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by adwf 12y ago
I've been a little surprised at the success of Patreon. I kind of assumed that it would make for a nice tip for creators, but not much more. Instead there are a few webcomics that I read, taking $1000's a month (eg. SMBC at $870
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by adwf 12y ago
Ah! Thanks very much! Sounds a little more hopeful on the B2B front then.
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by adwf 12y ago
True, but if I want to take VAT numbers I have to be registered for VAT anyway and then do UK quarterly filings. I'd voluntarily lose the £81k exemption in this case regardless. A VAT MOSS filing on top of that would not be too much
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by adwf 12y ago
Yeah, I don't know whether France has a similar exemption, but in the UK currently I do not have to track or even charge VAT until the company has £81k in revenue. I don't even have to register for it. This is really handy for t
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by adwf 12y ago
Some of them already do. I use <p10> as a style tag on some websites and firefox/chrome deal with it fine. The advantage is that old versions of IE don't, so it's a simple browser detection for the user support team.
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by adwf 12y ago
Yep, it's a mess that's going to backfire. I'm taking the step of blocking all non-UK EU countries from purchasing. It sucks, but it's the only way I can keep my tiny little bootstrapped company afloat without having a
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by adwf 12y ago
Yeah, it's always interesting comparing drinking laws. In the UK we've tried to crackdown on underage drinking quite a bit in the past decade or two. But it hasn't really worked particularly well. Part of it is that in the
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by adwf 12y ago
Can't say this enough. Someone tries to make a funny little poem about variable naming and someone else tries to derail it into a debate about gender. Skewed priorities there I think!
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by adwf 12y ago
Yeah, the idea of F# on Linux is very exciting. Visual studio has a lot to bring to the table, a lot of things that I've missed since I stopped working at an MS shop. I used to do a lot of work with F# and MSSQL, and have missed some
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by adwf 12y ago
I quite liked the types section, particularly the bit about making illegal states unrepresentable so you can enforce business rules, eg. validating email addresses. One of the things I'm always thinking when people talk about the merit
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by adwf 12y ago
Yep, C-q is also useful when you need to comment out part of a multiline sexp without doing a block select and C-; Otherwise paredit will helpfully move the comment to a newline to avoid breaking the balance ;)
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by adwf 12y ago
Means around £30k per employee which is reasonable for UK junior-ish dev straight out of university, but low if they're based in London (I dunno).
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by adwf 12y ago
I don't think I've seen the phrase "ramen profitable" mentioned for years now. I remember a few years back it used to be the mantra here, is it taught at YC anymore?
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by adwf 12y ago
I wonder whether this is just a speculative suit based on past performance with the LIBOR scandal, or whether they actually have some sort of smoking gun. The article doesn't really mention either way.
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by adwf 12y ago
I was about to say the very same. There are so many beautiful pieces of religious music, it would be a crying shame to dismiss them simply because you don't believe in the subject matter. Afterall, most of the history of the human rac
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by adwf 12y ago
Love the idea! I'm always looking to see if any gesture recognition controls will take off for computers, this seems like a very good one as it doesn't involve raising your hands to any excessive degree. There have been gesture
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by adwf 12y ago
The Lee Rigby inquest just happens to be coinciding with the government trying to push through their latest Snooper Charter of surveillance laws [1]. You don't even have to be particularly cynical to put two and two together... It&#x
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by adwf 12y ago
Here's the gist of it for UK startups as I understand it: 1) If you're already VAT registered, this isn't really adding much work. Just track IP address and credit card address for the sale (you probably are anyway). Your a
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by adwf 12y ago
The only positive I can see in this is that they apparently do accept "positive affirmation" from the customer with regards to their location. So if you have a dropdown box for their location and maybe a tickbox, it's legall
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by adwf 12y ago
I knew about small claims court, but didn't realise it was as simple as an online filing. That's really handy to know! I had a similar issue with some £50 concert tickets that I'd bought earlier this year; cancelled the nig
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by adwf 12y ago
It probably isn't, but it's in that annoyingly small fee zone where it costs more to take them to court than it does to just accept the fine. I think in this case, they'll probably get the money back from their CC company th
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by adwf 12y ago
Having written a web crawler recently, it's surprising just how many misbehaving servers are actually out there. Without proper error handling, a wide randomly seeded crawl would hit some form of malformed response or bizarre header wi
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by adwf 12y ago
Glad that's over! Not that it affected me in any way, but the whole debate was starting to feel like some sort of public marital dispute going on in a supermarket, just embarassing to watch. Both sides took turns claiming they were ju
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by adwf 12y ago
Anecdotally: I have a 7-8 year old CPU (Q6600) with a 4 year old GPU (GTX 460 SE). I'm running Tropico 5, Civ 5, CS:GO, XCom, TF2 - all great. The only game I've had even slight problems with is Borderlands 2 and I'd proba
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by adwf 12y ago
It could do with some comments and doc-strings certainly, but I'd give it a pass for now as it's a new project. As for the code, I imagine that in any language, highly optimised programs can start looking pretty odd after a while.
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by adwf 12y ago
Usually means they are trying to sell to enterprise rather than small business. It's pretty much just a variant of "If you have to ask, you can't afford it". Pricing pages like this aren't about finding the price,
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by adwf 12y ago
I'll assume this is an honest question - not a troll (and hence don't deserve the downvotes), but no, Lisp isn't write-only. It's an immensely flexible language that lets you code in a variety of different styles, so you
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by adwf 12y ago
Really cool. Spent ages building a glider gun and then pointed it in the wrong direction... I think there are probably a few too many civilians in there as well, messed up any cool formations I had far too early for them to be effective.
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by adwf 12y ago
My point was that the resistant bacteria didn't suddenly evolve the resistance because the antibiotics were placed in the tray, they were already resistant to begin with. Therefore they didn't "struggle" to become anyt
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by adwf 12y ago
Yeah, that's exactly the point I was trying to make at the end. It's far more motivating to believe that hard work will get you to the top, rather than it being an arbitrary "right place, right time" kind of life - and

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