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SimpleTax launches, helps freelancers file and save money on tax returns(gosimpletax.com)
1 points by cpinto 14y ago|0 comments
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How to get Google to spam people for you in 3 easy steps(blog.celsopinto.com)
1 points by cpinto 14y ago|0 comments
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by cpinto 14y ago
Let the memes begin! Here's an image template of Linus giving the finger: https://skitch.com/cpinto/ebemj/linus
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Ask HN - market segmentation books and tips?
6 points by cpinto 15y ago|0 comments
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The BEST project management tool EVER Guaranteed(blog.celsopinto.com)
3 points by cpinto 15y ago|1 comments
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TellHN: the one indispensable tool for freelancers(indispensabletool.com)
1 points by cpinto 15y ago|0 comments
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by cpinto 15y ago
Great feedback. 1) Indeed, price checking is already in place so perhaps in those cases the recommendation system can send data into them? 2) not the target market, not enough data. Remember, a small market that has huge value is still a va
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by cpinto 15y ago
I wished :-)
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by cpinto 15y ago
I have my own software company ( http://leftfield.pt ). This would be best pulled off by people with lots of experience in software integration (CRM, POS) both engineering as well as sales.
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by cpinto 15y ago
Daniel, this is not a product for consumers it's for big retail, eg. Fnac (Europe), etc.
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by cpinto 15y ago
Like I said, I don't have any intention of pursuing this one any more :-) That said, I'd be more than glad to share opinions with anyone that wants to do this.
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Business idea: recommendation system for physical stores(blog.celsopinto.com)
20 points by cpinto 15y ago|13 comments
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The Engineer's Guide to the Business Galaxy(blog.celsopinto.com)
1 points by cpinto 16y ago|0 comments
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by cpinto 16y ago
Thanks! Is there anything similar to sales taxes that are charged to the customer and then paid to the state?
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Ask HN: what taxes/tax forms does a freelancer need to submit?
10 points by cpinto 16y ago|16 comments
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by cpinto 16y ago
at the most basic: plenty of paper sheets and a pencil. I use this _a lot_. for coding: any computer with vim is good enough, but my main machine is a MBP 15" w/ a 23" flat screen, wireless apple keyboard and mouse. I use the iphone a lot t
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by cpinto 16y ago
this link should come with a disclaimer of sorts. so this guy started freelancing last month and already a complex app for billing + time management has been invaluable? In one month, even word + excel (or whatever office suit you use) is i
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by cpinto 16y ago
Pardon the bluntness but what exactly did you ship? All I see is a page, with some JS, that tells me absolutely nothing about what the supposed product is or does, aside from scrolling pictures. Oh, and you ask for an email address. For wha
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by cpinto 16y ago
although interesting, bulk insert doesn't (didn't?) work across multiple databases managed by one host. and the ability to havve multiple databases is one of the things that makes couchdb a lot of fun.
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by cpinto 18y ago
and this is the reason why you let other people pay to test the infrastructure "cloud". it's hard to justify not being able to do _anything_ when any AWS goes down as smugmug must be figuring out by now. here's a piece of advice: start by l
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by cpinto 19y ago
Mingle http://studios.thoughtworks.com/mingle-project-intelligence
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by cpinto 19y ago
See if the processing package is useful to you: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/processing
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by cpinto 19y ago
LOL
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by cpinto 19y ago
Check pgpool-ii: http://pgpool.projects.postgresql.org/pgpool-II/en/
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by cpinto 19y ago
No, not really. Possibly this depends on where you are at but here in Portugal (where I am), I can get a better physical server for about 80Eur/month, which is only a bit more for what I would pay for an EC2 instance (including network traf
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by cpinto 19y ago
On the Amazon forums, people wrote about 10MB/s throughput between S3 and EC2.
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by cpinto 19y ago
Before answering this let me tell you that I cannot endorse any of the services because I've never used them so I don't know how good or bad a service they provide. You'll have to check this for yourself (google for opinions, etc.). Sliceho
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by cpinto 19y ago
agreed but for different reasons. in terms of bang for the buck EC2 is awful if you want it up 24/7. And then you get other problems with EC2 too, the biggest one being it's non-persistent storage (but that's something everyone already know
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by cpinto 19y ago
You should probably use some kind of versioning so that when you receive version 123 and the version in the database is 121, you won't commit 123 until you receive #122. If the user deletes the note and the server receives the delete reques
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by cpinto 19y ago
Agreed on items #1, #2 and #5. #3 is more of an issue on how you design your system than of the programming language itself and you can get away with #4 if you throw other languages into the mix. For example, you can do your website with dj

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