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Ask HN: How to onboard yourself to a new product/industry in a new job?
Original EnglishI have repeat clients often, and referrals within the same industry so I can re-use knowledge from previous contracts, but often I'm working on software …
Becoming a contractor programmer in the UK
Original EnglishI'm not sure exactly what proportion I pay in taxes vs a salaried employee, but it's non negligible - 20% Corporation tax on all profits …
Clayton Christensen: How MBA-driven Profit focus is Killing the U.S. Economy
Original Englishauto industry in trouble, as one executive put it clearly: "we spent all the efforts in the bottom line in cost cutting but ignored the …
Why did Heroku fail?
Original EnglishI used DigitalOcean precisely for this reason, with Ansible deployment.
Ask HN: I got let go this morning. What should I do next?
Original EnglishIt's YOUR code - but it's also YOUR bug when they do come up.
Ask HN: How do you earn your money?
Original EnglishI'm happy I've built up $30k in side income.
Running a private mail server for six years, easy peasy
Original EnglishI used to support small business IT customers back then, Outlook was by far my least favourite tyre on the raging intergalactic rubbish fire. But …
Minimal Viable Product is old and busted
Original EnglishWe believed we fully understood what the customer needs and that we should build the right product before we started selling.
Do call yourself a programmer, and other career advice
Original EnglishThis is the primary reason why I do my own assembly; assembling computers is way easier than negotiating Dell down to a reasonable price.