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Ask HN: How to Price a Software Library?
34 points by rivo 7y ago|15 comments
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by rivo 8y ago
There was a HN post three years ago on how to declare someone as dead [0]. Granted, this was not the decision of a machine but like in OP's story, it's a one-way road with no way to "undo" or at least "sudo kill -9&
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by rivo 9y ago
The quote at the end is meant as a joke but it's interesting how often this is true. A lot of magic tricks rely on being prepared for different outcomes, while often trying for the least likely one first. This unlikely outcome happens
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Textured gradients in pure CSS(rentafounder.com)
1 points by rivo 11y ago|0 comments
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by rivo 11y ago
Let's say this is a modal dialog which is supposed to appear in the center of the screen, fixed (but the size is unknown and may scale with its contents). With any of the existing solutions, the HTML code for the dialog will always be
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by rivo 11y ago
This also relies on a container DIV (".overlay"). So Flexbox doesn't help here.
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by rivo 11y ago
Unfortunately, this page does not give a solution to a long-standing centering problem I've had: Given a single DIV of unknown width and height, how do I center it in the middle of the screen (floating, i.e. fixed)? Note the "sing
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by rivo 12y ago
The big trend in the airline industry is to customize prices and availabilities to each individual request. Your location (IP address), your frequent flyer status (if logged in), the competitor's current prices, the distribution channe
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by rivo 12y ago
It's Go's simplicity that really struck a nerve with me. I've been coding for over 30 years now (Basic, ASM, C/C++, Java, Python, PHP, JS, Clojure) and with Go, I just love how everything is laid out for you: idiomatic G
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by rivo 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - remote from Berlin, Germany, part-time I'm a full-stack web developer with close to 30 years of programming experience. Previously, I've developed large, mission-critical systems for major airlines and, as a technic
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by rivo 13y ago
I believe it's crowdsourced. There are many items I eat that they don't have in their database. The app allows you to submit the nutrition info to their database and it gets recognized afterwards. MyFitnessPal is very popular. The
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by rivo 13y ago
A friend of mine used to work for one of these paid content agencies. Her job was to set up a few Wordpress blogs a day while writers filled them with content. Apparently, among their clients were lots of large companies. It seems, though,
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by rivo 13y ago
My co-founder and I have a combined 20+ years of experience in the airline software industry. When we set out to start our own business, it was clear that we were not going to sell to airlines. Too many legacy systems, too much historically
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by rivo 14y ago
A practical introduction to the Backtracking algorithm.
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by rivo 14y ago
One of my music videos on YouTube is blocked in Germany with a note that it infringes copyright. I wrote the music and the lyrics myself. I shot the video myself. I'm the sole copyright owner. The appeal didn't lead anywhere. It was detecte
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by rivo 14y ago
Looking at this from my office in Berlin, I thought "wow, they're even using GeoIP and some clever compositing to adjust the background to wherever I am."
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by rivo 15y ago
I don't understand this. Upload your image to a (micro)stock agency to sell it, then see how much it is really worth, i.e. how much people will pay for it in the free market. (Value and production cost are two very different things.) But ma
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by rivo 15y ago
it's great. can i get an rss feed for my city?
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by rivo 15y ago
I met a guy once who, at the time, had benen travelling for 7 years. His main advice was: Don't get married. You don't want to know how much people cheat on their sopouses.
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by rivo 15y ago
We had our (supposedly?) first HN Meetup Berlin last week and want to do it on a regular basis: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2513404
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by rivo 15y ago
You can sign up on that website for notifications because I probably won't post it here every time.
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by rivo 15y ago
Clickable: http://rentafounder.com/hacker-news-meetup-berlin/
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HN Meetup Berlin - Join Us on May 17, 2011
23 points by rivo 15y ago|6 comments
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by rivo 16y ago
Maybe it would help to increase the proximity radius dynamically so you always get results. It probably would have made your first-run user experience better, even if the photos had been taken farther away (same city, same state, or same co
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by rivo 16y ago
I got sick a few times from street-vendor food in 3rd world countries. It turned out that they often reuse oil for too long. I now avoid deep-fried food, dirty or tap water, and things like ice-cream. I've been fine on my travels since.
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by rivo 16y ago
If you would like to know more about what made the Albrecht brothers' stores so successful, you should read Dieter Brandes's book. It think the English version is this one: http://www.amazon.com/Bare-Essentials-ALDI-Way-Retailing/dp/...
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by rivo 16y ago
I did the following two times. They were the only times I tried and I was successful in both cases: -I researched how much I should be getting and brought that data to the meeting with my boss. It's usually a little tricky because most data
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by rivo 16y ago
I remember reading an article a while back about some World Championship of Rock Paper Scissors. The winner back then said that most players with a "strategy" eventually failed. The only thing he did was think of a random sequence before pl
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by rivo 16y ago
I have recently been addressed with my name by a flight attendant. I fly a lot but it's been the first time ever. They've always had this information but they almost never use it. I wonder if it would be the same in stores.
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by rivo 16y ago
I work for a company which develops software for airlines. Our product is bought simply because it makes them 1.8% more revenue per year. We could have the greatest user interface and it wouldn't matter at all. The users are ignored. I've s

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