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Ask HN: How do you manage you money?
Original EnglishI've saved over $1000 this year by doing this.
Ask HN: Do you think there is an opportunity for a better alternative to Upwork?
Original EnglishI've increased my average billing rate 50% since then (to where it's more than I could make locally, probably) and have found some flat-rate clients …
Ways to annoy your senior engineer
Original EnglishSometimes you throw something out the door because a customer wants to pay you $12M if you can salve over that one pain point.
Ask HN: Care to share your average Android Market daily revenues?
Original EnglishWe're getting like $2000 a month out of ads with our free apps, but only $250 from our paid application, which is just a generalization …
Bootstrapping Stormpulse
Original EnglishSo far I see 0 revenue potential in the current form but it is incredibly interesting problem to me.
Ask HN: How can I make an extra 30-50k a year?
Original Englishthe office and realizing you need to work another 5 hours for a bitchy freelance client. …
Call Girl: What I Learned During My Year as a Customer Service Representative
Original EnglishBut they are hugely exasperated by companies that setup their callcenter such that employees can't be anything but emotional punching bags for angry customers.
Apple’s Share of Smartphone Industry’s Profits Soars to 92%
Original EnglishI paid $1 for my Galaxy S5 upgrade, with a two year contract extension.
GTK 5 might drop X11 support
Original EnglishSo I wrote a .bat file to store the configuration I wanted...just as I did in the old days.