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After VWO’s acquisition, its founder reflected on workflow problems, customer feedback, and keeping growth within the means of the business.
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AWS is inappropriate for small teams because its complexity demands a specialist
Original EnglishServed us well for the first year of revenue, but not so well given our growth rate.
Why I Haven’t Hired a Single Developer in Canada
Original EnglishI worked for a guy like this - it was the worst 5 months of my career.
How to become a millionaire web developer
Original EnglishBy the time I stopped taking new consulting clients, I was comfortably charging $200/hour and people were still saying yes at $300/hour.
Ask HN: Non-developers: What brings you to HN?
Original EnglishPrior to that I had a Wall Street type career for ~24 years which required use of R-Project and a bit of Python.
Minecraftly: Inspire kids to learn computing via Minecraft
Original EnglishTo avoid crazy costs I setup a bit of infrastructure: I managed to pipe the active / logged in user count of the minecraft server …
How We Are Improving Performance
Original EnglishThanks, it was definitely tough for us to admit that we failed our customers, but the entire team at imgix felt that we had an …
Germans Forget Postwar History Lesson on Debt Relief in Greece Crisis
Original EnglishThat is certainly an option, but it's not without costs to say the least.
Show HN: APIs and SDKs to help developers build pricing plans faster
Original EnglishAt Stigg, we’re building APIs and SDKs that allow engineering teams to safely launch and roll-out pricing plan changes, faster.
Ask HN: With recent layoffs, how would you advise new grads entering the market?
Original EnglishI made the mistake of moving furniture for the first 3 years out of school to support my struggling shareware business.