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Apple's First Public Demonstration of the Mac, Unseen Since 1984 [video]
Original EnglishI've paid $5 for iOS games that gave me vastly more hours of enjoyment than games that I used to pay $50+ for.
Ramit Sethi and Patrick McKenzie on Getting Your First Consulting Client
Original EnglishWe talked the origin stories for our three consulting businesses (I run a sole-prop consultancy as roughly a 20% time project, Keith runs a small …
Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
Original EnglishThe sunglasses are all $0 to the customer, but we charge for shipping, which is where the profit comes from.
DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing
Original EnglishI will just say I hate how we use "bandwidth" to both mean "data transfer speed" and "monthly data transfer limit"...
My Android development income report
Original EnglishThe majority of the revenue comes from ads, but more and more paid apps revenue is higher!
The uncanny valley of web scraping
Original EnglishAnd since we charge a monthly fee for it (I don't think most people realize that our server fees alone run nearly $2,000 a month …
How to Get PayPal to Freeze Your Account in Four Easy Steps
Original EnglishAs an aside, my non-profit's account was frozen once but I got it unfrozen in fairly short order, and at worst it was a minor …
Ask HN: As a skilled developer, how do you make pocket money with little time?
Original EnglishI tried to be a freelance, it is well paid but with my full-time job it's too time consuming and I'm not so ambitious.
Canada is North America’s up-and-coming startup center
Original Englishbut it was bloody fantastic when I used to live in Panama and legally paid no tax of any kind other than 7% sales tax. …