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by flashm 10y ago
You've proven my point. If you had money on a tree, you'd do it, but as you don't (as far as I know!) you won't. I would love to have a basic income, or an endless supply or money and be able to work on what I want, when
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by flashm 10y ago
Although he's coming across as throwing his toys out of the pram, he's completely right. This was obvious from the beginning when Medium opened the floodgates. There is definitely room for a writing application that brings togethe
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by flashm 10y ago
That's it. Everyone is too busy trying to make money, which is fair enough. Even open source to an extent. What's the first thing programmers say when someone says how do I get a programming job and earn loads of cheddar writing a
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by flashm 11y ago
Really interesting, thanks. I will look through the work you're doing
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by flashm 11y ago
This is interesting. I'm in this sector to an extent, and Accor Europe are our biggest source of revenue. Not quite in the same vertical as One Fine Stay (we're venue and conference space) but nonetheless it's good to see a l
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by flashm 11y ago
This is the trouble for me using Gitlab.com. Feels like there is a lot of 'n+1' going on in the background. I'm sure there aren't, but it feels like a Rails app that is suffering from that. Other than that it's grea
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by flashm 11y ago
Your answers have helped me out many a time on stack overflow. I live in Reading, and would love to get you a beer sometime. Wonder how many other HN readers are in Berkshire
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by flashm 11y ago
These are excellent. I don't use Python that often so something like this is perfect to refresh each time and to avoid doing anything unidiomatic. 'Learn X in Y' is also a useful site for this sort of thing.
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by flashm 11y ago
So what happens now? Can myself and my LTD company claim asylum elsewhere?
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by flashm 11y ago
Yep I'm registered in the UK as well. I'm not entirely sure how it will affect us. We have around 2000 users. Nothing out of the ordinary stored or any messaging service.
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by flashm 11y ago
Where did you go, out of interest? I'm in the UK and weighing up options.
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by flashm 11y ago
That is brilliant, top work. Do you put your money where your mouth is? Place bets that your system pops out? Edit: Roughly how many visitors do you get, monthly?
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by flashm 11y ago
I went for Sendgrid. Very happy with it so far, pricing is great as well. Easy to use, easy to setup, sane configuration for things like domains and DNS.
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by flashm 11y ago
I know what you're talking about, I'm Vat registered and do business across the EU. You're correct though, I misunderstood your question, it seems you're not even at that stage yet. You should really talk to an accountan
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by flashm 11y ago
Check chrisdew's answer above. It just doesn't work like that in the UK, or most places in the EU. If it was a totally different company, doing a totally different type of business, then you could argue the case that it was nothin
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by flashm 11y ago
This threw me for a while as well!
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by flashm 11y ago
This only really works for people that aren't already setup as a company though. You can't just open a new company in another country and expect to start moving your revenue to it, it just doesn't work like that. For instance
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by flashm 11y ago
In what way? You deal with them by using the tax rules that are set out, and buy getting an accountant to make sure you are adhering to them. Any issues that arise about revenue if you have to start charging vat are due to your pricing, not
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by flashm 11y ago
I always wonder with things like this, when will we be able (with an online business) to essentially say that your business has no fixed abode, and therefore you won't be paying any country any tax. If everyone was using bitcoin or som
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The Sad State of Web Development(medium.com)
3 points by flashm 11y ago|1 comments
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by flashm 11y ago
Nice, I'll take a look.
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by flashm 11y ago
I just added Gitlab as a new remote, and pushed. Easy as that. Keeps the entire repo history. I then just removed my old Github remotes.
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by flashm 11y ago
I've moved all my private repos to Gitlab based on the chat on here and other places recently RE Github, Gitlab, and other solutions. I'm very happy overall, the interface is great. It's a bit slower than github currently (th
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by flashm 11y ago
I don't think they have enough self produced shows to make it worthwhile pumping just that content all over the world. People pay because they want the whole lot. Probably easier for Netflix to cut them off, rather than try and sell th
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by flashm 11y ago
I don't think the author has thought this through. If they don't have the licence to show something in a particular place, then they must at least show that they're actively trying to stop people in that region accessing the
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by flashm 11y ago
My main issue with Product Hunt is that most of the products are so trivial that it almost seems like a parody site. A sample from right now: 'The funniest dog name generator ever' 'Fast and easy way of collecting email addre
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by flashm 11y ago
Now thats a service! I may even try it...
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by flashm 11y ago
That is quite cool. The others mentioned below are good as well, but all have a fairly clunky and web based interface. I suppose I'm looking for a 'Ok Google, what can I make with peas, a poussin, and half an empty can of Doctor P
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by flashm 11y ago
Great idea. Iterate on it. I've always wanted to make something like this, for when you've got some stuff in the fridge but don't know what to make. Input: "Eggs, carrots, beef, whatever" Output: Some tasty looking
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by flashm 11y ago
I work like this when I can. Sit still, thinking, sometimes with my eyes shut for at least 20 minutes. I'll be thinking about the best way to solve a problem, then will 'wake up' write a couple of lines of code, and carry on.

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