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The appropriate escalation step here is probably paying a lawyer to send a properly-worded letter on legal letterhead. As far as dates go, did they use Certified Mail or a similar …

Thanks for the ad hominem response, it really reminds me what's great about this site.

"A workaround exists, it's the user's fault for not knowing it" is terrible interaction design. Having links on the site fail arbitrarily devalues the entire page. Users aren't sto…

Freemium is the wrong route far more often than not, and I'm only going to cheer you on for making the decision which lets you continue to develop a stable business around your ser…

If it turns out to be at all useful with regard to maintaining revenue-generating code in production, $25 per year is a laughably low ask, even if it's only useful some of the time…

For reference, I'd kick myself for undercharging if I billed that much for a week, and correspondingly consider it "annoying but not business-critical" if I had trouble collecting …

What do you want to come next? If you can constructively and reliably ship code to prod, you almost certainly have better immediate options than Elance. Worst case, calling ten dif…

The best solution depends entirely on your optimization conditions. If transaction time is important, hard drives are high bandwidth. Ten 1TB hard drives are $500. Two 6TB hard dri…

What's your take on Logrus? It seems like it would cover your major concerns, and it's widely recommended. https://github.com/Sirupsen/logrus

This is a good reference implementation. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7850335 In general, I would avoid selling software without a service agreement. Bugs are a thing that …

Here's another video of the algorithm being tested against a wider range of targets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGA6eJXZAOw The ability to pick up saccades could have interest…

"But for physics, it is absolute essential that you are also able to think about vectors in terms of coordinates if you are to connect them to the real physical world, which has ru…

I'm still kind of on the fence about this. I like a lot of the choices Modl makes as a fork of Gorp, but it has significantly fewer users, particularly in the case of e.g. modl-mig…

I've been using go-json-rest, which is by way of "just enough on top of net/http to make APIs easier." https://ant0ine.github.io/go-json-rest/ Gorilla is useful, but more for its r…

It's less effective at even that much than it could be, e.g. any game released on Steam can be cracked in a largely homogeneous fashion. (Which is exactly the value point I'd be wo…

I'd prefer the first explanation as well, not least because "optimize your business model for the people who are willing to pay you, not the people who aren't."

Given the way that software patents work, you probably are. But for the vast majority of startups, this is not something you should be worrying about early on. Let the lawyers sort…

Important life skill: Learn to tell people no while being both firm and polite about it.

It's been a huge learning process for me around "the engineering side of this is relatively simple, and the non-engineering side of this is relatively simple, so they'd put two and…

It's common because the likelihood of escaping /newest on the basis of "intellectually interesting" alone is miniscule. The traffic just doesn't work that way. Solve that, and you …

You work in Python & you want simple web interfaces? Flask. Check out the docs, it's about as simple and pythonic as it's possible for "respond to this URL by executing that python…