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How Running A Business Changes The Way You Think
Original EnglishWe've grown swiftly over the last 5 years, and have gone from clients with turnovers ~£100k to clients with turnovers ~£30M.
Ask HN: How do I start my own consulting firm?
Original EnglishI lost a big whale which took out a HUGE chunk of revenue, but we were pretty diversified.
Show HN: Hire an Oldster
Original EnglishI started my career coding on shitty MS Dos system where if you had 640K of memory, it was a high-end machine.
The Developer's Dystopian Future
Original EnglishInteresting you should ask for more verification of my claim to fewer bugs because I'm about to embark on using Haskell in the new startup …
I made $200K and PayPal locked my account
Original Englishwe pay sales tax and income tax and don't get to vote or a path to citizenship in less then 20 years. …
Ask HN: Has anyone managed to find enjoyment in their work after burnout?
Original EnglishOnce I started doing that, my productivity increased drastically even tho I started working fewer hours.
The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain
Original EnglishI later learned that a good shop will do them for about $40 in labor over the cost of parts at a retail auto-parts store …
The Rise and Fall of the Lone Game Developer
Original Englishthe $2 on my game before I switched to a "fremium" model (where the ratings ended up higher, but the income lower). …
Google nabs Apple as a cloud customer
Original EnglishI'm using six Hetzner servers for over 1.5 years now and the only problem I had was one disk failure - support needed 10 minutes …