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Listen to Your Customers, They’ll Tell You What to Build
Original Englishthe bandwidth, but if you're a one-person-show, listen to your customers, listen to your instinct, and develop features that are going to drive revenue and …
Ask HN: How did you hack the press when you launched your startup(s)?
Original EnglishEverything I work on is B2B so 100% of sales are done via a conversation and not someone landing on the site and clicking "sign-up" …
Show HN: Bulk convert images online without sending to server
Original EnglishI also implemented a batched client-side web tool to resize photos to a certain file size (in a few hundred lines of JS).
Ask HN: Do you use foreign keys in relational databases?
Original English- yes, but we use them in testing environments and turn them off in prod
Ubuntu continues to rule the cloud
Original EnglishWhen we made our first major Linux deployment this year there's no way I would have picked anything but RHEL/CentOS, we have critical services running …
Mail-in-a-Box – one-click, easy-to-deploy email server
Original EnglishAnd it's not because spammers don't try, my server has rejected 206 mails in the last ~24 hours (and that's not counting the attempted open …
Goodbye Google: "Visual Design Lead" leaves Google
Original English(Unless his ideas would have cost the company millions of clients, but it doesn't sound like that's the case -- if it was, they would …
HTTPS Results in 7% Google AdX Revenue Drop
Original EnglishIt turned out I was seeing a 75% drop in CPC impressions, and AdSense was running low paying CPM impressions instead.
Insight From Dropbox: Failure Is Not The Worst Outcome, Mediocrity Is
Original EnglishIn retrospect, I'm so glad I failed because of the time it saved me.