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

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Hard lessons

I Listened to 1000 B2B SaaS Sales Calls

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Four jobs ago and my first where i was brought in to be “an agent of change”, I failed miserably.

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Software Engineering ≠ Computer Science (2009)

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There are solutions, but by living in a dream, you are working around the bug instead of fixing it.

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Ask HN: How do I start my own consulting firm?

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I lost a big whale which took out a HUGE chunk of revenue, but we were pretty diversified.

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Show HN: Hire an Oldster

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I started my career coding on shitty MS Dos system where if you had 640K of memory, it was a high-end machine.

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The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain

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I later learned that a good shop will do them for about $40 in labor over the cost of parts at a retail auto-parts store …

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Google nabs Apple as a cloud customer

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I'm using six Hetzner servers for over 1.5 years now and the only problem I had was one disk failure - support needed 10 minutes …

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Ask HN: Where can I see many examples of real companies' software architecture?

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It's basically an hour or 2 conversation for each episode where we cover everything from building to deploying their app, lessons learned, etc..

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Introducing Tent - the decentralized social web

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We then observed the number of clients that failed to connect via our custom protocol, but succeeded in falling back to HTTPS.

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I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews

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In retrospect, I should've cheated using computer/online assistance, and my true failure was my unwillingness to cheat.

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