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

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Servers Deleted

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I didn't mean I have spent that money, just that my planned hardware buildout will cost somewhere around $10k to start.

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How 'DevOps' is Killing the Developer (2014)

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In my own short experience (including, but not limited to IT/CS/EE), I have failed to witness a project where everything is decided upfront and does …

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How we build an MVP on a budget with BizSpark and Azure

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Let's say my hosting costs are 10k p.m, 120k p.a.

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Ask HN: How to tell your friend his idea sucks

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I failed in my first startup and spent 2 years and most of my life savings.

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Ask HN: What is it like to work on pager duty?

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Because of that process we haven't had a single outage in 3 years.

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The reverse job applicant (2010)

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Jobless because the instance that should connect the unemployed to the employers is under investigation for trying to squeeze a profit from it.

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Ask HN: What book that you read in 2015 significantly affected how you think?

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instead of focusing on hourly rates, which made it easier to make more money. …

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Who's using Google App Engine?

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The number one reason to use it is the one click deploys but we've found that time saved there is lost working around app engine's …

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The reason Angular JS will fail

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Prototype failed because a) it stopped being actively developed, and b) it overrode native object prototypes in a way that could cause other libraries to …

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