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by stevoski 8y ago
A lot of European medieval cities are built on top of an ancient Roman city. You can usually perceive a very straight broad North-South street and a straight (but not so wide) East-West street, which have been kept from the earlier Roman ci
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What might be interesting to many modern HN readers is that this article (or so I believe) was part of what we today call a “content marketing” campaign. The aim was to make Byte readers aware of Zork. IIRC this article is a transcript of a
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by stevoski 8y ago
I visited Kaliningrad in 2007 and puzzled my hosts by asking them if I could see the famous bridges. They hadn't heard of Euler and the Bridges of Königsberg. I was astonished. We drove around and saw a couple of what I think were the
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by stevoski 8y ago
You've described the exact approach I've used for my B2B SaaS. Initially we had a web server (two actually, to achieve zero-downtime deploys) and a database. A few months later, we introduced Redis for caching. This was much earli
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by stevoski 8y ago
I had a real, personal blog, with plenty of loyal readers. In mid-2012 it just stopped being a happening thing. I no longer had the reliable interaction from repeat visitors. That, not consequently, is the same time as Facebook became the d
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by stevoski 8y ago
A little OT but alternatives to consider are: * YouTrack - developer-centric issue tracker from JetBrains that is fast and aims at “power user” types * Sifter - an issue tracker that focuses on simplicity and usability * Manuscript (the reb
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by stevoski 8y ago
If you are a Java programmer and want to learn how an SQL database engine works, take a look at the source code of H2. Even better, try to add a basic feature to H2 (eg. a new built-in function). It is surprisingly easy, and you come away w
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by stevoski 8y ago
I live in Barcelona. It is a _noisy_ city. It is just normal for young locals to sit outside in plaças or on wide streets on weekend evenings, socialising, having a drink, talking loudly, and even sometimes singing. By evenings I mean the S
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by stevoski 8y ago
Jacques, thanks a million for your work on this topic. It makes me feel much more confident about being able to efficiently handle such a nightmare letter if it one day comes.
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by stevoski 8y ago
What's the pricing? I couldn't find this info on the site.
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by stevoski 9y ago
Can anyone recommend a command line tool for manipulating Excel files, that runs on macOS? Edit: I’m looking for a command line tool that allows me to open an Excel file, make a few simple changes, and then save again as an Excel file.
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Subscribers are the new, new thing in business(economist.com)
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by stevoski 9y ago
> we feel like as Europeans we're constantly an afterthought Agreed. Ahem, Stripe team. May I have your attention? Could you please, please, please do something about helping your customers with calculating, charging, and tracking V
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by stevoski 9y ago
Well said. I just examined the changes to the Stripe dashboard, and, coupled with the email I received from Stripe and the web page about the new "Stripe Billing", I'm utterly confused about several things. I suspect I'm
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by stevoski 9y ago
We use Quaderno to generate invoices for our Stripe charges. Quaderno integrates well with Stripe.
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by stevoski 9y ago
> Answer highly relevant, frequently asked questions in such a way that people will either find you through a search engine or impulsively share your content. This is excellent advice for anyone starting an online business. People new to
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by stevoski 9y ago
A story: I completed a PDP11 assembly coding assignment in university, on an Amiga. Actually it was an Amiga running a Mac emulator, which in turn was running a PDP11 emulator. Macs at that time used a variable speed floppy drive, while the
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by stevoski 9y ago
>Their bandwidth costs would skyrocket. I don't think they would. Or at least, the costs would still be tiny. Like Panic, my company mostly sells desktop apps. We're smaller than Panic, but we still have a considerable quantity
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by stevoski 9y ago
FTA: > We colocate our own servers, rather than using AWS or any other PaaS, and we also don’t currently use a CDN or any other cloud distribution platform. I wonder if Panic would never have encountered this slow download problem if the
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Deciding what features to implement(successfulsoftware.net)
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by stevoski 9y ago
Swahili is a language that native English speakers can typically pronounce well, as it only uses sounds that are present in most English dialects. It is also easier for native English speakers to learn than most European languages.
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by stevoski 9y ago
Thanks Patrick, for just planning out for me my workload for the next month or so! > You should email people 4 times during the trial depending on their level of engagement with it. Here’s a decision tree. Do you have a link to an exampl
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by stevoski 9y ago
I had a good experience with Regus in Kuala Lumpur. However in Barcelona they really nickel and dimed me. Worse though, we had to pay per device for Internet connectivity - and the Internet was subpar.
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by stevoski 9y ago
My girlfriend ran a meetup for a while in Barcelona. The meetup took place in a bar on an otherwise quiet night. The bar owner actually paid her for each event she hosted in th bar.
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by stevoski 9y ago
So far it is life as usual here. Since October 1st, 2017, more than 800 companies have moved their official address to outside of Catalunya. They tend to be larger firms. To be fair, a few have moved TO Catalunya during that same period. To
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by stevoski 9y ago
Is Bootstrap 4 ready for use?
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by stevoski 9y ago
I've received my fair share of cold call emails. I quickly came to spot the ones who are both well prepared AND actually understand that whatever they offer has to benefit me as well as them.
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by stevoski 9y ago
How I got my first 10 customers for my SaaS in 2017: 1. I answered Quora questions for which my product was a potential answer. 2. To each person who followed links from the Quora answers to my site and signed up, I wrote a short email aski
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by stevoski 9y ago
I briefly checked out fly.io as a solution for this. It worked brilliantly. I chose not to use fly.io though, because I was ultimately putting control of the DNS settings for all of my SaaS's custom domains in their hands.
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by stevoski 9y ago
I've been sending plain emails to my list, because I like the ultra minimalism of it. If I've got two sentences to share with my list my email is "Hi" + two sentences + "Bye" + unsubscribe links. Does it "

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