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After VWO’s acquisition, its founder reflected on workflow problems, customer feedback, and keeping growth within the means of the business.
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Ask HN: CS papers for software architecture and design?
Original EnglishOne story: When I was at FB, I happen to know that a team of size S conducted X experiments in 6 months (I can't …
Why Ruby on Rails still matters
Original EnglishAnd it wasn't static: We because peoples connections were mostly so slow, we used a CGI that shelled out to ping to estimate connection speed, …
Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith
Original Englishbut only 1 of which made me a tangible financial boost; in true startup fashion this last success has more than paid for the rest. …
Ask HN: If you used to be socially awkward and shy, how did you improve?
Original EnglishPre-university, I worked in tech support at a dot-com startup.
What I’ve learned from users
Original EnglishI know a person in Bay area car sales making $300k+.
Ask HN: Have you used SQLite as a primary database?
Original EnglishI tried doing this a bunch of times and most of them ended up requiring a migration, most often to postgresql.
Building an iPod for 2022
Original EnglishTransfer/management is simple (I use rhythmbox with its usb device support).
WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. WebRTC vs. WebTransport
Original EnglishWebSocket.bufferedAmount exists, but as of 2019 I failed to use it to solve this problem and had to implement application-level backpressure.
Show HN: I spent two years working on an HTML5 game. I finally released it
Original EnglishNobody was buying it at all, so I dropped it to $2.99 and quickly made my first few sales.