superhans2
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8 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What is the typical time your contracting invoices are paid?
Depends on the client. Some clients pay within 3 days and some delay the payment for weeks. Some companies even have policies to pay invoices only after the second reminder (for cash flow reasons...). For me, early payments are sign of reliability and trustworthiness. I get a bit nervous and stressed if I have to remind clients to pay my invoices. Clients who repeatedly forget or delay payments go way down my "want to work with again"-list and get sorted out this way sooner or later.
superhans2
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8 years ago
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on: Gmail, Google Maps and YouTube had outage issues
Sounds familiar. I had a client once, who had to reboot one particular router every day because it stopped working after 8h uptime. So one of their employees did that every morning by logging into some server via remote desktop to click the "reboot" button. I asked why they don't use some kind of cron job to automate that task, they just said "it doesn't work that way, you have to do it manually".
superhans2
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8 years ago
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on: Candy Japan total sales cross $1M
Germany, self-employed, single: I pay about 760 EUR/month for the statutory health insurance. This is the max, it can get cheaper if you make less revenue. Price increases about 2% every year. Can be fully deducted from taxes though. I think the system is kind of fair. I paid 80 EUR/month when I was a student.
superhans2
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8 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How people get Ethereum
You probably mean Ether (ETH), the currency. Ethereum is the name of the platform.
One approach is to buy Bitcoin (BTC) instead of ETH, because there are a lot more exchanges to choose from. Then use a exchange service to exchange that BTC into ETH. I used shapeshift before. Be aware of the fees that are usually hidden in the exchange rate.
