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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.
Solve a problem people will pay for before expanding the team.
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Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?
Original EnglishIt's not much compared to some of the rates on here, but I work with lovely, interesting clients in the non-profit sector.
Most people don’t finish online job applications
Original EnglishI once failed a quiz that would have granted me the privilege of frying chicken at KFC.
Apple gets smacked by $450M e-book price-fixing fine
Original EnglishI still worry about with Amazon and "indie" publishing; friends of mine who are self-publishers often say that they make 80-90% of their sales on …
Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username emails receive no spam
Original EnglishI've saved money on three projects thus far with this.
Cloud desktops aren't as good as you'd think
Original EnglishI liked it so much I started doing a similar setup for small side projects.
Seer: A GUI front end to GDB for Linux
Original EnglishBut I find most of my bugs are simple enough that that doesn't happen, because I write modular code and TDD.
What are common mistakes that new or inexperienced managers make?
Original EnglishHowever, I cannot help but feel like I failed at this task that I felt sure I could tackle and I don't understand why.
Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech industry
Original Englishthe team's familiarity with my skills, but I still got rejected amusingly) - the only reason I made it was because I failed & learned …
I don't understand Python's Asyncio
Original EnglishIt makes my code more testable and easier to reason about.