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Cancel Adobe if you are a creative under NDA with your clients
Original EnglishWe never got calls, we never had claims, 99.999% of the customers had completely forgotten the policies even existed, diligently insuring their Nokia 3210's.
Accounting For Developers, Part I
Original EnglishThe product that I sold cost me $40 to purchase, and both the product and service have a 5% sales tax applied.
Why I turned down $500K and shut down my startup
Original EnglishEither because of a failure on the part of the author to communicate with the team, or their indifference upon hearing the author's description of …
Sqlite3 WebAssembly
Original EnglishI think since I started my Go/wazero effort, WASI+SQLite improved a bunch.
I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone
Original EnglishI charged only $950 to build the initial version, but charged monthly maintenance which started from $300 something, and over the months/years went onto $840+ …
“It’s done, there is no way back. We tried, we failed”
Original EnglishThe issue is it was made but the sales didn't cover the costs.
Why modern software is slow
Original EnglishI preferred using it instead of the X terminals because it was faster.
Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyright notices to customers
Original EnglishI was an ATT UVerse customer (standard, not business) before switching to Comcast Business about 4-5 years ago, but their max speed offering was only …
Choose GitLab for your next open source project
Original EnglishI also use gitlab's nginx configuration combined with cipherli.st ciphers as a template because it uses best practices.