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How I Pitched TechCrunch And How To Get Press When You Launch Your Startup
Original EnglishI sit and preach multiple customer acquisition methods and distribution, but honest truth is, we haven't done any of that over the past 90 days …
Ask HN: What's up with these DoorDash dark patterns?
Original EnglishWhen I qestioned it they said some bullshit like the offer was only valid for the first 100 customers.
What Xfinity Internet Data Usage Plans will Comcast be Launching?
Original EnglishI paid a very modest monthly flat fee and then $0.10/minute for usage.
TAPIR: A new high-performance, transactional key-value store
Original EnglishThe paper notes, "with a clock skew of 50 ms, we saw less than 1% TAPIR retries." Since the clients can use the retry timestamps …
The end of "Useless Ruby sugar": On intuitions and evolutions
Original EnglishIt also makes it much easier for me to start new rails projects and get to my ideal workflow, because it’s the default workflow.
Stripe adds multiple account support
Original Englishour expenses.) We also get burned when a new company has bugs - because while I personally might understand, our customers are the ones who …
JavaScript Fatigue: Realities of Our Industry
Original Englishbut it took time to educate our staff and their time to market as well as the required support increased significantly, and then angular 2 …
Tell HN: I quit my job to bootstrap my startup by myself.
Original EnglishI only have ~3 months in the bank, but with two part-time clients, I pay all my monthly bills, with the rest of my time …
Microsoft's Small Step to Disable Macros Is a Win for Security
Original EnglishWell this same thread on Reddit resulted on several "oh, but I deployed 7-zip across the enterprise" answers.