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After VWO’s acquisition, its founder reflected on workflow problems, customer feedback, and keeping growth within the means of the business.
Solve a problem people will pay for before expanding the team.
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Show HN: Send snail mail from the web
Original Englishbut there were definitely manual parts of the process.) I spent a good deal of time on this setup: at one point I had 5 …
How much revenue top companies earn per second
Original Englishsells for $500 and I make $10 profit, I'm still making $10 profit on $100 invested capital.
Ask HN: Should I report my main competitor for PCI Violations?
Original EnglishIt was about me being young and foolish (and, looking back, I'm not sure it's even the stupidest mistake I've deployed to production in my …
Freelance or job?
Original EnglishThere may be tempting high value projects 3 days old with 80 proposals - chances are that the client has started discussing with somebody else …
Code Review Handbook
Original EnglishI wrote games, several AAA games, play testers found bugs, but otherwise there was no code based tests and no code review, none, zero, zilch.
Senior-engineer onboarding: understand the business before proposing rewrites
An architect with repeated change-management experience recommends learning from sales, managers, and teammates before changing systems.
Existing systems often encode business constraints and history.
Shipping on-prem software: upgrades need more than a restart
A commenter points out that customer-hosted upgrades involve backups, database migrations, version differences, and control.
A deployment command is only part of an upgrade path.
Ask HN: Tell me about your failed startup.
Original EnglishI prefer keeping things small, manageable and profitable-- even if the profit is small.
SUSE announces Liberty Linux, new distro for those who miss the old CentOS
Original EnglishCentOS Stream's last podman major version update broke 70% of my company's infrastructure, affecting 120+ employees and our customers.