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4 votes
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Roblox raises $520 million at $29.5 billion valuation, cancels their plans for a traditional IPO and will go public via direct listing instead
5 votes -
Fifty years of text games: The Oregon Trail (1971)
4 votes -
Number of people killed in deadly attacks in the post-9/11 era, by ideology
9 votes -
Action Button reviews Tokimeki Memorial
6 votes -
Pennsylvania Republicans block seating of Democratic state senator, take control from lieutenant governor
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Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
6 votes -
Making policy for a low-trust world
6 votes -
AskHistorians write-up on January 2021 sedition at the US Capitol
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JetBrains' continuous integration server TeamCity may have been compromised as part of the wide-reaching Russian hack of the US federal government
13 votes -
2020 NFL playoffs are set
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What are your favorite and least favorite aspects of your job?
We probably all have things we love about what we do, and we also all have those things that we loathe or that really get under our skin. What are the highs and lows of your job? Do the highs...
We probably all have things we love about what we do, and we also all have those things that we loathe or that really get under our skin. What are the highs and lows of your job? Do the highs outweigh the lows, or is it the other way around?
Also, this question is not limited to careers alone. It can refer to your role as, say, a student or a parent -- pretty much anything that saddles you with consistent responsibility.
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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
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Full-stack developers starting a software agency?
Hey guys, I have been flip-flopping back and forth on this idea for a while, and would love some feedback on whether peeps would find this valuable. Although I still call my self a "software...
Hey guys,
I have been flip-flopping back and forth on this idea for a while, and would love some feedback on whether peeps would find this valuable.
Although I still call my self a "software developer" (and try to code daily), for the last 8 years I have ran a small 5-person agency that I started from the ground up, so my role was really CEO/CTO/CFO/Everything-O. My company focused on delivering high-quality custom software. Not brochure websites, and not Wordpress - our niche was internal business software (or as I like to call it "boring software for boring businesses") - and for a client service company we got very high margins of return.
Last year my business was acquired by a larger company which was an amazing result after the time and effort I had poured into it. I have realised I now want to help other developers who want to start their own software agency, or maybe they already have and are looking for hints or advice on certain topics.
So I have started Dev to Agency - a part blog part guidebook for how a full-stack developer can start and successfully run a software development agency, the things to pay attention too (and the things to ignore), and the key-values that I feel helped my business go from nothing, to 7 figures per year, and then to being acquired (if that is a path people would want to take).
I have just published my first couple of posts, About Dev To Agency that is a rundown of what I hope to achieve with this, then a post about My small custom software development agency - which gives an overview of what I built and where I think my articles will add value, and lastly You are the gold standard which covers how I feel an owner/maker should set the businesses standards and practises based of their personal values.
I have never written a blog before (or really done any writing before), so it would be fantastic to get some feedback from the community, and if there are any developers that this could interest then please subscribe on the website.
Cheers,
Chris.
15 votes -
The last two northern white rhinos on earth
9 votes -
Anime Feminist Recommendations of Fall 2020
7 votes -
2021 Winter Premiere Reviews - Anime Feminist
6 votes -
It Could Happen Here: A podcast series from 2019 about how a second American Civil War might take place
16 votes -
The US is building a bike trail that runs coast-to-coast across twelve states
21 votes -
Joint session of US Congress for counting of Electoral College ballots (objections to certify election)
10 votes -
How to be rational about rationality
7 votes -
Beyond Cyberpunk: Towards a Solarpunk future
24 votes -
DALL·E: Creating images from text
21 votes -
GitHub is fully available in Iran
11 votes -
The history of Yellowstone: Debunking the myth that the great national park was a wilderness untouched by humans
5 votes -
Albert Roux: Chef and culinary 'legend' dies aged 85
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Denmark launches children's TV show about man with giant penis – critics condemn idea of animated series about a man who cannot control his penis, but others have backed it
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Need suggestions for server email tutorial
I usually setup debian or ubuntu servers. One of the pain areas I have avoided is email and usually just off-load the email to a 3rd party service. I currently need to setup a server with an email...
I usually setup debian or ubuntu servers. One of the pain areas I have avoided is email and usually just off-load the email to a 3rd party service. I currently need to setup a server with an email server and need a really simple straightforward tutorial. I thought I would see if the community has any suggestions.
10 votes -
Is Substack the media future we want?
8 votes -
FBI found Ghislaine Maxwell using mobile phone data
15 votes -
Why Japanese tigers have flat heads: Painted screen by Maruyama Okyo 円山応挙
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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's...
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
10 votes -
2020 year in sports review
It's been a hell of a year but we've just about made it, even managing to keep some sports going through it all. How about we look back at the best, the worst, the biggest, the weirdest stories of...
It's been a hell of a year but we've just about made it, even managing to keep some sports going through it all. How about we look back at the best, the worst, the biggest, the weirdest stories of 2020? Even with keeping my eye on the weekly round-up threads, I know I've missed more than a few.
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What are your best memories from 2020?
There are lots of retrospectives about famous people that died and depressing virus talk on the news. But life is full of apparent contradictions and it is not uncommon to find joy even in the...
There are lots of retrospectives about famous people that died and depressing virus talk on the news. But life is full of apparent contradictions and it is not uncommon to find joy even in the most desperate situations. What are some things that made you happy in 2020? Anything, personal or not.
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A real-life Lord of the Flies: The troubling legacy of the Robbers Cave experiment
7 votes -
Termux and Android 10
4 votes -
Until 1968, a married Texas woman couldn’t own property or start a business without her husband’s permission. Attorney Louise Raggio fought to change that.
10 votes -
Is Cyberpunk 2077 securities fraud?
8 votes -
Open-source developer and manager David Recordon named White House Director of Technology
14 votes -
BeepBox (an 8-bit music making site)
6 votes -
Wax - Right Between the Eyes (1986)
3 votes -
Stop worrying about upper-class suburbanites
14 votes -
The mutated coronavirus is a ticking time bomb
10 votes -
Stamp The Wax - Diggers Directory: Nabihah Iqbal (2020)
2 votes -
Google employees form union
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"If the aliens lay eggs, how does that affect architecture?" - Science fiction writers on how they build their worlds
6 votes -
The most expensive books and manuscripts in history
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Fortnightly Programming Q&A Thread
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads. Don't forget to format your code using the triple...
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads.
Don't forget to format your code using the triple backticks or tildes:
Here is my schema: ```sql CREATE TABLE article_to_warehouse ( article_id INTEGER , warehouse_id INTEGER ) ; ``` How do I add a `UNIQUE` constraint?
4 votes -
The man who invented more than eight hundred iconic toys and games
6 votes -
Seven smokable plants you can grow that aren’t marijuana
10 votes