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Why Bad Jobs-or No Jobs-Happen to Good Workers
Original EnglishI sell $3 cups of coffee, which is the market rate, but can't get any customers.
If You Build It, They Will Complain
Original EnglishI've worked with people that had spent 10 years at a company, working on my team, as pillars of the company, getting paid 60k/yr, sitting …
Why HTML is a strategic dead end for business transactions and e-commerce (1999)
Original EnglishWe started out by looking at a number of window systems and clients of window systems, and came up with a set of goals.
Email Newsletters Are Serious Business
Original EnglishStarted writing my team's weekly business email about 12 months ago - it adds value to my clients, and both potential and alumni clients get …
High-Quality Software Engineering (2007)
Original EnglishWhen I started at Oracle yonks ago, there was a bizarre bug management system.
Show HN: Oodle – serverless, fully-managed, drop-in replacement for Prometheus
Original EnglishOur metrics bills grew like 20x over 4 years.
Ask HN: Current freelancer and consulting rates survey
Original EnglishI billed monthly, and the client was expected to pay within 10 days.
I launched an iPhone app yesterday, and all I got were some stupid lessons
Original EnglishI just want to pay $20 for an app that does all this instead of building it and getting distracted from my core business.
Ask HN: What are the alternatives to Amazon Lambda?
Original EnglishNote that we're using the max allowable memory on Lambda because that ~linearly decreased our execution time, but we use an average of 400 mb.