TheGrumpyBrit

Certainly this model would result in a lot more people who would create accounts to test and never come back after deciding it's not for them. The answer to that is a clear dormant account policy - for example by deleting free accounts after 60 days with no login. That helps make sure that all your trial users are actively engaged in using the service, and also gives you an opportunity to follow up with dormant users at defined points to remind them that their account will expire if left unused, and giving the opportunity to upgrade to a paid account which has no such limit.

Another person mentioned that 5MB is a lot for text notes, which is quite true - following the notion.so approach and having a limit of 100 notes or so might be more sensible. I personally just don't like the idea of a time limit on a note taking app, especially when all the other options provide a free quota instead.

That said, your pricing looks just right for me, and the lack of the web app is the main thing stopping me from giving it a try. I really like the fact that you have both folders and tags, instead of just one or the other - that's really the one thing I feel is missing from both Standard Notes and Notion

Exactly - this works for notion.so, who allow 1000 "blocks" of data before requiring a paid account.

It looks good, and I like your pricing model more than the Standard Notes one (I don't want to drop $149 at once on a web app, but the 75% discount for doing so makes the monthly price seem way too expensive). Two things that stop me pulling the trigger:

1. I need a web app. I want to be able to call up my notes from a computer, anywhere, without installing anything.

2. A 60 day trial seems like the wrong way to test a note taking app - it makes me feel like you're going to hold my data hostage unless I migrate away within that timescale. A much smaller (5-10MB) quota with no time limit would allow me to test it properly, and it's already a part of my workflow by the time I hit the limitations of the free account, so I'm more likely to actually upgrade.

Simple enough. When a company ceases trading, nobody expects the people who bought their office equipment to honour outstanding warranties, or even the people who bought out the lease on the building they traded from. If another company buys the design of their products and continues making them, that doesn't oblige them to honour warranties for the products they didn't make.

This is exactly the same thing, except it was the company name that was sold. Acme Corporation sold the Acme brand to RoadRunner Inc, then quietly ceased trading taking all their liabilities with them.

You can also run Code online on your own server: https://github.com/cdr/code-server

Yes, but I still have an effective hourly rate.

2 hours pay for each day I'm on call, increased to 4 hours for weekends or bank holidays (since we aren't in the office during the day so it's effectively another 8 hours on call per day), plus minimum 2 hours at double time for any actual calls received.

So effectively 18 hours pay per week for being on call then 4 hours pay for any calls received, since it would be extremely rare for a call out to require more than 2 hours.

We don't really have probably cause in that sense in the UK. Any driver can be stopped at any time purely to check documents if required - police don't need to have a reason.

But then everybody knows the exact crime to avoid. This way, you don't know what happened, you know something bad happened, but you don't know what, so you avoid breaking any laws to be on the safe side.

Depends on the business, and whether there's a limit to the number of accounts a number can be linked to. A business can quite legitimately have multiple accounts for different departments, brands, or any other purpose. If you can only have one account per phone number, that can quickly become a problem.

Session cookies are fine, it's only advertising and tracking cookies which are covered by the legislation.

For day to day browsing: None. For occasional VPN requirements without a serious privacy concern (bypassing geoblocks etc): The free service provided with one of my Usenet providers. If I have an actual need for privacy, I'd fire up a cheap VPS somewhere and deploy a VPN server, then dispose of it afterwards.

Very little content, but sure: https://www.timboswell.co.uk

In the image in the linked post, the "No Web Server" would be what you describe. "Parked" is where you point the domain at a generic page so that visitors see a page, but you're not actively hosting any kind of web server there.

Are you dancer?

Kind of. I use a good headshot from my wedding.

Instead of throwing away those years as a lawyer, I'd look to complement them - specifically, I'd look at management/director level infosec/compliance/governance roles. You'll get less hands-on exposure as a manager, but your legal experience will give you a leg up that it seems silly to throw away. You can always move on to more technical roles later, with the advantage of a tech-related job title in your resume.

Law is like IT - even if you get a job in a completely unrelated field, as soon as your past gets out, you'll find yourself inundated with requests to "just take a look at this." Might as well use that experience to your advantage first.

I wonder if a piercing would be a suitable hybrid, giving additional sensitivity while still being removable. If detecting EM fields is the goal, I'm not sure there's much advantage to using a finger as the location.

Except the bus never actually said we'd be giving £350m per week to the NHS. It said "We send the EU £350m a week - let's fund our NHS instead." Nobody in their right mind would assume that means we'd just divert all that money to the NHS, nor is that a decision that the Leave campaigners can make - it's simply a statement that the NHS is grossly underfunded while we send billions of pounds a year across the channel.

There was no need for detail, because the WTO already provides a framework for trade agreements. That was the assumed state people voted on - talk of a deal came afterwards, and was considered by many to be an attempt to do "Brexit in name only", causing a situation where we're still obligated to the EU but no longer have any MEPs.

The thing is, there was no talk of a deal before the referendum. The vote was simply Stay or Go, with the assumption being that we would simply fall back to WTO rules. All this talk of negotiating a deal came after the vote. In that sense, a No Deal Brexit is closer to what the people voted for than any deal. Contrary to "voters remorse", I know plenty of Brexit supporters who are celebrating the defeat of what they see as the governments attempt to undermine the terms of Brexit.

Google Drive is unlimited on GSuite. I pay about £6 a month, well worth it.

I haven't given up on it yet, but my hobby project is a portal for free live music gigs in my local area. It's working well enough on Wordpress, but real life always seems to get in the way of my attempts to move it to a standalone product. Probably because it's always my go-to project when I want to learn something new, so I've ended up with multiple unsatisfactory versions because I've not had any experience with the language/framework.

We all know Private Browsing is for porn, but everyone goes along with the illusion that it's for buying presents for your SO. You might well have something to hide, but putting a banner over your fireplace saying "Incriminating evidence goes here" is still a bit silly.

I owned mylastname.co for a year before I let it drop. Everyone expected either .com or .co.uk.

When I got married, I seriously considered taking my wifes name, for no other reason than the .co.uk was available.

That doesn't fly when you're married. The always on display on the S8 is a lifesaver though - bright enough to see the time at 2am, but dim enough that you don't blind yourself doing so.

Which might mean American companies can't employ people in Syria, but what does that have to do with the rest of the world?

I can definitely imagine certain execs being single-minded enough to think "Well if a parent has suffered some tragedy, they're not going to click our ad anyway, so it's costing us nothing to advertise to them"

These "missteps" are the reason I don't use Firefox. With Chrome, I know Google are watching. But I also know only Google are watching. They're not bundling irremovable third party apps in with the browser, or installing extensions without my consent, or sending my entire browsing history to another third party.

Mozilla have done all these things, and when called out on it, they don't seem to realise they've done anything wrong. That crosses the line from naive to actively malicious.