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

Their experience.
Your next move.✳

Discover hard-earned lessons, useful tools, and business ideas
hidden in the conversations on Hacker News.

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Real experiences, useful perspectives, and things you wish you’d known.

Business ideas

I quit my job, and am building Tindie fulltime

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I've used them as well at work (likely the same $199/month Business plan for multiple site hosting) and they're pretty good, though according to our …

Hard lessons

Ask HN: Product Managers, how did you get there and what's your background?

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I spent 4 years at Intel in their technical sales program, which was a nice way to learn business skills and particularly B2B selling skills …

Tool picks

You Don't Need the Cloud

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I used a device to send about 1000 readings and it cost me around $150 USD.

Tool picks

Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code

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Easily 200x the throughput, and 99.9% of all parallel bugs disappeared overnight (well, after we launched, I mean).

Hard lessons

180TB of Good Vibrations – Storage Pod 3.0

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So buying servers that are 1/3 as "dense" but easier to access drives from the front costs Backblaze $50/pod/month or $600/pod/year.

Business ideas

The Steam Controller Configurator's Untapped Power

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After that I sold it (even with a small profit) because it felt cheap but mostly because it lacked a rechargeable battery and headphone jack, …

Field notes

Ask HN: MacBooks seems to be the only viable option these days

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I've used Ubuntu and Debian stable and testing for decades, but have migrated over to rolling releases for desktop use because of better hardware support.

Hard lessons

Marten: a Crystal web framework

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All considered I prefer the occasional bug and extra test in Ruby and Python.

Hard lessons

Frustration, Disappointment And Apathy: My Years At Microsoft

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In retrospect, I was probably deliberately thrown into the projects that seemed hopeless and bug-ridden because I actually cared about this stuff.

Experience is a head start. The next step is yours.

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