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Re:Is It Worth the Time? on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @07:25AM (#11166186)
Thank you for the link. Do you have any advice of your perspective?
My happiness is "maximizing both learning and earning," but one of those is not at its best.

Ask HN: What should I choose to maximize both learning and earning?

Recently I read a news and my mentor also confirms it:"There are a lot of arguments for jumping ship every few years. The economy isn’t what it used to be—and never will be again. Workers who stay with a company longer than two years are said to get paid 50% less, and job hoppers are believed to have a higher learning curve, be higher performers, and even to be more loyal, because they care...

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Ask HN: What is your alternative to Evernote?

I really want to move my important notes away from this dying unicorn. Some alternatives like Google Docs, Dropbox, or the rising candidate http://paperwork.rocks/ are not comfortable enough (especially the integration with other services, like Slack or web browsers).

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The startup world may be influenced a lot by Mark Zuckerberg's motto of "Move fast; break things."

However, I don't think it's a good goal to aim for.

Like @andreasklinger and @hashkb said, you should have agreement with your engineers about your limit.

Refactoring can never be enough, because we always try to improve, try to be better.

You can think about the "later days" when you can come back on your codes and fix those crap codes, but you know you won't. The bigger the debt for now, the costlier it will be in the future.

Trust me, my startup is managing on that.

Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still read High Scalability? on Monday July 06, 2015 @12:03AM (#9836696)
For reference only. Once in a while, I'd need to check the architecture from big guys like YouTube, StackOverflow..
Re:Announcing Lotus v0.3.0 on Monday March 23, 2015 @09:39PM (#9254422)
FYI: non API docs here http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/lotusrb

Took me a while to notice this link

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