Hacker News: wouterinho

Intel set to purchase Israel's Moovit for $1B

wouterinho — Sun, 03 May 2020 11:02:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/report-intel-set-to-purchase-israels-moovit-for-1-billion-626730

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23058264

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by wouterinho in "What Happened to Lee"

wouterinho — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 10:55:56 +0000

Thank you for referring to this episode, I found it really resonated with the article.

New comment by wouterinho in "$12k/month SaaS scraping social networks’ data"

wouterinho — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 20:54:43 +0000

This is not true, Instagram also offers this:

https://www.instagram.com/download/request/

Financial Times Acquires Majority Stake in TNW (The Next Web)

wouterinho — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 11:12:36 +0000

Article URL: http://inside.thenextweb.com/171391-the-ft-acquires-majority-stake-in-tnw-the-next-web

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19309755

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by wouterinho in "CloudBees acquires Codeship as devops consolidates"

wouterinho — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 17:31:56 +0000

Congratulations! I hope the product continues to be here in the future. The blogpost seems to be reassuring, but with acquisitions you never know.

Failsafe Network – the First Blockchain to Solve Scalability

wouterinho — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 22:36:08 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@homakov/failsafe-network-the-first-blockchain-to-solve-scalability-d7d867f21040

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16074752

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by wouterinho in "Joe Hruska, founder and CEO of RescueTime (YC W08), has died"

wouterinho — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 09:15:52 +0000

When we started out with our company, RescueTime was one of our "competitors": more or less the same technology, but different use cases (discovery vs productivity). I would often find Joe having the same issues and posting in the same support tickets are I did.

I have always followed them since and think they actually have a very relevant product in this world of ever increasing interruptions. My condolences.

New comment by wouterinho in "A Windows Defender bug was so gaping its PoC exploit had to be encrypted"

wouterinho — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 11:01:35 +0000

A comment on this article mentions a tool called "loadlibrary" used to discover this bug: https://github.com/taviso/loadlibrary. It allows fuzzing of Windows DLL files on Linux.

New comment by wouterinho in "What Apple Gives You for $100 as a Safari Extension Developer"

wouterinho — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 10:20:46 +0000

We also had the same issues with (trying) to publish an extension to the Safari gallery: long waiting times, unclear communication, publishing without notification, etc. Besides that, the move towards the requirement of Xcode does not bode well for managing a multi-browser codebase in JS.

Google and to a lesser extent Mozilla are doing way better on this and seem way more experienced in handling the extension ecosystem.

Microsoft Edge extensions now available to preview

wouterinho — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 09:49:09 +0000

Article URL: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/03/17/preview-extensions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11310751

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by wouterinho in "Trackers"

wouterinho — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 12:25:51 +0000

It is funny how things change when you use the physical world metaphor. There was a campaign recently by the Dutch regulatory agency that made people aware of the implications of allowing permissions in "free" apps.

They made an (anecdotal) video by promising a free cup of coffee in exchange for your contact list on your phone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYXM56YJWSo (Dutch unfortunately)

New comment by wouterinho in "Why we don't sell domain validated SSL certificates"

wouterinho — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 13:39:56 +0000

For those wondering what EV stands for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Validation_Certificat...

New comment by wouterinho in "Blendle: A radical experiment with micropayments in journalism, 365 days later"

wouterinho — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 09:24:53 +0000

Quality of content in this way can be measured in these micropayments + refunds instead of points/votes. Down with clickbait articles and up with good content.

By the way, I also fit the target audience: not buying newspapers, but I have added money to my Blendle account and spend it every now and then.

I am wondering about the economics though: the traction seems good, but is it enough to really add value for the publishers? I'd love to see more numbers on this.

New AWS region: eu-central-1

wouterinho — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 12:36:53 +0000

Article URL: http://i.imgur.com/EO5Ij0b.png

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8497789

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

The Dutch revolution in journalism: all newspapers behind one paydike

wouterinho — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 17:25:46 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/p/a2031594e430

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7355126

Points: 14

# Comments: 2

New comment by wouterinho in "Running an English speaking company in Europe"

wouterinho — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 14:38:39 +0000

As a company you're constraining yourself so much by requiring Dutch if you want to hire good people. I know many companies that still do so. Better for the rest of us!

One thing I noticed: Dutch people can switch pretty well during "work" discussions, but during lunch or social events, the switch is harder and you have to remind people to speak English.

New comment by wouterinho in "You Might Have an Invisible Facebook Account Even if You Never Signed Up"

wouterinho — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 19:38:04 +0000

Probably based on your IP (range). If 5 people from IP address X work at company Y, chances are you work there as well.

Installing an app, via the web

wouterinho — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 15:07:47 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/tech-talk/254da718025

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5939963

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by wouterinho in "Ceefax service to end after 38 years on BBC"

wouterinho — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:23:47 +0000

The Ceefax-like service in the Netherlands is actually a much-installed iPhone/Android app. The limitation in information you can provide provides for a short, to the point, "curated" overview of things happening.

New comment by wouterinho in "LeakedIn"

wouterinho — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 19:50:42 +0000

Interesting implementation, but won't this eat up a lot of bandwidth and cause a high S3 bill?