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

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Field notes

How I went from idea to profit in under 24 hours

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On second thought, maybe I should pay him the $99 to run my clients through the sign up process...

Field notes

Ask HN: What should a 16 year old Python hacker looking for "a job" do?

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A few months back I tried asking for programming advice (language, direction, and even job aims help) but it was barely paid attention to and …

Hard lessons

Low End Dedicated Servers

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I'm currently using ChunkHost which has a free beta program for a 512MB VPS which costs $19 (about half the price of Slicehost and $37 …

Tool picks

SimpleGeo Launches

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Multi-homing isn't a big priority for me, but I could easily do it for not much effort/cost.

Tool picks

If net neutrality falls, what happens next?

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Because no one here believes a honest business will ever deploy a modern network on any large scale, so the best we can hope for …

Business ideas

Ask HN: How did Microsoft hold back the Internet for 6-7 years?

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the "what if" scenario -- what if Netscape's leadership team had shown some backbone, hadn't succumbed to their own greed (AOL purchased Netscape for $4.2B …

Hard lessons

Dropbox Beta Build 15.3.19

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When I left Dropbox, the team was trying to move to a 2 week build cycle.

Hard lessons

An excellent donation from Google, extended contracts, and Google Code-In update

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I believe it was a previous GSoC contributor who worked on adding VirtualBox support, but their contract ended, VBox failed to incorporate the changes into …

Hard lessons

Stripe is not blocking large-scale card testing attacks for many AI companies

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It would have been a ton more but we already setup some pretty strict rules several weeks ago when this happened before.

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