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Y Combinator ups the ante with bio startups for 2015
Original EnglishCompanies developing devices like ours are taking 10 years and $100M to see revenue, and most people in the industry consider this time and cost …
Intuit Will Sell Off Quicken
Original EnglishWe tithed 10% of our income on top of the taxes we paid.
Freelance Rates Survey, 2011 (UK)
Original Englishbut my point is that's part of your comp here in US), sales tax in UK is 20%, and unlike the US you have to …
Ask HN: Where do I go from here?
Original EnglishThe crash wasn't too long after that so I had a few years of flat salary, but then things picked up again; that seems to …
Am I (Un)Hireable As A Coder?
Original EnglishAt the current revenue I have a runway of like 50 years though so I'm not too concerned.
Google Joins Apple in Push for Tax Holiday
Original EnglishI pay for the city services I use through the city sales tax, but they are crazy if they think I'll start paying city property …
Backblaze Storage Pod 4.5 – Tweaking a Proven Design
Original EnglishMost companies that do keep data "forever" augment that cost by having either tiered pricing, or "per GB" pricing so that they can continue covering …
Practices in source code sharing in astrophysics
Original EnglishThis is especially important should I choose to publish as open access, since that journal in my field costs about $1,200, so I'm already planning …
Show HN: Slack Night Mode
Original EnglishWhen we launched cronitor.io we at first competed on price but we also had objectively better technology: faster alerting, etc.