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

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Field notes

With latency as low as 25ms, SpaceX to launch broadband satellites in 2019

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) it costs ~$80-$100 million per satellite to build, launch, and run.

Business ideas

The trimodal nature of software salaries in the Netherlands and Europe (2021)

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I started freelancing and took advantage of low corporate income tax here (10% below 1M EUR/year and 10% gains tax) - the math for moving …

Tool picks

Don’t call it a comeback: Java is still champ

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Annoying, but I'd rather find this out at compile-time than runtime.

Field notes

Ask HN: Carrier “lost” my number in a port request

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Recently I switched to Verizon from a pre-paid service subsidiary of T-Mobile and had some porting issues myself.

Hard lessons

What I’ve learned in 5 years of running a SaaS

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5.: My PHP application without any fancy technology makes me close to 100K euro in revenue per year.

Business ideas

Coming changes to Apple's App Store

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I've done the same with similar light-verion/paid-upgrade apps but this was the first one I'd run across that offered both a subscription or a one-time …

Tool picks

Julia frameworks to create desktop GUIs and web apps

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And, when I deployed it to AWS, even after using PackageCompiler I wasn't getting instant server responses (I'm assuming I did something wrong here though).

Field notes

The walls of Apple's garden are tumbling down

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- sideloading (i've made my own reddit client for android tv and used it for loooong time)

Business ideas

Web Design Trends

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It means the tests have to be run for a really long time, but it is common that what is best for revenue, is not …

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