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Ask YC: Toolkit for python desktop applications
Original EnglishWe paid a student programmer to develop our application and he had good Python but little pyqt/qt knowledge.
ASK HN: Feedback on my 9,356th attempt at a niche business.
Original EnglishSo now I'm riding the Rails on Ubuntu, source-controlling it with git so that i can deploy via capistrano and loving life chilling with the …
Why are there so few good developers?
Original Englishi like, i'm perfectly comfortable with meetings with my clients because its always on topic and isnt about shmoozing, and i'm paid way more, also, …
Ask HN: How do you sell in a new programming language?
Original EnglishThis contract only required a bunch of HTML files as a deliverable, rather than getting a team of programmers to speed on something which would …
Ask HN: Afraid I've dug myself into a hole
Original EnglishI know what we pay our SAP consultants, and in this economy, you're looking at a steep decline in take-home to go from 3-4 years …
Tell HN: Your great ideas that you won't pursue
Original English- 75-77% of 18-44 year olds are pizza customers
What Will Google Learn From the Nexus 4 Selling Out?
Original EnglishI've also helped a friend run a VLSI design project that got working tape-outs of a designed-from-scratch processor, all costs included, for $200K in 2005.
Startup is not your job
Original EnglishSo profitability is important, as is low customer support requirements, as is technical simplicity (so I never have to cut a trip short because something …
Ask HN: Where do you host your NodeJS applications?
Original EnglishI haven't tried Nodejitsu yet, but their pricing looks really good because they have a $9/month plan for low volume web apps.