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Covid-19 precautions for Stripe employees and customers
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 1,099 posts.
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Saliva based Covid test: results in 45 minutes
Researchers from the BioFrontiers Institute at CU Boulder have developed a saliva-based COVID-19 test capable of returning results in as little as 45 minutes—no
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Pricing Low-Touch SaaS
How to approach pricing and packaging a new SaaS app, by example
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IBM's Lost Decade
TL;DR: Down and to the right I wasn’t going to do this post until I learned IBM PR is out browbeating reporters (one of the rare activities where the company is still world class) for being “too ha…
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Forecast, don't guesstimate your software projects
"When will it be done?" Is a question I get asked almost weekly as a software developer. Despite building software professionally for the last 15 years
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Notion encourages busy-work
Why has everything become so needlessly complicated?
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Supabase Beta: Auth, SQL Editor, Benchmarks
Build production-grade applications with a Postgres database, Authentication, instant APIs, Realtime, Functions, Storage and Vector embeddings. Start for free.
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Lessons from six months at Shopify
I’m now six months into Shopify. So far it’s going basically on schedule: as I was told, “Your first couple months you’re going to have zero idea what’s going on. Then around month three you’ll com…
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I enforced the AGPL on my code
Published: 20-10-2020 | Last update: 28-02-2022 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
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Brave Introduces Brave Today, the Privacy-Preserving News Reader
Brave News is accessible below the new tab page and is delivered anonymously to the user's browser via Brave's new private content delivery network.
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How much did AlphaGo Zero cost? (2018)
Answer: probably around $35 million.
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Travis CI's new pricing plan threw a wrench in my open source works
I just spent the past 6 hours migrating some of my open source projects from Travis CI to GitHub Actions, and I thought I'd pause for a bit (12 hours into this project, probably 15-20 more to go) to jot down a few thoughts. I am not one to look a gift horse in the mouth. For almost a decade, Travis CI made it possible…
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Goodbye PowerDNS
After over 20 years of DNS and PowerDNS, I am moving on. Separate from this page, I am releasing a series of three huge posts on the history of PowerDNS.
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SEO lessons learned by writing a blog post every day for two years
5 SEO lessons learned by writing 1 blog post every day for 2 years
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Two Years to Make $10 in Software Revenue
No Idea What We're Doing Do What Makes Money People Using Our Free Tool We Made $10 I know what you’re thinking. “That title has to be a typo. No one
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Banks, QE, and Money-Printing
Published November 2020 Lately, it has become fashionable to debate what is, or is not, “money-printing” by central banks. This debate is natural, due to the extreme policy nature of 2020, with massive fiscal expenditures, huge increases in central bank balance sheets, and changes in central bank inflation targets…
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Principles for Building New SaaS Products on AWS
Explore the latest updates from Caylent, including industry trends, expert insights, company news, and more.
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How I learned to charge my customers
After I completed my first programming class, I went straight to Craigslist. I advertised my programming services. I called myself an experienced programmer who could code anything. I posted a link to
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We ditched Google Analytics
We asked ourselves if it was time to switch to a less invasive analytics app than Google Analytics; one...
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SaaS marketing tactics and case studies
What SaaS marketing really is, plus 41+ strategies that grow MRR: SEO, content, product-led growth, and the channels worth your budget. A practical playbook.
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The biggest competitor to your digital service? The Mars Bar
This post has been languishing in my drafts folder for about a decade. It has recently become relevant again. When I was at Vodafone, selling ringtones was our top priority. They cost almost nothing to produce, supply, and market. Yet people would pay through the nose for them. I say people. I mean kids. We saw a huge…
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Google Wave’s failure is a lesson for modern real-time collaboration tools
Google Wave debuted at I/O in May 2009 and shut down in April 2012. What happened, why it failed, and how its real-time engine still powers editors.