techspring

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by techspring 7y ago
As someone living in the exurbs of Detroit, this is something I've been familiar with for a few years. It's mostly common in the more rural areas, but it does creep into suburbia from time to time. See also: "brodozer"
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Ask HN: What are good blogs for senior engineers?
10 points by techspring 8y ago|1 comments
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by techspring 9y ago
I bought a Precision laptop preloaded with Ubuntu about 8 months ago and it's been awesome. The only problem I've run into is that I completely lose audio every time I reboot. A quick visit to alsamixer resolves the issue though,
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by techspring 9y ago
Not exactly software, per se, but Font Awesome did it for version 5. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/232193852/font-awesome-...
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by techspring 9y ago
I like this, but I can imagine it being a hard sell even at just 5%.
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by techspring 9y ago
That's fair. My observation is admittedly entirely anecdotal.
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by techspring 9y ago
In general, my thought is that by finding an unobtrusive way to generate revenue you can devote more time to the project and produce a higher quality, better supported product. This of course necessitates that the project is valuable enough
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by techspring 9y ago
I considered not replying to this just based on the tone, but here we go. If I (theoretically) charge large corporations for SLA support, that means I can devote more time and effort to the project which remains free to use for the collecti
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Ask HN: Why don't more open-source projects monetize?
181 points by techspring 9y ago|123 comments
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by techspring 10y ago
I typically start a docker container running the DB that I need and then import a backup of any existing data. This could be taken even further by keeping an image with the current version of the DB in a private registry, so developers can
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by techspring 10y ago
Thanks! Did you already have some audience to start with (i.e. blog readers, Twitter followers, etc) or were you starting from scratch?
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Ask HN: Is there a crowdfunding site for technical books?
3 points by techspring 10y ago|3 comments