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dvnguyenon I am rich and have no idea what to do

I am interested in affordable housing. Is inefficient tech the biggest contributor to housing cost?

dvnguyenon Show HN: Self-Host Next.js in Production

Gotcha. That means if I run Next for just frontend + server side rendering stuff then I can always self host it?

dvnguyenon Boeing put Wall Street first, safety second ahead of Alaska Air blowout

How do you fine profits?

dvnguyenon The Great Migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL

How about HA and horizontal scaling? I’ve heard that MySQL excels in that area.

dvnguyenon Pixel owners report problems after installing January 2024 Google Play update

I don't see myself switching to an Android phone but iPhone updates do break things. Since upgrading to latest iOS, both my phone (personal and work) keyboards are unusable if I enable both English and Vietnamese keyboards. Looks like there's a bug in their keyboard prediction engine. It's been 4 months and I don't see they fix it yet.

dvnguyenon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2023)

Thanks! What’s the best way to apply?

dvnguyenon Ask HN: What is your experience in tech consulting?

What would be a good way to get the very first client if I’m a nobody outside of my tiny friend and colleagues circles?

dvnguyenon Moving Away from UUIDs (2018)

Just curious to learn: when do you need sortable primary keys?

dvnguyenon Twitter for iOS Updated with New $8 Subscription Offering Verification

Who doesn’t in this economy?

dvnguyenon Ask HN: Ways to run container inside container for development purpose?

Do you run Docker inside Podman, Podman inside Docker, or Podman inside Podman?

dvnguyenon Things I did before app launch and what I wish I had done

What would be the signals for a high quality software?

dvnguyenon Krunvm – Create MicroVMs from OCI Images

Ask HN: what workload is not suitable for microVMs? Can I use them like a regular VM?

dvnguyenon Ask HN: Should I use my old computer instead of cloud?

What’s your best way to talk with you? I’m building a cost effective dev cloud vms that might fit your use case. It has a granular usage based metering and you’ll be charged almost nothing when the VM is idle.

dvnguyenon Things we did not do while reaching $2M ARR

What did you do for marketing?

dvnguyenon Apple turns monitor height adjustment into a $400 upsell

When something is ridiculously expensive, it’s usually because you’re not the target customer. I’m a programmer and my I’ve had hard times explaining to my wife why did I need a $300 keyboard. I guess no one here would complain about $300 mechanical keyboard.

dvnguyenon Discord is a black hole for information

Shameless plug: I’m building a QA web app where you can easily create a QA server for your projects, and users can join your server with a click. Basically a stackexchange with Discord onboarding UX. Shoot me an email if you’re interested. My email is on my profile.

dvnguyenon Amazon Pip Horror Story

Mind sharing your company name?

dvnguyenon Let's Settle This

Same here. Do I need to get my eyes checked?

dvnguyenon Amazon recruiter invites CTO of Azure to apply for SDE II

Ironically it’s highly likely that the CTO was recommended to the sources by a LinkedIn “AI”, a Microsoft company.

dvnguyenon Higher quality audio makes people sound smarter

Folks using usb mics: how do you solve the keyboard noise problem? I use a mechanical keyboard and it’s super noisy.

dvnguyenon Compensation as a Reflection of Values

Thank you for sharing. I’m curious if you include equity as a part of the compensation package?

dvnguyenon AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana

https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker

Disclaimer: current AWS employer. My job is not related to ES or Lambda.

dvnguyenon Positioning Your Startup Is Vital

Sample size of one: if I create a new sub Reddit or a FB community, it’s unlikely that making money from that community is my goal.

dvnguyenon Element AI sold for $230M, as founders saw value mostly wiped out: document

Wow $200M funding for a startup with no products. Not even sure if they were serious in building a product or just cashing out the AI hype and academic credentials.

dvnguyenon I sold Baremetrics

$500k is staff/principal level compensation at FAANG companies. No way mid-level engineers make as much.

dvnguyenon Simple Made Easy (2011)

What is simplicity and how it differs from ease? I haven’t got a chance watching the talk yet.

dvnguyenon Show HN: Query 1.6B rows in milliseconds, live

Ask HN: what’s the market for a new Database? Who do you build it for and how do you sell it? Asking as an uninformed users who haven’t needed a niche database.

dvnguyenon My 2020 desk setup

To to fair i3 is so good that having multiple becomes unnecessary. It's much faster to open a second or third window in the same screen than looking up to the other screen.

dvnguyenon I deploy, therefore I am

When number of deployments becomes an evaluation metrics, I can imagine an engineering culture like this:

- Dev rushes to make merge requests with the cost of thoughtful design and testing.

- Tension around code review turnaround time: how dare you take hours to review my code when I'm far behind in the leader board.

- Deployment has a bug? Awesome, now I'll have 2 deployments.

- Deploy faster and break everything.

Frequent and continuous deployment is good. Making it a metrics is bad.

dvnguyenon Good writing is a business advantage

Thank you for the story. If I have a chance teaching coding, I'll definitely steal that assignment.