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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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Thinkserver: My web-based coding environment
Original EnglishNo need to worry about getting the rug pulled on me because the company got acquired or needs to raise revenue or anything like that.
Amazon Elastic Transcoder
Original EnglishWe pre-paid and got our pricing down to $0.018 per megabyte.
On the Unhappiness of Software Developers
Original EnglishWhile that way of working was very productive, and produced reliable software built to validated designs - with lovely code because we could really focus …
Ask HN: How do you get side gigs?
Original EnglishI lost a job in the initial bidding, but was later contacted and hired by the client after issues cropped up with the cheaper hires. …
Apple’s great GPL purge
Original EnglishB5: Say what you want, but I have I paid job, and my job security depends on me hindering other people's ability to do the …
When to Rewrite from Scratch – Autopsy of Failed Software
Original EnglishI did this whole rewrite in about 9 months including all the work to do the database migration which took a bunch of dry runs …
Ask HN: How to sell your app/side project while working full-time?
Original EnglishIt has been awesome in many ways, but we'd be in a better spot if we'd started selling sooner and waited until we had revenue …
Everything I wish someone had told me (about freelancing)
Original EnglishI worked 13.25 hours yesterday, for 3 different clients, and I'm getting paid for all of them.
C isn't a programming language anymore
Original EnglishMaking the already bloated software we use these days even slower does not sound like a better alternative.