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I Listened to 1000 B2B SaaS Sales Calls
Original EnglishFour jobs ago and my first where i was brought in to be “an agent of change”, I failed miserably.
Software Engineering ≠ Computer Science (2009)
Original EnglishThere are solutions, but by living in a dream, you are working around the bug instead of fixing it.
Ask HN: How do I start my own consulting firm?
Original EnglishI lost a big whale which took out a HUGE chunk of revenue, but we were pretty diversified.
Show HN: Hire an Oldster
Original EnglishI started my career coding on shitty MS Dos system where if you had 640K of memory, it was a high-end machine.
The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain
Original EnglishI later learned that a good shop will do them for about $40 in labor over the cost of parts at a retail auto-parts store …
Google nabs Apple as a cloud customer
Original EnglishI'm using six Hetzner servers for over 1.5 years now and the only problem I had was one disk failure - support needed 10 minutes …
Ask HN: Where can I see many examples of real companies' software architecture?
Original EnglishIt's basically an hour or 2 conversation for each episode where we cover everything from building to deploying their app, lessons learned, etc..
Introducing Tent - the decentralized social web
Original EnglishWe then observed the number of clients that failed to connect via our custom protocol, but succeeded in falling back to HTTPS.
I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews
Original EnglishIn retrospect, I should've cheated using computer/online assistance, and my true failure was my unwillingness to cheat.