davidverhasselt

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by davidverhasselt 3y ago
You've missed the point of my comment entirely and pulled two items out of context.
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by davidverhasselt 3y ago
I'm missing a good reason why the distinction needs to be made visually clear. More about this at the end. I think a lot of this design thinking is stuck in the past, and we should be able to challenge and throw off some of the shackle
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by davidverhasselt 5y ago
Silverfin https://silverfin.com | Senior Ruby Engineers | Remote, European Timezones (including Africa) | Full-time contractor We’re a bunch of fine folks in a fully remote team, working on a nice up-to-date Rails monolith with
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by davidverhasselt 5y ago
Silverfin https://silverfin.com | Ruby Engineers | Remote, African & European Timezones | Full-time contractor We’re a bunch of fine folks in a fully remote team, working on a nice up-to-date Rails monolith with some Vue.js
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by davidverhasselt 5y ago
Hehe, that's creative. But I'd say - if you're making it that complex, just use a boolean column and a timestamp column separately instead, if you really need the timestamp, and make it explicit and simple to understand.
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by davidverhasselt 5y ago
The OP does not talk about events, OP talks about state and when it was set. There's no where in the article that OP restricts themselves to discrete events that may or may not have occured.
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by davidverhasselt 5y ago
I'd assume most languages don't have a problem with distinguishing between nil and false. The article explicitly maps nil to false, thus I don't see the relevance of your comment.
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by davidverhasselt 5y ago
There is a downside which I've experienced: if you want a triple-state boolean (null, false, true) then having a boolean column allows for that while a timestamp-as-boolean column does not (you lose the "null" value because t
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by davidverhasselt 6y ago
Silverfin https://silverfin.com | Ruby Engineers | Remote, European Timezones (including Africa) | Full-time contractor We’re a bunch of fine folks in a fully remote team, working on a nice up-to-date Rails monolith with some Vu
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by davidverhasselt 6y ago
In a similar vein, I recently purchased this ebook https://pawelurbanek.com/heroku-migrate-postgres-rds - I haven't finished it yet but I enjoy the small, edited format of it.
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by davidverhasselt 6y ago
Hey folks, creator of Coronadaily.io here To try and cut down on my pandemic-related news consumption I forked my code for https://hndigest.com and repurposed it to send out a daily report every morning with the stats and graphs
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Show HN: Coronadaily – a daily email with Covid19 graphs and stats(coronadaily.io)
4 points by davidverhasselt 6y ago|1 comments
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by davidverhasselt 7y ago
If you're looking for only HN stories, hndigest does it for free https://hndigest.com/ (note: I'm the maintainer of HNDigest)
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by davidverhasselt 8y ago
You can easily disable the escape key on the TouchBar using the free Karabiner-Elements https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/ This is my setup: https://d.pr/i/sP4OMX
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by davidverhasselt 8y ago
To stay in your simplified universe, consider just two entities, A and B. A has all $100K, B has $0. - A loans $100K to B at 10%. - B buys raw materials from A for $100K and creates products X and Y. - A buys product X from B for $60K. - B
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by davidverhasselt 8y ago
If you would like to learn why this common myth is false, I would recommend the book "The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World", which in one of its chapters explains that this result actually made the Rotschilds go a
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by davidverhasselt 8y ago
Heya, I run https://hndigest.com - you can configure it to email you the top n posts over a certain period (daily up to weekly). Check it out, it might suit your needs.
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by davidverhasselt 8y ago
Hehe, good news I guess! Just hit reply on the digest if/when anything comes to mind :)
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by davidverhasselt 8y ago
Hey, developer of hndigest here, thanks for being a happy user, and great to hear that it's helping you :) Anything I can do to make it even better?
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by davidverhasselt 9y ago
Indeed, I too had difficulty finding exact information on this new change. I then stumbled upon the PwC tax alerts where it was very transparently explained. Personally I wouldn't mind if they would take a bit longer to implement chang
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by davidverhasselt 9y ago
> In addition, if you've taken out profits before, then the company income tax is 14%, up to the amount that equals the average of the last 3 years. So if you take out similar profits on a regular basis, the tax rate is only 14% on
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by davidverhasselt 9y ago
Hey raybb, thanks for being a subscriber :-) I see what you mean. I'll investigate it, however designing html emails is kinda like black magic (although less nowadays since Gmail supports responsive design from October 2016) so no prom
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by davidverhasselt 9y ago
HNDigest ( https://hndigest.com ) is profitable some months, others not so much. Turns out it's quite expensive to send a ton of emails if you don't have sponsors. I should probably spend more time finding sponsorship.
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by davidverhasselt 9y ago
Hey, thanks for linking hndigest! We're in the process of rebuilding hndigest from scratch. If you'd like to sign up now, I suggest using the beta version which has improved looks and robustness (and upcoming new features): https
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by davidverhasselt 10y ago
Considering that this would be pretty easy to prove, but no one has yet, Occam's razor says this most likely was something else entirely. One possible explanation could be that the ad was shown to her before as well but she didn't
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by davidverhasselt 10y ago
I can see drones being used in cities to dump packages into the top of packet vending machines that already exist, that open up with a PIN code. It'd be much easier too because the route can be hardcoded towards the machine.
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by davidverhasselt 10y ago
The machine could just give you the UUID of a previous vote for the same candidate, and change your vote to another candidate. Using a HMAC with a personal secret key would work.
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by davidverhasselt 10y ago
Probably not much less secure than calling and giving your CC to a person jotting it down or emailing with the same details. Most of the hotel custom booking forms look like '90s HTML3 pages so the alternative is usually not better any
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by davidverhasselt 10y ago
As an end-user, booking.com gives me so much added value I don't mind paying 10% more than I could maybe, possibly negotiate with the hotel on the phone. When I hear hotels complaining about booking.com fees, I believe they're ign
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by davidverhasselt 10y ago
Yep, no problem! I also thought it quite interesting which is why I remembered this specific tidbit.

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