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Ask HN: How do software consultants deal with maintenance?
Original EnglishHow this looks in practice: if I'm selling projects at $20k per week, the initial SoW offers 2 weeks at $20k plus two days a …
Why is DNS still hard to learn?
Original EnglishIt was short, visual, and effective- I learned that multiple non-profits at the time used it in their materials to teach folks technical literacy.
What We Can Learn About Pricing From Menu Engineers
Original EnglishI started out selling FreeBSD jails (with an actual utility close to my current $8 product) for $40 each.
Why all OVH dedicated servers are "sold out"
Original EnglishSo a lot of people found themselves looking at a bill 600% higher for the same server just because they were an existing customer.
Failing the Startup Game at Unbabel – Take 2
Original Englishwe gave him more severance than was required, we paid him one extra month of salary and added another $1000 on top of it to …
Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?
Original EnglishThe code itself is open source so it's self-hostable and free, but we provide a quick one-line deploy hosted solution as well.
Ask HN: Is it too late to do a startup after 35?
Original EnglishI can't gamble my income as I could before, I've never gone more than 1 month without income despite having been through more than half …
The Dec/Compaq Turbo Laser 6 AlphaServer KN7CH Processor
Original EnglishI wrote a customer and subscription tracking system for a flower appreciation society in the 1980's using Informix and Altos Xenix.
Startup Founder On Google Entering Their Market
Original EnglishI love all of Google's services, but I am/was incredibly frustrated that we actually paid to use their services and then they left us out …