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lowercaseopinions.com 4mo ago

Useful Values

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github.com 7mo ago

The Z3 Theorem Prover

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www.feldera.com 11mo ago

The Feldera Incremental Computation Engine

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github.com 11mo ago

Readyset is a MySQL and Postgres wire-compatible caching layer

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starship.rs 1y ago

Starship: A minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell

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www.motionxp.com 1y ago

MotionXP: 6DOF Simulator Kit

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www.bleepingcomputer.com 3y ago

ESXiArgs ransomware attack targets VMware ESXi servers worldwide

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www.hashicorp.com 3y ago

Consul 1.14 Beta: Announcing Simplified Service Mesh Deployments

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www.hashicorp.com 3y ago

Nomad 1.4 Adds Nomad Variables and Updates Service Discovery

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traefik.io 4y ago

Traefik Hub, the Cloud Native Networking Platform

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xkcd.com 5y ago

Xkcd: Excel Lambda

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xkcd.com 5y ago

Xkcd: Checkbox

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www.nytimes.com 5y ago

Airbnb’s Stunning IPO

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xkcd.com 5y ago

Xkcd: Ten Years

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www.thejournal.ie 6y ago

Apple and Ireland have won their appeal against the EU €13B tax ruling

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www.nytimes.com 6y ago

In Hong Kong, Arrests and Fear Mark First Day of New Security Law

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www.nytimes.com 6y ago

The World Builds a Wall to Keep America Out

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www.nytimes.com 6y ago

What to Know About California’s ‘Dimmer Switch’ Reopening

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www.nytimes.com 6y ago

‘Our Luck May Have Run Out’: California’s Case Count Explodes

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www.nytimes.com 6y ago

TikTok Is Shaping Politics. But How?

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www.nytimes.com 6y ago

Two Friends Were Tested for Coronavirus, One Bill Was $199, the Other $6,408

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medium.com 6y ago

Alex Stamos – Working on Security and Safety with Zoom

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thoughts.t37.net 6y ago

Designing the Perfect Elasticsearch Cluster: The (Almost) Definitive Guide

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yago.github.io 12y ago

Bootsketch: a Bootstrap 3 theme for wireframing web projects

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medium.com 12y ago

You jacked my scroll bro

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cmsummit.com 12y ago

Behind the banner

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blog.weare1910.com 12y ago

A Readable Wikipedia

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blog.brandisty.com 12y ago

The color history of Valentines Day

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codepen.io 12y ago

80s Typography in CSS

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www.sitepoint.com 12y ago

The Current Generation of CSS3 Selectors

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It depends. The inspiration sometimes comes after a Saturday evening with friends and lots of drinks. Having a foolproof recipe comes in handy, and having the perfect stress-free pancake batter already made the next morning turns you into a household hero.

Not necessarily, I often make changes on unrelated commits. You can always use jj split to extract the change and put it somewhere else.

Jujutsu for everyone 11 months ago

I fixed this by changing the default immutable heads to include all remote bookmarks. This way, you cannot edit them and the new commit is automatically created when you push to the remote branch.

  [revset-aliases]
  "immutable_heads()" = "trunk() | tags() | remote_bookmarks()"

Seconded, there's a discouraging element to being unemployed. Besides the training angle, this helps people to stay confident and even improve their skills.

I'm wondering how this could be translated to software development. Setting up an IT department in these virtual companies would be a very good idea. Going further, you could even sell the software and kickstart real software businesses in the B2B space, this could be a tremendous opportunity to help software developers to learn about marketing, sales, accounting, etc.

When discussing B2B sales on HN, I often see black and white arguments. Either you're in the B2C space, or you sell your products for north of 50K.

This is IMHO a false dichotomy, there are lots and lots of opportunities between these extremes. I'm currently in a project at the intersection of software and shipping, it sells like hotcakes, we currently have a conversion rate (inbound prospects to signed clients) of more than 75%.

This is far from easy to pull off, and there are a few points I'd like to make based on my current situation (we're pulling a gross margin of $500 to $5000 by client):

* Selling pure software is hard. At the most basic level, we sell shipping rates and the accompanying software is the cherry on top (I'm saying this even tough I run the technical side of things). We're doing well because our target market understands the value proposition even better than we do, we manage to offer a free product and make money on it.

* Co-founders matter. I couldn't even have had the idea on my own, much less the resources (contacts, skills, ...) to launch the business. I'm very fortunate to have met co-founders that are beasts on the business and shipping & logistics sides of things, we form an awesome triptych, which is a very delicate balance to have.

* Everything takes much more time than you expect. You're at ease in the technical domain, this won't be much of a problem while developing your core product. But selling will take much of your time, it's is a time-consuming activity and you don't know anything about it. Plugging your product in your client's systems will take time, either because your client hasn't any in-house developer or they're less than half as skilled as you are.

If you're a solo hacker selling pure software in the B2B space, you are, I believe, in for a rough, rough ride.

You're most welcome! I was, in fact, surprised nobody had submitted it. I love what you've done here and hope you'll be able to push it forward. If I had one request, it would be french diacritical marks, but I will definitely find uses for the font as-is.

Thanks for the hard work!

Just to be clear: I submitted this but I'm not related to the OP. I just found it on http://sidebar.io/ earlier today and liked both the open license and the fact that the author seems open to suggestions.

This goes even further than the flat/gradients debate and will also be useful for people who'd like to deeply customize bootstrap.

Customizing Bootstrap has always been a pain (and I'm not the only one to think this, in the words of @mdo : those who want to use Bootstrap as a bootstrap kind of get the short end of the stick), I'm very happy to see that they're looking to make this easier.