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Ask HN: Free alternative to Teamviewer?
Original EnglishI used to be a paid customer for many years, but had to abandon ship due to ever-increasing costs (yeah for mandatory viewer upgrades!) related …
Hiring a sales person... Any advice?
Original EnglishOur previous sales person sold himself wonderfully in the interviews, but when it came to selling our service he failed miserably.
Ask HN: Do companies need commercial support for open source software?
Original EnglishThe last place I worked was a medium-sized software company (60 people, $xx mil ARR) and we paid about $8k/month for MongoDB's enterprise support (generally …
Show HN: Whole Git repo was made with ChatGPT
Original EnglishI noticed it has a bug, because it reads `len` bytes instead of `sizeof(int)` bytes, but a programmer could have made the same mistake.
You Don't Need to “Learn” Svelte: Embracing the Simplicity of JavaScript
Original EnglishThis may be a configuration issue (I'm using pnpm workspaces and TS path aliasing).
Ask HN: How do you setup a new Mac?
Original EnglishVS Code when I’m using a language without good JetBrains support.
Why Rust is taking the data engineering world by storm
Original EnglishI rewrote it in Rust (also using polars) and it wasn't necessarily faster but it was rock solid.
Ask HN: No intrinisic motivation to build stuff
Original EnglishI think of all of the times that I have failed to complete a side project like a game or Flash website, I failed because …
Ask HN: what projects are you working on?
Original EnglishOur current offering to clients is a potential 70% speedup in data processing using our system for Pen and Paper data entry.