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Ask HN: Django Deploy Recommendations
Original Englishbut generally requires that you copy them out of your various pluggable apps and into some static docroot on every deploy. …
What are some things you wish you knew when you started programming?
Original Englishbecause I didn't need that much income back then, and later it became much more complicated to stop being employee due to higher cost of …
Open Source Implementation of Google App Engine
Original EnglishDaily traffic 15k users, costs 30USD a month.
Show HN: We built a simple way to accept payments through Stripe
Original EnglishI don't know what triggered it but honestly my heart rate literally increased when I saw you didn't have a single name, a single email …
The tech world is rallying around a young developer who made a huge mistake
Original EnglishI know hindsight is 20/20, but this was my approach when replacing failed hardware like memory DIMMs remotely (when the client wasn't there in the …
Show HN: Elestio – Managed platform for over 150 open-source software stacks
Original EnglishIn 2009, we started deploying open-source software for websites and web apps we built, many for SMB and enterprise customers.
Ask HN: If you restarted your career, what would you do differently?
Original EnglishI have tried 4 various 9-5 positions - telco, software (QA), networking (security), customer contracts management (current, non-technical, boring but well paid).
Ask HN: Mistakes working with small local clients?
Original EnglishI didn't get paid, but I never heard from them again.
Ask HN: Advice for a Generalist Going Solo?
Original EnglishI failed, but here is what I learned: