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Building a One-Person SaaS App Offers a Profound Sense of Personal Achievement
Original EnglishI've learned how to integrate a billing system.
Ask HN: What do you code when learning a new language/framework?
Original EnglishIt barely slowed me down. 3 months in I had tens of thousands of lines of code converted and I started getting good at it.
Caching the uncacheable: CloudFlare's Railgun
Original EnglishDuring that time there was a total of one Cloudflare related outage and that was resolved within about 15 minutes by their changing the data-center …
How I Built a Barbecue Restaurant in Brooklyn: The Toll of Owning Your Business
Original EnglishI was profitable within weeks of launching, but I’m not rolling in money by any stretch.
PostgreSQL: the good, the bad, and the ugly
Original EnglishVendor tells my boss and my school it will cost us $5,000 due to my mistake for them to fix something (Took them 15 minutes …
Colocation: Non-Clown Hosting
Original English4) We run some test Hypervisors and then only support Windows + Hyper-V (or VMWare on their "cloud").
CircleCI Announces Support for Gitlab
Original EnglishI've been a CircleCI customer for 3 years.
What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?
Original EnglishFor example the product starts out simple but grows in complexity, so suddenly you notice the 1 hour install that your consultant used to start …
Three quarters of Android apps track users with third party tools
Original Englishbut there's a weird gray area for me when they start using that data against me for things like dynamic pricing, dark patterns, selling email …