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Joyent ending "lifetime" hosting accounts
Original EnglishI've used Slicehost (now Rackspace) successfully for a couple of years, but my pricing is probably terrible now.
Show HN: Bagels – TUI expense tracker
Original Englishthe weekend I spent 4 hours writing a terminal based expense tracker with a sole focus on making it easy to see income vs expenses …
Curl Security Audit
Original Englishthe tools the language gives me, and I can't accept binaries that the SOCs I've used can't even load into memory because of their size. …
What happens when the U.S. President uses your startup for a conference call
Original EnglishEven still, they will never recoup their costs from this one call even if OFA remains a $9.99/month subscriber for a decade.
Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?
Original EnglishI got 10k free users just by emailing my list, but 0 paying users.
RIP Google PageRank score: A retrospective on how it ruined the web
Original EnglishIt's much easier to sell advertising if you don't offer an SLA, because it becomes the customer's fault if the service doesn't provide high quality …
UI Performance Decline – OS X Tiger to Yosemite [video]
Original Englishbut in reality it is often used as an excuse to ship bad code early and to impose unwanted updates, rent-an-app pricing models, and other …
How Trustpilot Extorts Businesses
Original EnglishI used to be customer of, with a free tier but who act in an underhand manner to their paying customers and for quite a …
Mega has launched
Original EnglishThey have no purpose anymore because distribution costs are $0.