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.

Hard lessons

Ask HN: Does success in work bring you happiness?

Original English

The last year I was there I paid $18,600 to California for NOTHING.

Business ideas

Ask HN: What do people use to prevent crawlers?

Original English

We've used Incapsula (cheap and works, but awful support and service) and Distil (expensive and works, great support but steep pricing).

Tool picks

Containerize Go and SQLite with Docker

Original English

I've managed it but also automated the deployment and implemented several features to ease deployment using the swarm API.

Tool picks

Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition

Original English

I am not riddled by any of those 'bugs' and 'regressions', funny thing is, sometimes there are minor hitches, but again, they are minor.

Field notes

Ask HN: I am doing $2M annually as a solopreneur and need your help

Original English

I spent 25 years running successful small businesses and moving them from 1 man shows to becoming team based businesses.

Tool picks

Large-scale, semi-automated Go GC tuning

Original English

I'm going for an actual improvement here, not another botched but slightly improved thing from the past.

Hard lessons

K – A simple, fast vector programming language

Original English

Myself, I used to only like q since it was easier, especially when I started.

Hard lessons

OpenAPI Generator allows generation of API client libraries from OpenAPI Specs

Original English

Every time I've used it, it has failed spectacularly to generate models as promised and I've had to write the clients by hand anyway.

Hard lessons

Job hunting is a matter of Big Data, not how you perform at an interview

Original English

- Example 1: I spent 10 months working for a $5B shipping company analyzing data from their Marketing department.

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