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Ask HN: How did you move from a salaried job to contracting?
Original EnglishI started contracting way before I needed to, just because it was fun, and it served as a way for me to get paid to …
Ask HN: Who is using the .NET stack for their startup?
Original EnglishBut then servers always cost money to provision regardless of your stack.
Show HN: Bridge, a cross-language RPC messaging system
Original EnglishThe web page suggests library, but the pricing page suggests service.
The History of FoxPro: Interview with Wayne Ratliff (1986)
Original EnglishIt was actually one of the better (behaved and performing) multi-user DOS and early Windows databases I used that wasn't based on a client/server architecture.
Hotmail development team on Reddit
Original EnglishI lost 7 years of emails from high school, college, between myself and several girlfriends, chat logs I'd saved from IRC, photos, and other important …
The strange economics of open-source software
Original EnglishI'm also paying for a Dropbox subscription because they are the only major cloud storage provider with native support for Linux and even though some …
The end of the cloud is coming
Original Englishour contract and the same "highly reliable" colo; we got money back per our contract, but not the customers we lost, even after apologetic/refunding communications …
LaunchDarkly gets $8.7M to put the right features in front of right users
Original Englishthe wild, make adjustments accordingly, and only then release it 100% along with any marketing initiatives that support it. …
Microsoft Cloud Strength Highlights Second Quarter Results
Original EnglishAnyhow, Microsoft's revenue is exploding in this space mostly because it lumps in Office 365; not really because of Azure itself, which I think is …