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Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
Original EnglishSo I paid for an enhanced subscription, supposedly with better quality.
Launch HN: Sudden Coffee (YC W17) – Instant coffee that doesn't suck
Original EnglishFYI, we also proactively notify customers 3-4 days before a subscription renews.
Moving The New York Times Games Platform to Google App Engine
Original EnglishI've deployed this solution in 50k req/s environments and not seen a single user be a problem like you mention -- any motivated bad actor …
Google Engineering Management Mistakes
Original EnglishI've played the startup game, and for the roughly 16 months that I was working on my own startup, I earned precisely $0.
The biggest source of waste is untapped skilled pragmatists
Original EnglishI used to document things in a way that would quickly get people up to speed, but was generally useless to current team members.
Google and ASUS Launch the $85 Chromebit, a Chrome OS Desktop on an HDMI Stick
Original EnglishNot so much the grandmother conundrum, but the performance/latency, bother to charge or replace batteries, and general swankiness.
If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to the HQ now
Original EnglishI've hired engineers who wrote solid code, at a reliable speed, but whom I wouldn't describe as "brilliant".
Postico: A Modern PostgreSQL Client for the Mac
Original EnglishI reported some bugs on GitHub and they all have been fixed on the next release, like 1 or 2 weeks after the report.
Why I self host my servers and what I've recently learned
Original EnglishWe used GCS (like S3 for GCP) for storing prometheus backups (via thanos) at $previous_job.