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Ask HN: Cheap Physical servers?
Original EnglishFor a friend some years ago I put together a $24k server and they paid for it with a business lease through Bank of America.
Ask HN: I really want to start a startup but I don't know what to do.
Original EnglishAim for success, but don't be discouraged by failure if you learn from it.
Autopsy Lesson #1: Don't Serve Nasty Left-Overs
Original Englishunplanned employee absences, internal projects, or one-off sprints for maintenance customers which are technically in excess of what we've sold them but justified by our …
13 Years of Building Infrastructure Control Planes in Ruby
Original Englishwe determined it was easier for our devs to all master a tool, instead of jumping between frameworks and DBS (we use rails, Kamal, postgres, …
Ask HN: How do you go about spreading the word about your product or service?
Original EnglishI ended up paying around $1 a day, and I got some great feedback from them.
Ask YC: Are you self-funding/bootstrapping?
Original EnglishI failed more at it than I'd failed at anything else in my life before I finally learned how to be successful 2/3 of the …
Ask HN: client reporting bugs that don't exist, causing me hours of unpaid work
Original EnglishI'm still glad to fix any bugs in my code for free, but in the future, time spent on issues that aren't caused by a …
Billionaire Brothers Want to Build a Cheaper Rival to Slack
Original EnglishThen I launched HR software for businesses that charges £3 per employee per month.
Apple Is Getting More Bang for Its R&D Buck
Original EnglishThe "Google version" of cable TV would either be free or cost a nominal $5/mo subscription and their algorithm would automatically use my viewing history …