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Who is living off their startup fulltime?
Original EnglishWhen I started out in 1999 my business partner and I took $1,200 and turned it into $1M (revenue) in 12 months...100% online sales.
The new 501(c)(3) and the future of free software in the US
Original EnglishFor around $1k you can find a good non-profit attorney to help.
Discussions with Apple regarding license agreement
Original EnglishAs we were their main customer they ended up losing 70%+ of their revenue overnight when we switched.
Root Domain Website Hosting for Amazon S3
Original EnglishRegardless, the 2% failure rate on that one S3 IP endpoint is definitely a little high, so I filed a support ticket (I pay for …
Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy
Original Englishinheritance but if I don't get funding or the site isn't making enough dough by Valentines day the site will crash and burn and then …
Ask HN: Best current model routers for OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato, etc.?
Original EnglishpfSense is really a good choice, I'm successfully using it for two years without any major problems on a dual-wan setup and some 50 clients.
Rust in the 6.2 kernel
Original EnglishI have made one memory safety error that escaped test in those years.
Asdf – language tool version manager
Original EnglishI used Docker to run the application using the exact same image that was deployed to production, and was able to replicate the issue.
Flynn: open source PaaS
Original EnglishExperienced Flynn last year, we spent about 2 weeks making it work properly with our solution (We had a complex SaaS solution hosted on Heroku, …