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simon02

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About simon02

Web developer, design aficionado. Always on the lookout for automation.

twitter: @simonbuelens

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    If it's interesting and well written, nobody will balk at the length of your posts. Just go check out patio11's blog. The average post there is huge, but I (and I think many with m…

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    So you are saying we increase the relative amount of CO2 with 2% (47/46) per year and try to brush that away as peanuts?

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    Consuming more calories by eg. increasing your metabolism is also a possibility.

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    It surprised us too. And it is actually the merchant account provider, Adyen in our case, who ask for this reserve. This money is used as a security in case we would charge eg. 100…

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    The API does work like a charm. If history can be a reference, Paymill is going to get bought by one of the big players who want a quick start in the European market (Stripe comes …

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    Comment #5161643

    We are a B2B company so we are not selling to consumers. If that is your primary market, I agree that you might lose a lot of sales with only offering credit cards (anyone has a re…

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    Author here. Are there any other important payment solutions we should be looking out for (available in Europe, Belgium) that I forgot to mention in the blog?

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    We operate from Belgium. We only have to charge the Belgian tax rate (21%) for other Belgian companies or consumers living in the EU, in all other cases VAT rate is 0% (have to put…

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    A little bit of background information. The original Gmail gadget is a backbone js application. I rewrote all the parts (certain models, views and the router) making a connection t…

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    I like it, but would suggest repeating the date of the next episode on the individual pages and making this the most noticeable like you did on the frontpage. Perhaps even making i…

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    Looks nice. Quick note: please change the of color the timestamps and the categories, they are unreadable to me. Hardly even noticed they were there.

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    I can't decide if this is one of the best things I've read/seen lately or if I think this person should spend his hours on something more useful. edit: does anyone else think he sh…