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> I know lots of smart people who worked for at least 10 years in very intense startup environments and got essentially nothing out of it. Often, they have to fallback on a life of…

>> Can anyone explain to me where does this obsession with VC funding and huge growth come from? I feel like if you grow your company by more then 50% YOY you will end up with a to…

I was working on an app which serves roughly 400*10^6 API requests/day. One cool property of our app is that it's rarely updated and mostly read. And the goal is to achieve the low…

Grade inflation refers to the phenomena of getting an "A" despite having what used to be a "B" or "C" level of knowledge. If an institution gives grade A based on some objective cr…

I and my wife discuss programming matters in front of our kids. And my kids listen to the discussions and want to be part of it. Then I start teaching the basics, they are a bit mo…

Alright, this is a personal observation of mine: 1. I go to a store where workers are paid bare minimum, they give me odd looks and make me feel as if I stole their bread or smth. …

I and my wife discuss programming matters in front of our kids. And my kids listen to the discussions and want to be part of it. Then I start teaching the basics, they are a bit mo…

Our python projects have There are hardly any comments on the projects. So, far we've not faced any issue.

It's easier to pay first engineers a higher amount after you get funded. When the money dries up, it gets harder to offer even the same amount to an equally capable or a better dev…

You both can be right at the same time. CNP transactions (which stripe does) cost bit higher than CP transactions which require POS machine at mom/pop shops.

Here he might find people with all those things except for the motivation to become one.

Wealth, relatively small population and homogeneity (cultural/religious/economic) does make a lot of difference, See: Qatar. US might be wealthier (I've not vetted this statement) …

Even if you apply Norway's policies to any other country, it will not magically become as prosperous as Norway. It's a resource-rich nation, highly homogenous and part of EEA. Norw…

Rich people don’t have to decide a damn thing to end up on top, just do what you’re told, work hard, and go with the flow; have your quarter-life identity crisis after you get your…

In the US, one serious medical crisis can simultaneously make you exhausted and unable to think straight while plunging you into poverty that is nigh impossible to escape. In Europ…

If you're not going to choose your life partner and you are being forced, what kind of life it is. Then why are there efforts to force economic equality through taxation which also…

If it's true then... Obviously, if a person's brain is affected by poverty, the market isn't going to offer them the equal opportunity when that opportunity can go to the person (r…

When I search for "pdf form filler", I see many websites. I don't have time to audit their code. Some might be selling our data. So, which pdf form filler should we use if we do no…

I love seamlessly moving from mobile to web on WhatsApp. Is there any opensource solution which offers this? I am particularly concerned about WhatsApp's proprietary code.

Retire before burnout. After meeting many successful tech startup founders I realized, they retired before having their first serious burnout.

It's very true. Many developers in the west having higher disposable income than their not so lucky counterparts who might be able to rival them in absolute skill. But those develo…

There are many areas where you can create opensource projects, for example, SaaS subscription management platform with plenty of payment, tax, fraud detection plugins. Last time I …

Our instance count dropped to 0. Deploying the new version of the app isn't helping either. Instance count is still at zero.