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

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Hard lessons

Startups in 13 Sentences

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I have check marks next to 8 of these, and I'm working on a 9th (ironically, #9 -- "Get ramen profitable"); but I've broken 4 …

Business ideas

The Marketing Behind MongoDB

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There may upfront cost to learning how an RDMS and SQL work in the first place, but once you're familiar with them, they'll be faster …

Hard lessons

Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?

Original English

The principle is not "could it fail" but " when it fails, how do we ensure the plane won't crash?" It's a completely different mindset.

Hard lessons

Gpu.js – GPU Accelerated JavaScript

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but not a hacker [edit] of the modern mold and his glory days are from 40 years ago banging out mainframe clients. …

Hard lessons

Lost Diamonds: How our current system is failing underprivileged talent

Original English

I used it to try to start a business, but it failed.

Tool picks

Show HN: I ranked news websites by speed

Original English

I also use TCP clients to make HTTP requests and fetch the HTML, then I read the HTML with the text-only browser.

Tool picks

Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

Original English

However, I have plans to implement a bytecode compiler, which should speed it up a bit.

Hard lessons

A lighter headless browser: check your pages before benchmarks

Lightpanda’s early release explored reducing rendering overhead while acknowledging limited Web API coverage.

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Assess performance together with success on the target workload.

#Performance#Automation#Developer tools
Hard lessons

Pushing back against contract demands is scary but please try anyway

Original English

When he did, it was $150 short of the reduced amount that I had expected.

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