campbellmorgan

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Comment · 7 months ago
(Not a tax professional so don't take my word for it) But I think you're talking about individual fiscal residency. A company you create can technically not be resident where you live so long as you can demonstrate that the principal activities of the company do not take place where you live. So with Spain, if a decent percent of your customers are Spanish and you're the only member of the company, then Spain would have reasonable recourse to consider the company Spanish and require you to register it there and pay Spanish corporate taxes. However, if you have say, 6 employees all over the world, your customers are not substantially Spanish etc then they have a lot harder job proving that the fiscal residency of the company is Spanish. In any case, there is always an outside chance that they could investigate you which is enough of a pain on its own, so may not be worth it!
Comment · 1 year ago
https://www.prisma.io/docs/orm/prisma-client/using-raw-sql/r... - it assumes that these queries return arrays and there's a template you can pass in like this:

prisma.$queryraw<YourType>`SELECT * FROM ...`

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
I've been using v2 for a month or so and it's really great. There are a few things that feel a little bit rougher than the Rust equivalent (Tauri), but Go is just so much faster to code in that this has been a pleasure to work with.

Also props to the lead maintainer Lea Anthony who seems to be behind all the very exciting momentum of the project

Comment · 4 years ago
Yes I think that's fair especially about writing technique if that was the OP's original analogy, and in particular about new writers as you point out.

What I was referring to specifically was inspiration and knowledge of niche events that become the details that bring prose / art alive. These immediately lose their effect if they are reused which is why my friends who are professional writers dedicate an enormous amount of time to research in the hope that these details may jump out to them.

In a lot of contemporary art, a curator's view of work is often hung around a particular piece of research and that must be unique to warrant the attention of the public - my original point was that that research just can't be shared until the work is revealed.

However, maybe to your point, there is a lot of value in a more technical literary HN which encourages meta discussion on the process of writing rather than the content.

Comment · 4 years ago
I have discussed this idea with friends who are writers / artists. Call me a cynic, but while many writers / artists aspire to collective shared knowledge, the reality of both the writing and art market is that unique knowledge is an important differentiator and an asset to their careers. If you do find a fascinating, rare 19th century travel journal in some online archive the last thing you are going to do is share it with others like you until you're sure that you're not going to use it as material yourself. The exception to this being other writers completed work (ie long-form articles, books), but that probably doesn't need a focus on writers / artists per se and a more general "aesthete" HN might work better...
Comment · 4 years ago
If you are an essential part of your startup as, for example CTOs are in very early stage startups, you may find it difficult to completely detach for more than a few weeks especially if the business is negotiating a complicated part of its development.

There is much good advice here but I would add a few things that I have not seen in other comments. My advice is not for people who are employees as I believe they should take at a minimum their entire statutory allowance, but for founders with a greater stake in the success of the business:

- although the first few weeks are certainly the most challenging especially if you end up staying on in hospital for a few days, there will be many challenges over the entire first year unless you have excellent family (ie grandmother) help - so pace yourself and your team's expectation of your involvement.

- Plan to be completely absent for the first few weeks and adjust your team's expectations accordingly, but then optimise asynchronous communication of all but the most pressing issues from that point on. This helps if your business is remote because it's likely you will already be successfully using asynchronous communication through tickets / slack / email.

- While it would have been great to spend my downtime watching series, early infancy tends to give you a lot of time at unexpected hours and it can actually end up being quite painless to put in 2-3 hours of problem solving or pull request reviews. These can make the difference between a team heading radically off path and staying on track.

- If you can (ie if you're not the one breastfeeding -- that's totally consuming and you won't be able to do anything) try and distribute some of your leave later because babies get more engaging every extra day they are out of the womb!

Good luck!

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
It is easy to agree with the sentiment of this article, but the fundamental premise of this is wrong in modern architecture. That premise is that it is the architect that is in control of the final aesthetic of the building. Architects get work by participating in competitions against other architects for limited budgets. In a few, rare cases (usually public buildings and museums) an extraordinary budget may be approved that goes to funding truly radical buildings that break from the status quo, but in the overwhelming majority of cases architects play a fine line within the following constraints:

1. Planning regulations (in the UK at least, it's very hard to propose buildings that differ significantly from neighbouring buildings)

2. Materials -- building custom window frames / door frames is incredibly expensive. The first thing that tends to get cut as budgets are inevitably squeezed are any custom items

3. Client expectations -- most new large buildings are built with a projection of future occupants. Developers want to be able to make apartments as saleable as possible so usually take the most risk-averse options

While I applaud concepts with more colour, detail and originality, you must also consider where you would like to live. Most people (I think) want to build out their own custom surroundings as their home grows on them. Bland buildings make this easier because it is a blank canvas upon which you can begin to construct your own projection of your ideal home. Being locked inside a giant multicoloured artwork conceived of by somebody else might sound appealing to start off with, but will quickly become an aesthetic prison of somebody else's personality.

Comment · 5 years ago
For anybody thinking about contributing this, this is sadly as close to not open source as open source gets. I tried to contribute to this, but it's impossible to build without the webrtc binary and the docs are deliberately opaque about going about building your own version of the binary. You are encouraged to pay the (almost sole) contributor of this repo for his build of webrtc. For this reason it's not really surprising that this version is both quite out of sync with the mainline OBS and also has only one or two contributors. Fortunately, for me, most plugins built with the mainline OBS do work with this.

I get that the maintainer has put a lot of work into this and wants to try and monetize some part which is hard when OBS is GPL, but depending on a binary which is nigh-on impossible to build and then charging for it on your website just feels a bit of a shitty way to do it.

Comment · 6 years ago
I've been using this for nearly a year and it's by far the best thing I've found so far for testing realistic websockets load where servers are put under strain not just by connections but interactions between each other. Many thanks for the dev team behind this. It's a great piece of work.
Comment · 6 years ago
+1 for Eça de Queiroz. With the exception of O Crime do Padre Amaro which can in places be a bit blunt, he tends to have a a kind admiration for his characters as he quietly makes fun of them and the decadent society around them.
Comment · 6 years ago
I never thought I would see this on HN! I also highly recommend reading (an abridged version of) this, maybe in tandem with a well annotated version of The Lusiads by Camoes. From our modern, connected multicultural world, I find there's nothing more engrossing than witnessing this "discovery" through the eyes of those comparatively monocultural generations. In a similar vein, I have also been meaning to read some of Ibn Battuta's travels which strike me as a Berber angle on a similar journey.
Comment · 7 years ago
For anybody using Firefox Android and ublock origin who now sees ads, worth checking out the duckduckgo Android privacy browser. So far, it seems to be working beautifully so something good for me at least has come out of this mess!

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