mrkmcknz

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Comment · 6 years ago
ArcartaPay https://arcartapay.com/

Started off as an email a link to get paid with Stripe for art dealers but now has a focus on the due diligence and was well-timed with some EU money laundering regulations.

Growing revenue 150% month on month and will likely have to become my main source of income soon.

Comment · 6 years ago
Frequently in the UK I'm seeing options that are clawed back if you leave the company at any point. EMI options that can only be exercised under certain conditions such as an exit.
Comment · 7 years ago
Quick post on how we solved the issue of rotating AWS access keys with a pretty distributed team. Interested to hear what other solutions people have adopted to solve this issue.
Comment · 10 years ago
There seems to be a plethora of these open source dashboard builder systems.

I just want to pay for a hosted version that isn't going to be $1k monthly and require me to build "plugins" to do something that is akin to an API call.

Comment · 10 years ago
Having signed up for a trial the major downfall from your on-boarding process is that there is no test data for me to have a play with.

I want to give you guys a chance but my initial evaluation needs to be with some dummy data tailored to your features so you can showcase these.

Comment · 10 years ago
I'm not sure I get your point.

Do you disagree with; abortions? The wars in Iraq? The animals in shelters are euthanized? People who oppose the death penalty?

Regardless, your condescending tone is insulting. And, I'm not entirely sure what to say in regards to your comment that people who oppose the death penalty have a mental illness.

Comment · 10 years ago
But what happens when those companies already have a ping pong table or five?

I mean there's a limit to how many ping pong tables Twitter wants to load into their office.

Comment · 10 years ago
This might be somewhat unrelated; Is there any reason Stack Overflow decided against deploying on something like the Open Compute Project.
Comment · 10 years ago
Nice share! I don't think people will ever openly discuss their struggles and will continue to have issues doing so in focus groups. The answers and solutions to mental health are complex and need serious discussion in society and any material that can probe that discussion is another step forward.
Comment · 11 years ago
The UK press seems to have a field day when it comes to multi-national corporations not paying corporation tax.

We will no doubt shortly have a number of MPs telling us how unacceptable this is and that Facebook need to start paying up.

This all irks me a little.

362 Facebook staff on an average salary of say £65,000 will contribute at least £7,230,696.60 in taxes and NI to HMRC. Let's also not pretend that £65,000 is the average salary at Facebook UK, it's likely much higher.

Then we can look at those 'stock' bonuses that much of the article seems to point towards. There will likely be capital gains tax paid by employees on the sales of those assets down the line.

The UK has seen a strong economic recovery and remains a global financial centre and the business friendly tax policies of the UK likely contribute heavily towards this.

If I had a choice between Facebook paying £4,327 in corporation tax but employing over 350 highly skilled individuals in the UK, or relocating to somewhere like Dublin due to aggressive taxation policies. I know what I would pick.

Comment · 11 years ago
I've often wanted to use Go for some silly little side projects and I typically just end up with a Flask orientated Python stack. This might give me some motivation to finally create something other than a todo list with Go.
Comment · 11 years ago
I've reached out to Rob Small(Miniclip founder) on numerous occasions over the last 5years. He's always very helpful, supportive and willing to make introductions. He also bootstrapped Miniclip to where it is today.

I doubt Miniclip is going around throwing DMCA notices to companies cloning Agar.io without good reason.

Comment · 11 years ago
The amount of companies that are providing some form of tracking or advanced analytics based on traditional mobile advertising is pretty huge.

This could eventually be an event significant enough to kill a number of companies.

Comment · 11 years ago
I went ahead and ordered some Fine Jersey Short Sleeve T-Shirts. Thanks for that recommendation!

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