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Ask HN: How much do you spend on SaaS a month?
Original English$100 - Rackspace Cloud Sites (I'm locked into the old pricing...now it's $150/mo)
Bitcointalk Server Compromised
Original EnglishI had setup TOTP with their service and my phone died and I lost my OTP key (lesson learned - always backup OTP keys - …
AI Doesn't Kill Jobs? Tell That to Freelancers
Original EnglishI know for a fact profit margins have increased however.
I got everything off the cloud and am paying less
Original EnglishEvery place is different; you have to do a cost analysis and it's not as simple as "I saved 10x!"
Start a business, not a startup
Original EnglishJust because you fail doesn't mean that the rest of the world has failed.
Postgres Job Queues and Failure by MVCC
Original EnglishI prefer to plan for actively manage the possible failure modes and to detect and correct quickly anomaly.
Recurly billing down -- some customer data lost
Original EnglishI don't know if any of my customers are affected yet, however now they have failed to bill a customer when they should have, double …
Ask HN: Got rejected by YC 6-12 months ago? Where are you now?
Original EnglishThis is why we start seeing ludicrous distribution agreements in place to maximise profits so that the economics of this weird system can work [2], …
Show HN: TimeRetain – A browser-based personal time tracker, no sign-up needed
Original EnglishI think the codebase since, but just remembered I had it deployed on an internal site for testing - hackily removed a few things from …