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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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We need more zero config tools
Original EnglishI also use TTS software, the default voice speed is good for the average person but I maxed the speed , I can do things …
Rackspace Developer+ Program
Original EnglishI started researching it for myself, and basically trained myself to be much more of an Apache configuration expert over the next 48 hours.
Ask HN: How saturated is the market for offensive security/pentesting?
Original EnglishTheir business model boils down to, buy a bunch of tools for <$10,000, resell their usage on engagements for >$5,000 per week.
Testing is waste of time, I know that my code works
Original EnglishI can tell you that I found more bugs, or rather quirks of MySQL's replication behavior and the MySQLdb driver through doing my manual testing. …
Getting paid to work on open-source?
Original EnglishIt's much easier to get management to commit to allowing time for this because it reduces our long-term maintenance burden.
Who Does That Server Really Serve?
Original EnglishBut if anyone can do it (mentioned above), it will eventually be a race to the bottom (based on cost) when software is equal.
Building a Startup - Defending .NET
Original EnglishWith today's hardware, using a high-level, slower language is not a problem anymore: we now optimize for human time (development time) instead of machine time.
Moving product recommendations from Hadoop to Redshift saves us time and money
Original EnglishI was impressed with Parquet's query speed, but I had hard requirements preventing me from doing bulk loads.
Broadcom-owned VMware kills the free version of ESXi virtualization software
Original EnglishI tried OpenStack, but it was too painful of a setup for a single hard node or even two nodes.