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Great, Another Bootstrap Site
Original EnglishBut I'm using Bootstrap because it's literally faster than any other alternative I can think of until I have someone separately working on a UI …
Your high IQ might kill your startup (2010)
Original EnglishI spent 20% of my PRE-TAX income on healthcare last year and that's not going to change; I'm better off than being completely poor but …
Italia Startup Visa
Original EnglishI had to emigrate to Germany instead and I've paid taxes there for more than 10 years.
Wordpress.org Login: "I am not affiliated with WP Engine in any way"
Original EnglishI’ve used it before, and many clients sites are now dead because their web host didn’t want to support old PHP versions anymore.
Splitting engineering teams into defense and offense
Original EnglishWe've been tried different methods to balance customers and long-term projects too.
Building Bigger Roads Makes Traffic Worse
Original EnglishWhether this is due to pricing or simply because it is so new I am not sure.
Saving cloud costs by writing our own database
Original EnglishI remember someone on my team working on the Spanner integration with our product, which was basically an in-memory database, but we needed durability.
Apple has damaged the perceived value of software
Original EnglishApple and developers have a shared incentive to make as much money as possible, but developers control pricing and who they target.
Tell HN: My startup is making money and I don't know what to do
Original Englishbut we don't think it's unreasonable, as a tech startup, to be seeking some sort of funding in order to grow faster and more efficiently. …