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

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Field notes

Evidence Based Scheduling - Joel on Software

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Seems absurdly large, yes, but factor in all those little thingsl, testing, deploying, etc, and lo and behold, two days plus some is gone.

Business ideas

Ask HN: Obsessive Asian Parents

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I used that difference to do my first startup, and I am happy to say that we're 4 full-time employees at ramen-profitability 2 months after …

Business ideas

Failed founders don't learn much (show some studies)

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So, after doing that, I scraped the initial hospital contact list from several different sources, and I paid $500 to have a team of people …

Business ideas

Ask HN: Will I ever find a job?

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I tweak the sales pitch; I have tried dark, inspirational, humourous, surveys, contests, promotions (buy a resume, get 1 hour of interview coaching), etc. …

Hard lessons

Are we Blub programmers? (2006)

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And finally, shell scripting I've used and abused hundreds of times and my failure rate there is extremely low.

Hard lessons

Ask HN: Those running K8s in house, can you please explain your architecture?

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Once the nodes are provisioned we use ansible to deploy Kubernetes. (Lately it's been RKE2 on top of Rocky.)

Business ideas

Ask HN: "So... What happened to the last guy?"

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(and I suspect in any human organization, but my experience has been mostly in the academic/non-profit sector thus far.) Expect to run into budget issues, …

Hard lessons

Show HN: Pullbox – A dead-simple dropbox alternative using Git

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I was trying to avoid rolling my own syncing solution but I guess my Google-fu failed me :)

Business ideas

Siasto Attempts the Improbable: Making Enterprise Software Beautiful (YC W11)

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Rather than focus first on design (which certainly factors in--it's a new user interface for Salesforce) I focused on improving the speed of specific tasks …

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