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by yoran 5y ago
Not directly relevant to the discussion, but I'm glad to see some (ex?) KU Leuven people involved in this.
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by yoran 5y ago
> By following a few principles of immutability and purity, React frontends were generally better written, stabler and easier to debug, compared to contemporary alternatives such as Ember or Angular. I have the exact opposite experience.
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by yoran 5y ago
I initially wrote the backend for my current startup in Elixir, using Phoenix. As many Elixir developers, I'm coming from the Ruby and Rails world. I really enjoyed the language and there are definitely things in Phoenix that are a vas
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by yoran 5y ago
I built Backtest[0], the backtesting tool for European index investors, as a way to analyze the historical performance of my portfolio of index funds. US investors can use a tool called Portfolio Visualizer[1], which is really powerful and
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by yoran 6y ago
Legally they may not be in trouble, their brand is still tarnished imo. My esteem for GitLab has diminished as a result of this terrible blog post.
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by yoran 6y ago
Trading sets prices, not AUM. Index funds do less than 5% of trading. 95% of trading still happens by active investors. So it's active investors who've decided that Boeing is worth 2% less than yesterday. Index funds have almost n
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by yoran 6y ago
Same here. I find myself doing that a lot... My experience is that Google's search results are superior to DDG's.
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by yoran 6y ago
Regulations like this are great and I applaud them. But they do harm innovation, because often the cost to become compliant with such new regulations is fixed. So the cost for a large corporation to be compliant is roughly similar to the co
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by yoran 6y ago
> Google’s thesis is that the mobile-web is dying and people prefer to use apps – therefore making the web faster and more app-like will retain users. I'm not sure how to interpret that. Does it mean that Google has given up on PWAs
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by yoran 6y ago
We all have a role to play in the fight against climate change. It doesn't help pointing the finger at another group of people and say that it's all their fault and that they have to fix it. It's like with taxing the wealthy.
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The guide to extracting statistics from your Signal conversations(yoranbrondsema.com)
1 points by yoran 6y ago|0 comments
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by yoran 6y ago
> Hauser says the acquisition would allow Nvidia to swipe “the microprocessor crown from Intel”, and become the chip supplier for 95 per cent of mobile phones, 90 per cent of embedded controllers for the internet of things, as well as ta
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by yoran 6y ago
I love D3. I tried plenty of other higher level libraries but very quickly you run into customization issues. So for Backtest ( https://backtest.curvo.eu/ ), I moved all the charts to D3. It's a bit lower level and was m
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by yoran 6y ago
Indeed. When you Google for "React/Vue/Ember D3", the tutorials always use the DOM manipulation layer of D3. But every front-end framework already comes with a great reactive system to ensure the DOM is in sync with the
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by yoran 6y ago
100% agree with that. Maybe Mozilla's greatest skill really is in PR and that it is a rotten organization inside (which so many comments on HN seem to imply), but I don't buy that. When you try to do good, you always put yourself
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by yoran 6y ago
We've had multiple spammer attacks over the years. Our platform allows users to create and publish their own content. Our primary target is education, teachers and students. But naturally it's being abused by spammers. It's b
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by yoran 6y ago
I'm sad to read this. I "made a bet" on Olympus in 2008, when I bought my first and only DSLR: the E-520. I bought a couple of additional lenses too, thinking that I would always be able to buy an upgraded body as technology
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by yoran 6y ago
Thanks for clarifying. I honestly thought, how is the browser able to install spyware that "allows remote access to everything on the phone" (per the article), as the browser is supposed to be a sandboxed environment. I'm rel
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by yoran 6y ago
We switched from Ghost to Strapi + Gatsby.js when we were facing limitations regarding i18n in Ghost. It works pretty well! Spinning up Strapi is a breeze when using a PaaS like Heroku.
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by yoran 6y ago
I don't understand why you got downvoted. Google's customer support is notoriously non-existent (perhaps except for stuff that brings in money like AdWords). They admit themselves that it's a business decision: https:/&
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by yoran 6y ago
In my experience from developing Backtest ( https://backtest.curvo.eu ), a backtesting tool for EU index investors, the hardest part has been finding good and reliable data that goes as far back in time as possible. I only focus o
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Portfolio performance report Q1 2020(yoranbrondsema.com)
1 points by yoran 7y ago|0 comments
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by yoran 7y ago
https://www.yoranbrondsema.com/ I write about passive investing for Europeans, with some content written for Belgians specifically. Most content around passive investing (i.e. investing in index funds) is targeted to a US a
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by yoran 7y ago
That's the classic predicted outcome for any new regulation... which rarely turns out to be true. Consumers will want to buy their own phones and as long as that is true, businesses will adapt to the new regulations to satisfy this nee
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by yoran 7y ago
Just a small thing: Cloudfront gets very expensive rather quickly. We went to a $4,000 pm to a $20 pm bill by moving our CDN for static assets from Cloudfront to Cloudflare. The only reason we let it come that far is that we had AWS credits
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by yoran 7y ago
I agree. I think that a problem in the EU is the wide abundance of government subsidies. The intentions are good but in fact it messes up the mechanism of natural selection in startups. Companies that haven't managed to raise money fro
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by yoran 7y ago
+1 for Joplin. I've been using it for over a year now and I love how I maintain control over my notes because in the end, they're just Markdown stored on Dropbox. And you can change backend at any time.
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How many losses must I be able to stomach?(yoranbrondsema.com)
1 points by yoran 7y ago|0 comments
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by yoran 7y ago
Agree. Outside the small tech bubble around me, the vast majority of people use WhatsApp for all their messaging communication.
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The Missing Cryptoqueen(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by yoran 7y ago|0 comments

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