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My experience hiring a developer on Elance to build my first iPhone app
Original EnglishOr I'd pay all 4 milestones but have no way of noticing huge bugs that would surface later on.
I'm not too happy about Sublime Text 3
Original EnglishI paid $59 for ST2 in order to get ST2, not in order to fulfill some abstract notion of "better than the free competition".
Ask HN: Who is currently broke due to being in a startup?
Original EnglishI decided to do a startup (sneffel.com) over the summer instead of finding an internship, I was hoping it'd be profitable by the end of …
Test-Driven Development is Stupid
Original EnglishIn the start because I had to set up the testing as I had to setup the real software.
Launch HN: Bucket Robotics (YC S24) – Defect detection for molded and cast parts
Original Englishwe run it purely on-device so that customer images don’t need to leave their worksite. We charge customers by the model — when they plan …
Citus Cloud 2, Postgres, and Scaling Without Compromise
Original EnglishPostgres supports different modes of replication, including synchronous replication to avoid losing any data on node failure.
How to pick a good monitor for software development
Original EnglishI run Windows on the ThinkPad in part because of its better support for different scaling on different monitors.
Ask HN: How am I supposed to start over as an amnesiac ex-software developer?
Original EnglishThe memory of the last 4 years was most heavily affected, which sadly were the most prolific for me in terms of my graduate education …
The Rules of Programming (2023)
Original EnglishA few months ago I implemented a feature a client requested that was being charged by the hour.