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Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks
Original EnglishI worked for a company that did sales in Europe and we ran afoul of a public domain library.
How JetBrains Lost Years of Customer Loyalty in Just a Few Hours
Original EnglishI pay like $100/year for PHPstorm upgrades, and it's well worth the cost given the benefits that one receives from using the software (mostly in …
I'm skeptical of low-code
Original EnglishI hired an intern who used bubble/airtable to build our product in two months and had ten paying customers in 6 months.
Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?
Original EnglishI developed a new algorithm that solves the "find all k simple paths" orders of magnitude faster than the existing solutions.
Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?
Original EnglishI started getting colleagues to use it, and incorporating it in work done for clients, then I'd prefer it to be open source and ideally …
Ask HN: What up with these startup salaries?
Original EnglishMade somewhere around 180K and this was me full time with a part time developer subcontracted out which didn't actually bring in much additional revenue …
The Programmer Salary Taboo
Original EnglishBut eventually I realized that the only tangible way a company can truly appreciate a good employee is biting the bullet and by paying him …
Apple's bad faith 27% tax on web purchases
Original EnglishI answer, I'd personally use whichever one provides the smoothest checkout experience w/ a reasonable cost. (I'm not going to pay $5 more because apple's …
FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects
Original EnglishI initially tried paid ads, but they only netted about $200 per month—not great.