jamesrr39

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by jamesrr39 6y ago
> So I do blame the EU commission on endangering the general public health of its constituents. As the comment you replied to asked; do you have an actual source for that? The "much quoted" thing is not a source, it is simply w
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by jamesrr39 6y ago
Yes. A $1B advertising campaign! One might imagine there are more effective ways to run an advertising campaign. At any rate, it sure makes those superbowl advert campaigns look cheap.
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by jamesrr39 6y ago
Good regulation can be a great answer to problems (and not just anti-trust). Bad regulation is... well, not a good solution of course. For example, in another comment on this topic I wrote how I do a monthly backup of all my data in Google,
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by jamesrr39 6y ago
> Same thing if Google was to ban my gmail today, I'd lose SO MUCH and worse is my photos, all my logins, etc. Their "loss" on me could be devastating to my life and not even a blip on their radar. I have a monthly calenda
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by jamesrr39 6y ago
What an odd article/website. While deciding against offering a free plan is a (reasonable) choice that is made by many SaaS products, it's obviously not a blanket thing everyone needs to follow. Free plans in SaaS products are to
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by jamesrr39 6y ago
> $100 to list an app on the App Store and $50-$100 per update It's worth noting that for genuine developers this will incentivize less regular app releases, and push the barrier to entry to be in the app store higher, neither of w
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by jamesrr39 6y ago
I bought a new TV and got a phone call from Radiotjänst a couple of weeks later, asking where they should send the bill for the TV license. Busted! Now that the fee is discontinued, and it comes out of tax money instead, I sure don't m
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by jamesrr39 6y ago
The difference would be that for a prepaid service, you can build it in, knowing that once it eats through enough $, that's it; there is no more credit to take, power off the service. Whereas the billing by credit card, it will keep on
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by jamesrr39 6y ago
Funny enough I do the same thing with PayPal as I do with DO, deposit money in there, don't tie it to my bank account. Any problems, at least my losses are limited.
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by jamesrr39 6y ago
Sure, you know the price with renting one machine, and if what your doing is not a web app. But what about when you get way more network traffic than your app expected (I've seen HN submissions with exactly this)? And what if you built
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by jamesrr39 6y ago
#1 reason why I have never, and never plan to (while it remains this way), use GCP/AWS etc while it would be on my personal bank card. Instead I use DigitalOcean where you have droplet limits that you can set, and the ability the pre-p
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by jamesrr39 6y ago
Across the whole of the EU this isn't legal (the legal minimum warranty period is 2 years[1]). Legal aspects aside, it also isn't exactly a vote of confidence in the quality of the product. I mean, 30 days, really? 1: https:&#x2F
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by jamesrr39 6y ago
Depends on the route you took (work permit/studying/joining a family member), but if you are on work permit (and are a non-EU citizen), you can get it after 4 years of being on a work permit. (These 4 years count as part of the 5
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by jamesrr39 6y ago
> Try to become a citizen in Europe without having a familial claim or a ton of money. You can absolutely get a work visa (if you can arrange a job) but the chances of you becoming a full citizen is about 0. What utter rubbish! For examp
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by jamesrr39 6y ago
Looks nice! I wrote a chrome extension for natural language searching of bookmarks a while ago ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookmark-search/fc... ), I like your grouping of topics though (so you