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Ask HN: What do I do with my side projects?
Original EnglishBut going there requires lots of polishing, marketing, and I hired support employees.
Ask HN: How Much Money is Enough... What's your Number?
Original EnglishI am asking because I run a profitable internet business that has doubled each of the last three years; our metrics indicate that we can …
Ask HN: Can you get to AWS?
Original Englishour client is the target because the Russian team claims responsibility opened up a trouble ticket with us (not hosted in AWS) about 2 hours …
Applications Open for Winter 2008 YC Funding
Original Englishthe $15k (in our two-founder case), though it did nicely offset the cost of my move (I sold my 350Z at a rather unfortunate price, …
How to Start a Startup (2005)
Original Englishwe sold during the time the company existed, though revenue would have been about the same as ours during that time (because of recurring revenue). …
Hard Truths about Programming
Original EnglishI have spent nearly 40 years programming and I have come across many people who can churn out code much faster than I, but many …
Rackspace launches “Fanatical Support for Developers”
Original Englishthe configuration and everything looked ok to me-- but even during times of super slow response, the server was showing vmstats that looked 99% idle. …
Ask HN: Is shareware dead?
Original Englishwe gave away our software on a 30-day trial, if they liked it, a seat cost $30k. …
North American Object Storage Service Impact
Original EnglishI designed/deployed a decent sized Meraki network about 4 years ago - at the time it was one of the larger full-stack Meraki networks that …