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> You chose the most competitive European economy (besides Sweden), that's not a good representation to Europe. There are also vast differences between states in the US. If we're c…

Hard to know where to start! Looking at the Netherlands, where I'm from: There are many fast-growing tech companies. Both big and small. Bigger examples are Adyen and Elastic. GitL…

Not a fan of GDPR either. I'm really not sure the total tax load as an employee is much worse compared to California if you factor in state taxes and health care payments.

I totally agree with you that the EU's efforts to replicate a SV style startup ecosystem are misguided and ineffective. The comment however was about the EU not being a good place …

Reporting back: Your comment is utter nonsense. There is a thriving tech scene in Europe and we do quite well! Reliable and cheap health care is a huge boon for small entrepreneurs…

Try https://github.com/algesten/ureq , it’s very nice and not async.

What really helps me is to compose a complete song first and worry about the sound later. Just use whatever patch kind of gets the job done at first. Once the full song structure i…

Did one session with an acting coach once which was very useful. Most useful tip he gave me: in between sentences focus on breathing out, instead of breathing in. If you clear your…

The quote is specifically about a few areas like the red light district that see so many drunk and/or high tourists that the situation gets too unwieldy. Quite a specific situation…

I own one and it is suitable for longer trips. Regularly drive for 90 minutes with it. It’s only real downside is that luggage space is very limited.

This uses pattern matching, the compiler will verify that all options exists and that the coverage of the enum is complete.

Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P2vYIgPdKg for a very well executed attempt to have somebody admit to a murder they did not commit.

I know from experience that it is possible to build Rust binaries that work on very old Linux versions. You could for example supply them with a Docker image with a new build stack…

Well the premise is that you would trust the company you choose do business with for this service.

You could implement it as an API call. The site could fetch the current "sponsored by X" line and render it directly in the HTML it serves.

It's not that your sources are nonsense, you're just drawing an unfounded conclusion from them. The Whatsapp patrol described in the article is completely different from the goon s…

I've lived in the Netherlands my whole life. It is true that the solved crime rate is pretty low, but the rest of your comment is complete nonsense.

AppSignal | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | REMOTE https://appsignal.com/jobs/customer-success-manager AppSignal provides amazing insights into the workings and effects of application…

Awesome, please open source this :-)

For us as a small team it's a very positive change. Our monthly bill just went from $100 to $25.

We encountered this issue because we use MongoDB as our primary database and there was no driver available. I wrote a really nice (if I say so myself) wrapper [1] around the C driv…

https://www.senz.com/en I own a couple of them, they work amazingly well. You can even use them on a bike with heavy wind.

I like Steve Blank's definition: A startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. See: http://steveblank.com/2010/01/25/whats-a-startup-f…

We're really happy with MongoDB too. Can't wait to see how these improvements will work out for us.