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Switching to Linux: A Windows developer’s view
Original EnglishI have tried for over ten years to move my home studio recording to Linux-based tools...but, to this day, reliable, glitch-free, low-latency, multi-track 24 bit …
Ask HN: Should you TDD a MVP?
Original EnglishThe level of complexity for an MVP where this becomes a bad idea is different but it's the same question.
Cloudkick (YC W09) hits 1,000,000 servers
Original EnglishThat costs us $20/month, except we're doing it on a server that was already required for another service and had plenty of disk and CPU …
The One Lesson Every Entrepreneur Should Learn
Original Englishit just helps to cover your ass and avoid putting the tag "failure" on you in your future career.
VMWare: vSphere Web Client sucks so bad
Original Englishthe web client to use today, it's just a miserable program and I felt I had to throw in $0.02 here. …
Building Thumbtack: Six Years, Forty-two Rejections, and a Singular Obsession
Original EnglishIIRC, when we switched over from subscription to the pay-per-introduction model, something like 80% of pros could have used Thumbtack exactly the same as they …
Tests' Influence on Design
Original Englishthe cost, however, of significantly decreased freedom to refactor the implementation aggressively, which is why Discovery Testing recommends developers default to deleting-and-redeveloping local sub-trees of …
Show HN: Coherence, the developer platform to end yak-shaving
Original EnglishWe’re building software that provides an integrated way to write, preview, and deploy code from one simple configuration.
Ask HN: Is anyone considering cancelling their ChatGPT subscription?
Original EnglishI've been using API Key exclusively and most of the time, it cost me around $5-$10 a month