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The Unemployable Programmer
Original EnglishThis is anecdotal, but I've had an employee leave when she was paid 3 times what I made and given almost full autonomy.
My guiding principles after 20 years of programming (2020)
Original EnglishI use third party stuff for more specialized libs like image conversion and whatnot.
If people tried to pay for other services like they try to pay for programming
Original Englishinstead went to week-by-week meetings with clients and billing on the same basis, so neither ran away with misunderstandings or too great sunk costs. …
Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
Original EnglishI have enhancement ideas too, but I barely have any time to put into it these days so it is primarily just maintenance.
Ask HN: Has anyone managed to find enjoyment in their work after burnout?
Original EnglishOnce I started doing that, my productivity increased drastically even tho I started working fewer hours.
Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable
Original EnglishFollowing your logic, Apple should somehow bite 30% of that yearly subscription, when in truth, I am a customer of JetBrains, not of Apple.
John Carmack on Inlined Code
Original EnglishThis is partly because introducing a bug rarely breaks only one test.
Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency
Original EnglishWe developed a new model, Phoenix-2, with a number of improvements, including inference speed.
Notepad++ v8.4.3: Unhappy Users' Edition
Original EnglishI've never paid you a cent, and yet I've personally made quite a bit of money from using the product.