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by laurentl 8y ago
How do you manage mobile (iOS in particular)? UP (uncle post) mentions a home-made Android app to sync... is there a more mainstream option?
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by laurentl 8y ago
You can look at it the other way around: GDPR can be a barrier to entry in the European market, therefore making EU compagnies more resistant to outside competitors, which increases their valuation. As a foreign company, if you want to ente
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by laurentl 8y ago
A few thoughts, as a CTO with a small team: - not everyone needs the same leveling up, and it’s not always technical. I coach one of my junior dev on improving his code, another one in being more confident of her skills. My lead dev is soli
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by laurentl 8y ago
Honestly, the first time I saw a Paypal email (something along the line of “check out your account activity”) I thought for sure that it was a phishing attempt. Not one link in their emails point to PayPal, they all point to stg like paypal
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by laurentl 8y ago
This reminds me of a card skimmer I found on an ATM about 12 years ago (unfortunately, after I had used it to withdraw cash). I basically lucked into finding the camera hole and managed to rip the fake cover + video camera + transmitter f
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by laurentl 8y ago
(CTO, not front-end dev so will answer more on philosophy and strategy than nuts & bolts) We recently upgraded our B2C website, which is a SPA/vue affair. After going through the development and upgrade of the site, and seeing firs
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by laurentl 8y ago
I’m somewhat in the same position as OP, except that I know I want to explore FP. I’ve more or less settled on Ocaml, although I might be sqwyed by F#’s integration with the .net ecosystem (will have to look at some F# code to see if it mak
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by laurentl 8y ago
Chiming in, although most has already been said: - noise-canceling headphones with ambiant noise / music. I like Focus@will for this, some of their tracks are spot-ok for me. - a large slot of time in which I know I can work uninterrup
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by laurentl 8y ago
I find that re-reading the books help. For instance, it wasn’t until my 3rd read of The Goal that I felt as if I completely understood the underlying themes. As others mentioned, being able to relate to the content of the book helps immen
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by laurentl 8y ago
You don’t have to use GA for your own needs. If you have a traditional web site, you can get a lot done with nginx logs. Things get hairier with an SPA, but it isn’t too complicated to replicate Google Analytics’ “event” features on your ow
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by laurentl 8y ago
Well, the study shows that there are legit exchanges, so there is some place for the usual market forces to apply (and indeed, the price of Bitcoin on these exchanges lies in a tight band, too small for arbitrage opportunities). That doesn’
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by laurentl 8y ago
I would say that it’s more like a dating profile picture. You don’t have to add one, but if you do, it better be one where you’re smiling, not the one where you’re in hung over with a little bit of barf on your pajamas.
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by laurentl 8y ago
From a security perspective, the OWASP top 10 is required reading if you don’t know it yet. More generally, always assume your users are hostile and don’t trust any input that comes from them (this may come across as harsh, but really: if t
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by laurentl 8y ago
> More free strange space I love this typo!
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by laurentl 8y ago
Knowing the organization exists and knowing that someone specifically works the organization are two different things. In fact, this is the defining characteristic of any secret organization (governmental or otherwise: CIA, Stasi, KKK (
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by laurentl 8y ago
I don’t know specifically about Golden Bridge but I have been on the receiving end of other trophy clearinghouses: we were notified we had won a whatever of the year award without even applying for it and that we could purchase the actual
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by laurentl 8y ago
What provider did you switch for?
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by laurentl 8y ago
Reading through your post, it struck me that your skill set is very close to that of a CTO of a small startup (the missing part is around hiring and managing, and maybe you’ve done that as well). At least it sounds a lot like my first few m
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Triton malware targets critical safety equipment in industrial plants(technologyreview.com)
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by laurentl 8y ago
Well the page on MOSS lists “distance teaching” as falling under the definition of digital services. So I guess the answer is yes?
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by laurentl 8y ago
Thanks, I'll have a look at F# syntax to see if it resonates. Is there a tutorial or (text)book you would recommend to get started? > in a world where python is taking over, f# is very refreshing. Can you elaborate? I happen to like
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by laurentl 8y ago
Thanks for the feedback. At this stage the goal is purely to dabble in FP with "Advent of Code" style mini-programs, and basically opening my developer chakras. An added benefit would be to use this new language at work, which mea
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by laurentl 8y ago
Everyone pays VAT but if you’re a company you get reimbursed (by having your accountant compute all paid VAT and asking the state for a refund IIUC). VAT is only supposed to apply to the last transaction with the consumer, hence the “value
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by laurentl 8y ago
I didn’t know what this was, so I checked ( https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/taxation/vat/vat-digit... ). Long story short: MOSS stands for “mini one stop shop” and looks explicitely designed to make
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by laurentl 8y ago
Thanks for this (and the child comments). I was just about to post a “which functional language should I pick up” ask HN but I got most of my answer from this thread :D I learned to program in Caml (20 years ago now... it still seems like y
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by laurentl 8y ago
Which would you recommend from an ecosystem/performance perspective? I’m thinking hard about picking up a new language and I think it’ll be oCaml, but F# does have the .net ecosystem behind it... how is ocaml’s stdlib? Is it easy to fi
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by laurentl 8y ago
The Curbside challenge was pretty fun. It may be the one you’re thinking of, lots of API calls to get the key. https://challenge.curbside.com/
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by laurentl 8y ago
There may be no global, credible alternatives now . There would most certainly be local, semi-credible alternatives gaining ground shortly after such a move. If the biggest, most entrenched provider suddenly disappears... well that’s going
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by laurentl 8y ago
> Congratulations, you just got most of a country to angrily write their parliament-critters. Yes, and you also got every single other country in the world to take notice and to wonder what would happen if the same happened to them... le
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by laurentl 8y ago
Ask about their runway/burn rate, and how they plan to raise more money (i.e. what milestones they plan to reach and how that gets them through a new round). This should be an easy question. Not being able to answer it or dissembling i

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