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

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A horrifying startup accelerator story

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but I have to say, in the three years I've been working on my startup, never once has anything good happened from paying for access …

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I have complicated feelings about TDD

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Well, I started my professional career without knowing about TDD, but I did know that usually it's best to start writing the client code first.

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An update to UBlock Origin was rejected by the Chrome Web Store

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It had a huge problem on Firefox due to an unsolved bug, but Mozilla solved it and now ABP runs without issues.

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YC S12 company refuses to pay for my design. "Send your claim to our legal team"

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we do just fine with our calibre of clients and we send them invoices for a lot more than $1,000. …

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Show HN: Voice bots with 500ms response times

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So our costs are based on the infra you use to run your application and we charge per millisecond of compute.

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Building an $80k/month business with a software testing community

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Sorry to hear you had a bad experience on our platform, but a lot has changed and improved in the 1.5 years since you ran …

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Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

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Both my mom's blog, and the SaaS business took a long time to ramp up, but both had their tipping points after about 1.5 years.

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The Software Engineer’s Guide to Negotiating a Raise

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Up until I left for a better paying job 6 months later I did everything I could to deliver the best for my team mates …

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Happy Birthday, Libera Chat

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Even back when I started certain people just couldn't handle the terminal clients so they used Xchat or Mirc.

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