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by stevoski 9y ago
You've described my experience exactly. Once I got to learn C at university, I felt that I was now using a "grown up's programming language". It took a few years to realise that C's manual memory management and expl
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Can anyone explain what this means (or point me to somewhere where I can learn?) > If a stateless architecture being used, use a MAC or an authenticated encryption mode to authenticate input. I ask as a developer of a SaaS product. I und
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It's amazing how performance can be much improved by profiling and fixing little things, such as optimizing a Java hashCode() method. I had a similar experience helping with the H2 database engine.
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Java Swing, with lots of manual tiny tweaks for fidelity.
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To add to the praise for Stripe, their API docs are a pleasure to use.
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Here's a forum for people who are bootstrapping startups, typically with no intention of growing an enormous company: http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm
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If you prefer Java to C, I recommend taking a look at the source for H2, a pure Java SQL database engine. It is surprisingly easy to follow. I've contributed to the H2 source code a few times, and in the process I got to learn much abo
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Timely. I launched a SaaS a few months ago and have found early customers have expected custom domain names with SSL. It seems that not offering this is a deal breaker these days. I didn't even consider that third parties such as yours
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by stevoski 9y ago
Yes, recommended. When you upgrade from one Mac to another, you can use "Migration Assistant" to get all your apps, docs, and settings on the new Mac. This _also_ brings across all the leftover cruft from apps you no longer use, b
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That's the so-called "Roaring Forties": "The Roaring Forties are strong westerly winds found in the Southern Hemisphere, generally between the latitudes of 40 and 50 degrees."
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My obsession with Zork and other Infocom games introduced me to computing concepts such as virtual machines, platform-independent intermediate language, variable length text encoding, and natural language processing. I recall finding old By
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I recently signed up for a newsletter service. One of their _own_ onboarding emails to me was sent to spam by Gmail. Not a good sign for their ability to deliver my newsletters to my list.
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Could be Advertising. Reddit could do a lot better in helping advertisers spend money with them. I've been comparing Facebook's Advertiser tools and options with Reddit's. Reddit is miles behind, in terms of making it easy to
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by stevoski 9y ago
What is a UI Kit? In regards to Bootstrap, is it fundamentally the same as a theme or a template?
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Anyone care to share positive and negative experiences of using Algolia to power search in your SaaS? (We're currently using MySQL's full-text search and are finding it to be a long way short of the experience we'd like our c
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by stevoski 9y ago
FTA: "But there's an inconvenient truth: you can only make it cooler inside by making it warmer outside." Followed by several paragraphs of the contribution of air-conditioning to hotter cities.
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How to Fight Online Voting Manipulation(blog.featureupvote.com)
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Joel Spolsky's joelonsoftware.com and the now-dead "Business of Software" forum he hosted. I discovered that it was possible for normal developers without any business training to independently make and sell software online f
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by stevoski 10y ago
Don't click. I did and it redirected me to a scamming site.
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This happened to me too, a few years ago, at age 37. It's a nasty, nasty time to live through. I wish you the best, and hope you have some good, supportive people around you.
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We only have one tier of customer :) It's an old-school desktop app with a 30-day trial period, a single payment to unlock the app, and a major new version released every two years available for an upgrade fee to existing users.
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by stevoski 10y ago
A much better account of an attempted Atlassian acquisition is told by Peldi from Balsamiq. Fascinating story with lots of juicy details about why it didn't happen. AFAIK Peldi tells the story at conferences but asks for it not to be
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I built a desktop app (Poker Copilot) in 2008. I figured if I did it well, I'd have my own one-person software company supplying a steady stream of income with little ongoing effort. My product would be so intuitive that it wouldn&#x27
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I worked on a team in 1993 that made point of sale software that "phoned home" and required customers to purchase a modem with the software. We were no cutting edge software company, so I can easily imagine others doing this a few
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My team has just started work on a new SaaS product. We are taking articles like this to heart and aiming to keep pages light and fast. We are using very little JavaScript. Let's see if the market rewards us or punishes us for this app
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What does "Here's the 411" mean?
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My first year university Linear Algebra textbook even had an appendix explaining how to rotate and skew 3D objects in computer graphics using the matrix multiplication I had learned that semester. I loved it. Then I finished university and
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For prior art of using :// in branding, here's the IT consulting company I used to run in the early 2000's: https://www.sunesis.com.au/ They haven't changed their website since I sold out in 2003, q
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> Email might not be the most attractive means of communication, but newsletters are direct and exclusive to customers, a good starting point. “You should have an email newsletter if you have nothing else... This is the one opportunity y
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From the article: "Doing [meat-and-potatoes work on marketing and sales that the business needed] was a real joy back when I was running Bingo Card Creator, but repeating it felt a lot like repeating high school." Oh boy, that&#x2

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