Like others I've tried this before but it's just too much effort to use this approach as you spend a lot of time rejigging your calendar as it's so granular with the time dimension. Not to mention trying to coordinate it with meetings and your actual schedule.
That said, I do like using a calendar approach for tasks. I've previously used TeuxDeux successfully - it's basically just a todo list per day and it makes it easy to plan things ahead of time and move them around as reality bites and you need to move it to a later date.
Not a CEO but co-founded a company that had a successful exit. Happy to talk sometime.
One thing I'd say is to take anything you hear from any given indiviual with a pinch of salt. People love to give advice and will often sound authoritative about subjects they have no expertise in. Everyone's experience will also be different, and people tend to give advice based on their own anecdotes which may be completely irrelevant to you. You see it all the time where people try to mimic the actions of others who have had success, only for them to fail miserably trying to follow the same path. These conversations can shed interesting ideas and thoughts, but make sure you don't treat them as gospel and instead use them to help figure out your own view.
Signed URLs (or pre-signed URLs) typically expire after a short time frame. The idea is that they exist for long enough for the object in question to be retrieved in the application, and they then automatically expire. Although they don't typically have a single-use limitation, this is often the intention a developer has when using a pre-signed URL.
Yep! It's a bit of a balancing act because you want the files to be cache friendly (skipping tracks back and forth shouldn't make you download it every time) but you also don't want people to abuse (share) them. You can also restrict the signed URLs by IP address but that can cause trouble for people with dynamic IPs so I opted not to do that.
ExtJS was way ahead of its time - while it was most famous for its grid component, the data package, tooling ecosystem (long before we had node) and component architecture was amazing. Its learning curve was tough, but it was so worth it when you got to grips with it.
Jack’s post acknowledges what most of the community felt for years - the biggest mistake was alienating the developer community while trying to chase commercial success. The irony is that ExtJS and Sencha could have been hugely successful commercially if they had approached it differently. Instead the only people building on it were usually people working in large corporations, and even those would never use it for hobby projects outside of work due to minimum purchase of multiple seats to use the non GPL license.
I look back fondly on my time using ExtJS as a developer. They had some of the smartest engineers around working on the framework, a great community in spite of Sencha’s best efforts and I learned a metric ton along the way. Who knows where it would be today if it all went a little differently!
Nice idea. I'd recommend adding some kind of visual indicator when it's in a loading state - at first I thought it wasn't working but it was just slow to respond (probably because it's close to the top of HN right now...)
The loading indicator is also on the list, TBH was supposed to go up before ShowHN, but I forgot. And yeah, now the query execution wait time for my measly 2-core postgres instance is about 30 seconds :D.
The software world today is also very different. SaaS has become the norm because the typical user experience for software products spans multiple devices and is a far more connected experience that relies on services carried over the Internet. When you add server-side services into the mix, you have a much-increased variable cost to delivering software that is more difficult to absorb in a once-off price.
While many of us here would prefer the idea of owning and licensing software in perpetuity, the reality is that most users don't care and are typically more price sensitive to the point that they will prefer to pay a small amount monthly than pay a large lump sum once. The monthly pricing mechanism also provides a safety net, as you can stop paying at any time if a product no longer provides utility or if you straight up can't afford it.
At the other end of the spectrum, SaaS works very well for business. Larger companies always paid recurring fees to software vendors anyway - typically as support and maintenance, because they need SLAs and commitments that ensure continuity of being able to use the software in a reliable manner. In the past, these were usually a recurring add-on that was paired up with a major up-front cost. Today, it's reversed where you now might pay a small once-off cost for implementation or delivery, but the bulk of the pricing is weaved into the recurring subscription cost. This works better for most businesses.
Also, a much higher percentage of software makers these days are doing so on the back of venture funding. The north star metric for most venture-backed companies is annual recurring revenue, so a subscription model is almost the default when it comes to a venture-backed startup. When a company is focused on rapid and high scale growth, having to start every year at zero makes it significantly more difficult to succeed.
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Working people in Ireland also pay high taxes on their income.
In Ireland you pay 20% income tax on the first €35,300, and 40% on income above this amount (if you are a single person, there are different cut-offs for married people and one-parent families).
You also pay an additional Universal Social Charge on all income over €13,000 - between 2-8% depending on your income level, or 11% for self-employed income over €100,000. Add on pay related social insurance (PRSI) of 4% too.
Don’t forget the ridiculous property prices and rapacious rental market. The skyrocketing unchecked insurance costs and the 25% VAT and the total of 33% tax on cars (VAT + questionably legal VRT). Ireland is only a low tax economy if you don’t live here.
