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Ask HN: How did you move from IT/software to something unrelated?
Original EnglishI could have taken a 60% pay cut before i left the golden handcuffs job, but it was much easier than I fretted over. …
I'm so sorry everyone. Or: why I'm switching to Cloudflare
Original EnglishI actually prefer paying for reasonable priced services, that way you know what you're getting.
I'm tired of Google's business products
Original EnglishI also don't depend on anything being available, so I avoid the pain every time there's an outage.
How Diane Greene Transformed Google's Cloud
Original EnglishNow, again, it seems that Cloud SQL Proxy is a better system overall, but it required fiddling with our server setup, upgrading our MySQL library …
$15 Production Kubernetes Cluster on DigitalOcean
Original EnglishI do recommend such setup (not necessarily on DO though), if you have a sufficiently complex stack and you want to be able to deploy …
Ask HN: Am I the only one who does not want IoT in their solar panel setup?
Original EnglishWe built large, complex medical instruments that required periodic servicing both by the customer and by our Field Engineers.
How our freemium plan failed
Original EnglishSome of our most successful customers were sending out 7-8 emails over a 6 week period.
RubyMotion 3.0 Sneak Peek: Android Support
Original Englishbut I've lost confidence in Ruby Motion since I've had a pull request open against it for whole year because they don't support enterprise deployment …
Ask HN: What's the worst you've ever screwed up at work?
Original Englishso, my line of code cost our little company the equivalent of almost all of our previous year's revenue -- not profit, but revenue.