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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I want to just second every part of Chris' answer. As for how to spend that $3k? I'd say work on finding a way to articulate your value proposition well enough so that you can convert customers at a high enough rate compared to wh
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
But getting an employee to hand over the private key and giving him a gag order afterwards is an option of course.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I was actually speaking on behalf of one of their target markets, as me repeatedly having to ask my personal trainer to correct his VAT calculations came to mind ;)
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I'd love to be able to specify the subtotal after VAT is applied as well, since that's often what you quote in practice and converting that to pre-VAT prices is a PITA. VAT is also actually called BTW here, so the ability to chang
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Seriously? I missed that part. That's cheeky...
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I think you meant "since it's owned by Microsoft". Also, if anyone is wondering, this article is actually from one of the most respectable Dutch newspapers.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
> It's a ridiculous machination of a bitter person's imagination. Whoa. Hold off on the ad-hominem attack there. She's probably reading this and saying that is not cool. Just because you don't like reading a (non-pr
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Somewhat off-topic; but if you're wondering how this became a story on HN: it was submitted to the ListServe a bit over an hour ago. The ListServe is a really cool email lottery where every day one person wins the chance to send an email to
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I was just discussing over lunch that I really don't understand why AirBnB doesn't just offer cities the ability to add 'tourist-tax' on top of the AirBnB rates. In the end it all boils down to cities not wanting to give up the revenue st
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I'll ask this on the off chance that this was posted by the author; have you considered adding support for importing from and exporting to curl commands? When you work in a team with non-developer testers they tend to use a GUI REST client
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
My first solution was assuming you could not revert. If you want to allow revert then the client would first call /posts/X/versions, get a list of all versions and then either do PATCH /posts/X { "version": "older-revision" } o
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Indeed. Creating a new version of your post should be a POST to /posts/X/versions. This would create something like /posts/X/versions/U-U-I-D. Since REST is all about mapping to the underlying semantics of HTTP you'd then want to make /post
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I'd say the phone industry is starting to approximate the fashion industry, with Apple targeting the high-end designer market and Android the cheaper but much larger mass-market segment.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Are we seriously there already? We really are living in amazing times. Do you happen to have a link to some sources about this?
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
For those without showdead on; it seems that Brian (not-D) Foy was hellbanned for his comments. It seems obvious that he is a disgruntled ex-employee so you should take his statements with a grain of salt, but since I don't see any reason f
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I was expecting you to tell me to raise my rates, since after reading my comment it seemed that what I was describing is what you'd expect to happen to an underpriced commodity with limited availability. I agree with seeing freelancing as a
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
We might be having an issue with the definition of the word consultant here or the Dutch market might just be different. My contracts generally always come in 3 month stretches. In case I haven't received a signed 3-month extension 1 month
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
They are apples and apples from the client's perspective though and as an independent consultant it's quite possible to consistently achieve 100% utilization.
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"The beauty of the Lisp language" by Marvin Minsky(webofstories.com)
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
After being hit by a car when I was young, that's exactly how I navigate traffic as a bicyclist/pedestrian. Traffic rules create a useful abstraction but, if you want to be safe, the only non-leaky abstraction is seeing traffic as a collect
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
The Netherlands has a very attractive 30% tax reduction for knowledge migrants which makes it attractive for foreign talent to come to the country. It seems to almost be a common denominator that when Dutch companies stop valuing their empl
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I also believe that it's about the lack of predictability much more than anything else, which is why I still believe we'll end up with a form of try-before-you-buy with variable pricing eventually. Perhaps we should replace the "Please rate
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I also ran across imgix.com a few days ago which is a CDN that does on the fly image resizing on GPUs. Are there some examples on how you would integrate something like that here?
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Imgix - Image Processing On-Demand, Served By CDN(imgix.com)
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That's why you'd call Haskell a 'purely functional' language.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
You might be the exception, but I'd wager to bet that over 90% of cases of "I'm bad at X" is caused by self-image, self-sabotage and/or underestimating the amount of time 'naturals' had to put in to get to where they were/are. When you're t
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
If you don't like DI or AOP, then you can just code plain Java. If you like DI but not AOP, then something like Guice or plain Java and some self-discipline would probably work better for you. If you like DI and AOP, then you can let Spring
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Cool! Can I sign up to be notified about the Mac version being released? It's HN username at gmail.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Please, pretty please with sugar on top, also add the ability to delay the subtitles! From listening to a lot of Pimsleur I know that, for me, anticipation and correction is one of the most powerful ways to learn a language. I'm pretty sure
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Spring is just an XML-based DSL that wires objects together and applies AOP aspects to them. Your bad experience was with a Spring- branded Eclipse; the open-source IDE that's so slow and bloated Google preferred switching to a proprietary

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