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by corford 9y ago
It's more nuanced than it seems on the surface. I started with a similar opinion but I have to say there is something to be said for everyone from hairdressers on up actually having some form of relevant qualification. At least for the
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by corford 9y ago
I don't live in France anymore and don't have the accounts but they were big banks: Credit Agricole and Caisse D'Epargne. I've heard similar stories with Banque Populaire too. As for cheque usage, 4 years ago (when I was
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by corford 9y ago
It looks great on paper but the devil will be in the detail and how well they execute on the admin/bureaucracy side. If my experience a few years ago with the auto entrepreneur scheme and URSAFF are anything to go by, you'll need
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by corford 9y ago
As far as trades/professions are concerned, you need a degree or a certificate of some kind for virtually everything in France (from being a hairdresser all the way up to doctors/lawyers).
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by corford 9y ago
I don't think of myself as being _that_ old (will be turning 35 soon) but my first LAN party was done with 10BASE2 and I remember working a summer/intern job at a factory that used a token ring network... So either I'm in den
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by corford 9y ago
Now I've grown up and free time has become scarce, I tinker a lot less than I used to but I recently enjoyed a weekend burst of the "old times" when I offered to build a hackintosh for a friend. I'm a linux and windows g
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by corford 9y ago
Would be interesting to know how many of these points map over to the insurance landscape in Europe? I know next to nothing about either but, from talking with Stateside friends, have the (possibly wrong!) impression that the insurance mark
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by corford 9y ago
The only software you need is something that can speak the ACME protocol, which is what letsencrypt uses to receive your CSR (which you can generate yourself with openssl), issue challenge tokens and then (subject to you successfully passin
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by corford 9y ago
Yeah I read somewhere that they were working to try and get the CA/B rules changed to allow it (no idea if this is true). Will check out the CNAME trick - thanks!
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by corford 9y ago
I love letsencrypt but I wish they would hurry up with deterministic dns challenges. It would make securely automating certificate renewal vastly simpler and easier (especially for certs that are being used for non www serving endpoints e.g
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by corford 9y ago
I can't believe they've got rid of the text snippets below the headline (why??) but I like the dedicated fact check box!
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by corford 9y ago
An easy option is to use an offsite backup service that keeps versioned history (e.g. http://www.rsync.net or http://www.spideroak.com ). Not sure about Spideroak but in the case of rsync.net they duplicate snapshots
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by corford 9y ago
>(that would cost money to maintain, best to have you use your own paper and toner at home). Or... you can board with your phone :)
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by corford 9y ago
Norwegian is privately owned.
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by corford 9y ago
Threatening their business model is overstating it a bit I think. More like they had already successfully picked all the low hanging fruit and in order to maintain their stellar (multi) year-on-year passenger growth they needed to start try
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by corford 9y ago
Sorry, misunderstood when you said "Starting an airline is not a trivial undertaking, certainly not something you could hope to complete during a temporary downturn or use "market timing" like you would with equities.".
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by corford 9y ago
Norwegian didn't start in 2007. They go back to the early 90's. Re: leasing. This is true of virtually all airlines these days outside of some flag carriers - I was being sloppy with my wording :) However, you get much better leas
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by corford 9y ago
I too am sceptical the pure LCC model will work for extended long haul routes but I think it can definitely work for medium-haul (i.e. Western Europe to Eastern/Central US). I think the legacy carriers will also have an easier time cat
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by corford 9y ago
This is definitely true although in Norwegian's case they also benefited from some lucky timing: the GFC happened to occur just as Boeing were developing new aircraft that would finally be capable of offering low enough ops costs for t
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by corford 9y ago
Perhaps where Norwegian and Ryanair compete on the same routes (which isn't many). But even then, if there's more than a €10 difference in the headline price, most LCC flyers will pick the cheaper one regardless. I think just like
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by corford 9y ago
Norwegian borrowed the same play book Michael O'Leary (of Ryanair) used ~6 years earlier: putting in a big, bold order for new Boeing aircraft just as the aviation market was tanking (due to 9/11 in O'Leary's case and th
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by corford 9y ago
Anecdotal but not the case for me. I have a dual sim phone with a Virgin UK SIM and a Meo Portuguese SIM - both sent me texts recently saying my plans now work across Europe without roaming charges (and they aren't super impressive pla
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by corford 9y ago
Wow. This brings back memories. At uni in the early 2000's I hacked up a geeky "last.fm" inspired music stat service. The idea was to be able to reliably track music being played without needing a plugin for winamp/fooba
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by corford 9y ago
Best rule of thumb whenever you're doing work as a solo dev/ops guy is to always think in terms of being two people: the normal you (with super user privs etc.) and the "junior dev/ops" you who jut started his first
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by corford 9y ago
No idea how it worked in detail (they were mainly acquaintances I met at meetups/co-working spaces). It just seemed like a right of passage - virtually everyone I met had bootstrapped their 2-5 person teams with guys & gals that we
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by corford 9y ago
>It becomes easier to start your own enterprise. I lived in France for a few years and noticed something that validates this a little. French unemployment pay is quite generous (can't remember the exact figures but it's close t
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by corford 9y ago
Yep, didn't come out pretty with the camera flash :)
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by corford 9y ago
Non-mac layout is different again. Here's a pic of a Dell laptop I have knocking around: http://imgur.com/a/w5GVC [ could do with a clean! ]
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by corford 9y ago
Seedrs also does it like this.
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by corford 9y ago
FYI, acme-staging.api.letsencrypt.org is working ok for me but the production endpoints are still timing out.

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