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by stevoski 5y ago
> Molotov certainly was a hardass - hence the cocktail. The Molotov cocktail was named ironically after Molotov by Finns. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov_cocktail The name "Molotov cocktail" was
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by stevoski 5y ago
Every time Barcelona's superblocks come up on HN, people confuse them with mere blocks. A superblock (or superilla in Catalan) is usually a 3 by 3 grid of blocks. The inner streets are closed to through traffic, although locals can sti
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by stevoski 5y ago
I don't think you've understood what Barcelona's superblock concept is. Take a 3 by 3 grid of streets, and close the inner streets to through traffic. Then do creative stuff with those inner streets instead.
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by stevoski 5y ago
This doesn't sound like Barcelona's superblock concept at all. It sounds like you are talking about mere blocks. The superblock concept only exists in a few places so far in Barcelona. It takes (usually) a 3 by 3 grid of blocks an
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by stevoski 5y ago
This headline is quite inaccurate. Most stamp collections are worth a pittance, and worth far less than was spent on building them in the heyday of stamp collecting. The hobby mostly died out a couple of decades ago. Just a few diehards, an
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Fighting SaaS Sign-Up Spam(bootstrapped.fm)
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by stevoski 5y ago
I have a feeling the author of this post wasn’t an active blogger themselves when the heyday of personal blogs ended. I blogged actively from 2008 to about 2015. Through some luck, I had a good sized audience right from the beginning. Somet
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by stevoski 5y ago
> We're probably about the same age, so let me ask you this: have you ever heard or seen a European person (who failed a business he or she depended on) carrying his or her failure like a badge of honor? Yes, I have.
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by stevoski 5y ago
> “European culture is slightly different: most people consider a startup failure as something bad that you drag along for the rest of your career.” I hear this over and over, but in my 20 years of living in Europe, I haven’t found this
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by stevoski 5y ago
I know more about the online poker industry than I wish I did. This “whale” phenomenon describes exactly why online poker is so profitable for the site operators. The profits don’t come from the masses of people cautiously playing on micro
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by stevoski 5y ago
No, that’s not correct at all. Each country has their own laws about how tax works for online sales, and who is expected to pay it. You can choose to ignore what governments in other countries expect. But that’s your decision.
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by stevoski 5y ago
Awesome job from Stripe on this one. For years, the lack of VAT/Sales tax handling in Stripe’s Checkout was a glaring omission. They’ve really delivered with an outstanding solution.
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by stevoski 5y ago
Add to the pattern: * Write to high profile companies that use your OSS work asking them to contribute. * Get a very polite and convoluted "no" in response.
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by stevoski 5y ago
What this really seems to be is a ranking of “how Scandinavian is each city”.
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by stevoski 5y ago
> The north Iraq (Kurdistan region) is a wonderful place for tourist! I've been there, as a backpacking tourist. "A wonderful place for tourist" is overselling it, I think.
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by stevoski 5y ago
My experience is, don’t sell lifetime subscriptions, and don’t sell self-hosted versions. Neither of them work out, business-wise.
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by stevoski 5y ago
A good place to start with pricing is tiers at $49/$99/$249. (As recommended in Jason Cohen’s classic and awesome talk “Designing the Ideal Bootstrapped Business”: https://youtu.be/otbnC2zE2rw ) Customers at very l
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by stevoski 5y ago
Great idea. Charge more. Get rid of the $9/plan. Saying this as a SaaS operator who could use something like this, and who pays much more for other apps.
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by stevoski 6y ago
Many of the customers of my B2B SaaS are the type of company from the article. We're small enough that I check out the website of every new company. I continue to be amazed at the sheer breadth of small-ish, profitable companies, often
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by stevoski 6y ago
> In a team with 100 devs, simplifying and unifying decisions is extremely important. I agree with this. Unfortunately, Spring is often chosen for projects with much smaller teams too. Just 1 to 5 devs on what is fundamentally just a CRU
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by stevoski 6y ago
My frustrating experience with J2EE and Spring is what led me to choose https://sparkjava.com/ as the Java framework for my SaaS. The Spark framework is so light and refreshingly comprehensible. I can actually tell what&#x2
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by stevoski 6y ago
I went to University in Australia and I don’t recall this term being in use. (Could be my faulty memory, though. It was a long time ago!) I’m still a little puzzled by exactly what is meant when people and orgs offer an “office hours” conc
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by stevoski 6y ago
This is fascinating to hear. Sometimes with Jira updates, I have to ask myself “What WERE they thinking?” It’s good to hear that actually some people (well, at least one!) inside the org ask this too.
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by stevoski 6y ago
As an avid podcast creator and consumer, I’d love to take a full look at this, but I kept getting the full captcha experience. You know what I mean, “select the squares with sidewalks” :( OP, are you aware of this?
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by stevoski 6y ago
> firefighting tech is stuck in the past Utterly not my experience. I was heavily involved on the tech side of firefighting in Victoria, Australia for several years almost two decades ago. It was possibly the most tech-forward set of pro
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by stevoski 6y ago
For a similar reason, Java on Mac and Linux was briefly broken for anyone using it in the Turkish locale. It was because in the Turkish locale, !“POSIX”.toLowerCase().equals(“posix”). Relevant bug report here: https://bugs.openjd
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by stevoski 6y ago
I got sick of the YT ads, I bought a YT premium subscription. Now I don't get ads.
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by stevoski 6y ago
Worked for me. That sums up so perfectly what I did with a B2B SaaS product of mine. I never found words so perfectly as this quote does to describe what I was aiming to do.
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by stevoski 6y ago
FTA: > What about existing customers? > I’ve never put up prices for existing customers. I’m okay with people getting the price they started with indefinitely. It is the way I’d want to be treated as a customer.
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by stevoski 6y ago
OP here. I didn't raise prices for existing customers. FTA: > I’ve never put up prices for existing customers. I’m okay with people getting the price they started with indefinitely. It is the way I’d want to be treated as a customer

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