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

Their experience.
Your next move.✳

Discover hard-earned lessons, useful tools, and business ideas
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Real experiences, useful perspectives, and things you wish you’d known.

Field notes

Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?

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I started picking up functional programming later in my career, it was all so much easier for me to grok, largely because it was stuff …

Business ideas

Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

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I tried Google Adwords in June but Google decided to cost me upwards of $5/click for basic keyword targeting so gave that up.

Business ideas

Ask HN: Burnt-out, directionless but want to turn it around

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The main advantage of freelancing for me is that I am paid for every minute I work and not more.

Hard lessons

Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits

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We have an api client that we use in our spring tests that also compiles to kotlin-js.

Hard lessons

Show HN: Memories – FOSS Google Photos alternative built for high performance

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On my last attempt at serving a photo gallery, I deployed Hetzner's Photoprism image on a Hetzner server... and it failed.

Business ideas

How Silicon Valley CEOs conspired to drive down tech engineer wages

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the capitalist pig has been fully paid for, and from then on, in perpetuity, there is nothing but $2000/month in profit that goes strictly into …

Hard lessons

“It’s time for Apple to fix texting”

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I'm sure it's improved, but as the common theme of this story goes, Google blew their chance.

Hard lessons

Jessica Livingston’s Pretty Complete List on How Not to Fail

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Maybe I failed to communicate what I wanted, but basically I was trying to say that I've seen most people equate luck to something akin …

Hard lessons

I think I know why you can't hire engineers right now

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I also built my own metabuild tools (this was 2000) to generate makefiles and the like to quickly cross compile to new mobile phones.

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