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Ask HN: Experiences with PayPal? Would you recommend or kill it with fire?
Original EnglishI've had a couple of months where I've offered discounted and sales rose to around $10k with no hiccups at all.
Ask HN: Decided to start a business and regret later. Share your story.
Original English3 years later I'm backpacking in the valley doing sales AND implementing crazy deep learning data tech.
Ask HN: I have a startup idea, the project is 90% done. But..
Original EnglishI think historically there's been a higher chance of failure but as long as you learn from the mistakes, you'll do fine.
Ask HN: In what order did the best and worst periods in your career come?
Original EnglishThe demands for the job grew, but my salary and frequency of interesting projects did not (except for a brief period in 2008).
Ask HN: Cost of 1 Person LLC
Original EnglishI think it costs $200-400/year, mostly in DE fees.
Apple has revolutionized how we think about ads, you just don't know it yet.
Original EnglishIt was "free," but I paid in startup wait time and annoyance by the ads.
Why Apple Wants Its Software to Be Free
Original EnglishA friend of mine recently asked me how Apple expected to continue making any money while giving away software that Microsoft charges $200 for.
Is it Time to Open Source Windows?
Original Englishbecause it does not make any business sense to do so and will come at an immense cost to shareholders. …
Ask HN: What project are you working on?
Original EnglishWe decided that rather than adding a text editor to a database client, it would be a lot easier to add a database client to …