FROM BUILDERS, FOR DOERSVOL. 03 / QUALITY-FIRST DISCOVERY

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Developing Provably-Correct Software Using Formal Methods

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Bugs can still happen there, and I think they even found one a few years ago, but it didn't have any impact on all the …

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8 hours of Windows 7 Amazon sales outstripped Vista's entire pre-order period.

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The only upgrade I made to my hardware when I installed Win7 was a faster HDD and I replaced my 8 year old pci video …

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How I Built It: Dropbox

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I have used dropbox for a time, though now I have been using it on a team - but not as a paid team.

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Failing the Startup Game at Unbabel – Take 2

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we gave him more severance than was required, we paid him one extra month of salary and added another $1000 on top of it to …

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Ask HN: Should you TDD a MVP?

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The level of complexity for an MVP where this becomes a bad idea is different but it's the same question.

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Building Thumbtack: Six Years, Forty-two Rejections, and a Singular Obsession

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IIRC, when we switched over from subscription to the pay-per-introduction model, something like 80% of pros could have used Thumbtack exactly the same as they …

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Ask HN: Tips to work on your startup ideas while still having a day job

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I spent about 3 days doing pretty extensive research and testing on TXP, WP, SilverStream, and EE.

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Verizon, AT&T Customers Sue to Undo T-Mobile Merger, Saying It Raised All Prices

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I used the Apple Business Chat feature for support for a shipping issue I had recently with Everlane and it was actually amazing.

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Oidbs: An Open Source MQTT Driven Benchmark Suite for IoT Data

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I have tested (and read) several open-source MQTT clients and brokers.

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