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by jwr 2y ago
If you think you can run a business with 10 high-skilled employees on $40,000 of revenue per month, boy, have I got news for you :-) Similarly, if you think 1000 B2B SaaS subscriptions is an easy-to-achieve number, I'd wager a bet you
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> That kind of job existing in the first place is the problem. Yes, that was my initial reaction, too, when I first saw these people. I felt superior, in My Western World we didn't have jobs like that. We did Bigger and More Importa
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The problem is with work ethics, not with jobs. In Japan, it's impressive to see how people perform even the most menial jobs with dedication. It's the Yoda approach: do or do not. If you do a job, do it well. So, you will see peo
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Love the idea, but I couldn't find a "pricing" page and wanted to abandon reading immediately (I have no time for unsustainable services). Then I learned from the discussion that the pricing is $2/m, which, two things: 1
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A day later, as I'm reading the responses and looking at the negative points on my comment: I have to learn to avoid commenting in certain topics on HN. It seems that most people here want their software to be FREE, or at least sold fo
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Yes, of course.
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I have a keyboard from my first 386/33 computer. It can be connected to my current Mac through a sequence of adapters: DIN5 -> PS/2 -> USB-A -> USB-C. I am looking forward to extending my sequence of adapters in the futur
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VMs don't solve the problem. I was also a fan of running stuff in VMs (using VMware), and then the Apple Silicon transition happened and my Windows VMs no longer work.
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The Internet happened, and operating systems evolve much faster. You could buy a piece of software and run it on MS-DOS 5.0 for a long time if you didn't need networking and the software did what you wanted it to do. You didn't
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> I have no interest in renting my tools. While I appreciate the sentiment, the world where you could use the same software for many years without updates is gone. These days developers have to invest significant time and effort into mak
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I so hate CSV. I am on the receiving end: I have to parse CSV generated by various (very expensive, very complicated) eCAD software packages. And it's often garbage. Those expensive software packages trip on things like escaping quotes
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I guess you are aware of this, but just in case: some of us rely on dictation in our daily computer usage (think people with disabilities or pain problems). A MacBook Pro with M4 Max and 64GB of RAM could easily run something much larger th
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I don't have a package.json. I don't use npm. But I do use React. Yes, I am not like [insert scientifically determined very very high percentage] of teams out there — but that's exactly my point. There are ways to do fronte
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None? I use it from ClojureScript. I've been maintaining a React-based app with Semantic UI for 10 years now.
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But it's not necessarily good hacker news material. We get links that do not work, publishers get free promotion without providing anything. We will say something about viable models, and then somebody will post an archive.org link, by
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Hi, I haven't really used my HP48 much over the last years. I bought a bunch of HP50G calculators, and since those had most of the stuff I need preloaded, I took the easy path and I just use a stock HP50G these days. I've found th
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This brings back memories of running Fractint on my i386/33 (that's 33MHz) and waiting for a full-resolution image to be generated…
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The problem is that smart people are the ones being employed, not the ones getting rich.
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Yes, and how would you talk to those from a web browser? Again, the "Print" dialog is not the right way for labels: there is no way of guessing of what it will do to your formatting, or whether it will choose to print A4-sized stu
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> I can count the times I've needed WebUSB or WebSerial on one hand There are many things that would be possible with WebUSB that current browsers make impossible. My personal example is label printers: I would love for my SaaS app
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Yes, that's the guy and he has written a lot of good sci-fi since then. He's pretty active on Mastodon too.
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You basically don't deal with VAT at all: charge the net amount, mention reverse charge on the invoice and you're done.
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An accountant that will quickly determine the VAT/sales-tax to charge on each transaction presented to the customer? :-) Accounting is important, but it's not the solution to the OP's problem. There are also questions of cost
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In case someone thinks this stuff is simple and you can go with country codes for VAT: have you heard about countries like AX (Åland Islands, part of Finland)? Do you remember that GB used to be within the EU VAT zone, but now isn't? H
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EU SaaS solo owner here (about 10 years so far). I gave up on B2C entirely. It's just too much hassle. My accountant starts screaming in horror whenever I mention VAT MOSS. Whenever I looked into the rules, I saw a snake pit with movin
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It is feasible to develop malicious firmware for the ESP32 even without these HCI commands. The existence of these undocumented commands doesn't change anything.
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Driving range can be estimated well: my VW ID.4 is pretty good at it, and the range estimate that it shows can be relied upon after correcting for things like headwind or driving uphill. The max range I get is pretty close to the advertised
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After reading this, I tried Claude Code (in a docker container, as one does, you wouldn't want to use npm without protection after all). I gave it a huge Clojure codebase and told it to implement proration in my subscription system. Wh
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by jwr 2y ago
> I am pretty sure 99% of people would halt at 'gpg' Please do not mock gpg. I have been using gpg for 25 years now (and PGP before that). It works. It encrypts. It decrypts. It is in vogue to mock gpg on HN and recommend more
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Same here: my reading glasses are great for reading, but when I work with computers, my screen is halfway between wrist and knuckles on an extended arm. That's too far for reading glasses. So I got a set of intermediates and things are

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