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by stevoski 3y ago
They sure do pass a lot of new rules these days about sweeping.
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by stevoski 3y ago
Struts was a popular Java MVC framework in the early 2000’s and was pre-Rails. I kind of feel bad mentioning Struts and Rails in the same sentence, though, as Rails did much more than Struts.
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by stevoski 3y ago
A little outside of Barcelona, you can (sometimes) visit a particle accelerator. https://www.cells.es/en/about/welcome
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by stevoski 3y ago
Ah, I remember this specific file from my time at the ECB 15-ish years ago. IIRC it was by far the most downloaded file on the ECB website. Tons of people, including many financial institutions, downloaded it daily, and used it to update th
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by stevoski 3y ago
CityDesk was a miserable failure. FogBugz earned some good money. I suspect it bankrolled them so they could make Trello (which had very little revenue).
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by stevoski 3y ago
In New Zealand English, pear rhymes with both bear and fear. So in a pinch, you can just pretend you learnt English in New Zealand.
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by stevoski 3y ago
That was one of the most enjoyable comments I've ever read on HN.
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by stevoski 3y ago
You mention that you have a Java SDK but I can’t find it on your website. Can you please share a direct link to the Java SDK?
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Five hard, slow years of bootstrapping a SaaS(timekeeper.co.uk)
1 points by stevoski 3y ago|0 comments
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by stevoski 3y ago
This very much tells me you need to change the name. It might be difficult now, but it will only get more difficult as time passes.
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by stevoski 4y ago
Someone on the Internet is very wrong today.
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by stevoski 4y ago
Care to tell us what RTO stands for?
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by stevoski 4y ago
Somebody is wrong on the Internet today. Very wrong.
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by stevoski 4y ago
Yeah, this one is a bit over the top. 1% fee for USD to USD transfer. People from Stripe will probably appear in this discussion any moment now. It’ll be interesting seeing them try to explain this one.
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by stevoski 4y ago
Blogging, as it was in the first decade of the 2000's died long ago. Yes, there are still blogs, and still people blogging. And many companies have something they call "blogs". But once we're done with there hairsplittin
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by stevoski 4y ago
Matt, this is simply an awesome story. It’s surprisingly common that people take years to get to the point where they can go full-time. I find your story far more relatable than the “I started a SaaS and reached tons of revenue in one year
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by stevoski 4y ago
If a=1 and b=1, the midpoint should be 1. But in computing, assuming we are only dealing with integers, 1/2 == 0. So 1/2 + 1/2 returns 0.
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by stevoski 4y ago
Indeed. I’m (sorta) old and cranky and even I love JSON as a data interchange format. Because I had to use XML for years, including SOAP.
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by stevoski 4y ago
You guessed correctly! Spark was fine, but was abandoned. Which means it was stuck using an end-of-life’d version of Jetty. Which meant that we could no longer pass security audits. Whereas Javalin continues to get frequently updated.
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by stevoski 4y ago
This is Javalin and it is great. We switched to it a few months ago from another micro-framework.
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Saying no to a generous acquisition offer (podcast episode)(bootstrapped.fm)
1 points by stevoski 4y ago|1 comments
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by stevoski 4y ago
“Second world”: the former communist block consisting of the Soviet Union and some countries in eastern Europe.
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by stevoski 4y ago
> which Google terms they searched, etc. GA doesn't tell you which terms they searched. They mostly stopped doing this in 2013. Google Search Console _does_ tell you the search terms, and without any tracking on your website.
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by stevoski 4y ago
It is good to see a GA competitor not resort to FUD as a marketing tool.
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by stevoski 4y ago
Plausible et al all are a pale imitation of GA. They all offer a dashboard with some basic filtering. But they offer little in the way of true analytics features, that allow you to slice, dice, and compare data.
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by stevoski 4y ago
This book (1st edition, at least) is astonishing. Perhaps the best book for coders that I’ve ever read. I recommend it to all the HN crowd. Reading it, I felt like I actually understood how computers worked, right down to the “electricity g
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by stevoski 4y ago
TC, IBD, ICT4, Ldn, GP… I simply can’t parse this comment.
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SaaS Startup Growth Is Slowing Down. Here’s the Data(chartmogul.com)
3 points by stevoski 4y ago|0 comments
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by stevoski 5y ago
We use Amazon Corretto for our bootstrapped, profitable SaaS. The reason is that we host on AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and this is the Java distribution that is supplied by default on Elastic Beanstalk's Java-based images. Amazon Corretto
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by stevoski 5y ago
> Then why do I have to have multiple JVMs installed, which I need to go through via trial-and-error, if I'm given some random java application? You don't. Almost any Java program written ever will run on Java 18.

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