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Tell HN: Stripe Dashboard no longer supports Firefox
Original EnglishAs a frontend dev, every company I've worked for this decade has deliberately chosen to drop Firefox support.
AppStore Secrets
Original EnglishPlus, we get a 5% commission through linkshare, so we take back profits from Apple's 30%.
Secret Code Phrases to Get What You Want from Your Graphic Designer
Original EnglishHave been doing it for 15 years worked with Fortune100 and small clients and government.
Ask HN: Where can I find good freelance opportunities?
Original Englishbut that if you do decent work and communicate well, clients will like you) I began to get more involved, higher paying jobs. …
Golang 10x faster than Ruby for web APIs
Original EnglishI pay you $1000 (or EUR) if you show me how you can be 3x faster from idea to live with RoR against something else, …
Ask HN: Freelancers in the US: What do you do for health insurance?
Original EnglishBeing young-ish and healthy with no kids, just a spouse, I was paying something around $200/mo for a PPO with an HSA (side note: get …
As venture capital dries up, tech startups discover frugality
Original EnglishWe are like a tenth of the price of some of our competitors but our profit margins are still ridiculously large.
The Quality of Embedded Software, or the Mess Has Happened
Original EnglishI can have their 'demo lesson' running in a fully open toolchain faster than they can get the rest of the attendees windows and custom …
Lock Up Your Customer Accounts, Give Away the Key
Original EnglishIt's modestly annoying (operations like "check what changed in the secret configuration file as a result of a particular commit" are impossible) but seems like …