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Lessons from a Silicon Valley job search
Original EnglishHaving lived through a couple failures (personal and professional), it's probably easier for me to spot these behaviors (again, because I used to do it …
Developer open-sources 200+ hr project after client refuses to pay
Original EnglishHowever, there has been one single thing which has kept our revenue flowing month after month for years: Freshbooks.com
Tesla Model S: the story of a very short happiness and excitement
Original EnglishI was in the waiting room of another Toyota dealership and the service writer told a woman that her scheduled service would cost $500.00 because …
Ruby Shield: Shopify donates $1M to stewards of rubygems, bundler
Original EnglishI've started responding to "hey, do you want to talk to sales?" messages with "sure", just to see what stuff costs in the real world.
Apple, Microsoft, and Google hold 23% of all U.S. corporate cash
Original EnglishI pay regular income tax of 46% (top federal, Medicare, and typical state rates combined) and keep $54.
Stripe And A/B Testing Made Me A Small Fortune
Original EnglishThe per-transaction fees are lower, but there is a monthly (or yearly) cost.
Ask HN: How do you familiarize yourself with a new codebase?
Original Englishbut in this case product and business decided it was the only way to move forward because the system was in maintenance hell and it …
Why has the quality of brick buildings declined in the last 100 years?
Original English$10k saved on every house is $big profit.
Stripe Financial Connections
Original EnglishPlaids pricing didn't work for us so we built it ourselves / went with other providers