mdekkers

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by mdekkers 3y ago
I spent a year in Portugal, also due to the tax breaks. Rent and cost of living in modestly desirable areas are in the realm of the delusional, which is why we left as soon as we could. In our case, we signed our rental lease right before t
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by mdekkers 3y ago
That does not look like it will be doing my RSI any favours…
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Looks cool, but you lost me at the SSO Tax on your pricing page.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Interesting, thanks. Unfortunately the combination of super annoying background sound and the totally weird voiceover drove me to close the tab about halfway through.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Could you provide more details?
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by mdekkers 3y ago
BeOS is the batmobile of Operating Systems.[1] [1] https://www.hackneys.com/docs/in-the-beginning-was-the-comma...
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Stop it with the fresh ideas for these folks please
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by mdekkers 3y ago
This is absolutely correct, in my view. I spent the last 4 years trying to bootstrap with a partner. I’ve kept up the day job to keep the lights on, and provide some limited support to my partner whilst they commit 100% to writing code. The
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Yandex consistently pumps out great software. Clickhouse is awesome, for starters, as is this.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Signify, the makers of the product, are slowly but surely moving towards a subscription model, and requiring a login at all times is a first step to that. They are starting with their (stupidly expensive) security products where some functi
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by mdekkers 3y ago
https://archive.ph/f0uE2
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> if everyone's copying them Thats not what I said. > it's hard to argue that they haven't hit on something that works better than the known alternatives. Does it work better though? Barring some statistical outliers su
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by mdekkers 3y ago
I was talking about the notion you can either have a family, or start a VC business, but not both, which is the point the poster was making.
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> Having a family is a serious commitment. There's a limited amount of time in everyone's day, you can't commit yourself to everything Comparing “move to another city (or country) for three months” with “there is a limited
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> It's just 3 months. This is an incredibly long time to be away from your family for many people. > Before cellphones went mainstream. Yeah, and before we had antibiotics people would die from simple infections, that doesn’t mea
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by mdekkers 3y ago
YC would have me leave my family behind for an extended period of time. The unspoken YC mantra is that startups are for the young, relatively well off, and unattached. The fact that many accelerators globally follow the YC template means th
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by mdekkers 3y ago
That’s right. I have a significant investment in Hue devices since they are (or were, prior to sale of company) simply the best LED lamps available. The Hue app surfaces functionality that isn’t available on plain zigbee, such as soft on&#x
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> The lack of a unified backend makes it much harder to build native mobile apps. That response comes across as disingenuous. The lack of a unified backend makes a lot of monetisation models hard, but should pose zero problems for native
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> Suing a company because their drink does not give you wings is just... Stupid Redbull has to pay 13 million dollars, so possibly not stupid. Anyway, TFA is about “Mango Dragonfruit Starbucks Refreshers are missing mango, Strawberry Aça
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> The difficulty in running a CA at a very large scale (public or private) is that the root certificate revocation becomes prohibitively difficult. For this reason, its security is critical and much ceremony is warranted. Unless the end-
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> Ceremony is required. Ceremony, as in “a well established, rigorously implemented, meticulously documented, and diligently audited process” is required to establish and maintain trust. A CA promises that folks showing up bearing their
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> The point is that if you used a 1kb random password for service to service auth and someone tried to sell you a $400/mo service to generate them, you’d laugh in their face and then have security escort them from the building. Go a
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> And how can I as a customer calculate this? Either your shit works, or it doesn’t. You do monitor, don’t you?
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Have to agree. There is a lot of wild stuff going on that is visually tiring and hampers readability
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by mdekkers 3y ago
The yellow google search appliance was cool at the time.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
That can be many things, but I doubt it is an adult toy. You’ve not read tfa
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> So there's some loyalty at least for existing employees. There is the calculus that the PR and legal costs are not entirely predictable and could be higher, so why the the risk if we have the cash. If you are at a megacorp, you ar
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by mdekkers 3y ago
That Ryan dude doesn’t have an honest bone in his body, what are you even talking about?
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Thats not at all how the real world works at C-Suite level
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by mdekkers 3y ago
I think “take responsibility for fucking up the lives of a whole bunch of people, because he didn’t agree with the hiring strategy of the CEO he dumped” is the angle here. That fine specimen of humanity goes on to say, in the same breath “w

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