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Ask HN: What happens to older developers?
Original Englishthe two of us right now, but "fortunately" I didn't have a lot of stuff to begin with because I've never been paid very well. …
I make $10k per month with the Amazon Affiliate Program
Original EnglishAffiliates make a decent percentage there (75%) but I suspect they have the same frustration that I do: Udemy has sales EVERY FEW DAYS.
I'm tired of fixing customers' AI generated code
Original EnglishOf course there were also idiots, but generally they weren’t interested in paying what we charged, so that was OK.
Just press go: designing a self-driving vehicle
Original EnglishFour taxi trips would cost me $12-17 each ($2500-3500/year).
How I Made $70k Self-Publishing a Book about Ruby on Rails
Original EnglishBut because I self-published I took home $130,000 minus costs and fees , so we'll conservatively say $100,000.
iOS 11 Safari will automatically strip AMP links from shared URLs
Original EnglishI started my career 25 years ago and stayed in a very stop gap sales job, originally intended to fill a gap year before applying …
The world needs a non-profit search engine
Original EnglishI built a fairly popular search engine a couple years back, but the cost of Google's search API and increasing number of bot attacks make …
Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?
Original EnglishThis is a product that will live on for at least another 10 years and will likely overtake our core product in revenue.
Reverse engineering Call of Duty anti-cheat
Original EnglishThe company made roughly 40% of sales from cheater whales (one can imagine how much the chest makers made), and there were guidelines on repeated …