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Ask HN: How often does technical debt lead to the failure of a startup?
Original EnglishI personally lost what I conservatively would say was 30% of our net revenue last year letting my prior lead dev address technical debt that …
Ask HN: What's your experience with working M1 and M2 Macs?
Original EnglishI used to think managing servers introduced unnecessary complexity until I tried it, and realized it's really not as difficult as I thought.
Launch HN: Fastgen (YC W23) – Visual Low-Code Backend Builder
Original EnglishLong-term Reliability: We understand the reservation about how long Fastgen will exist since we just launched.
Founders: Don't Forget to Sell The Dream
Original EnglishBut it would still need to be enough to give us "FU Money" or I'll feel like we failed.
DevOps Engineering: Who does your automation?
Original EnglishI use chef because I needed a way to consistently deploy software in exactly the same way every time to multiple servers.
Twitter Removes “via {client}” Attribution in #newTwitter. Buh-Bye Developers
Original EnglishOf course twitter.com would still be the biggest client, but not with 78% of all users, more likely somewhere between 40-50% (based on stats by …
You will fail
Original EnglishI don't think "What kind of idiots wouldn't invest in such a cool idea?" Instead I think "Wonder why the community has failed this person …
This is how much tech consultants make per hour now.
Original EnglishMy first client was about $50/hr in the late 90's.
Ask HN: My tools broke, and I am broke, what now?
Original EnglishI also own a laptop in its last throes (several parts of it already failed or are randomly working only sometimes) but it is one …