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No One Fails Anymore – Everybody ‘Pivots’
Original EnglishThing is I failed because the first business did not have a credit card system and we took checks that later bounced.
Show HN: Laminar – Open-Source DataDog + PostHog for LLM Apps, Built in Rust
Original EnglishIt cost $10 in API credits and approx 14 hrs of my time (I'm sure a pro could easily achieve this in under 1 hour).
ISO C became unusable for operating systems development
Original EnglishI also implemented my own array types, including bounds checks when indexing the arrays.) These workarounds make their code slower, in general.
Mourning and moving on: rituals for leaving a career (2014)
Original EnglishE.g I wrote an open source unit testing library in Prolog to support my research tooling.
Ask HN: What about a platform for hiring teams instead of individuals?
Original English100% of the solicitors of team things all have the same juggling and sorting I have to do with individuals.
"Most of you steal your software"
Original EnglishHell, as a result I even go out of my way to make sure developers are paid their dues by purchasing almost any app I …
Ask HN: How to leave a startup when you own a third of it?
Original EnglishI worked for that was sold to Oracle for about $100mm - everyone who stuck around for the liquidation event got retention bonus, plus one …
Pricing Experiments
Original EnglishIt's advertised for sale at $4995.00 in 1-4 unit quantities, which is an insane bargain compared to what these users are accustomed to paying for …
Writing a MySQL storage engine from scratch (2016)
Original EnglishMy idea is that if this is better documented then it will be easier for people to make databases that interoperate with MySQL clients but …