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by bprieto 13y ago
As of today, it is not available in Spain.
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by bprieto 13y ago
You may not remember that, but when he was writing this TV showed Palestinians singing and celebrating in the street the attacks.
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by bprieto 13y ago
No, it's not stupid. It's how most people think: hey, this girl is like me and she loves the product, so I will love the product too. Unless your product is developed for engineers, having testimonials in your sales materials is a must, and
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by bprieto 14y ago
I actually did this the other day to show a friend that a newspaper had greatly exaggerated the number of prostitutes in Spain (300.000). There are 40M persons in Spain, 50% are women, 50% of women have an age suitable for the trade, it is
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by bprieto 14y ago
Why not open source software? They actually say something like "you can be free, but you can't be cheap". Making money with OSS is not easy, but there are certainly ways to do it. And for cheap consumer software, it's just that you need to
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by bprieto 14y ago
Thanks, I also considered briefly Python+Flask. Might be worth to give it another look.
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by bprieto 14y ago
I'm afraid I can't. Or at least I can't do it in a reasonable time. There were times where I could be programming for ten or twelves hours a day. Now I'm lucky if I can get two straight hours without interruptions. So I need to optimize my
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by bprieto 14y ago
Well, you know that thing about people being more careful spending their own money than spending other people's money... this is the same, but with time. It's my project, but it wouldn't be fun to toss everything six months down the road. S
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Should I use Go or Javascript?
8 points by bprieto 14y ago|10 comments
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by bprieto 15y ago
I think the "Look at our desks" post is more than interesting. It is very useful to visualize how a XXI century company looks like. In fact, I am using it next week in a seminar about business models and will compare it to the office in Bi
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by bprieto 15y ago
Agree. In a startup or a small business, the employer is the weakest. He/She must pay a high enough salary to get a competent worker, must pay for training, must pay salary while the worker is employed even if the company is not making mone
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by bprieto 15y ago
Number types are meant to store numbers, not text. Even if you know the text will be just a subset of the alphabet (just 0-9) it is not a number. Just a couple of problems: some day in the future the field could need another character beyon
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by bprieto 15y ago
I use music (with headphones) when there is noise in the background. I have a list in iTunes named "work" just for this. It's a mix of progressive rock from the seventies (Pink Floyd, Yes, King Crimson, Mike Oldfield) and new age (Enya, Mad
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by bprieto 15y ago
Actually, Lem is more like a XX century Jonathan Swift, but if you love Adams you will like Lem.
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by bprieto 15y ago
Of course it is. If there is no competition, you can get by with a crappy product or service if your client need it.
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by bprieto 15y ago
You can do it online. Just Google delaware+company and you will find plenty of shop that do this.