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by pimterry 5y ago
I use Paddle, they do file 99% of your taxes for you. In effect, they sell the product to customers, and handle all the tax on that side, for every tax regime in the world. Meanwhile you act as a company with a single B2B client and one inv
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Encoding your HTTP for fun and profit(httptoolkit.tech)
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by pimterry 5y ago
I mean, yes, absolutely, and that works to start with, but I'm willing to bet the overall uptime and performance of a raspberry pi in your living room is quite a bit worse that Fastly's :-).
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by pimterry 5y ago
> Agree, but currently, ipfs would serve as a fallback, since it's about files. Isn't a CDN fundamentally all about files too? > Decentralized/distributed generally has slower network performance. Unless most nodes are
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by pimterry 5y ago
This is one of the things that excites me about IPFS: in a world of decentralized data storage, yes self-hosting and control over your data is nice and all, but serious resilience to most random infrastructure outages is a much bigger deal.
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by pimterry 5y ago
> Countries would simply not agree to play along, no? You require them to play along, you sanction them if they don't, and you penalize anybody locally who does any business with the companies who are 'based' there. The EU
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by pimterry 5y ago
> you redirect $100 million away from Microsoft's research into artificial intelligence This confuses the issue - corporation tax has the opposite effect to this, because it only applies to profits. When profits are heavily taxed,
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by pimterry 5y ago
> Also it's illegal to use other currencies as tender That's generally not true - it's not the case in the US ( https://mises.org/wire/use-us-dollars-mandatory-united-state... ) or the EU ( https:/
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by pimterry 5y ago
The UK has ruled it out as a solution for large local events and cultural activities, they haven't ruled out vaccine passports in general. As far as I can tell they're still very much planned for inbound international travel to th
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by pimterry 5y ago
> Would be good if they published some stats around this i.e., y% or x million would use this on a daily/monthly basis or some such. In 2019 1.4 million people migrated from one EU state to another [1], and 3.3% of EU working age ci
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by pimterry 5y ago
If you do a lot of email, especially professionally, it's totally worth it, even just for email alone. I feel like a lot of people were using Hey to help them manage their email-heavy workflows (e.g. their focused replying tools to han
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by pimterry 5y ago
I'd really recommend https://missiveapp.com as an alternative (not affiliated, just a happy customer). Lots of team features, but even for individuals it has things like thread merging, snooze, tracker blocking, alias suppo
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by pimterry 5y ago
I'm using a tiling window manager and it's very hard to miss: each attempt opens a new window that resizes the browser and takes up half the screen. On the other hand, I guess they could automatically measure the window size in
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Migrating from Python to Kotlin for Our Back End Services(doordash.engineering)
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by pimterry 5y ago
> Even then you still need consent to store the cookie under most versions of the "Cookie law" I don't think the cookie law is different from GDPR in that respect. IANAL, but from the EU directive itself [1]: > Member S
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by pimterry 5y ago
100% agree - I've used Wormhole a few times when I try to quickly get data into interactive VM sessions, because it works great otherwise, but the graphics consistently grind the whole thing to a halt. I really don't get the reaso
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by pimterry 5y ago
> invoicing, regardless on the location (this one is really big - getting a single invoice from Apple instead of dealing with potentially thousands of documents) Paddle.com do this as a standalone service for any digital product (I use t
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Scaling monorepo maintenance(github.blog)
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GitHub blocks FLoC across all of GitHub Pages(github.blog)
555 points by pimterry 6y ago|212 comments
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How GitHub ship code faster and safer with feature flags(github.blog)
1 points by pimterry 6y ago|0 comments
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Closed Standards(hackerfactor.com)
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Build an HTTPS-intercepting JavaScript proxy in 30 seconds flat(httptoolkit.tech)
1 points by pimterry 6y ago|0 comments
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Babel alternative in TypeScript that's 2x faster than esbuild(twitter.com)
7 points by pimterry 6y ago|1 comments
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by pimterry 6y ago
I spent years working in Java, I've entirely moved to TypeScript as a replacement in recent years in the front and back end and it's been a huge improvement. The dramatically larger ecosystem and community is great, but notably th
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by pimterry 6y ago
Many sites will support QUIC soon, but they won't strictly require it for a long time, it's negotiated and backward compatibility isn't irrelevant quite yet.
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by pimterry 6y ago
I've worked in a ~50 person distributed company - the practical contracting steps weren't a big issue. You pay everybody outside your local jurisdiction as contractors, and you pass on the significant savings to them as salary, so
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One Port to Rule Them All(httptoolkit.tech)
2 points by pimterry 6y ago|0 comments
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Is WebAssembly magic performance pixie dust?(surma.dev)
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by pimterry 6y ago
The author published a working React & JSX example here that might be useful: https://natto.dev/@paul/1dcbeb7583624bf19d69b9942271a703 . Some background on Twitter too: https://twitter.com/_paulshen&
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Mutation Testing at Google(testing.googleblog.com)
1 points by pimterry 6y ago|0 comments

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