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by jjevanoorschot 6y ago
That's not true in my experience -- at least in the Netherlands. My friends and family have wages that would be considered low in the US, but they live very comfortable lives and many of them work four days a week. I looked it up and t
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by jjevanoorschot 6y ago
In the UK before Deliveroo you could only order food from traditional take-away restaurants (Chinese, Indian, Pizza, etc). Delivery time could easily take north of 1.5 hours. Deliveroo takes 20-30 minutes. And you can order from really good
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Insights from Shape Up for managing projects(medium.com)
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by jjevanoorschot 7y ago
Whimsical [1] is an amazing tool for creating system designs and sequence diagrams. [1] - https://whimsical.com
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by jjevanoorschot 7y ago
Use Checkout unless you have a good reason not to. The main benefit is that if there is any large change in regulation (like SCA right now in the EU), Stripe will update Checkout and you will not have to change anything.
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by jjevanoorschot 7y ago
You are correct, it's a "two legs in" rule. SCA only applies if both the merchant and the customer are based in the EU.
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by jjevanoorschot 7y ago
Recently PayPal stopped allowing Adyen, one of the biggest payment service providers, to integrate with their platform. I'm not quite sure that integrating with PayPal is an option for Stripe, and even if it technically were an option,
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by jjevanoorschot 8y ago
One of the reasons that merchants do not enable 3DS for all transactions is that it hurts conversion. However, from September 14, nearly all online transactions in the EU will need to be authenticated by 3DS (2.0). 3DS 2.0 is supposed to be
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by jjevanoorschot 8y ago
And barely paying taxes.
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by jjevanoorschot 8y ago
Transferwise borderless accounts ( https://transferwise.com/gb/borderless/ ) do exactly that. You can open up multiple international bank accounts that are all linked to one debit card. It's free as well.
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by jjevanoorschot 8y ago
What was confusing about their monthly fee? I used to work for bunq so I can pass on the feedback.
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by jjevanoorschot 8y ago
Jordan Peterson said this in a recent interview.
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by jjevanoorschot 9y ago
For those who didn't already get it, it's an April Fool's joke.
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by jjevanoorschot 9y ago
iOS definitely doesn't come with Facebook pre-installed.
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by jjevanoorschot 9y ago
Citymapper run buses in London that use emoji to show at which stop you have to get off.
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by jjevanoorschot 9y ago
Interesting, I had not taken that into account. Maybe something I'd consider a few years down the line.
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by jjevanoorschot 9y ago
Oh for sure! But those numbers will be difficult to find in The Netherlands. Switzerland has the highest paying software engineering jobs in Europe AFAIK.
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by jjevanoorschot 9y ago
I am not sure how well this generalises over the entire EU. My experience in the Netherlands is that job hopping occurs frequently and is a great way to get on a higher salary. However, I do agree that there is a salary cap around 70-80k fo
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by jjevanoorschot 9y ago
It could be, but e.g. Apple has implemented their own bluetooth chip that makes stuff like pairing easier. While super convenient, it shows that the wireless headphone market will probably be somewhat divided, while headphones used to be un
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by jjevanoorschot 9y ago
I used CockroachDB for a university project, and while I think it looks very promising, I found the tooling and documentation to be a bit lacking. I wouldn't use it in production yet. However, when CockroachDB matures a bit I can reall
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by jjevanoorschot 9y ago
The rating also benefits the customers. You don't get a choice between drivers, because only drivers with a high enough score will be allowed to continue on the platform. This might be harsh to the drivers, but it makes for a good cust
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by jjevanoorschot 9y ago
"Such kind of people give Women in Code a really, really bad name, because sweetie, it takes tonnes of hardwork, cutting through competition, persistent dealing with sexism and lot of patience to make place for yourself in this male-do
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by jjevanoorschot 9y ago
You're right, although to a non-native speaker these might be hard to distinguish. The Dutch are often praised for their ability to speak English, but in my experience nuances like these are often missed, making the Dutch come across m
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by jjevanoorschot 9y ago
MSF are treating wounded refugees, so there is definitely proof of violence. There are 800,000 Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh [1]. They must be running from something, right? I don't understand why you go to such an extent doub
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by jjevanoorschot 9y ago
Médecins Sans Frontières actually released a press release [1] two days ago reporting that more than 6,700 Rohingya have been killed in one month. That is their most conservative estimate. MSF does not use the word genocide, but their repor
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by jjevanoorschot 9y ago
Do you have any examples of how the iPhone is insecure? Genuinely curious.
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by jjevanoorschot 9y ago
A recent talk [0] by Ronald Minnich from Google gives a nice overview of their efforts to replace parts of Intel ME and UEFI with Linux, mostly for security reasons. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iffTJ1vPCSo