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Show HN: Twine – Open source multiplatform RSS app
Original EnglishI'm using feedbro (Firefox extension) as RSS client only because I can assign points to keywords to prioritize the huge info volume.
What Xfinity Internet Data Usage Plans will Comcast be Launching?
Original EnglishI paid a very modest monthly flat fee and then $0.10/minute for usage.
TAPIR: A new high-performance, transactional key-value store
Original EnglishThe paper notes, "with a clock skew of 50 ms, we saw less than 1% TAPIR retries." Since the clients can use the retry timestamps …
Lessons from Building a Node App in Docker
Original EnglishEvery process but the database failed because they all depended on each other.
How I failed to land a remote position
Original Englishannual compensation has increased approx 40% (generous bonus plan, and they
Chargify New Pricing
Original EnglishAt the time I made the decision to keep those users out of Chargify rather than paying $40 a month to maintain them.
Ask HN: Who is using C++ as the main language for new project?
Original EnglishI chose golang at first, because it could do stuff in parallel easier than anything else I've experienced in other languages.
Ask HN: How did you find your great side project idea?
Original EnglishThis meets no definition of "great idea" but has been a fun, challenging and profitable side business for over 3 years now.
The Anatomy of Profitable Freemium
Original EnglishOperating at this level the margins are razor thin to say the least (We've tried to cut down on the marketing costs, but bidding anything …