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The Story of Apple's $14B Tax Bill
Original EnglishI can't make the down payment to afford a place, which means I can't ride the wave, which means instead of getting less profits I …
My product failed
Original EnglishPerhaps because I've failed miserably at converting users, I know exactly what doesn't work (insert winky face here).
Ask HN: What to do after graduation with 100k?
Original EnglishI started last summer and the business model works and it is generating maybe a steady $10-20 a day, but that is only with about …
Ask HN: M1 MacBook Pro/Air users, how is it going?
Original EnglishI use the Thunderbolt dock for my desk setup, with some cheap used Dell 27" 4K monitors.
Ask HN: Rails or Django?
Original EnglishAfter completing a bunch of PHP projects, I recently completed a project for a client where I spent about 6 months with Django.
Ask HN: Want to join a startup as a developer, looking for a mentor
Original Englishthe past 5 years, mostly fixing bugs and building new features or parts of the applications I have worked on. …
Publish your Python function to PiCloud and invoke via REST
Original EnglishWe've built redundancy across our system so that you don't have to design a system to handle server failure.
Ask HN: What can we do with our messaging platform startup?
Original Englishwe're also working on a similar product, but we had customer base from the start with actual use cases, which lead to bookings/revenue early on.
Ask HN: Who has started something in 2017 which is already profitable?
Original EnglishBecause this is software, there is no marginal cost of manufacturing — so we're basically profitable already.