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by corford 12y ago
If this change is here to stay they should update their Adsense SSL advice... https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/10528?hl=en-GB
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by corford 12y ago
Until quite recently I lived at the foot of this: http://www.valcanigou.net/IMG/jpg/canigou01.jpg
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by corford 12y ago
In the UK, employee or customer owned businesses are a mixed bag. We have some very good ones (John Lewis, Nationwide) and some bad ones (the Co-op group). I think whether or not a business is employee owned is less important for success th
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by corford 12y ago
Not sure why I'm being down voted. My understanding is the system works better (at least for currency X to currency Y transactions) the more trusted local currency gateways exist in the network. So if using stellar on the backend makes
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by corford 12y ago
Awesome! Would be great if they began offering unlimited alerts in some countries other than the US & Canada (the UK would be a good place to start!).
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by corford 12y ago
Too early to tell if Stella will work but their intentions appear good and the underlying concept solid. Was very surprised though that there isn't a single advisor to the board who's career has been in finance or banking. Seems t
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by corford 12y ago
I've been using http://amsul.ca/pickadate.js/ lately and it's been excellent. Highly recommend it.
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by corford 12y ago
Can't you just use the monthly tables published by HMRC for the exchange rate (IIRC, packages like Xero do this automatically for you?). For the reverse charge, wouldn't that always just balance out i.e. input and output tax are a
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by corford 12y ago
Could be because Pingdom is a Swedish company and AWS is Amazon, which has a presence in Europe?
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by corford 12y ago
I'm working on the assumption that if they suddenly started offering services in GBP, they'd price at £5 rather than $5 (like virtually all companies do). Meaning the same service would end up costing £2/month more than it do
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by corford 12y ago
That doc is dated 2003 so I guess the regs have changed (and there have been some pretty major changes recently like CA2006 and FA2011). I certainly don't get VAT invoices from the US suppliers I use (linode and digital ocean for examp
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by corford 12y ago
Yeah, I'm talking for retail customers who don't have a VAT number and can't benefit from the reverse charge scheme.
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by corford 12y ago
On the other hand, one of the nice things with using US services that bill in USD (apart from the current exchange rate benefit) is there's no VAT to pay. So, UK retail customers at least, get a 20% discount compared to using home grow
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by corford 12y ago
Great list. Created a PR for gosquared, datadog and rsync.net as I couldn't see them on there.
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by corford 12y ago
Nope, never. If a vm needs permanently moving from one core to another (which would be unusual for us), we just spin it down and dd the lvm volumes for that guest via ssh and then change the mac. It helps that we don't filter on mac. T
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by corford 12y ago
My naming system is pretty similar. Infrastructure consists of a handful of big beefy machines that then each host anywhere from 4 to 12 single purpose guest vms. For the beefy host machines, I just go with core-a, core-b, core-c etc plus a
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by corford 12y ago
Looks like it's done in Flash. Still very impressive but would have been even cooler if it was all JS/webgl/canvas voodoo. Would love to know where they're getting some of the data from (e.g. the bikes and atm locations)
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by corford 12y ago
Assumptions are inherently risky but ultimately you always end up having to go with your gut. That doesn't mean you shouldn't do the background research and talk to people first though! Even if you are right, you'll very like
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by corford 12y ago
Until you talk to other people, you're rolling the dice. Trust your gut and go ask a bunch of people if they have the same need (and if it's going to be a paid thing, whether or not they'd pony up for it if it existed). If th
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by corford 12y ago
Actually, D has garbage collection.
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by corford 12y ago
Interest earned on asset investments may be getting smaller and smaller but with inflation at 2% or less, investors are still coming out on top aren't they? So, doesn't this only become a real problem if inflation goes up markedly
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by corford 12y ago
There will be people lurking here who 'get it', but it's difficult to make someone aware of part time opportunities without any contact info in their profile :)
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by corford 12y ago
Just grabbed a ticket. Thanks for taking this on Daniel!
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by corford 12y ago
I'd be interested if it's afternoon/evening and not a million miles away from a tube stop.
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by corford 12y ago
I regularly work with 70MB-150MB csv files that need editing in a few places before being imported to the db.
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by corford 12y ago
Thanks Mike. Wish I knew about this trick yesterday before I sent out a sensitive document to a third party!
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by corford 12y ago
My understanding was that Freddie (and later Margaret Thatcher's imitation with selling council houses in the UK) were policy decisions made on advice from the then nascent neoliberal movement.
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by corford 12y ago
It's the "few regulations as possible" part of neoliberalism that has, for me at least, been the unquestionable failure. The following could all have been avoided or had the scope of their damage drastically reduced had bette
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by corford 12y ago
My feeling is "Don't hamper technological progress but provide a robust safety net to take care of those left behind" is itself a straw man. No one is hampering technological progress. Instead a lot of people are (correctly i
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by corford 12y ago
Fair criticism. To be honest, I just (arrogantly) assumed we'd reached a point and accumulated enough evidence to remove any argument that the 20th century's experiments with communism and socialism and the recent 25 year infatuat

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