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Rejected from YC last night... got anchor client this morning
Original EnglishIt took 15 minutes to convince the owner of this multi-million dollar business to say: "I love it."
The problem with a Lean Startup: the Minimum Viable Product.
Original EnglishI spent 13 months on a bootstrapped, sideproject startup and clocked over 500+ hours.
How do you tell managers that having good developers is a privilege?
Original EnglishI was part of a team that regularly worked 15 to 18 hour days and was happy doing it.
Ask HN: Why should I use Django?
Original EnglishI've been using Grails for over 10 years, my clients are super happy with what I have delivered.
Ask HN: Who here is juggling two or more remote jobs? How is it working out?
Original EnglishWhen I started my career, I didn't had very high paying tech job, I did freelance work on the side and listed on my resume.
4-Hour Profitable Project: Viral Marketing Explained
Original EnglishAbout 8 hours after I started marketing is when things really picked up and went viral, which I think had little to do with the …
RMS on evil developers, spying social networks, the legitimacy of Anonymous
Original EnglishLet's personalize this: I own a Macbook Pro, and have paid $0.00 for software on it; I use it probably 80% of the time I'm …
XSuspender Auto-suspend inactive X11 applications
Original EnglishI used to do a lot of 16-bit Windows programming, and there was an awful lot of "tax paying".
Show HN: Unreal Speech – Text-to-Speech API
Original EnglishI should have looked at pricing before getting excited, but I took the 8x claim at face value.