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The Web’s Declarative, Composable Future
Original EnglishOthers have tried and failed as well, because the web, to most people, is good enough.
Ask YC: Story for Forbes - What really happens when your startup fails?
Original EnglishI lost $30,000 of my own money when my startup failed back in the day.
Ask HN: Can we brainstorm a better way to find a co-founder?
Original EnglishWe failed probably because of not what you're thinking.
Ask HN: Hacker Finances? / How much do you save each month?
Original EnglishIn the past I have managed to have periods where I saved 40% of my income, and currently I'm probably going backwards by about 10% …
PhD vs Startup
Original EnglishI'd been working in industry for the previous five years so it was a 80% drop in income at least.
Minecraftly: Inspire kids to learn computing via Minecraft
Original EnglishTo avoid crazy costs I setup a bit of infrastructure: I managed to pipe the active / logged in user count of the minecraft server …
How We Are Improving Performance
Original EnglishThanks, it was definitely tough for us to admit that we failed our customers, but the entire team at imgix felt that we had an …
Ask HN: With recent layoffs, how would you advise new grads entering the market?
Original EnglishI made the mistake of moving furniture for the first 3 years out of school to support my struggling shareware business.
Looking into the eyes of failure
Original EnglishMany of the people around me would laugh when I said I'd failed, because they were judging it by how far I'd come and the …