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by tomgallard 15y ago
Yes- we were stung by this one. Our boss saw errors loading the site on his iPad, but whenever we brought him into the office to try and replicate it, the problems disappeared. We finally figured out it only happened when he was out the off
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by tomgallard 15y ago
You have to be pretty careful with this sort of thing. You can't just say someone is a contractor and they become so. This is covered by something called 'IR35'. What this basically says, is if someone looks like an employee, they're doing
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by tomgallard 15y ago
Glad it helped- I found the need for Employer's Liability Insurance to be the biggest surprise, so wanted to flag that up to people.
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Hiring your first employee- a UK guide(blog.crispyfriedsoftware.com)
70 points by tomgallard 15y ago|16 comments
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Why drinking blocks up your nose and makes you snore(blog.crispyfriedsoftware.com)
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by tomgallard 15y ago
I'm sorry- I think you're wrong on this, and your advice is potentially quite dangerous. If you're going to register a dormant company, then yes, fair enough, do it yourself. However, if you're trading it is not easily accomplished. As a So
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by tomgallard 15y ago
Theoretically- yes you can. In practice NO NO NO! An accountant shouldn't cost more than 60 quid or so a month for a Ltd company. It will pay back the investment many many times over if he's even in the least bit competent. On the specific
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by tomgallard 15y ago
My accountant did the company registration free for me. I'd caution against doing it yourself unless you know exactly what you are doing. This is because, although the company creation itself is pretty simple, there are lots of legal requir
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by tomgallard 15y ago
I would have thought you'd be fine with Rackspace- I know they are Safe Harbor certified. Could you explain why not?
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by tomgallard 15y ago
It is not just car rental companies. Most of the UK's major banks use IE6 still. This is because most of their intranet apps will only work in IE6, and they have the size to demand that their supplies support IE6 too. Corporate IT policy wo
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by tomgallard 15y ago
I think the article is realistic in terms of IE6 support costs if you're not just building a simple website. Trying to build a responsive, dynamic webapp, that is identical in IE6 to a modern browser can easily add a lot of time. Just as an
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by tomgallard 15y ago
You say you cannot increase costs because of competition? Are you sure about this? I understand its scary to price yourself above competitors, but that doesn't mean you can't do it. For example, the software I sell is more expensive than al
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by tomgallard 15y ago
I've used ExtJS and while its a bit heavyweight for many typical sites, if you're building a very rich complex UI it can be very powerful. Where it really excels is in support for IE6-8 - all of their controls, code etc just works, which is
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by tomgallard 15y ago
In the UK there've been some pilot deployments of fibre using sewers ( e.g. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7202396.stm ). Avoids the need to dig up roads and keeps the cost of deployment low
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by tomgallard 15y ago
Groupon can work excellently for small businesses. They just have to know what they're doing. A friend runs a coasteering/outdoor activity business that has used them multiple times. As they have under utilized capacity , the marginal cost
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by tomgallard 15y ago
(In the UK) . I use an accountant who charges £60 per month for doing everything that needs doing (bookkeeping, annual filings, self-assessment, tax planning) for a VAT registered Ltd Co. They use an online account package ( http://www.acco
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by tomgallard 15y ago
Isn't the problem that no-one is currently qualified to comment on the long term potential growth or sustainability of social media? It simply hasn't been around long enough to make any comparisons with the past useful. You're right, that t
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by tomgallard 15y ago
Often they have a number of in-house intranet applications that rely on IE6 quirks. So there is a large cost associated with testing and upgrading their legacy applications. This is definitely the case in a large number of the major UK bank
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by tomgallard 15y ago
But once the spamming machine has worked that out once, they can submit the same integer every time. It would be better if the server sent a request saying send me an integer which has a hash beginning with npqr where n, p q and r are all r
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by tomgallard 15y ago
This wouldn't work would it? If the server sends the client a number (n), surely, I (as a spammer), could simply pre-calculate the largest integer (p) where the hash starts with 0000. The server cannot verify this is the wrong answer, witho