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Ask HN: Is it still conceivable to remain an anonymous developer nowadays?
Original EnglishI used said prepaid credit card to sign up to the VPN, paying for 3 years - under the assumption the card is burned.
Ask HN: Am I the only one who does not want IoT in their solar panel setup?
Original EnglishWe built large, complex medical instruments that required periodic servicing both by the customer and by our Field Engineers.
PS1 Programming Course with MIPS Assembly and C
Original EnglishI used the scratchpad to store projected 2D “stamps” of the 3D world (stored in an octree) and Crash: a kind of low-res Crash Flatland.
How our freemium plan failed
Original EnglishSome of our most successful customers were sending out 7-8 emails over a 6 week period.
Ask HN: Have you created a programming language and why?
Original Englishwe did a lot of consulting with the banks to get the initial modesl setup, which was good for providing income, but bad in the …
Show HN: I spent my vacation writing a modern JVM assembler
Original Englishwe maintain platform independence of interpreted code, but at a reduced ongoing cost as our interpreter component is much simpler; additionally, because of the optimizations …
Show HN: Eligible API for 700+ Health Insurance Companies
Original EnglishThen we added eligibility, and it turned out to be insanely profitable.
RubyMotion 3.0 Sneak Peek: Android Support
Original Englishbut I've lost confidence in Ruby Motion since I've had a pull request open against it for whole year because they don't support enterprise deployment …
We Hired a Blind Coder
Original Englishbut once I have my mental model, I'm potentially faster than someone who has to have things in front of them to refer to. …