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Using Zig to Call C Code: Strings(mtlynch.io)
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> What do you think of the quality of support provided by someone who spends 5 hours a week answering questions vs the primary developer? In my experience, the quality of support is great! A year into my business, I brought someone in t
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For anyone confused, "TOC" refers to "theory of constraints": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_constraints I also enjoyed The Goal and found it helpful for my manufacturing business, althou
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I'm a former Google developer and current CodeApprove customer, and I just want to endorse CodeApprove. They're the closest thing I've found to Critique outside of Google. The UI is really straightforward, and Sam (the founde
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Right, but developers are significantly more expensive than customer support agents. Especially if the answers are already documented, and the rep just needs to be friendly in pointing customers to the right documentation. If you can free u
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Why not do it the old fashioned way and hire a human for this? Humans also have the advantage that they don't just make up answers when they don't know something (or at least if you hire good ones). I've had good experience h
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Small note: You can simplify the author's Go translation using anonymous structs: https://go.dev/play/p/4C42Ykkir8g
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It seems like submitter might have meant to submit this reply post [0] rather than the root post, and the tl;dr was "Fat OCI images are a cultural problem, not a technical one." [0] https://discourse.nixos.org/t&#x
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> But to be so invested in going after people who maybe paid some officials off or just straight up ignored that law and built their businesses anyway seems like a waste of time. I don't go around outing the people I know who have e
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> Tying in paddle as merchant of record for all installs shouldn’t be that challenging no? It's not that hard, but I'm anticipating like 40 hours of work start to finish to get Paddle set up and write the integration. The one
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I sell an API as a service,[0] and I've been using RapidAPI for years. I've never been happy with them. They charge a 20% fee, and then there's another 3-5% fee for payments via PayPal. And they do many small transactions per
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Agreed! I started reading not understanding anything about terminal emulators, and it's been interesting following his progress. > Mitchell Hashimoto, Hashicorps longest serving IC Small correction: I don't think this is right
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>* BTW, to be honest, I was somewhat surprised that you used Ansible instead of packages, it seems that this caused you a giant overhead for support.* Why didn't you tell me three years ago?!? : ) Yeah, Ansible was a huge mistake.[0
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> But unlike them, we don't impose any licensing restrictions - for example, buying TinyPilot you find yourself bound by a subscription, and if you stop paying, your OS will no longer receive updates. With PiKVM, you don't need
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No, unfortunately that's not something we offer. Customers could do that on their end, but they'd have to buy the device from us, configure it for remote access,[0] and then forward the device to the final destination. [0] https:
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> But I personally don't care about support, the enclosure can be 3d printed or some cheap plastic box, if sold as DIY kit it would save assembly costs and avoid need for certification and so on. I think there is a small market for
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Thanks! I appreciate you saying that.
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TinyPilot founder here. I understand the feedback about the price. When I created the original TinyPilot,[0] I wanted a low-priced alternative to the $600 KVM over IP options I was seeing, and now I sell my devices for $400-500/unit. T
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Ah, right.
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For anyone else who's as bad as me at mental arithmetic: 3,000,000 ÷ 6240 = 0.00208 = 0.208%
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> Perhaps the reason I'm confident is because this little thing of mine managed to replace entrenched competitors in a few places. Why can't I do it again? It's much harder to get people to pay you for a product than it i
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> My real product, the stuff people will actually pay for, is doing stuff such as responding to bug reports like [1]. But that's not something anyone has paid you for, so it's actually a counterexample. Boasting about your cle
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> I've been a creator on CodeBuy.org for a year now, and I've been blown away by the platform's reach and support. Not only have I been able to monetize my projects, but I've also connected with a wonderful community
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I enjoy Shawn Woods's channel, but I'm skeptical of his claim that he's barely breaking even on videos. His production costs seem to be nearly zero, and he makes YouTube ad money from 2M subscribers, and most of his videos ar
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> It shows a graph with a person on the left who has "nothing to say" being a mongrel I think you may have misread. Both the person on the left and right in the graph are labeled "have something to say."
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According to their LinkedIn[0], 28 of their 52 listed employees live in SF Bay Area, so their salaries wouldn't be that high for that area. [0] https://www.linkedin.com/company/oxidecomputer/people/
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It requires work to create and maintain it, so it's reasonable for the developer to be compensated for that work. It would be great if all software were free and open-source, but it makes it hard to incentivize people to create that so
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I feel like I missed a few steps here. Is the author just telling us about a tool they privately made but are not sharing? And any code you write with this "bango" operator is incompatible in anyone else's Go environment unle
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500th copy of a single book. Clickbaity title.
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> The key for me is to reduce tech debt before I release. Also an indie founder, and I've had the opposite experience. Early on, I focused a lot on elegant code that would minimize my maintenance burden long-term. Then I read Rob W

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