paulmatthijs

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by paulmatthijs 6y ago
It has huge implications. What is “exactly significant about this” bust is the prevention of multiple assassinations, kidnappings with planned torture, and multiple large coke smuggling operations being intercepted. Plus it’s all evidence.
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by paulmatthijs 8y ago
Sorry to be a party pooper, but this is a non-existing thing (and a repost, btw). It’s true that we are taught to look over your shoulder when opening a car door, but to label it “the Dutch Reach” is really too much honor. It’s just common
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by paulmatthijs 8y ago
Give and Take by Adam Grant - even after a few years, it still causes me to constantly reflect on my own actions’ motive and if they’re “otherish” or not. Getting Things Done - not the method but the insight that you can’t manage time, onl
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by paulmatthijs 9y ago
As a bit of counterweight to all these "$5" replies: we paid about €7K for our logo - which is not a lot. I've been a logo designer myself, waaaay back, and have always known that just having someone designing a pictogram and
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by paulmatthijs 9y ago
There’s a thing between being entrepeneurship and working for a company: freelancing. It’s for those that feel no attachment to a company, but do have a very developed skill set or trade. In our free market economy, there will always be a s
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by paulmatthijs 9y ago
It totally depends on your business model. Is your expected ARPU 10, 100 or maybe 1M? I'd personally focus on a KPI that tells you something about how much your customers like your product, and can't live without it. Aim for turni
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by paulmatthijs 9y ago
Always to fully silent, vibration off too. Watch is set to silent and vibrate, and I take it off between 6-8PM for family time. Do Not Disturb on the Watch is switched on when I go to sleep, so I can still track my sleep.
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by paulmatthijs 9y ago
Letting go of the distinction between productivity and hours put in. I never ever believed there was correlation, and still it's hard. Coding just takes time, better get used to it.
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by paulmatthijs 9y ago
I'd say discovery is an issue. I'd like to be able to instantly find a product/service that hooks into whatever my kids just discovered. It won't be used for long probably, so it's more a matter of supporting micro-
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by paulmatthijs 9y ago
Annual, although I'd like to see some real life high volume SaaS numbers on churn comparing the two. We do non-recurring monthly and recurring annual as a in-between solution.
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by paulmatthijs 9y ago
Some say all sound engineers are all failed musicians. And then some became coders. And then some became founders... Me and my co-founder regard our "ventures" into music as part of what needed to be learned to be able to become g
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by paulmatthijs 9y ago
Never, not for a second. It's the investors that made it possible to go full time with our venture. We couldn't have done it without. Be happy. I sometimes hear founders regretting it, thinking the returns are too high compared to
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by paulmatthijs 9y ago
We reached out to everyone that ever did a review of a direct competitor within the last 4 years - we were very much last-to-market. About 10% actually did a review of us on launch which gaves us a major boost. However, the ones that review
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by paulmatthijs 9y ago
The QC35. We have had several models in our office and the 35 has by far the best cancelling while retaining speech intelligibility. It's audible artifacs are more in the 300 Hz range as opposed to the two octaves above it as is the ca
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by paulmatthijs 9y ago
We did what was in hindsight a small launch. We put our app on Betalist first, got good response, redid a bunch of things, got it out on Product Hunt, got some more attention. Then we targeted reviewers of competing/related products. T
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by paulmatthijs 10y ago
VCs don't want teams, they want business cases that have shown to be scalable. Do you need your cofounder? Can your business continue without him/her? If so, continue to build out your business. If it's worthy of another roun
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by paulmatthijs 10y ago
It's an inheritence of the famously low profit taxes. To make sure owners don't circumvent (the higher) income taxes by maximizing profit they have a compulsory salary or a management fee. This ensures they pay their part of the w
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by paulmatthijs 10y ago
Don't know anything about other EU countries than the Netherlands, but it's pretty easy over here. Just a matter of some paperwork by a notary, which will cost <1K. There's a big caveat though: 5%+ shareholders are conside
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by paulmatthijs 11y ago
The trick of "proper" GTD is not what to use, but what not: focus on eliminating inboxes. You've got too many. Triage everything that comes into your (e)mailbox, Slack, whatever. It's the deciding what's actionable
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by paulmatthijs 11y ago
Why don't you join that open source project as a dev? Contributing something meaningful to another one's project might bring you more than going through the hardship of wanting to do a project on your own.
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by paulmatthijs 11y ago
I'd try working with a very strict system like Scrum, but you've got a pain point with the dailies. You could try "formalizing" dailies by having everyone writing down their progress on tasks. However, your Scrum Master
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by paulmatthijs 11y ago
or he might promote the guy to Chief Jesting Officer and put him in charge of company culture. He'd have my vote!
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by paulmatthijs 12y ago
Isn't school roster scheduling NP-complete?
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by paulmatthijs 12y ago
OmniFocus with Airmail and Slack. True, everything Omni is expensive but the sheer impact is has on my life is priceless. I found every other GTD app too limited.
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by paulmatthijs 12y ago
Is POP still around? I thought that was a remnant of the "Dude, look at my a Pentium"-age. Is there even a way to work with POP in the current multiverse of connected devices?
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by paulmatthijs 12y ago
Can't work without it. It's good to see they update regularly, and improve a lot in UX (which is good already). Well worth the money, and I believe it has become cheaper now that they have freemium iOS app.
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by paulmatthijs 12y ago
The only use I can think of is Media Production, and I'd buy one in an instant. 5K means you can have a 4k preview with stuff on the side (mixer, bin) or a 8k RED source that you crop with more than enough real estate to have a proper
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by paulmatthijs 12y ago
isn't CSS itself bloated by definition?
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by paulmatthijs 12y ago
Start with SASS/SCSS instead of CSS. I found it a lot more understandable and efficient. SCSS is compatible with CSS so you can incorporate SCSS in any existing CSS if you want/need to.
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by paulmatthijs 12y ago
I would have loved one: it's easier to share the application with co-founders and have them annotate it, before editing.

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