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An Open Letter to Tim Cook Regarding the App Store 70/30 Revenue Split
Original EnglishEven if I add advertising costs (because some people allege the app stores provide a customer base), it's still less than 20%.
Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?
Original EnglishAround 3 years ago, we started to get a lot of customers for our VoIP tunneling solution, mostly from UAE.
Keycloak: Open-Source Identity and Access Management
Original EnglishIt probably needed some JVM tuning, but we were just deploying as a stateful set (for the postgres).
Ask HN: 9-yo son wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?
Original EnglishSoon I tried to teach myself to code and failed miserably the first few times.
Show HN: I'm working on an open-source Gmail replacement
Original EnglishBecause I am lazy and it's easier to do that than it is to write a script to transfer it to what I use next.
iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs
Original EnglishTrivially, if I have $100 in 1950, and $101 in 2016, I have made a "profit" of $1 but lost a substantial amount in real …
Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage
Original EnglishI didn't get the advertised 30% because my largest single cost is datastore storage, which didn't drop.
The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation
Original EnglishThat's because we've managed to engineer a reliable and fast deployment process, but that took a long time to get right.
Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms (2021)
Original EnglishI remember vividly because I started a business in 2003 running a for-profit website that would continue to exist until 2022). …