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Reddit: Lessons Learned From Scaling To 1 Billion Pageviews A Month
Original Englishthe technology for its eServers." And this HN thread[2] has a guy claiming that in 1996 "we used Intel because with Sun servers you paid …
The 10x developer is not a myth (2013)
Original EnglishThe other took less than 3 months and costed something like 10k, including server cost (i used app engine).
Ask HN: Developers who switched careers, what are you doing now?
Original EnglishI developed a saying: "You can either find someone good at customer service or someone knowledgeable.
How Uber tests payments in production
Original EnglishI have also been on calls with Stripe support staff where we tried a card transaction in production for testing purposes, FWIW.
Why I’m not leaving Python for Go
Original Englishbecause I use C for very specific reasons (when it is totally OK for reasons of speed or control to write a decent amount more …
Ask HN: Examples of profitable little free web tools?
Original EnglishThe chat component did really well so over time I built it up - currently it brings in about $2k per month in sales and …
Coding Horror and blogs.stackoverflow.com experience "100% Data Loss"
Original EnglishI didn't actually lose data like Jeff, but the datacenter the server was in decided to kill the power to the machine 2 weeks before …
HippyVM goes to Y Combinator and fails
Original EnglishOne of them said that they couldn't think of any compiler company that didnt make its money off consulting, and that worse, about 85% of …
Opendoor, a startup worth emulating
Original English- Our cut is not 15%, it's 0-6% below market depending on home risk & projected holding costs.