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jakobbuis··on Ask HN: Solo developer building a product? Show us your work and get feedback
I'm building Provisor: situational awareness for event organizers. See your team on the map; and position & collaborate in real-time. Like ATAK, but much simpler to use.

https://www.provisor.app

jakobbuis··on Rotterdam bridge to be dismantled for Oceanco's 127m sailing yacht Y721
The bridge is an historical artifact, it isn't used as a bridge.
jakobbuis··on Leetcode Compensation report (India) Jan 2019 – Jul 2021
If I calculated correctly, the 75th percentile is about 43k in euro's. That's quite a bit below market for the Netherlands, but does not take cost of living into account.
jakobbuis··on Flying a drone into a volcano
Man discovers lava is hot.
jakobbuis··on German digital bank N26 is facing outcry from its staff over management
Citation needed. Most engineers I know in The Netherlands (around 200) have bought their home.
jakobbuis··on Bosses panic-buy spy software to keep tabs on remote workers
It is in the Netherlands, permanent surveillance of employees without a specific reason (read: related to a specific instance or incident) is not permitted.
jakobbuis··on Four rules for effective collaboration – Guidelines for better commits
Commit log
jakobbuis··on Ask HN: Do you charge your webdesign clients for ongoing hosting and support?
Yes. Definitively yes. If you're a typical web developer or agency, you're going to have a lot of one-off engagements, project and campaign websites. Those cost money to support, and your customer should supply that money. We never host without both a modest hosting fee, and a SLA for fixes, updates and perfective maintenance.
jakobbuis··on China forces one of its Muslim minorities to install spyware on their phones
I suppose it would be easy to carry a secondary, hidden device and only use your primary device for inconspicuous activities?
jakobbuis··on Life Is About to Get Harder for Websites Without HTTPS
This fails utterly when you can't control your clients. My student society for example ran into this problem. Students bring their own laptops and installing our root certificate on all of them is infeasible (if they even would allow us to do so). As a consequence, we need to expose critical internal services on the public internet, some of which contain private user data.
jakobbuis··on Dos and don'ts on designing for accessibility (2016)
The argument "it's good for SEO!" sometimes helps convince colleagues/customers who are otherwise unconvinced. Well, whatever floats your boat..
jakobbuis··on Dos and don'ts on designing for accessibility (2016)
I've started to notice that customers are getting uneasy at the prospect of incoming legislation here in The Netherlands. I believe there's a new law in the works that makes accessibility mandatory in some cases, mostly pseudo-government related content though, so its scope remains limited.
jakobbuis··on Dos and don'ts on designing for accessibility (2016)
I'm aware of most techniques for making websites more accessible, and try to apply them where possible.

Unfortunately, the problem is most often not in applying the techniques, but convincing non-technical colleagues that these steps are important, even if they take a little longer.

jakobbuis··on Storyboarding in UX Design
I can't seem to find the documentary you're referring to, any pointers?
jakobbuis··on Amsterdam Airport Launches API Platform
Seems like an intentional pluralization miss to keep "consistency". I'd prefer to closely reflect the clients terminology though.
jakobbuis··on Why Chrome 53 Is Rejecting Chase Bank's Symantec Certificate
Using HSTS on a website will generally prevent your browser from allowing you to continue, which is fair: the website owner has explicitly indicated the website should only ever be used over a encrypted connection, and that is not the case..
jakobbuis··on Approve or Reject: Can You Moderate Five New York Times Comments?
Minor gripe: that's the time it takes you to read both the introduction, think about the context and judge the comment. Presumably, one would save a few seconds (and thus a lot of time in the long run) by being aware of the context and the article while working.

Still: major amounts of work. Though I presume that having comments hidden by default would take off some pressure: commenters won't know/notice their comments takes 14:55 or 13:29 to show up publicly.

jakobbuis··on Prosecutors Drop Drug Trafficking Case Against FedEx
No, Fedex would have been liable if it had knowingly continued to ship illegal drugs after having been notified by the government. In this case, Fedex asked for needed details, and was rejected.
jakobbuis··on ADSF-install is obsolete
ob•so•lete "no longer in use"

...which is apparently not true in this case :P

jakobbuis··on Results of the 2015 Soylent Eaters Survey
And the claims are identical, it's only the wording that differs. Compare it to pink and blue toothbrushes.
jakobbuis··on Why I don’t like hackathons
I've worked with teams on 48-hour film projects, in which you create a short (7 min) film in a weekend, quite comparable to a hackathon. On a team of 20 people, we charge two participants fulltime with organising catering: healthy meals, snacks, etc. It really does wonders for the motivation and preventing cranky reactions from the stressed-out director of photography on Sunday afternoon
jakobbuis··on Show HN: We just released + open sourced our internal time tracking app Hours
Than use a different license that explicitly forbids that. Or force them to get your permission first. Using an open-source license is not mandatory
jakobbuis··on Show HN: Picknotebook – a better way to choose your next laptop
I like it. The vagueness of the options works better in some areas than others though: suppose I'm looking for exactly a 13,3" laptop: I'm picky on the size, but don't care so much for accurate results in others areas
jakobbuis··on Ask HN: Why don't companies open-source the source code of their old products?
because it doesn't solve any of the problems mentioned in this thread? The essential parts are a stable community and 'buildability', none of which are solved by a webservice. Unless you have a great idea for this, than let's talk ;)