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$99 Mineserver: The Devil Is in the Details
Original EnglishI just used digitalocean hosting for a minecraft server for my kid a few years ago, $5 a month. …
Stop Looking for a Technical Co-Founder, Learn to Code Yourself
Original EnglishOf course, now non-technical "frat-boys" here are going to wave the "I tried and I failed" flag, but know that it's not hard for technical …
Generation JavaScript
Original EnglishI dislike big IDE's because I feel people and projects become dependent on them and they foster unnecessary bloat and complexity because they don't require …
Running a software team at Google
Original EnglishI'd spent 2 years as an employee at a financial software startup and a year founding my own company (which failed, but the postmortem is …
Object Oriented Programming is Inherently Harmful
Original EnglishHowever, success invariably contains the seeds of failure, because success means that we are taken to the limits of applicability.
Ask HN: Strange bug workarounds?
Original Englishthe bootstrapping/startup and while normally the previous version should be recoverable...well it was not because of where the upgrade process failed. …
Working for startups sucks, you'll be happier working for The Man
Original EnglishWe had a perfectly great (SaaS) product and a great team (5 employees - 1 founder, 1 programmer & myself, 1 salesperson/marketing, 1 human resources/finance.).
Show HN: The Honeybadger
Original EnglishNote: I failed at a project hard this month after pouring 8 months of my life into it...
From Prison to Programming
Original EnglishI not only thought what my unit was doing was illegitimate, but in fact, I lost my support for the regime. …