cat9

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by cat9 7y ago
The appropriate escalation step here is probably paying a lawyer to send a properly-worded letter on legal letterhead. As far as dates go, did they use Certified Mail or a similar service? Does the postmark agree with their date or yours? W
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by cat9 11y ago
Thanks for the ad hominem response, it really reminds me what's great about this site.
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by cat9 11y ago
"A workaround exists, it's the user's fault for not knowing it" is terrible interaction design. Having links on the site fail arbitrarily devalues the entire page. Users aren't stopping and thinking "hey, is cl
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How to get startup insurance and avoid getting sued in to oblivion(baremetrics.com)
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by cat9 11y ago
Freemium is the wrong route far more often than not, and I'm only going to cheer you on for making the decision which lets you continue to develop a stable business around your services. It sucks to have to change your stance after the
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by cat9 11y ago
If it turns out to be at all useful with regard to maintaining revenue-generating code in production, $25 per year is a laughably low ask, even if it's only useful some of the time for some of the people. Figuring out which people and
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by cat9 11y ago
For reference, I'd kick myself for undercharging if I billed that much for a week, and correspondingly consider it "annoying but not business-critical" if I had trouble collecting it. Charge more. Your rates should not be pin
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by cat9 11y ago
What do you want to come next? If you can constructively and reliably ship code to prod, you almost certainly have better immediate options than Elance. Worst case, calling ten different web agencies in your area will probably get you eno
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by cat9 11y ago
The best solution depends entirely on your optimization conditions. If transaction time is important, hard drives are high bandwidth. Ten 1TB hard drives are $500. Two 6TB hard drives are also $500, but you have fewer drives to worry about
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by cat9 11y ago
What's your take on Logrus? It seems like it would cover your major concerns, and it's widely recommended. https://github.com/Sirupsen/logrus
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by cat9 11y ago
This is a good reference implementation. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7850335 In general, I would avoid selling software without a service agreement. Bugs are a thing that happens. You will endeavor to make them hap
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by cat9 11y ago
Here's another video of the algorithm being tested against a wider range of targets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGA6eJXZAOw The ability to pick up saccades could have interesting HCI implications if the signal is
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by cat9 11y ago
"But for physics, it is absolute essential that you are also able to think about vectors in terms of coordinates if you are to connect them to the real physical world, which has rulers and T-squares and so on. Physicists are trying to
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by cat9 11y ago
I'm still kind of on the fence about this. I like a lot of the choices Modl makes as a fork of Gorp, but it has significantly fewer users, particularly in the case of e.g. modl-migrate vs. sql-migrate.
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by cat9 11y ago
I've been using go-json-rest, which is by way of "just enough on top of net/http to make APIs easier." https://ant0ine.github.io/go-json-rest/ Gorilla is useful, but more for its range of standalone
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by cat9 11y ago
It's less effective at even that much than it could be, e.g. any game released on Steam can be cracked in a largely homogeneous fashion. (Which is exactly the value point I'd be working to improve if I was working at Steam and try
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by cat9 11y ago
I'd prefer the first explanation as well, not least because "optimize your business model for the people who are willing to pay you, not the people who aren't."
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by cat9 11y ago
Given the way that software patents work, you probably are. But for the vast majority of startups, this is not something you should be worrying about early on. Let the lawyers sort it out later during due diligence. Worry about getting cust
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by cat9 11y ago
Important life skill: Learn to tell people no while being both firm and polite about it.
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by cat9 11y ago
It's been a huge learning process for me around "the engineering side of this is relatively simple, and the non-engineering side of this is relatively simple, so they'd put two and two together themselves...right?" But t
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by cat9 11y ago
It's common because the likelihood of escaping /newest on the basis of "intellectually interesting" alone is miniscule. The traffic just doesn't work that way. Solve that, and you have much more traction to complain
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by cat9 11y ago
You work in Python & you want simple web interfaces? Flask. Check out the docs, it's about as simple and pythonic as it's possible for "respond to this URL by executing that python function" to be. http://
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by cat9 11y ago
Maybe? I'm definitely biased in that I have substantial computer vision & image processing experience, but the output looks riddled with obvious filter and vectorization artifacts to me. Re: Image 2, http://i.imgur.com&#
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by cat9 11y ago
Or "paid version is signed, free version is not."
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by cat9 11y ago
Nice of them to give you a credit, and a good decision from a customer service standpoint, but I doubt they're at fault in any real way. It could be any number of things, many of which are completely out of their control to do more tha
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by cat9 11y ago
I'd assume that between A and B, someone took them aside and said "are you insane, new grads in Seattle can get $90k filling CRUD tickets, you're never going to keep anyone even halfway decent for $48k." Fair warning: th
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by cat9 11y ago
> Don't stop until you've got a sheepish grin on your face. When you hit "sheepish grin"...go up another two steps. Then practice saying it with a straight face. This is probably closer to your actual market value.
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by cat9 11y ago
> Would it be possible for me to get American clients just through email? Yes. Also your English is fine, assuming this is a representative sample. > considering the present reality of code-on-whiteboard sort of interviews for a stabl
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by cat9 11y ago
This. It's likely deliberate optimization. They want to encourage a larger average order size & higher revenue per customer. You pay for a membership, making you more committed to shopping there. Then they don't optimize the e
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by cat9 11y ago
If you charge more, people don't bother you with nearly as much low-ROI scut work, which means you (assuming you can deliver) find yourself focusing on more interesting & more valuable work that has a stronger connection to attract

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