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Ask HN: As a remote worker, would you resist screen monitoring software?
1 points by forcer 14y ago|2 comments
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by forcer 14y ago
We have several websites/products where we need to have fast connectivity servers. At the moment is very hard to rely on reviews/sales reps or finding speed tests on hosting provider sites to determine which hosting is faster than other - a
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by forcer 14y ago
no. I would not. We have VWO code implemented on our sites, I cannot be bothered to signup for another service when this works fine, regardless of pro/cons of using new A/B testing algo
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by forcer 14y ago
One of the payment methods we use is Playspan from VISA - http://playspan.com/ . Their UI is not that bad (they open HTML popup instead of redirects), and if you plan to support alternative payment methods,they have tons of them. They sho
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by forcer 14y ago
Yes. I agree. Business banking in the UK is screwed. Most banks offer much worse services to small businesses than they offer to consumers.
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Plan for U.S. ‘Entrepreneur’s Visa’ Moves Forward(blogs.wsj.com)
6 points by forcer 14y ago|0 comments
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by forcer 14y ago
Can someone explain why Google must have sought Chinese approval? Both companies are American, so what's the problem? Why get approval in US,Europe,China but not somewhere else?
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by forcer 14y ago
Me neither. Over the years I have grown to passionately hate them. I wonder if they ever be able to turn around themselves. Just recently this week they reminded me again of their incompentence.It seems they no longer allow Mass Payments fo
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'Sonic weapon' deployed in London during Olympics(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by forcer 14y ago|0 comments
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by forcer 14y ago
We have launched Wifi Protector - www.wifiprotector.com , super-easy to use VPN service to protect you on unsecured networks. Any feedback?
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by forcer 15y ago
Yes, Barcelona has great tech/online sector. + you have Andorra only 2 hours drive which is a tax heaven :)
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by forcer 15y ago
Not true. It works on VMWare Player which is free
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by forcer 15y ago
Why do you think it will be 2 years away? I would not be suprised if by the end of this year, just few weeks after of W8 release there will be tons of apps that will match what 90% of consumers need. There are already lots of developers bui
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by forcer 15y ago
Thanks. This is really helpful. I have been thinking about the concept of valuation model, but in a different wording (like previous commenter esun told , our revenue is between X and Y etc). I guess asking them to provide some kind of valu
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by forcer 15y ago
We already had a sitdown, we had a feeling that they are a serious buyer and also believe they have enough cash for the transaction but its just our feeling. We had offers in the past via email but they were probably fishing expeditions, t
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Ask HN: How to handle acquisition offer from a competitor?
82 points by forcer 15y ago|25 comments
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by forcer 15y ago
We are an active Adwords advertiser with huge budgets for last 5 years. Our account got suspended last month for an ad that was created 4 years ago and was running for few weeks then we deleted it (yes, the ad was deleted for 4 years). What
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by forcer 15y ago
My impression is that it could be ideal - but it needs much more bandwidth on the client side, as well as server side - making it expensive to run
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by forcer 15y ago
Yes - Already looking at this HTTP tunnel ( http://www.nocrew.org/software/httptunnel.html ) that someone else posted here. I am wondering whether this approach is better than the one someone else suggested - connecting to a streaming serve
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by forcer 15y ago
I am really passionate about this problem. We are currently working on the VPN solution for consumers and I could dedicate some of our servers for this to develop a VPN that would work when governments shut down encrypted connections. where
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by forcer 15y ago
Yeah. Just submitted a form as well and got response from ICO that case work has been received. According to the law, companies that break Data Protection, can be fined up to £500,000 per case.
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Ask HN: Can hosting reps be trusted when doing server upgrades?
1 points by forcer 15y ago|0 comments
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by forcer 15y ago
Already posted it in the current discussion thread from the morning: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3322957
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by forcer 15y ago
OK. So the payment goes to Google instead of Microsoft, what's good about it?
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by forcer 15y ago
Press release from the CNET few minutes ago: A note from Sean Download.com Developer Community, My last communication to you was shortly after we launched the Download.com Installer in late summer. At that time I asked for patience as we be
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by forcer 15y ago
I am not sure I follow you. By that you mean that CNET installer is a malware because its installing toolbar without disclosing it to the user? Surely StartNow toolbar should not be marked because somebody decides to bundle it. If I take yo
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by forcer 15y ago
"This is probably why CNET switch to installing the Babylon Toolbar yesterday. This is a good and welcome move by Microsoft, but the whole process of paying “distribution partners“ to changer user's home page to MSN and search engine to Bin
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by forcer 15y ago
We use HasOffers as well and its a great system. After trying lots of other affiliate systems including trying to build one in-house we are finally happy :)
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by forcer 15y ago
I started doing affiliate marketing and building websites on the side for about two years before handing my notice. I could have quit after few months where my revenues from the side job exceeded what I had in my day job as a software devel
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by forcer 15y ago
certainly very creative way of dealing with the imigration problems. But what if the Startup Visa gets support and will pass? Then surely this project is doomed to fail and therefore hard to get an investment. We are thinking of moving to U

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