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Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs to travel the world, how did it go?
Original EnglishI didn't like thinking too far into the future at the time but I didn't really have any backup plans after poker.
Engineer eats efficiently for $2.50 a day (2016)
Original EnglishI wasn’t as cheap as this post, but my groceries with fresh produce, rice, and beans cost about $40/week.
Ask HN: Thoughts on being “boring”
Original EnglishThat failed - and then I lost the revenue from the small stuff as well.
Ask HN: How do you stay motivated to work on side projects?
Original EnglishMy parents nudged me to get a paying job (I had been out of college for 6 months at that point), so I worked for …
How to Launch a 65Gbps DDoS, and How to Stop One
Original EnglishDifferent problems, but it cost me a few days contacting users and apologising before I U-turned and switched the nameservers back.
Launch HN: Hatchet (YC W24) – Open-source task queue, now with a cloud version
Original EnglishI miss the simplicity of SAQ but that's the reason I switched and it's paid off already
No, You can't retire rich at 30 if you sell your startup
Original Englishinstead of a $70 cable subscription (or an expensive antenna for my area), and while I made this choice to be "frugal" in the end …
Sony software updates breaks movie theater projectors
Original EnglishHowever if they updated and, for example, broke HomeKit support and no longer worked, I'd be angry the next time I tried to use them.
pg_rewind in PostgreSQL 9.5
Original Englishthe master in order to seed a new slave, because the traffic never stops and we could not afford the memory or iops overhead of …