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Always ship trunk: Managing change in complex websites
Original Englishthe idea that the release and deployment tools are where the real benefit is is really becoming apparent - the version-control system is necessary, but …
Why I Gave Up A Million Dollar Consultancy
Original EnglishFrom what I'm seeing in those who have shared their revenue openly (Brennan, Patrick, Amy, Nathan), it takes about 2 years (+/- 1 year) to …
Want To Be A Freelancer? Just Punch Yourself In The Face, Instead
Original EnglishI have failed projects behind me, I know what failure is, but I've learned a lot from them, and still I try again (beside my …
How to Sell Excellence
Original Englishwe are in 2015 (nearly 20 years later) and Haskell has advanced as much as Common Lisp on regards of usefulness for the general business. …
Canadian mega landlord using AI 'pricing scheme' as it hikes rents
Original EnglishThe start up costs were reasonable until I discovered my type of business requires light industrial space to get a permit.
Why Not To Do A Startup
Original EnglishWe are still paying on the credit cards but we should have them taken care of in about 6 more months.
Ask HN: What are you working on?
Original EnglishAnd yes, this hasn't come up yet, but they absolutely pay if the app gets rejected - you get paid for the work you do, …
Hypothesis 1.0: A property-based testing library for Python
Original EnglishThis has then turned out to be an actual bug in the system being tested.
RethinkDB 2.1 beta: automatic failover with Raft
Original EnglishWe tried to use these libraries, but a project of RethinkDB's scope has a lot of abstractions for networking, threading, memory allocation, etc.