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Ask HN: Is a phD a good way to focus & motivate you?
Original EnglishStarted a (failed) project with someone, the pressure of having someone else relying on me was great (not that it is the reason it failed, …
Ask HN: Developing a recurring payments system, what do I need to consider?
Original Englishi did the recurring billing manually rather than using braintree's automated billing.
Don't sell Technology to Indian Businesses
Original EnglishFor a moment I can't imagine why anybody would blame the whole nation just because one start up failed.
Response to systemd's use of the debug flag
Original EnglishHmm, I was expecting "Sorry we made a mistake, we'll switch the option to systemd.debug".
Ask HN: I'm 23, and I dislike my job as a software engineer
Original Englishbut then I took a big risc with a B2B SW project which failed. …
How do you scale your web application?
Original EnglishIt usually (well, always) is a good idea, because any intermediary result is a source for bugs.
Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
Original EnglishWe tried (and failed) to raise last year, so still entirely bootstrapped.
Ask HN: How do you collect delinquent payment for contract work?
Original EnglishWorse that happened was a bad client who changed his mind at the last minute and we lost about 25% of paid work.
Ask HN: Are some signup CAPTCHAs becoming a bit ridiculous (yes you HN)?
Original Englishdonation turned out to be a totally failed experiment in forum design,