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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Real experiences, useful perspectives, and things you wish you’d known.

Tool picks

Ask HN: Why choose a dynamically typed language?

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I have used Ocaml "for real" and I am still getting up to speed on Haskell (I love it!), but this time, I can skip …

Business ideas

Tweetbot for Mac is available in the App Store

Original English

I paid $3 and $5 for Tweetbot for iPhone and iPad and I'm happy with the value they provide me.

Business ideas

Cloud Star Heroku Preps for Second Act With New CEO

Original English

Let's say they offered a paid tier at $5 per month that gave me one persistent dyno and a 100MB postgres DB.

Hard lessons

Don't sell Technology to Indian Businesses

Original English

For a moment I can't imagine why anybody would blame the whole nation just because one start up failed.

Hard lessons

Response to systemd's use of the debug flag

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Hmm, I was expecting "Sorry we made a mistake, we'll switch the option to systemd.debug".

Business ideas

Ask HN: How can I get my hourly rate from $65 to $125 in the next 90 days?

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the local jobs via rss of craigslist's software jobs and such, and ugh, it was all listings like "oh we want 10 years exp with …

Tool picks

Ask HN: Prgmr is unreliable. Please advise on VPS hosting.

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but they'd communicated the maintenance window long in advance of the maintenance and so I knew to check to make sure it was up and …

Hard lessons

Ask HN: I'm 23, and I dislike my job as a software engineer

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but then I took a big risc with a B2B SW project which failed. …

Hard lessons

How do you scale your web application?

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It usually (well, always) is a good idea, because any intermediary result is a source for bugs.

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