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How We Became Profitable in 3 Years
Original EnglishI've spent 4 years in the restaurant business.
Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
Original Englishbut if I did, I'm in a iffy situation where I may not actually make money off of it anymore if I failed to bring …
Ask HN: How are you monetizing your site?
Original EnglishI can never get them to cover anything but basic operating costs, and even then they will barely cover the costs to keep a server …
Motor City Mojo: The Startup Renaissance In Detroit
Original EnglishI paid about $3000/year in property taxes on a house in Austin several years ago, which had a valuation orders of magnitude more than anything …
Why iOS Devs Should Consider Using Core Data iCloud sync
Original EnglishBut in any case, my plan is to compile a list of all the issues I've experienced next, and maybe some of the hacks that …
PG on Java - comments from 2001
Original Englishthe "convention over configuration" ethos from Ruby/Rails (my Java code generally has zero XML files), but the niche features each language was selling wasn't enough …
Ask HN:Need Sales Help?
Original EnglishThe startup is moving forward as planned, but we are still 4-6 weeks away from MVP -- and they’ve just reduced my hours at the …
Ask HN: Should I use my old computer instead of cloud?
Original EnglishThis weekend I made backup images of my SD cards.
Ask HN: Easing wife onto Linux laptop How to?
Original EnglishWe spent most of our time with LibreOffice. She's not an Office power-user which probably made things easier.