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by ToJans 5y ago
Interesting story. I did something similar for a bespoke monitoring/helpdesk/knowledge base for a big client in energy trading. However it took me an afternoon and I did get permission: I just installed Oracle text on the existing
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by ToJans 5y ago
Might I suggest you to take a look at "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius? It might be a long shot, not maybe you can find some peace in it... Update: ...and if stoicism isn't your thing, maybe epicurism is...
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by ToJans 5y ago
Interesting line of thought; another POV that emerged during a late-night discussion a while ago, was to look at the percentage of people that work in public service in each country. We assumed that, the closer the percentage was to the med
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by ToJans 5y ago
While this is somewhat true, most of the European founders I know work around this by hiring freelance senior contractors and employing heavily subsidized juniors.
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by ToJans 5y ago
Ok; point taken. Would you tend to agree that the majority is or expects you to be ashamed about it, or is that not what you experience?
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by ToJans 5y ago
We're probably about the same age, so let me ask you this: have you ever heard or seen a European person (who failed a business he or she depended on) carrying his or her failure like a badge of honor? In my experience with job intervi
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by ToJans 5y ago
In my experience (Belgian guy that dabbled a bit with EU VCs for my SaaS) Europe is very risk-adverse, and you either have to give up ridiculous amounts of equity for a little amount (i.e. 50k€ for a 25% to +50% stake) when not established
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by ToJans 5y ago
FYI I've brainstormed on an innovation use case once that would allow citizens to use an app to suggest things like planting trees everywhere using AR etc. When discussing with academics, I was flabbergasted to find out that in street
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by ToJans 5y ago
Exactly my thought: couldn't find their exact turnover, but I assume it's less then 10M? How does this valuation work exactly? Could anyone elaborate?
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by ToJans 5y ago
I still play QuakeLive on a regular basis; the problem is mostly fixed by playing on servers with a stable community. AFAIK no players are actively cheating in that community, although some prefer to play using timenudge, which could be con
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by ToJans 5y ago
... and/or Stockholm syndrome? Addendum/update: Also, this context seems to share a lot of similarities with the rise and fall of the now abandoned ghost towns that emerged during gold mining, or am I the only one making this asso
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by ToJans 5y ago
My experience with offering usage based pricing was not positive, mostly because we didn't impose a time limit on the consumption of the prepaid credits, which resulted in a a huge cash flow problem. We've now switched to a more s
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NNCP: Lossless Data Compression with Neural Networks (2019)(bellard.org)
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by ToJans 5y ago
I wanted to reply, but I did not want to disclose everything on HN, so I've sent you an email.
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by ToJans 5y ago
Exactly, in my experience - Europe - a VC is only interested in scale-ups... I am currently negotiating a buy-in for my SaaS, so for validation purposes I contacted a few VCs in our domain, and received a few replies stating they required a
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by ToJans 5y ago
I've been on both sides, both as a "servant leader" and as a "servant". Context matters. The only time I micro-managed a team myself, was when someone at the top was instigating a blame culture. I did explain all th
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by ToJans 5y ago
Just a small addendum: these negotiations are mostly about buying a percentage of our shares as a commitment for a serious engagement, mostly intertwined with something acqui-hired-ish. To sell all of it, they'd have to "make an o
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by ToJans 5y ago
We are currently talking with a few potential buyers for our SaaS, and had talks in the past as well... Here's my lessons learned: One didn't proceed at the very last step, without any explanation or feedback, so I have become ver
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by ToJans 5y ago
I've been involved in the European DDD community from the start, sparked the initial IDDD tour with Vaughn Vernon, and am still highly involved, so you could say I know a thing or two about DDD, and I consider the patterns most people
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by ToJans 5y ago
IME you do not need to read everything thoroughly to get value out of it. I usually go through several spurs in a year where I go through a series of books in a couple of days... I might not recall everything that's being said, but I g
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by ToJans 5y ago
I learned this using a simple technique: Start using your finger to track where your eyes are. Move your finger a little bit faster than you read. Resist the urge to go back if you think you missed some things, just assume things will clear
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by ToJans 5y ago
I recall experimenting with similar approaches about 2 decades ago; depending on your gestures you can actually simplify a lot: - normalize the draw height/width - use polar coordinates before normalizing - normalize the length of the
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by ToJans 6y ago
Over the last 2 decades I have switched from development to business owner/management/marketing/sales and back 3 times. Right now, I am doing a rewrite of my online 3d engine for consumer products, after being active for 3 ye
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by ToJans 6y ago
I don't get it... Isn't this stating the obvious? Let's assume you have a dice, if you roll a six, you get 5 times your bet. If you win on a first or second try, it makes sense to stop, from an expected value(EV) point-of-vie
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by ToJans 6y ago
**** I stand corrected and marked that section from the blog post as BS; please accept my apologies. ****
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by ToJans 6y ago
Update: looks like my assumptions might be completely wrong... Please ignore my initial post, and I will check if/when I can provide an update to the blog post, potentially discarding the sqrt PI idea.
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by ToJans 6y ago
Thank you for your valuable feedback; it will take some time to process, and I will adjust the blog post as my insights grow (potentially discarding the whole idea, but for me it's a learning process.)
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by ToJans 6y ago
Addendum: this is what I was referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_integral
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by ToJans 6y ago
Could you elaborate? Assume we convert all our happy path estimates to minutes. What I'm saying is that each "estimated minute" is more likely to have a gaussian distribution than a uniform standard distribution,because norma
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by ToJans 6y ago
My apologies, I'm by no means well versed in math, so I might use the wrong terminology. Here is a good example video of what I am alluding to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CgOthUUdw4 Maybe I should refine my blog

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