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

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Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About Previous Pay

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Let's say I run a cleaning business, and I decide that I only want to hire janitors who can run a 4 minute mile.

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We need visual programming. No, not like that

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we limit the control flow complexity because text based languages are bad at expressing it, or do we use text based languages as a tool …

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Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads with no one at the wheel

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Smaller providers would rent you a server in their datacenter for around $60/month.

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That awkward moment when Apple mocked good hardware and poor people

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I let it go because it started to be annoyngly low on memory because of my new usage patterns: more VMs of more memory hungry …

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My sixth year as a bootstrapped founder

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The biggest difference was that in 2022, I hired a paid ads consultant to set up ads automation for me on a few different platforms.

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An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)

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I can only speak for myself, I am not that technical when it comes to a command line, and I have deployed zrok locally.

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Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce

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As one of the earliest stripe customers, yes, that was the reason why we switched to them from Authorize.net.

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When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code

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Maybe it's different for other people but I constantly run into bugs/missing features in tools I use for both job and personal stuff.

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Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Xmas 2022 came and I used my free time to add (a ton of) extra features, and a paid mode to access them.

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