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New comment by brkn in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

brkn — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:55:42 +0000

The text feels incoherent to me and lacks some nuance.

It starts about cutting costs by the choice of infrastructure and goes further to less resource hungry tools and cheaper services. But never compares the cost of these things. Do I save actually the upgrade to a bigger server by using Go and sqlite over let's say Python and postgres? Or does it not even matter when you have just n many users. Then I do not understand why at one point the convenience of using OpenRouter is preferred over managing multiple API keys, when that should be cheaper and a cost point that could increase faster than your infrastructure costs.

There are some more points, but I do not want to write a long comment.

New comment by brkn in "Orbit: EA's first open source project"

brkn — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 09:03:08 +0000

The building in the graphic looks like the International Congress Centrum in Berlin.

Here a pic for comparison: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationales_Congress_Centr...

New comment by brkn in "“No-CAPTCHA” reCAPTCHA"

brkn — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:36:15 +0000

Isn't the example in [0] already used on various sites? I at least used it at least on the humble bundle site and saw it on othes sites too.

New comment by brkn in "Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn"

brkn — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 17:33:31 +0000

I started paying around 250 Euro when starting my study at the university (2009). This term I had to pay aroung 290 Euro.

The fee for the TU Berlin is composed of:

Verwaltungsgebühr (gem. § 2 Abs. 7 BerlHG) (administrative fee)

50,00 €

Beitrag zur Studierendenschaft (Contribution to the student body)

8,70 €

Beitrag zum Studentenwerk (Contribution to the Student Services)

48,77 €

Beitrag zum Semesterticket (Contribution to the semester ticket)

179,40 €

Beitrag zum Sozialfonds zum Semesterticket (Contribution to the Social Fund for Semesterticket)

3,50 €

= 290,37 €

Of course it is still much cheaper than to study in other countries. But the fees are growing and you have to pay for the semester ticket, which is essentially a ticket for all public transportation in Berlin, even though you wouldn't need it.

*Translated with Google Translator

New comment by brkn in "Game about squares"

brkn — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 13:01:09 +0000

You have to move the squares on the circle by clicking on the square.