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Ask HN: Should I be a plumber?
Original EnglishI charge well over $43 an hour for actual freelancing - 1099-MISC, pay my own insurance, etc.
Whatever happened to the Hurd? (2012)
Original Englishthe open-source community for gcc, freebsd, linux, tex, and every other tool I use not just because it doesn't cost me as much to try …
How to pay programmers less
Original EnglishIn 2 years I saved enough money to stop working for 1 year, so I only used ~50% of the money I got.
Launch HN: Pinch (YC W25) – Video conferencing with immersive translation
Original EnglishThe existing tools we tried operated in low-bandwidth mediums (mostly text), which 1) means they are slower because they need to convert audio to text …
Facebook earnings gain as ad sales surge 82%; CFO is stepping down
Original EnglishMaybe, maybe not, but it certainly becomes less attractive as their cost-per-whatever figures go up, and no matter how much they fudge the presentation, we …
Launch HN: Sieve (YC W22) – Pluggable APIs for Video Search
Original EnglishWe’re building an API that lets you add video search to internal tools or customer applications, instantly.
Ask HN: Downtime. What was changed?
Original EnglishOn our eCommerce platform, 0.01% downtime is an unmitigated nightmare, however - because it generates revenue .
Ask HN: How did you get from learning to code to making your first dollar?
Original EnglishA co-op is like an internship; but mine was a paid internship.
Pocket Lists sales: $13500 in first 3 months
Original EnglishI'm currently living and working in Vietnam so at the moment I'm charging my clients a lot less than the $150+/hr a good iOS dev …