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Ask HN: What did you learn the hard way?
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#2The only useful policy is the one that is followed
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#3The people you spend the most time with affect how you think and what you do.
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#4HR is there to protect the company, not you.
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#5Sadly, after more than 20 years building software, _NEVER_ trust a business person. My faith in humanity had to have me bitten by this the hard way more than once.
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#6Either I'm your customer or you're my customer. All transactions with another business should be buy/sell.
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#7Make things pretty.
No amount of hard work and usefulness can amount to a beautiful product.
I have strong feelings about Lean Startup who told me to create a MVP, which made me look like an amateur.
So, listen to the marketing people and wait to release a beautiful finished product.
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#8That mysqldump adds "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS" by default. So if you want to backup and restore several rows, you are in trouble.
Not really the hard way because DROP TABLE isn't instantaneous on big tables. So I managed to kill the query before the table was gone.
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#9Get everything in writing. EVERYTHING.
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#10How not to run a contract development business during a recession. :)