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Ask HN: What's the hardest problem you've ever solved?
Original EnglishBut to start a project again, I failed with a burnout 20 years ago, and to code it with actual technology, was the biggest personal …
Ask HN: How do I turn 100K into 1 million?
Original EnglishI also sold trading software full-time for a year, on a 30% commission.
Ask HN: Have you had trouble getting a job after a failed startup?
Original EnglishIn this 2 years, I learned a lot about startup management and growth, but on the other hand, my technical skills stuck in time.
Testing is waste of time, I know that my code works
Original EnglishI can tell you that I found more bugs, or rather quirks of MySQL's replication behavior and the MySQLdb driver through doing my manual testing. …
Ask HN: What is your company's on-call rotation like?
Original EnglishA few years ago I worked at a company that paid £30/day for being on-call and £30/hour (or part thereof) while investigating / fixing incidents.
Ask HN: Are you a single founder ?
Original Englishbut at this point I'm ramen profitable and the number of servers I can buy every month is increasing, so I'm really reluctant to break …
Why You Should Not Build a Recommendation Engine
Original EnglishIn the end it was decently well received (had some press, good user feedback, thousands of initial users) but it failed as a standalone business.
Software Is Eating the Job Market
Original EnglishAlso, there were lots and lots of loopholes so a lot of people didn't end up paying that 90%.
What happened to Captura? OSS maintainer burnout (2023)
Original EnglishBut I do feel pretty bad about the big PRs that I've failed to review.