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Ask HN: Twilio suspended account because someone sent us a fraud text
Original EnglishI started out just doing call forwarding and later on added text messaging when customers started to expect to be able to text message us.
Why we built Vade Studio in Clojure
Original EnglishRe the org-mode argument: I really think you mistake lack of interest for insurmountable complexity.
Apple's Relationship with Pro Music Needs Mending
Original EnglishWe deployed a dozen Mac Pros, and four of them suffer from a GPU overheating problem that's widespread but little talked about -- Apple has …
Notes from Facebook's Developer Infrastructure at Scale F8 Talk
Original EnglishIt reduced the amount of build failures by 99% and test failures by a similarly high amount.
Ask HN: How would you bootstrap a telco?
Original EnglishAbsolutely, it’s an oligopoly, same as many other things in Canada; I think Rogers has a 40% profit margin, that’s rich if you ask me.
Reselling Software: Don’t Start a SaaS – White Label Someone Else’s Instead
Original EnglishThe (vanishingly) few customers we have lost, we go through an all-hands soul-searching to understand the "why".
Implementing system-versioned tables in Postgres
Original EnglishBut for the clients I worked with, who had failed to migrate on their own.
What I've learned from 100s of interviews with candidates at top tech companies
Original EnglishStartups aren't that special, and I lost a lot of income by doing small startups first as an employee for 4/5 years.
Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
Original EnglishFinally, to test my CMS, I implemented it for a client who is still running their entire business on it.