vincentmarle

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by vincentmarle 8y ago
> You can configure Google Calendar to delete declined events from your calendar. Ah that would be very helpful. The thing is, as engineering manager and gatekeeper to my team, I would like to make those RSVP decisions for people on my t
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by vincentmarle 8y ago
When trying to minimize meetings across my team, I have found Google Calendar to be the enemy. Anyone in the company (or even externally) can just put an event on your calendar, the default is 1 hour, and expect people to attend the meeti
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by vincentmarle 8y ago
I registered our (trademarked) .app through 101domain 2 weeks ago. And I believe GoDaddy also supports Early Access (with better prices).
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by vincentmarle 9y ago
> You have to realize a team that's been there before you has done things in certain ways for certain reasons This is a fundamental insight that a lot of people don’t seem to get. I always refer to this quote to drive home the same
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by vincentmarle 9y ago
Edit: you both are right
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by vincentmarle 9y ago
Improving liquidity in the market, aka being a market maker, can provide an interesting advantage.
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by vincentmarle 9y ago
I very much like your fixed fee / month business model. Exactly what I need, I will likely become a customer soon. Is there a similar service out there that has fixed pricing for web/app development?
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by vincentmarle 9y ago
Any ETA on .app?
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by vincentmarle 9y ago
Awesome! I was looking for exactly a service like this (was almost going to build it myself) so will definitely try it out!
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by vincentmarle 9y ago
You can't validate an idea by posting on HN and decide what to do by reading the (overwhelmingly negative) comments alone. You would get the same negative responses if you were Travis Kalanick ("hey guys what do you think of start
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by vincentmarle 9y ago
I looked into this recently and if you own a foreign company (aka CFC: Controlled Foreign Corporation) you have to report that to the IRS. And once the IRS knows, then presumably the USCIS will find out as well.
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by vincentmarle 9y ago
I've moved from SF Bay to LA, moved back to SF, moved back to LA (probably going to move back to SF again). Within SF Bay and LA moved a couple times as well.
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by vincentmarle 9y ago
> I've moved 5 times in 6 years I've moved 10 times in the past 6 years so I can definitely relate to the problem. I ended up buying a lot of furniture over the years and donating it to a Goodwill store every time I moved. I m
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by vincentmarle 9y ago
In Rotterdam I used to "buy" my bikes from the homeless by offering a €5 kapsalon [1] in return for a bike. As a result, I didn't care too much if this bike got stolen and never bothered locking it, allowing others to take
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The Dutch Have Solutions to Rising Seas(nytimes.com)
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by vincentmarle 9y ago
> When you construct an API, you receive scalability and load balancing benefits by decoupling your API and hosting it as its own backend I've thought about doing this a couple of times but it seems like a lot of overhead if you nee