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by patd 8y ago
I entered data matching a barebones web app I’m currently building on nights and weekends and it also said 6-9 months and $48k. I’m wondering if the minimum isn’t just 6-9 months.
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by patd 8y ago
Aren't you asking a bit too much info for a simple SEPA transfer ? The IBAN should be all you really need, the rest are nice to have.
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by patd 8y ago
I think his argument was that, as you said, it would be highly gameable. But it's also the case for companies and they're (ab)using it to the point of paying little to no taxes in some countries.
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by patd 8y ago
The goal of the service is not to be an anti adblock tool. It's futile and publishers I've discussed with start to realize this more and more. The goal is to let you know if you're about to be impacted by a false positive. I&
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by patd 8y ago
The target audience is website owners. If my users are all using list based blockers (adblock, uBlock, mobiles, proxies, ...) and those lists block my content, I'd like to know quickly so I can appeal to the list maintainers.
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by patd 8y ago
Shameless plug: I'm building BlockedBy.com, a tool to monitor adblock rules that start blocking your content. Adding them is very quick but removing them isn't and you start getting a lot of complains from your users. I've ha
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by patd 8y ago
For the ballpark estimate, I think they just wanted for the request to go away by quoting an insanely high price.
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by patd 8y ago
I don't understand why he phoned the client to say they were late instead of letting the appointed chief executive do it.
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by patd 8y ago
It has Alexa built-in. Does that mean that Facebook isn't going to try to compete with Siri/Alexa/Cortana/Google ? Or that Alexa has won the home automation already ?
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by patd 8y ago
I would call it a profitable side-project rather than a startup but I've built a price comparison browser extension : http://www.shoptimate.com I'm currently busy launching a SaaS tool http://blockedby.com
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by patd 8y ago
Why is there only 3 providers there ? This should probably include others like OVH, Scaleway, Vultr,
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by patd 8y ago
My suggestion is to make something you would find useful but that don't already abundantly exist (don't make a todo app or a calendar). This way you won't feel frustrated if nobody uses it but you. Keep it simple, keep only t
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by patd 8y ago
I'm currently using a headless Chrome for my latest project www.blockedby.com (still in alpha stage, looking for feedback) I've been looking at a non-local solution. I'm using Python and this article hints that Puppeteer is n
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by patd 8y ago
I'd say they were in a position of being strategic investors. There are only a handful of major labels and Spotify is slowly killing legal downloads which itself killed physical copies. They owned a piece of the future of music distrib
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by patd 8y ago
Probably not in the short term. But I always felt that Spotify having the labels as shareholders was the main guarantee that they would keep their content on the platform. Maybe they'll need to start producing their own original conten
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by patd 8y ago
And now all of those reviews seem to have disappeared ... Maybe it's more effective to complain on HN.
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by patd 8y ago
The link explains that it’s due to the atmospheric air used in the process.
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by patd 8y ago
I think the main difference is kids. Daycare, healthcare and education is much cheaper in most of Europe (due to high taxes). You can earn more in the US as a top earner, but you can have a more relaxed and care-free life in Europe while st
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by patd 8y ago
Not GP, but some critics say that it's unclear if Amazon makes money on free shipping or if it's a loss-leader that Amazon can afford due to its valuation. For the government, some are saying that the USPS isn't charging enou
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by patd 8y ago
It only makes sense if there is already demand for those units which is what the article seem to suggest. If there are more than 100 families looking to live in the city, the price will not go down.
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by patd 8y ago
> It would also reduce existing home values I'm not an american so I probably don't get the real estate market in the US. But wouldn't rezoning actually increase the value ? Not of the home itself but of the land on which
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by patd 8y ago
For some context on why it might have seemed like a good idea at the time (April 2009): * Zappos hadn't been acquired yet by Amazon (July 2009) * Amazon failed to compete with Endless (launched in 2007) * Shoes seemed like a great vert
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by patd 8y ago
The 600k have probably been sold already.
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by patd 8y ago
From a European point of view, checks are just a thing of the past. The solution to expensive bank transfers is not using checks (which has its own issues) but just make it cheaper (free) and real-time like in the rest of the world.
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by patd 9y ago
Here is one where they use bread, dough and cheese to mean money: https://genius.com/105625
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by patd 9y ago
You could see it as a share with no voting rights but that entitles you to dividends based on the fees they make on the trading platform.
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by patd 9y ago
A lot of stocks are trading on multiple exchanges. Unilever and Shell trade on the NY, London and Amsterdam stock exchanges. People typically use the one closer to them geographically or from a currency point of view. And things like gold
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by patd 9y ago
Congrats. I had also started trying to decode the QR but as I was starting to look into the ECC I noticed someone had moved half of the coins and gave up. Glad you explained your technique. I initially used a Picross editor to map the scree
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by patd 9y ago
It depends on what the goal is. Is it to identify the song à la Shazam or to display lyrics, concert tickets info, ... ?
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by patd 9y ago
I'm long Bitcoin but those numbers should be taken with a grain of salt before using them to make a case for remittance and Bitcoin. Some of the top receiving countries include France, Germany or Belgium (over $1000 per inhabitant) and

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