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Studio Canal Movies purchased on PlayStation Store removed without refund(playstation.com)
241 points by kugelblitz 3mo ago|130 comments
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by kugelblitz 5mo ago
Yes, but combine that with a small-ish provider, this will also hurt them (e.g. see Google Maps price hike). Either way, if I use a service 20x a month and it costs $15, I can handle a hike to $20, that's fine, somewhat predictable. Th
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by kugelblitz 5mo ago
I use bunny.net for CDN and DNS. I don't like free offerings, because what if they decide to charge someday? What if someone decides "free is not feasible, we start charging $20 per instance now". I'd rather have a low f
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by kugelblitz 6mo ago
I usually go full Symfony with my projects until I need to spread it out. But even for interactivity, I first go for htmx and Alpine.js instead of full React or so, where I then need to setup API on backend and frontend. I think once you&#x
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by kugelblitz 7mo ago
> I have a hard time believing you are a recruiter for any FAANG company. You just said you don't believe this person, now you are criticizing them for apparently being braggy about it (which they weren't). They want to offer s
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by kugelblitz 10mo ago
As German ex-football (soccer) coach Sepp Herberger would say "Nach dem Spiel ist vor dem Spiel" (After the game is before the game).
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by kugelblitz 2y ago
Had the same problem while trying to decide which Roborock device to get. There's the S series, Saros series, Q Series and the Qrevo. And from the Qrevo, there's Qrevo Curv, Edge, Slim, Master, MaxV, Plus, Pro, S and without anyth
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by kugelblitz 2y ago
Solo Dev on my own PHP project since 14 years. I wait 1-3 months, but then update. It used to take way longer, because Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk platform would take longer to update, but I've now changed to Platform.sh and the tr
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by kugelblitz 2y ago
I use Symfony (PHP based framework) and it works fine. I've been able to get into Django (Python), Laravel (PHP), Java (Spring) and even Grails (Groovy) because they either had similar concepts or even similar syntax (I mostly do web d
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by kugelblitz 2y ago
That's true :D, thanks for the correction! I think I was still in German mode, it's called "electric punch" (Stromschlag) if translated literally, my brain went the easy route and tried to find the closest match.
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by kugelblitz 2y ago
I have another, different oddity. Whenever my colleague and I stand up (or also sit down?) on the desk, his Dell monitor would turn black for a few seconds. I don't remember the specifics, but I think it was mostly just the two of us,
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by kugelblitz 2y ago
Well, one can exist on HN.
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by kugelblitz 2y ago
I once did that for a client of mine. I took the WordPress-based / WooCommerce system and split it into 1) the Shopify system for admin stuff and also the whole payment system and 2) the "frontend" i.e. the consumer facing pa
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by kugelblitz 2y ago
It's a different ecosystem than Wordpress. I'm having some trouble finding analogies. But maybe Symfony would be something like Linux Debian, has all the building blocks, it's modern but stable and well documented. Laravel is
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by kugelblitz 2y ago
I think it's more that it's a crap job market. Have been dev freelancing for about 10 years, used to be able to choose from a few projects within a couple of weeks of searching. But the last 18 months have been hard. On some freel
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by kugelblitz 2y ago
For my 12 year side project, I recently moved from Elastic Beanstalk after 6-7 years to Platform.sh, because "it just works" even more so and it was way easier to debug (EB just says "error in step 18_install_yarn" or so
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by kugelblitz 2y ago
I would argue adding JavaScript on top of Laravel will make you slower. You can use Blade as the templating engine (or how JS people would call "Server Side Rendering" but which has been default for most full stack frameworks). Ot
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by kugelblitz 2y ago
Just use fastmail and set the DNS to theirs, they should handle the rest. I also like that they have catchalls, i.e. I can post hackernews@mydomain.com or stepstone.com.engjobs@mydomain.com to figure out how people found out about the email
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by kugelblitz 2y ago
How about going freelance contracting / consulting? They will probably appreciate your experience as CTO and also your understanding of how to push a product forward. I've only had side-projects, but one of them was big enough to
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by kugelblitz 2y ago
Is it a company email which they control now? Maybe that's how they changed it.
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by kugelblitz 2y ago
Shoot, I'm just realizing that we're as far from 2038 as we are from 2010. In 2010 the the iPad was released and the movie Avatar had come out. So we're closer to 2038 than the release of the iPhone (2007).
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by kugelblitz 2y ago
Security in vanilla php using old tools is a headache. I use Symfony and using the form component ( https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/form.html ) you can achieve much of what is needed. If you use the
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by kugelblitz 2y ago
> This could be a once-in-a-lifetime viewing opportunity as the nova ouburst [sic] only occurs about every 80 years.
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by kugelblitz 3y ago
I suppose hiring an SEO agency to do marketing is like hiring a painter to remodel a house to sell it. You sort of already decided what you want to focus on. But maybe the remodeling needs other things first, e.g. someone to clear out the s
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by kugelblitz 3y ago
AI Overlords for 400, please.
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by kugelblitz 3y ago
I feel like 95 is more difficult now than 2 or 4 years ago.
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by kugelblitz 3y ago
I've never heard of Linear. Most of the companies I Work with use JIRA. Small agency to medium sized E-Commerce. (Germany based.)
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by kugelblitz 3y ago
PHP / Symfony. It has Auth, Templating, ORM, Email, Caching, Forms, Validations. For frontend I like Bootstrap or Tailwind as a base, but for interactivity I use a combination of htmx and Alpine.js, so everything's pretty light-we
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by kugelblitz 3y ago
By now I'm quite efficient, haha. Heavy stuff in the beginning, fragile stuff at the back, from large to small (so that I bag the heavy and large stuff in the bottom and then fragile and small I squeeze in carefully). I recently heard
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by kugelblitz 3y ago
Oof, 4.5 MB for a decorative image.

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