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Affinity Designer – Illustrator alternative
Original EnglishAdobe, as part of their new subscription model, is trying to force us unto paying 40% more per seat than an individual license would cost.
Lyft Loses $600M in 2016 as Revenue Rises to $700M
Original Englishbecause whilst the behaviour uber engaged (engages?) in has clearly worked very well for them, I would like to make it very slightly less profitable …
LINUX is obsolete (1992)
Original English" Things like paradigmatic ways of doing open source software development took 20 years to dominate because the longevity and applicability of the more abstract …
Egypt has blocked encrypted messaging app Signal
Original Englishthe "Experimental" state is easy, BTW - it's trickier moving them on from there because it's trickier to change them once they're widely deployed. …
Ask HN: What's a Non-Programmer to do?
Original EnglishMy two business partners and I have been running our startup for about 14 months, we're ramen profitable, we have a small user base and …
Launch HN: Bitrise (YC W17) – Continuous Integration and Delivery for Mobile Apps
Original EnglishWe also wanted to make setting up and maintaining CI way easier, without scripting, but having the same level of customizability.
Show HN: kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux
Original EnglishI use tempo[1] which again was one I landed on because pretty much all the other clients didn't support folder lookup either (I think dsub …
Cost breakdown for Stripe, Braintree, Chargify, Recurly and Saasy
Original EnglishOther than that it was either chargify+samurai or spreedly+samurai (depending on the number of transactions because of chargify's tricky pricing)
Amex for Developers
Original EnglishI don't know the amex payment pricing or how it differs from stripe/braintree, but cutting out the middle man has got to be cheaper.