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

Their experience.
Your next move.✳

Discover hard-earned lessons, useful tools, and business ideas
hidden in the conversations on Hacker News.

Traceable sourcesBilingual readingPractitioner perspectives
3,000experiences and insights05ways to explore02interface languagesLess noise. More perspective.

Ideas worth your time3000

Real experiences, useful perspectives, and things you wish you’d known.

Hard lessons

Desktop App for All Your Email

Original English

It does work for many people, but there are still bugs, and targets (e.g., WinXP) we don't support perfectly yet.

Business ideas

Somewhat Verbatim Conversation with a Startup Recruiter

Original English

But to me, it stands to reason that you're more likely to find it in a company that has a track record of being profitable.

Tool picks

What ever happened to the transhumanists?

Original English

I use pictures and notes to aid short-term memory.

Hard lessons

Facebook puts bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation

Original English

I run a game on Facebook platform and we oftentimes have bugs that you guys likely consider corner cases because they only affect a very …

Business ideas

IOS app success is a lottery: 60% (or more) of developers don't break even

Original English

the WP7 store (and two for Android), making a total of seventeen 99 cent sales for the paid apps and about $2500 in ad revenue …

Field notes

Olark launches "Targeted Chat"

Original English

One year of the Bronze plan, at $180, is several orders of magnitude lower than my average customer lifetime value, so it's easily worth it, …

Tool picks

Why Some Security Experts Use Mutt

Original English

For email client I either use Thunderbird, or Outlook 2013, simply because graphical interface is easier to work with.

Business ideas

Galaxy S III beats out iPhone 4S as top selling device in US

Original English

I want on it, and I can sell my apps to other android users however I want with my own billing methods if need be. …

Tool picks

OVH servers exploited through shellshock

Original English

Last year i switched to collocation instead, but still have 1 server with them, things have improved alot lately, now the servers come with ipmi …

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