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Startup Graveyard – History Shouldn't Have to Repeat Itself
Original EnglishI had a role that straddled Eng & QA, and the lesson I took away from it was "engineering quality is critically important; we failed …
Before saving 5%, count the compatibility costs
An attempt to reduce NPM package sizes sparked a discussion about CPU, decompression, and migration trade-offs.
Map the whole cost chain before optimizing one metric.
Ask HN: For those programming 10+ years, what do you wish you knew 4 years in?
Original EnglishWe paid for that service, but it took between 20 and 40 minutes to build our images.
Ten Years of Worthless Side Projects
Original EnglishI stopped caring if I failed to complete a project once my initial burst of interest disappeared - usually as I'd learned what I wanted …
Launch HN: Andi (YC W22) – Q&A based, ad-free, anti-spam search engine
Original EnglishEarly on we tried building a custom system using differential privacy and that failed badly, so we're trying PostHog during our alpha.
Cyclotron: A web application for constructing dashboards
Original EnglishIt would be nice if Cyclotron had some sort of spec (particularly language agnostic) but I guess that failed hard for the above.
Ask HN: How happy are you working as a programmer?
Original EnglishBut I started this business with $200 to my name and a high personal expense base, and ground my financial history and financial position to …
Permission to Fail
Original EnglishHowever, these are starting to strike me as those "everyone gets a trophy" competitions where the goal is sharing the best failure stories and getting …
Ask HN: What do you monitor on your servers?
Original EnglishIn a previous client we ran Prometheus for months, then Thanos, and eventually we implemented Victoria Metrics and everyone was happy.