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Stack Overflow's Original 99designs Logo Contest
Original EnglishBasically, it's taboo because designers get paid like $2 an hour there.
Olark launches "Targeted Chat"
Original EnglishOne year of the Bronze plan, at $180, is several orders of magnitude lower than my average customer lifetime value, so it's easily worth it, …
Augment, a GitHub Copilot rival, launches out of stealth
Original EnglishI only paid for Cody to get Claude 3 Opus and that's all I tried.
Hell freezes over: Forrester urges IT to support the Mac
Original EnglishI will say that in 11 years of going on-site to clients to do security assessments, I have only once encountered a company that had …
Egypt has blocked encrypted messaging app Signal
Original Englishthe "Experimental" state is easy, BTW - it's trickier moving them on from there because it's trickier to change them once they're widely deployed. …
Favor real dependencies for unit testing
Original EnglishI run "Compile" on some production data and it blows up.
Moz Dumps Amazon Web Services, Citing Expense and 'Lacking' Service
Original EnglishIn my previous startup (circa 2005) we started at The Planet (are they still around?) and within 18 months we were colocating physical servers at …
YCRFS 6: iPad Applications
Original EnglishI don't have a problem with paying a business partner 30% if it makes sense.
Marelle: logic programming for devops
Original Englishthe company), then I built a few more small CFEngine deployments of 1,000-3,000 servers before moving on to working at Opscode. …