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by krn 7y ago
> They could also be VP of Engineering/Customer Service/etc. which would typically not be expected to have much, if any, legal or finance knowledge. That's in the article: > Four years ago, I landed a VP of engineering
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Electrification is a huge thing in the European market after stricter emission standards and additional taxes for car buyers were introduced, and has nothing to do with dieselgate.
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> Hyperbole much? I don't think so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaWdEtANi-0&t=36m16s
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> If one cannot afford Audi A6, Skoda Superb is the only choice. I completely agree with this. In fact, in my country many people are buying Škoda Superb even if they can afford Audi A6, because they don't see Audi A6 as being worth
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by krn 7y ago
VW's electrification efforts are primarily not about competing with Tesla in the US, but about not losing its 24% market share in Europe, where it has multiple non-premium brands, such as Seat and Škoda.
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> This isn’t just because you have a good FAQ, it’s because it’s relatively expensive. As a B2C SaaS product it actually seems to be relatively cheap: 10,000+ paying users and 370,000€ in yearly revenue points to around 2.99€ / mo
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by krn 7y ago
> Are there? The main alternative to Cursive in terms of user-friendliness is probably Calva[1], but it's not a standalone IDE. [1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=betterth...
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> I cannot believe that you make more from such a niche dev tool than your job at Google. It's important to note, that there are markets where Google pays 70-90k / year[1]. [1] https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary&#
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> If you serve a niche, people talk. Another thing probably is, that a subscription price of a niche product can be considerably higher than of a mainstream one? For a single person, it must be much easier to support 1,000 users paying s
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> This year, it's going to be around 370,000€ (and since I live in Germany, my income is in the top 0,5% or so). Is your business focused on the German market or the US market? Or is it multi-lingual / international? What perce
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In Europe, there is still a lot of pride in completely owning your company, and not having any plans to sell it to anyone, except maybe IPO. In many cases, the original founders are still running their tech companies 20 years later. It co
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Over time I learned to prefer European B2B tech companies, because they strive to be profitable from the beginning, take less VC money, are more stable, predictable, cost-conscious, engineering-focused, and, therefore, often much less likel
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by krn 7y ago
Xolo Leap[1], formerly LeapIn, is probably the most popular way of starting a company in Estonia as a foreigner. As an EU citizen, I see Estonian e-residency oriented more towards the people who are from outside the EU and want to establish
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> They’re also not based in a Nordic country, which I find misleading. Ironically, Lithuania is a part of Northern Europe, but because of the data retention laws they have to pretend that they are based somewhere else[1]. [1] https:&#x2
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> It’s an HK company with questionable relationships and owners. That seems to be ExpressVPN[1], the main competitor of NordVPN. [1] https://vpnscam.com/expressvpn-really-based-in-hong-kong/
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> If only non-profit organizations are allowed to use Google Play In-app Billing for donations Nobody is allowed to use Google Play's in-app billing for donations, and only organizations with a valid tax exempt status can link to
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by krn 7y ago
> Disallowing developers from using in-app billing for donations, while also barring them from linking to external donation platforms, puts open source projects in a difficult position, and appears to be overly hostile towards funding op
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I personally prefer the decoupled model of the PC: buy any hardware, install any OS. At the moment, KOReader[1] runs on Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook, and many other e-readers – and is completely open-source. [1] http://koreader.rocks
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by krn 7y ago
> I don't think Phoenix will ever be able to do better than about 80% of Rails's productivity. I haven't used Elixir/Phoenix myself, but my main issue with Ruby on Rails was how much of long-term productivity was sacr
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> For everything else, it's great, and it's almost always a good default to choose speed of development and engineer productivity over runtime performance. Doesn't Elixir on Phoenix[1] provide the elegance of Ruby on Rai
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And TornadoFX[1] in Kotlin, which seems to be a complete framework. [1] https://tornadofx.io/
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What are the technical reasons to prefer Qt over JavaFX[1]? Even Bitwig Studio, which is a C++ audio application, went with JavaFX for its cross-platform UI. It can also be written in React-like declarative style[2], which is much easier to
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> The UK financial regulators are not dumb and have thought this through. The UK financial regulators have already given the Electronic Money license to at least three crypto companies[1]. [1] https://cointelegraph.com/ne
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Well, I still think that email is good enough medium for personal communication, but most of the people I know have replaced it with Messenger. The same might happen with money transfers, if Messenger becomes another WeChat, just outside of
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Wouldn't Facebook just get something like the UK's Electronic Money license? That's how TransferWise operates without being a bank.
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This reminded me of a recent story in The New York Times: "I'm 20. I Have 32 Half Siblings. This Is My Family Portrait"[1]. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/26/magazine/
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by krn 7y ago
> Why do you feel they need to either be a top 10 YC company or they should just be a foundation? The history of reddit shows that its growth doesn't depend on a constant technological innovation, and that it can be successfully sup
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> I am surprised that reddit is on #13. Reddit might be a #1 project out of all the startups ever funded by Y Combinator, but it's unlikely to ever become a top 10 company . Because as an ad business it can neither match Google a
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Declarative programming expresses the logic of a computation without describing its control flow. This new feature in PostgreSQL is a great example of that: generated columns (declarative logic) were introduced to reduce the need for trigge
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> Minimizing the amount of busines logic in the dB is exactly what makes the dB structures long lasting. The trick is to keep declarative business logic in the database layer, and imperative business logic in the application layer. T

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