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Uber rolls out in-app tipping
Original EnglishI've worked no less than 4 customer service jobs.
What do great engineering managers need to know about compensation and equity?
Original EnglishI was pretty young at the time, and instead of talking with the founders about the gap, gradually grew resentful and left the company.
Ask HN: I am doing $2M annually as a solopreneur and need your help
Original EnglishI spent 25 years running successful small businesses and moving them from 1 man shows to becoming team based businesses.
Startup vs. Lifestyle Business (A Short Comparison from a Guy Who's Done Both)
Original EnglishIt took us about 18 months to reach a level of stability - literally, our business grew alongside our first child.
Results from Candy Japan box design A/B test
Original EnglishWe increased our prices with 30%, and redesigned packaging completely.
All Software is Legacy
Original EnglishI worked on for about 10 years was recently shuttered, and I am extremely proud of what that code did for the business which paid …
Ask HN: Any web startups using Java?
Original EnglishThey're harder to deploy than PHP but easier to deploy than Rails, in my experience, depending heavily on how experienced you are at administering systems …
Code Review Handbook
Original EnglishI wrote games, several AAA games, play testers found bugs, but otherwise there was no code based tests and no code review, none, zero, zilch.
Senior-engineer onboarding: understand the business before proposing rewrites
An architect with repeated change-management experience recommends learning from sales, managers, and teammates before changing systems.
Existing systems often encode business constraints and history.