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The Failure of a Past Basic Income Guarantee, the Speenhamland System
Original EnglishBecause I understood failure and struggle so well I have always gone out of my way to help those struggling.
Low End Dedicated Servers
Original EnglishI'm currently using ChunkHost which has a free beta program for a 512MB VPS which costs $19 (about half the price of Slicehost and $37 …
Dropbox Beta Build 15.3.19
Original EnglishWhen I left Dropbox, the team was trying to move to a 2 week build cycle.
An excellent donation from Google, extended contracts, and Google Code-In update
Original EnglishI believe it was a previous GSoC contributor who worked on adding VirtualBox support, but their contract ended, VBox failed to incorporate the changes into …
Stripe is not blocking large-scale card testing attacks for many AI companies
Original EnglishIt would have been a ton more but we already setup some pretty strict rules several weeks ago when this happened before.
Show HN: I coded my own JSON translation tool to easily localize my side project
Original EnglishI've built a fairly sophisticated web-based translation tool for an agency's client who demanded it.
Bootstrapping by freelancing
Original EnglishI'm not quite opportunity cost profitable, but I'm moving in that direction at a fairly high velocity.
How to fail... gloriously
Original EnglishHaving wasted $65M of VC money and failed spectacularly on my first startup because I managed to execute flawlessly on a flawed business plan, I …
Ask HN: Handling an international non-paying client
Original EnglishWhat hurts more is the time I lost (6 weeks to the first client, maybe 2 weeks to the second).