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

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Ask HN: Do people not have hobbies anymore?

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I've considered creating a YouTube channel to help fund things, but my interests are too niche to turn a profit.

Hard lessons

PostgreSQL: the good, the bad, and the ugly

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Vendor tells my boss and my school it will cost us $5,000 due to my mistake for them to fix something (Took them 15 minutes …

Tool picks

Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money?

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We wrote our own db which stored XML (but was mostly in memory), our own frontend language in XML.

Hard lessons

Colocation: Non-Clown Hosting

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4) We run some test Hypervisors and then only support Windows + Hyper-V (or VMWare on their "cloud").

Business ideas

ODesk vs Elance vs Freelancer vs Guru

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I've also learned when to recognize that the clients are looking for speed/volume vs.

Field notes

Snapchat’s product is booming

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I don't use Snapchat much myself nowadays, but I used to be a customer of many of these premium snaps years ago.

Business ideas

402: Payment Required

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"They would need 30k readers to pay 1/3 of a cent in order to break even just on the cost of the article.

Field notes

Why IntelliJ IDEA is hailed as the most friendly Java IDE (many screenshots)

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Because Eclipse eagerly compiles everything with its special compiler it seems to have a much faster startup time for unit tests.

Tool picks

The Apps are Too Damn Big

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The link is specifically complaining about resource files, which are probably easier to manage than libraries, but it's still probably not worth the effort for …

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