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After VWO’s acquisition, its founder reflected on workflow problems, customer feedback, and keeping growth within the means of the business.
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GNU sed 4.2.2 released, maintainer resigns
Original EnglishIn the early days they sought to monopolize some of the key labor for the GNU project (and they succeeded, because they paid much better …
Ask HN: Azure has run out of compute – anyone else affected?
Original EnglishBecause of the high demand cloud providers can raise their prices and that's directly converted to profit since expenses remain the same, i.e. price gouging.
You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web
Original EnglishAt some point I realized that getting only the audio stream would save me 90% in bandwidth costs. [0]
Is a tool worth it? Count disruption and migration time
A cross-platform file-sync user values years of low friction over subscription price alone.
Total cost includes troubleshooting and adjustment as well as fees.
Freelancing: How to talk yourself into charging more
Original EnglishWe've managed to pay for up to 90% of our monthly expenses solely with recurring revenue.
Stripe down for 4 hours (and counting) for all those with Stripe Tax enabled
Original EnglishI used to recommend Spreedly to go with that, a payment gateway agnostic credit card vault so you can take your customers with you if …
"I've isolated the bug to a database query"
Original EnglishThe result is that many developers will do selection and sorting algorithmically (taking the bugs and LOC that entails), instead of using declarative SQL.
Ask HN: What book changed your life?
Original EnglishThe company making the boards was Systems Concepts of San Francisco; I think they cost $1500.
“Our Marketing Is Up Fog Creek” And What We Did About It
Original Englishbefore that page, so often we use "opened the page" as a proxy for "started a trial" because it gets results weeks faster. …