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Ask HN: Product Managers, how did you get there and what's your background?
Original EnglishI spent 4 years at Intel in their technical sales program, which was a nice way to learn business skills and particularly B2B selling skills …
180TB of Good Vibrations – Storage Pod 3.0
Original EnglishSo buying servers that are 1/3 as "dense" but easier to access drives from the front costs Backblaze $50/pod/month or $600/pod/year.
Marten: a Crystal web framework
Original EnglishAll considered I prefer the occasional bug and extra test in Ruby and Python.
Frustration, Disappointment And Apathy: My Years At Microsoft
Original EnglishIn retrospect, I was probably deliberately thrown into the projects that seemed hopeless and bug-ridden because I actually cared about this stuff.
One more small step toward the right to software repair
Original EnglishMuch of what I've saved them over time has gone into my own bank account, and they've ended up with a pretty amazing ecosystem.
The Massachusetts Software Tax
Original EnglishToday the provincial sales tax is included (harmonized) with the federal sales tax as the HST (8% + 5% = 13%) but
Why we moved from AWS RDS to Postgres in Kubernetes
Original EnglishWe've been running our production db on it for the last 6 months or so, no outage yet.
Answering your questions about Heroku routing and web performance
Original EnglishIt's this failure to continue full stewardship of our existing product that's the mistake that really hurt customers.
Berlin’s Startup Hub Wants to Prove It’s More Than Just a Scene
Original EnglishI'm somewhat ashamed of how I myself failed back then, but on the other hand not really - at 20-something the experience just isn't there.