set up a linux box to act as a configurable router that does network emulation. Useful if you want to test devices that don't have their own emulation options.

somehow I find the implication that bezos interviewed for the google CEO position in 2000 a bit far-fetched

nice work!

like J2ME!

Well, you can bet this kind of experience would quickly convince somebody to add alternative billing/donation options :)

So he's sold 60k prepurchases at EUR 9.95 in a little over two weeks?! Holy cow.

Found some stats - http://www.minecraft.net/stats.jsp

In the cases it's not, it's a useful fiction, especially for most hacker types who are disinclined to marketing/sales in the first place.