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Ask HN: Those who've joined a friend's startup as an employee, how did that go?
Original EnglishIn my second year in college, I started to freelance and had a decent income.
Why we shut down a product that was $75,000/year profitable
Original Englishthe "I bootstrapped my company to profitability and success!" blog posts, because in most instances, the owner is making $50K/year and can't afford to hire …
We decided to move 90% of our workload from the cloud to on-prem infrastructure
Original EnglishWe have a 10gbit/s dedicated fiber we use at like 80%, it cost us 1500$ per month (power+fiber).
Meanwhile, at code.org
Original EnglishI'm sorry, but this is a field were our median income is 50% more than the median income of the rest of the country.
Linux on a 486SX
Original EnglishWe thought of using a commercial recovery service, but this would cause delay and cost $$$$.
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.
The Mythical IO-Bound Rails App
Original EnglishAt one point I shaved almost 20% off TTFB just by cutting the setup overhead of all that telemetry, tracing, logging, feature toggle, etc code …
Show HN: Orange Forum – Web 1.0 style forum written in Go
Original EnglishAs the forum grew in size, I started dreading restarting my application because the Datomic client would have to sync with the database.
Ask HN: How Did You Escape 9 to 5?
Original EnglishHowever on Day 1, my income was down by almost 75% (ouch, wifey was not quite happy but she supported)