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.

Tool picks

A modern Fortran scientific programming ecosystem

Original English

I even got some code I've been working on recently to compile on Microsoft Fortran PowerStation 4.0 from 1995.

Business ideas

How To Buy Your Way Onto The New York Times Bestsellers List

Original English

Now, somewhere around 80% of monthly income is royalties and advance payments, and I'm no longer doing active advising.

Hard lessons

Dockerizing MySQL at Uber Engineering

Original English

I suppose they are having success but I wonder at what cost.

Business ideas

Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"

Original English

Compare this to something like Magnet, which is great software that I use almost every time I turn on my wife’s MacBook and costs $2.

Business ideas

Ask HN: Are freelancer sites (e.g. Odesk, Elance) useless?

Original English

I simply hand out references of 3-4 clients i've worked with.

Hard lessons

Ask HN: Founders, what's your lifestyle like?

Original English

I saved enough to buy a house, rather than mortgage a house.

Business ideas

Ask HN: Do you have a side project that you would like to sell?

Original English

I know it's not a lot but I sold a similar business a few years back that regularly made $1200-$1500 a month and the products …

Tool picks

Let's learn D game programming development (2021) [video]

Original English

I want to compile code i wrote 20 years ago alongside code i wrote 10 years ago and yesterday, not just compile some old project.

Tool picks

Intel: New Core Ultra Processors Deliver Breakthrough Performance

Original English

But we're struggling to get clocks faster now, and I always imagined that it's because the speed of electricity isn't fast enough.

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