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Motor City Mojo: The Startup Renaissance In Detroit
Original EnglishI paid about $3000/year in property taxes on a house in Austin several years ago, which had a valuation orders of magnitude more than anything …
Why iOS Devs Should Consider Using Core Data iCloud sync
Original EnglishBut in any case, my plan is to compile a list of all the issues I've experienced next, and maybe some of the hacks that …
Why Startups Fail
Original EnglishI've worked for three well-funded startups that failed for another reason, though all of them ended up making the same mistake: they couldn't develop software.
Show HN: A Sales Tracking App Built For Freelancers and Small Businesses
Original EnglishFor example, it would be nice to pull all the deals we lost from customer XYZ between $5k and $10k and compare that number to …
Ask HN: Is anyone else bearish on OpenAI?
Original EnglishIt's a hacky solution, but significantly faster than reimplementing my streamlit dashboard in another framework or rewriting my infra without async-await.
A Fast, Simple, Queue Built on MongoDB
Original EnglishThe idea that your application code probably sucks and/or is in a constant state of flux, so handle failure gracefully is rather excellent.
Using Amazon EC2 to Thwart Crappy Internal IT Services
Original EnglishWe almost failed a PCI audit because of his stunt.
Ask HN: What have we lost in tech and society?
Original EnglishWe lost hardware that failed often enough you'd learn how to fix it. -- Yay!
Ask HN: Decided to start a business and regret later. Share your story.
Original English3 years later I'm backpacking in the valley doing sales AND implementing crazy deep learning data tech.