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Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?
Original EnglishI now have ownership again with multiple clients paying $5k a year for the tool.
Ask HN: How do you get side gigs?
Original EnglishI lost a job in the initial bidding, but was later contacted and hired by the client after issues cropped up with the cheaper hires. …
When to Rewrite from Scratch – Autopsy of Failed Software
Original EnglishI did this whole rewrite in about 9 months including all the work to do the database migration which took a bunch of dry runs …
Engineering management at Facebook
Original EnglishBut ultimately that failure led to a better understanding.
Experience Longhorn – A look at a defining Microsoft project
Original EnglishI think asking why it failed is rather hard to explain and I suspect different people who were on the project would have different explanations.
Ubuntu should zig to Apple’s zag
Original EnglishThe reason I use Ubuntu is because it is the closest thing the Linux desktop has to a defacto standard setup.
Ask HN: Founders whose startups have failed, where did life take you afterwards?
Original EnglishI started again,my small business was ok, my burn rate was low,I was ramen profitable ...burning $2000 per month but all customers money, hired employees …
Systemd redux: The end of Linux
Original EnglishI'm no longer using vi, but vim (adopted in the mid 1990s as I switched to Linux), but the basic muscle-memory is the same.
Otter.ai has saved reporters hours transcribing interviews. Caveat emptor
Original EnglishI tried and failed to launch a startup in this space.