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Comment · 1 year ago
There is also the option to do half bins / half grid pattern at the edge. So you have the normal 42x42 grid pattern, then on one edge there are 21x42 sized boxes. There are a number of designs that support the half grid pattern. This would reduce your maximum lost space down to 20mm, and you would still have compatibility with the gridfinity system.
Comment · 2 years ago
It really depends on a lot of factors. For example if you have solar, how well insulated your house is, etc.

I am currently renovating a house in Germany and had a quote for a heat pump system and a quote for a central gas heating system. The heat pump system was quoted at 66.000€, it would however be reduced by 24.750€ to 41.250€ as the government is currently giving a subsidy for these systems. The Gas system was quoted at around 18.000€.

Both of the quotes included removing the old Oil Heating system and disposing of it. The Gas System included the price of connecting to the cities gas supply.

I went with the Gas System, as not only the install would be cheaper, the running cost would also be substantially cheaper. Some electricity providers have a seperate tariff for heat pumps that is marginally cheaper. However even then my calculation was that a Heat Pump would only have a comparable running cost if I also invested in a large Solar install on the Roof.

Comment · 2 years ago
The filing mentions the Foundation multiple times?

> Raspberry Pi is a subsidiary of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, a UK charity founded in 2008, with the goal of promoting interest in computer science among young people. Raspberry Pi has distributed approximately $50m in dividends to the Foundation since 2013, which has been used to advance its educational mission globally.

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Comment · 4 years ago
Usually for big supermarkets they are changed over a radio frequency. So they do not need people to go around and manually program them.

You can also do cool time limited actions without having an employee go and manually change prices. For example in Kaufland stores in Germany at 19:00 the price of the Fruit and Vegetables is automatically reduced.

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
The article mentions that the FIFA license only includes rights to the name, logo and rights to the World Cup.

The player and teams name, likenesses and logos are governed by licenses with other organisations.

Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
Your business is currently an android + ios app in a sector Stripe finds to be "high-risk". Stripe can't guarantee you're not going to later sell your software/product directly using Stripe, thus a risk of chargebacks.

If you're signing up to Atlas because you want to access Stripe for payment processing then you are out of luck it seems.

If you're signing up because you need a US LLC then you have other options that are more complex but would get you the same result. Have you considered using a service like LegalZoom (Not affiliated and have never used it so can't speak to how good they are) to incorporate your LLC?

Comment · 8 years ago
AFAIK they will generally only do it if the account is inactive. Were you actively using the twitter handle?
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Comment · 8 years ago
I don't see that this solves any problem in the interview process.

This would just incentivize people who aren't going to take the job to apply. People would specifically apply to interviews just for the money with no intention of ever taking it. There would probably even be people who are wholly unqualified who would study and fake resumes etc just to make money from turning up.

On the other hand, I do believe that doing any work after an interview should be compensated in some way, even more so if they plan to actually use the work product for something. Travel to/from an interview should also be compensated in my opinion.

Comment · 8 years ago
Is the tech lead actually proposing it as his idea? As in "Last night I had this idea x, we should do that". Or is he saying to the manager "We should implement x now because..." but leaving out who had the idea?

If it's the latter, he may be doing it unintentionally. I've known devs that don't have the best social skills, and they maybe don't realise that people would like to have credit for their ideas. It may just be that they mulled it over for some time and came to the conclusion it was a good idea. They may have even forgot who gave them the original idea. It may then be a good idea to talk with them and ask why they didn't give you credit.

Moving forward, my suggestion would be to have an email with others copied in. At most places I've worked we've had a developers@ / team.xy@ email. Maybe an email to that address with the idea, and asking for everyones feedback?

Comment · 8 years ago

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