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Don’t Pursue Programming if You Aren’t Passionate About It
Original EnglishI realized that I loved the struggles of self-discipline to get the last 10% of a project done, the struggles of dealing with bad clients …
Jawbone denies 'abandoning' customers
Original EnglishI love the hardware form factor and the software, but the reliability, even when support was responsive, has been very poor.
Ask HN: What habit have you dropped or picked up that improved your life?
Original English- Had a few close calls while deployed (was a Marine for 8 yrs) and learned life is too precious and too short to do …
AppStore Secrets
Original EnglishPlus, we get a 5% commission through linkshare, so we take back profits from Apple's 30%.
Golang 10x faster than Ruby for web APIs
Original EnglishI pay you $1000 (or EUR) if you show me how you can be 3x faster from idea to live with RoR against something else, …
Lock Up Your Customer Accounts, Give Away the Key
Original EnglishIt's modestly annoying (operations like "check what changed in the secret configuration file as a result of a particular commit" are impossible) but seems like …
Ask HN: Loosing Faith - the startup killer
Original EnglishWe've failed not because nobody wanted our product.
Ask HN: how many years have you "wasted" on failed startups? And any regrets?
Original EnglishWe don't have traction yet but I spent 4 weeks hitting the streets and talk to customers (students).
Need Help. Going through late 20 career crisis.
Original EnglishWe sold our product to few hospitals but ultimately it was a big failure.