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An O(1) Generic Blog Post About Rust
Original EnglishBut that error doesn't tell me whether it's a bug in foo, or a bug in how I'm using foo.
Ask YC: Anyone actually making money selling ebooks/digital goods?
Original EnglishDigital goods cost pretty much $0 to copy and distribute, so the profit margins are amazing.
Ask HN: What proficiency does one need to start freelancing?
Original Englishit's been working so far." The first 6 months or so were the hardest as we figured out what bootstrapping a full-time business meant, as …
Startup Death Clock
Original EnglishNot only that, but early in a startup, in/out costs can be highly variable month to month.
Y Combinator ups the ante with bio startups for 2015
Original EnglishCompanies developing devices like ours are taking 10 years and $100M to see revenue, and most people in the industry consider this time and cost …
Mistakes business students make when founding a startup
Original EnglishRather, I believe that business school instills a number bad startup practices into the way that business students think, resulting in higher failure rates.
Ribbit Scheme bootstraps with Posix shell while supporting TCO, call/cc and GC
Original EnglishIt would be interesting to test many POSIX shells to verify Ribbit's portability (we used bash, dash, zsh and ksh for our testing).
Launch HN: Release (YC W20) – Orchestrate AI Infrastructure and Applications
Original EnglishThere are definitely challenges with that business, however, that made us look for easier ways to get people using the platform we had built.
I'm a developer not a compiler
Original EnglishI make a test suite to repeat something a hundred times and find out the failure ratio (eg, 30%).