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

Amazon CodeWhisperer, Free for Individual Use, Is Now Generally Available

Original English

This was needed because we were dealing with critical high speed communications and there was a finite real-time window to compute the CRC checksum.

Tool picks

Ask HN: How to learn how to scale software?

Original English

Well, the client effed up and I discovered that the real demand was more like 10,000,000 images a day that needed to be processed.

Hard lessons

Ask HN: Is there room for a new email hosting service?

Original English

My M1 MBP is probably 2000x faster than last computer I had running Eudora, but modern email is still slower and clunkier.

Field notes

1Password joins the Rails Foundation: Strengthening the community, developers

Original English

I paid it because I thought it would be a good long term value.

Hard lessons

Switched Back to Windows After over 10 Years on Linux

Original English

I actually know what I’m doing and I use the packaged versions, because I’m paid to work, not to debug my setup.

Field notes

One New York LLC law is hurting small businesses

Original English

Total w/publication $519.90, which falls in line with the article to some degree, whether that is reasonable is for the client to decide.

Tool picks

Ask HN: Is GCP harder to use than AWS?

Original English

we never used IAM users, but instead had an enterprise AD deployment that we used to log in to our computers and internal systems. …

Business ideas

Ask HN: What keeps you away from starting startups?

Original English

I had more insight at the time, it still lasted over 5 years before I took a job for general IT support (which led me …

Tool picks

Ask HN: What's 'Due Diligence' when vetting co-founders?

Original English

Put up a WordPress site, set up a Stripe account, collect payment (3 months in advance for new customers will help you buy the server) …

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