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Ask HN: Why do I struggle to follow corporate meetings?
Original EnglishOver time, I started to care more about those specific business decisions, because I had enough experience seeing failed outcomes in previous teams & companies.
Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16
Original EnglishI use a desktop machine primarily, no battery issues, no memory issues.
Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?
Original EnglishMeanwhile, it's setup in my bathroom, because it makes me giggle when I go.
Buying VMWare Fusion: A lesson in how to drive customers away
Original English- I switched my pricing from USD to CAD, and you added $10 despite the two currencies trading at parity (I quickly swapped back, and …
Google Engineering Management Mistakes
Original EnglishI've played the startup game, and for the roughly 16 months that I was working on my own startup, I earned precisely $0.
Facebook fined €110M for providing misleading information on WhatsApp takeover
Original EnglishWe could get rid of a lot of advertising if we paid for the content we consume, but we choose not to.
Ask HN: Best-architected open-source business applications worth studying?
Original EnglishO'course, there could have been better code management and deployment practices in the first place, but this script let me introduce some sanity without affecting …
Ask HN: Profitable SaaS? How did you grow your business?
Original EnglishI launched a free API 4 years ago, and in January 2015 I introduced paid plans, which offered several benefits over the free service.
Ask HN: Advice that changed your life?
Original EnglishThe underlying principle (provided by my mentor) for a cost absorption system I wrote and implemented in a human based production shop.