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Ask HN: Anybody who left IT?
Original EnglishThis grew exponentially in 4 years and we sold just before the bust in 2001.
Quality is a hard sell in big tech
Original EnglishI made a bug report to a company about one of their features.
Goodbye Google: "Visual Design Lead" leaves Google
Original English(Unless his ideas would have cost the company millions of clients, but it doesn't sound like that's the case -- if it was, they would …
How an app with 200,000 downloads led to developer homelessness
Original EnglishThat's money that I paid because I got value.
Software is eating the world, all right (2024)
Original Englishthis same person cries that they didn't know about facts of life like paying for electricity, water, etc...or how businesses cry because they didn't think …
Ask HN: What manual processes would you automate in your company?
Original EnglishThe reason why this hasn't changed is that lawyers get paid by the hour, so it's not wise for them to automate anything.
Frighteningly Unambitious Startup Ideas
Original EnglishI worked at VZW for almost 10 years, but early on decided I wanted to run my own business so basically saved as much as …
Google App Maker
Original EnglishAs a result it's easy to sit in a COBOL-bubble writing IF...ELSE business code all day long and not do anything computer-sciency until the memory …
Snapchat’s product is booming
Original EnglishI don't use Snapchat much myself nowadays, but I used to be a customer of many of these premium snaps years ago.