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In Canada it's illegal to call yourself software engineer
Original EnglishTo rely on "testing" is fine for a lot of consumer applications, but when I briefly worked in medical devices, we used C++.
Why I only work with startups
Original EnglishAbout 5 years ago I started a small consulting company and I had roughly 10 clients.
Ask HN: What small library or tool do you want that doesn’t exist?
Original EnglishI will understand what the customers do, which flows they use and which flows they avoid, so seeing code which I've developed recently but not …
PHP and the Lean Startup
Original EnglishI built what is, per Quantcast, likely the world's #1200x largest web site, starting from $50 on a terrible virtual server, using nothing but an …
Congressman calls for probe into Valeant’s pricing of lead poisoning drug
Original EnglishThey either get the best price offered or they get 23.1% off the average price, whichever results in the lowest cost.
Apple Versus Wall Street
Original EnglishI tried to run a Perl script on my mac the other day and a perl module wouldn't compile because of some error with PowerPC …
What’s it like to have Google and Amazon try to kill your startup?
Original Englishbut having done the business for long enough I came to realise that high staff turnover is inevitable which adds another extra cost which in …
Working at a Startup vs. a Big Company
Original EnglishForward many years, and I have my own thing going and I appreciate the failed startup experience because it gives me some framework on which …
NearlyFreeSpeech.NET now supports persistent processes
Original EnglishIt was down because the pre-paid credit had expired, but wouldn't even take payment from someone they didn't know to get it back up.