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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GitLab 6.3 released: open-source software to collaborate on code

Original English

- GitLab: hours spent with frustration (hard to setup, but this might have changed now, I need to try it again).

Hard lessons

From Prison to Programming

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I not only thought what my unit was doing was illegitimate, but in fact, I lost my support for the regime. …

Business ideas

All of my side-projects from 2012

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Sometimes I wish I could make something profitable (meaning: extra income), but learning new stuff and keeping my skills current is definitely a good value...

Business ideas

DigiNotar root CA trust removal follow-up

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My experience is from 10 years ago, where I set this up for a startup I worked at.

Hard lessons

Ask HN: Early signs that a company is failing?

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the symptoms other people might expect (e.g., late payroll, some senior folks leaving); in fact, during such times we paid everyone ON TIME so that …

Tool picks

Hetzner introduces new server product with insane parameters for 59 EUR/mth

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I've never, in the past 20 years, had memory fail on me over time.

Tool picks

OpenSSL in Debian Unstable drops TLS 1.0/1.1 support

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In other words: if you set up Debian out of the box today, its default packages will talk to 99% of clients out there on …

Hard lessons

Ask HN: Is Meteor.js still a thing?

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I wrote several applications for multiple clients, in 4 years I haven't wrote a single one that used the real-time features properly.

Business ideas

Show HN: Effort to clone unmaintained SourceForge projects to GitHub

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Unless we have some sort of deal/discount above the built-in, we're paying over $30,000/year for it and we run it on our own servers.

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