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by Loic 15y ago
Just to put a bit of nuance in this article. I am French living in Germany, I created 2 UK limited companies without putting a single foot in UK. I am banking with Barclays Wealth (the side of the business dealing with foreigners and very r
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Mailserver Installation with DKIM Signatures for your Webapp(notes.ceondo.com)
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by Loic 15y ago
For once I totally agree. You must also add, that the vast majority of people are price sensitive and do not really care if they use an Apple, Samsung or HTC device. A lot of people around me bought the iPod (not iPad) because they were the
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by Loic 15y ago
Nearly off topic, but all these debt issues make me think that this is why "world level" currency like bitcoin can be interesting. If it starts to spread enough to reach a critical mass over several economies, this kind of electronic curren
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by Loic 15y ago
The system is slowly "unwarping" itself, at least in Europe. The big universities are slowly publishing all the articles they produce. For example, DTU in Denmark: http://orbit.dtu.dk/app (not all the articles are available as pdf, the po
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by Loic 15y ago
No, github is not your new resume. Remember the post from Marco? You need to own your identity[1]. You do not own your github account. If you really want to show that you are a good coder, you need your own website as a central point with a
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by Loic 15y ago
For most of my "quick searches", I already have the answer from within the search results listing. It looks like it will go one step further, we are not going to have to leave the results page to have complex answers. I am not sure if I wan
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by Loic 16y ago
You will need to be very good at explaining why you are better than the traditional hosted solutions. For example, for PHP stuff, my provider (OVH) is putting my website one a cluster with 1000 servers with unlimited traffic and an insane n
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by Loic 16y ago
Just me, it is usually complex stuff where only one person or two in tandem can do the work. I would be pleased to be able to offload some of the work to other people, but it is hard to find people having the right skills — the niche effect
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by Loic 16y ago
Working in the chemical engineering area. Hard science + all the cool technologies you can read on HN => Fun + money. Usually a contract starts at $15k (2 weeks) and goes up to 2 months of work on average. I always advice people to go t
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by Loic 16y ago
Just put: display_errors = Off is your php.ini and you will never see any errors. This is recommended everywhere for a PHP deployment. ; This directive controls whether or not and where PHP will output errors, ; notices and warnin
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by Loic 16y ago
Or you do both GPL and hosting offer at the same time. This what we are doing for Indefero and this is working very well. In fact, we secured some big companies because of the ability to easily move in/out of the hosted offer from/to a comp
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by Loic 16y ago
Thanks to Mongrel2 you can do real time in Ruby too or with the language you happen to like the most or for which you have the right "business logic" libraries. Having code in production running both NodeJS and Mongrel2, I am happy to see b
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by Loic 16y ago
Thank you, no, really really thank you. Just got a call this morning for a negotiation round with a big pharma corporation. I would have not read this article yesterday, I would have been falling flat. So, I gave a bit, but definitely not a
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by Loic 16y ago
In Germany, Denmark and France (the only places I was employed for more than 3 years), if you have no incomes, you are automatically covered. Of course as a consultant, if you have no incomes in a given month, you still need to pay. If you
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by Loic 16y ago
For information, here in Germany, from where I run my startup which itself is a UK Limited, I provide my employees with full health insurance (teeth, sick days, everything), pension, unemployment insurance, etc. for basically €700/month for
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by Loic 16y ago
A drawing of the molecule (ClN3): http://chemeo.com/cid/31-110-4 just looking at it, you think, ouch! Insane high level of bounds tension coupled with a Cl detonator.
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by Loic 16y ago
Yes, here this is jsSocket with the little flash stuff to bring socket support to all browsers. WebSocket is coming soon into Mongrel2 (the protocol change delayed a bit the implementation).
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by Loic 16y ago
We use Indefero http://www.indefero.net It is both offered as free software (GPL) and you have hosting options. A bit like WordPress.
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by Loic 16y ago
This answer from the CEO is a bit of a garbage answer because it does not tell who control these 5 servers. You need at least one server outside of Libya and not in the direct control of Libya. If the 5 servers are controlled by Libya, th
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by Loic 16y ago
Congratulations! Also, YC S05, we are in 2011. Work hard, play for the long run, listen to your customers. Go through the lows and the highs, never stop, for nearly 6 years. This what I take from this story :)
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by Loic 16y ago
Please do not comment without reading the article . You do not even have the word SQL in it. Sergei is addressing the different approaches to achieve Consistency/Availability and Performance between their solution and MongoDB. A good read
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by Loic 16y ago
This video is really, really nice. A must look. What is really incredible is that the "Think" motto of IBM is nearly as old as the company and still very up-to-date. Very few people know how involved is IBM in research in "hard" sciences. T
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by Loic 16y ago
My company is part of One Percent for the Planet. When you are part of it, you give 1% of your turnover to accredited environmental organisations. I like these kind of "give something no matter what to help the others/the Planet". The more
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by Loic 16y ago
For the past five years, I have been paying parking in my city with my mobile phone using a simple SMS without any transaction fee. A small city of 20000 inhabitants lost in the former East Germany. I suppose 2011 is more the year where yo
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by Loic 16y ago
Can you justify this? Would be nice to have a link to a report or something backing what you write, because the Red Cross is always coming, this is maybe the only organisation you are sure to find everywhere there are people to help. In Ger
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by Loic 16y ago
You should never ssh into a production system, everything should be going through automated scripts. Doing this will really save your life. For me this means: $ fab deploy ... oups errors on the website even if tested on stagging ...
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by Loic 16y ago
I do not have a FB account. You do not need FB to simply take benefit of the web at large. But you do need a good search engine. For me, FB is the future Second Life. Making money now and hyped, but at the end, it will just be a simple good
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by Loic 16y ago
I am sorry if you interpreted my post this way. The thing is that this year has seen many many articles in big journals about the "education bubble" etc. Basically, a lot of higher education bashing. And pg, with YCombinator is also kind of
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Tell HN: Doing a PhD is good
70 points by Loic 16y ago|61 comments

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