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Ask HN: Review RentPost.com
Original Englishthe past 11 years, from the front desk to franchise ops manager to consulting back to the industry): …
Google App Maker
Original EnglishAs a result it's easy to sit in a COBOL-bubble writing IF...ELSE business code all day long and not do anything computer-sciency until the memory …
Ask HN: What do you code when learning a new language/framework?
Original EnglishIt barely slowed me down. 3 months in I had tens of thousands of lines of code converted and I started getting good at it.
Show HN: Readlang – Learn a language while you surf the web
Original EnglishGrowth has been slower than I’d like but just enough to keep me motivated.
How and why the Relational Model works for databases
Original EnglishMaybe we modeled our data wrong or there is some inherent complexity you can’t avoid, but I mostly blame sql the language.
Ask HN: Is Xamarin worth learning?
Original Englishour of first options, right after using the native frameworks (which ensures the best results, but drastically increases the costs). …
Caching the uncacheable: CloudFlare's Railgun
Original EnglishDuring that time there was a total of one Cloudflare related outage and that was resolved within about 15 minutes by their changing the data-center …
Ask HN: Are you working on any side projects that make "small/passive" income?
Original EnglishBut I'm still at loss since the marketing cost (FB Ad and AdWords) outweigh the profit (I spent about $40/day for the last 2 weeks).
How I Built a Barbecue Restaurant in Brooklyn: The Toll of Owning Your Business
Original EnglishI was profitable within weeks of launching, but I’m not rolling in money by any stretch.