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 got pwned by my cloud costs

Original English

That's the only reason that I personally use cloud services (of course, the reasons for SaaS/Enterprise clients are usually more valid than mine).

Tool picks

Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

Original English

In particular, L2TP/IPSec-PSK should be an option out of the box because it's an exceedingly common configuration.

Hard lessons

Started a stupid company. Failed.

Original English

Try as I might to help in some way (not to take over, but to keep my job!), my previous experience of failure was not …

Business ideas

Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers

Original English

I've spent about 12 years reducing the amount of memory the Umbraco CMS uses, compared to normal installs, and I love that aspect of my …

Tool picks

Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

Original English

I pay for Dynalist pro (same team for anyone who didn't know), but the separate commercial license on top of paying for sync just felt …

Hard lessons

Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday

Original English

I've been running a few projects on GCP, with active customers, which I lost now.

Hard lessons

My Biggest Regret as a Programmer

Original English

I know I failed at the sales and marketing, but we did ship.

Tool picks

Apple’s declining software quality

Original English

(I agree that Apple's cash hoard does not make $1M sound like a lot, however, they also have much more software to tend to.) Overall, …

Field notes

Anatomy of a credit card rewards program

Original English

On $130,681.33 I paid $2,433.51 in service charges or 1.86% .

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