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Switching to the Mutt Email Client
Original EnglishSure, there's a learning curve, but there is no faster mail client out there for handling large volumes of mail.
Freelancer.com is destroying my life
Original EnglishI've started offering 10% discounts for payment upfront—even some of the larger, "corporate" clients can get pre-payments through their strictly-net-45-billing department.
Ask HN: Why can't I make as much as I make?
Original English("A 5% increase in conversion rates does this to the value of your stock options.") This is a nice place to be in negotiating.
Postgres 9.2 will feature linear read scalability up to 64 cores
Original EnglishWe'd have paid thousands to avoid that problem, as that's what the time spent on avoiding that downtime is costing us (well, our clients).
Clean Up Your Mess – A Guide to Visual Design for Everyone (2011)
Original EnglishI try my best to use the paper-as-a-cost analogy...the reason print media got so adept at stuffing more and more on a page was because …
Majority of web apps could just run on a single server
Original EnglishI have been running multiple web apps with decent traffic (each ~10K requests per day) at no cost at all.
Introducing Bing Code Search for C#
Original EnglishThat's what we're still dealing with but we have LLVM which slings code out much faster than anything we've had before.
What was it like to self-learn programming before Stack Overflow? (2016)
Original EnglishI spent about 15% of my total income for that machine, and never regretted it.
Technical interview performance is kind of arbitrary
Original Englishthe process I saved a client $20K/month in EBS costs. …