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Anatomy of a credit card rewards program
Original EnglishOn $130,681.33 I paid $2,433.51 in service charges or 1.86% .
Don't Call Yourself a Programmer
Original EnglishI worked at a startup for 2 1/2 years, quit, went to grad school in math, did a postdoc, and am now a professor.
GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code
Original EnglishJobs getting stuck might not seem like a big deal, but when every dev on the team needs to manually check every 5 minutes to …
Pkl, a Programming Language for Configuration
Original EnglishI just run a count, on the infrastructure configuration for a relatively small, but already public company. 13k lines of YAML alone.
Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab
Original EnglishThe opportunity cost on the front side is often worth it but the long term benefit on the back side is you aren't dependent on …
Dear Startups: stop asking me math puzzles to figure out if I can code
Original EnglishFor example, I took over an iPhone app dev team and it was taking them 4 months to produce an app.
PhantomJS: Stepping down as maintainer
Original Englishthe whole reason to have a closed source system when you're still on the hook and charging out $500 per hour to clients. …
Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?
Original EnglishI started picking up functional programming later in my career, it was all so much easier for me to grok, largely because it was stuff …
Stadia died because no one trusts Google
Original EnglishI used to work on Google Fiber, and something that our customers complained about was that they couldn't upload files to Google Drive at 1Gbps.