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Ask HN: Do quality web graphics, design and layout actually help businesses?
Original EnglishI hired someone off of rent-a-coder for less than $100, and within a week of installing the new theme my pageviews increased about 20% overnight, …
Ask HN: How do you deal with recurring payments?
Original English* The platform offers a lot of billing schemes out of the box, but you can extend the logic (via plugins)
It’s painful to do a tech startup in London
Original EnglishIt's painful to do a tech startup anywhere but in my experience, what London suffers the most from is the cost of living.
Please Rate My Startup - LoyaltySpace.com
Original EnglishLooking at the pricing, my first thought is "Wow, that's cheap!" I don't know how that converts to US dollars, but it seems way low.
Google App Engine turns 2
Original EnglishI really love GAE as a development platform, especially as a single developer, but I hope they will work through their roadmap faster.
Ask HN: How do I deal with not being able to build products
Original EnglishFor example, rather than paying $x/mo for an email with my custom domain, I use an email alias such as forwardemail.net or simplelogin.io.
Ask HN: What (almost) company sinking engineering mistakes have you witnessed?
Original EnglishHe would say that if our customers found out we used Ruby on Rails that they'd leave us.
Vmware (A division of EMC) to buy Suse Linux from Novell
Original EnglishWe had around 50 clients running Netware, and within 12 months of Active Directory being released, we had switched almsot all of them over to …
How App.net Can Change Everything
Original EnglishWhile I have paid my $50 to sign up for app.net, I'm not exactly feeling a lot of confidence in this model.