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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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I got pwned by my cloud costs
Original EnglishThat's the only reason that I personally use cloud services (of course, the reasons for SaaS/Enterprise clients are usually more valid than mine).
Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
Original EnglishIn particular, L2TP/IPSec-PSK should be an option out of the box because it's an exceedingly common configuration.
Started a stupid company. Failed.
Original EnglishTry as I might to help in some way (not to take over, but to keep my job!), my previous experience of failure was not …
Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers
Original EnglishI've spent about 12 years reducing the amount of memory the Umbraco CMS uses, compared to normal installs, and I love that aspect of my …
Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app
Original EnglishI pay for Dynalist pro (same team for anyone who didn't know), but the separate commercial license on top of paying for sync just felt …
Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday
Original EnglishI've been running a few projects on GCP, with active customers, which I lost now.
My Biggest Regret as a Programmer
Original EnglishI know I failed at the sales and marketing, but we did ship.
Apple’s declining software quality
Original English(I agree that Apple's cash hoard does not make $1M sound like a lot, however, they also have much more software to tend to.) Overall, …
Anatomy of a credit card rewards program
Original EnglishOn $130,681.33 I paid $2,433.51 in service charges or 1.86% .