agopaul

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by agopaul 1mo ago
> My only complaint is that Opus 5's prose is annoying as hell. I wrote a custom skill for it for concise debriefs and it has been working pretty well for me. I’m doing the same right now, and I’ve found that asking for “simple Engl
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by agopaul 2y ago
I did something similar for German, but in my case I used Claude to generate a full dialog, plus the English translation. I was much more lazy, though, and set this up on Zapier.
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by agopaul 4y ago
Live chat widgets are a great tool at the beginning, as they help get in touch with more people looking at your website. That said, especially in Saas, I think it hardly makes sense to keep it on after reaching a certain point. I can see ho
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by agopaul 5y ago
I'm also an Italian living in Germany and I know what you mean. But I wasn't referring to the myth of Germany productivity, which is debatable. The argument is not anecdotal, rather it is just based on the numbers (eg. GDP per ho
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by agopaul 5y ago
Well, that feels like a gross oversimplification. Other countries have tax brackets not too different from Italy's (eg. Germany), and Italy is not too high in the charts of cost of labour. Economists would argue that it's a mixtur
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by agopaul 5y ago
Linode's great support is what is preventing us to migrate to AWS or GCP. Funny story: 2 months ago GCP blacklisted a few of Linode's IP subnets and we were cut out from using Google APIs. I was unable to get in touch with GCP sup
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by agopaul 5y ago
Sure, you can even say that both France and Germany just have larger populations than Italy. But still I would argue that being open to the international tech scene is pretty important to have a local tech scene. It's also crucial to
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by agopaul 5y ago
France 28 vs Germany 68 vs Italy 11 I guess that says a lot about the tech scene in Italy
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by agopaul 5y ago
Bonus points if you wrap the script in an Automator task in macOS so you can you run it in literally 2 clicks from Finder: https://bradt.ca/blog/how-to-make-a-pdf-look-scanned-imagema... It is even easier now with Shor
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by agopaul 5y ago
That is impressive. How much time do you think you spent on non-coding activities? I imagine that running a torrent tracker probably took a good chunk of your time.
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by agopaul 6y ago
I too prefer Apple Maps, but just for driving. Google Maps has way better coverage of public transportation in cities. For instance Apple Maps doesn't have U-Bahn support in Munich, which makes it unusable for most people.
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by agopaul 7y ago
Thank you! As a non-native English speaker this is actually pretty useful. Of course I don't think this should be used as a copy/paste solution but more for finding inspiration on how to politely reply to customers when hard que
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by agopaul 7y ago
Appreciate the explanation. We actually noticed a huge improvement since last summer with charges made with Stripe. Still, we lost a few thousands €€ in these years because of customers' banks rejecting our transactions. I hope that on
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by agopaul 7y ago
Nice project! I keep onboarding screenshots for most Sass/web apps I use to get inspiration later for my own projects so I definitely find this very useful (bookmarked!). How do you monetize the project? I can't see any paid plans
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by agopaul 7y ago
Large SUVs used to be an upper-middle class distinction factor in Europe, but now everyone of every age seems to want SUVs (which eventually became cheaper). It's not a class thing anymore, you can get SUVs that cost as much as other t
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by agopaul 7y ago
I will probably open source it, but first I need to clean up the code a little bit
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by agopaul 7y ago
Haha! Actually I made this because I wanted to browser other "porn" subreddits while furnishing/decorating my apartment (/r/AmateurRoomPorn and /r/RoomPorn mostly)
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by agopaul 7y ago
Thanks! For now I think I will keep it clean, but maybe in the future.. we'll see how it will evolve ;)
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Show HN: Redditix – A Gallery Visualizer for Reddit(redditix.com)
7 points by agopaul 7y ago|6 comments
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by agopaul 7y ago
Oh they have a few ways actually. - "Clickstream" data from Chrome. Sorry I don't have the source in hand, but I remember that Rand Fishkin was talking about it some time ago. - Statistical analysis on the SERP (eg. if you se
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by agopaul 7y ago
What do you mean with "public displays"? I researched a little bit before buying my TV and couldn't find decent options in terms of cost, size and quality of the panel.
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by agopaul 8y ago
I believe 5K iMacs also have 220 PPI https://bjango.com/articles/macexternaldisplays/
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by agopaul 8y ago
The thing is, you should pick a monitor also by its PPI (Pixel-per-Inch). In order to work with HIDPI on macOS, you should stay around 220 PPI: https://bjango.com/articles/macexternaldisplays/ In theory, you shoul
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by agopaul 8y ago
Google doesn't seem to be serious with their managed DBMS solutions. The PostgreSQL version is still 9.6 even though 11 has been released, whereas AWS already has pg 11 available.
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by agopaul 8y ago
This. Too bad many APIs around are designed without keeping in mind that timeouts and double submissions can occur. A few years ago I had to integrate with another software vendor (using SOAP, sigh), and development went all smooth, testing
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by agopaul 8y ago
Very interesting considering that it enables to make legacy applications work with S3 basically. The price is quite high for small projects though: $0.30/hour > $216/m > $2592/y
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by agopaul 8y ago
Objects on S3 are replicated on 3 AZs (datacenters) by default and I can't find any info on B2 if they also replicate the data on multiple DCs. That can definitely change the cost per GB for them if that's the case.
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by agopaul 8y ago
What is your experience then?
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by agopaul 8y ago
As a non-US citizen, opening a company in the US is not the hard part. The hard part is figuring out taxes and legal "configuration" in your own country, where you live. I'm not an expert, but I hear from accountants that you
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by agopaul 9y ago
And also, the main takeaway from his story (like so many other similar stories) is: build a community. Really, his projects are interesting and all but "just ship it" is not enough, it has never been.

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