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

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How Pixar Almost Lost Toy Story 2 To A Bad Backup

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their backup and failover mechanism wasn't what I'd documented, but involved an identical piece of hardware nearby which was powered off.

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Ask HN: Do you trust solo entrepreneurs?

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I've also tried to get support from Apple, Google, and Microsoft on occasion over the years and it's close to impossible to talk to anyone.

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Show HN: Pgs.sh – A zero-install static site hosting service for hackers

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- I totally respect your pricing at $20/month.

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Stripe Raises New Funding and Partners with Visa

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API works as well, though their client libraries aren't quite up to date with it yet, and you have to setup a webhook because ACH …

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Google Interview Warmup

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Most places I've worked people have discussions - perhaps there are disagreements, but they don't burn into my memory like the last two examples.

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Announcing the new Rust package manager, Cargo

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I was having trouble with (including a bug that was triggering occasional 100% CPU usage on some machines), and has cleaned up the process of …

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Stop claiming you’re profitable

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But we started just like that — slowly, and not profitable.

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My website was stolen by a hacker and I got it back

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Over the next 6 years I've made a complaint about every single fault, bill error, outage and mistake they have made.

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The AWS Spend of Our SaaS Side-Business

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Integrating API gateway into our deployment took a little bit of work, but we're happy to have it part of our automated deployment process.

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