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Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (1985)
Original Englishthe future, but knew their bread was buttered by hardware and software sales and this whole dial-up thing wasn't profitable for them. …
If you have startup stock options, check your option plan
Original EnglishI learned about it the hard way after I left the startup and paid money to exercise the vested options.
Hydroponics: Growing an appreciation for plants
Original EnglishA great deal of learning comes with failure and I've learned to look forward to messing things up over the years.
Ask HN: The rising “Hackathon Hackers” culture
Original EnglishThere are a lot of abandoned/nearly abandoned OS code-bases that are much better than anything we use, but they didn't have developers, weren't cost effective, …
“AppleMusic will pay artist for streaming during customer’s free trial period”
Original Englishbecause we pay higher royalty AND we have the potential to convert a bigger % of 800 million iTunes accounts to paid streaming subscribers which …
Building a web app with no framework
Original EnglishI use a framework even when it’s not 100% necessary because it’s easier to collaborate with other developers.
Schools should be using open source software
Original EnglishWe use a product I won't name from a FAANG and their support is like OSS support as is the UX of it.
A/B Testing You'll Actually Use: Optimizely (YC W10) Launches Out of Beta
Original EnglishIt's a serious problem because marketing usually needs technical to split test, so even if Optimizely cuts your temporary conversion rate by 9% you will …
What Happened to Perl 7?
Original EnglishI haven't used it, but it has a large number of active bugs on RT, plus past criticism from the author of AnyEvent.