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Mike Lee on why he can charge $1,000/hr for iPhone development
Original EnglishI have charged clients close to $1k/hour occasionally during emergencies and with specialized work, but I can't deal with constant stress from trying to deliver …
Swiss retailer Galaxus now displays warranty score and return rate of products
Original EnglishWe generally accepted this as a "cost of business", but never seemed quite right to me.
Fat startup: Learn the lessons of my failed Lean Startup
Original EnglishBy the time I left, they had 6000 customers, lot of them Fortune 500.
What are some things you wish you knew when you started programming?
Original Englishbecause I didn't need that much income back then, and later it became much more complicated to stop being employee due to higher cost of …
Show HN: Elestio – Managed platform for over 150 open-source software stacks
Original EnglishIn 2009, we started deploying open-source software for websites and web apps we built, many for SMB and enterprise customers.
Ask HN: If you restarted your career, what would you do differently?
Original EnglishI have tried 4 various 9-5 positions - telco, software (QA), networking (security), customer contracts management (current, non-technical, boring but well paid).
Ask HN: What to do if you are ridiculously burnt out?
Original EnglishHe made ~6 sales in 1 month, never lifted a finger in the ~14 months since.
How to Sell a Blog for $36,200
Original English- It ended up netting me (sale price aside) maybe $20K in total, and it was my only source of income for a year while …
Ask HN: Inspirational money making web apps made by hackers.
Original EnglishTaking a little time to get tracking but doesn't cost much to run and has a few paying customers already.