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My father owns a small payment processing company that does electronic processing of checks. One of his employees was busted by a federal task force for laundering a lot of money. …

There are 30 developers on the project I work on. So if you get 1000 customers just like us. You're making $5000/month to handle the load of 30,000 daily users. Chances are you'll …

It's undeniably an awesome deal and I really like the website design. I get a little concerned about the business model. Almost to the point that it would prevent me from hosting m…

FYI, it only does reading but it's still very impressive. I've tried out the demo and it just works against small repos. It's very slow against larger ones.

One thing about being an American living in another country has made me realize about the USA is that there are tons of police compared to other countries. This is a good and bad t…

I think w3schools bashing is unjustified. It's good enough for most things. I use it all the time for a quick reference. I've never found anything there blatantly wrong or misleadi…

If you want to work hard, feel appreciated, and have opportunity, start or join a startup. From my experience working at Microsoft, the author sounds clueless. Large companies will…

What is really cool about this story is knowing that PG keeps such close tabs on the HN community.

No, it's the snappy uniforms! Our brains can only superimpose our romantic fantasies over reality for so long. One romantic fantasy would be "I'm cool because I work at Apple". I c…

A few years ago, I wrote a commercial plugin for a product and later sold the IP to the developer of the product I plugged in to. I'm intentionally being as vague as possible to re…