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How an app with 200,000 downloads led to developer homelessness
Original EnglishThat's money that I paid because I got value.
Pkgr.io: Easy way to get a Debian package out of any app
Original EnglishBut as the stack grew in complexity and the infrastructure and team grew in scale, that became a nightmare.
List of Productized Consulting Services
Original Englishbut in the management consulting world, 80% of what you have to do is understand what the client wants to accomplish. …
Software is eating the world, all right (2024)
Original Englishthis same person cries that they didn't know about facts of life like paying for electricity, water, etc...or how businesses cry because they didn't think …
Ask HN: What manual processes would you automate in your company?
Original EnglishThe reason why this hasn't changed is that lawyers get paid by the hour, so it's not wise for them to automate anything.
Google Compute Engine available for everyone, App Engine adds PHP
Original Englishour clients processes restaurant bookings worth 50 million pounds a year via a setup that consumes ~30% of CPU resources on two frontend servers with …
Ask HN: Those of you who've left the SWE world, what did you transition into?
Original EnglishOutcome : Meh, I spent too much time looking for customers, and too few hours billing for work.
Ask HN: Is it possible for someone to not be cut out for software engineering?
Original EnglishBut the company I worked at realized that they didn't need the top 1% to build basic enterprise software.
The bane of my existence: Supporting both async and sync code in Rust
Original EnglishI use async regularily for my clients, and I'm 100% sure that the usual async executors in Rust are multithreaded.