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Ask HN: What's the best way to monetize actual programming?
Original EnglishI have tried freelancing, but it seems that most clients want to have a time commitment.
How to build your own CDN using BIND, GeoIP, Nginx, Varnish
Original EnglishI used to use SimpleCDN but found them too expensive after they changed their pricing model.
Elon Musk Supports His Business Empire with Unusual Financial Moves
Original EnglishThat means the other 50% are paid for with general income taxes.
Digital revolution has yet to fulfil its promise of productivity and better jobs
Original EnglishI made more money, the workers job got better because some drudgery was removed, the workers income went up because we have a profit sharing …
How Segment Found Product Market Fit
Original EnglishI've found that "launching ideas" from a napkin sketch to working prototype has become significantly easier.
Acquisitions accelerate as tech giants seek to build AI smarts
Original EnglishGee, just read that the last security attack on Target cost them $300 million.
Uber loses court appeal against drivers' rights
Original EnglishFor #2 and to avoid IR35 there are a whole lot of considerations such as what costs we incur, whether or not we use our …
Show HN: Desklamp – convenient and collaborative notemaking on PDFs
Original EnglishJust imagine that, not worrying if the server I self-hosted on a German ISP will go down because I paid off $9.99 a month. ;-)
On "Owning" Software
Original Englishwe use subscriptions to pay for ongoing support staff (which customers _want_) because we can't fund support from sales (that's not sustainable.) Support-pay-as-you-go is not …