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Unity's Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC
Original EnglishAs VideoLan is a non-profit I tried to find info on their income to get a bigger picture, but failed to find that.
IndieHackers.com acquired by Stripe
Original EnglishLater the customer opened disputes for every payment made within 3 months.
Bidding farewell to Google Code
Original EnglishGit was more functional, but Mercurial was a lot simpler to use.
The Case for Slow Programming
Original EnglishI think we both agree that the understanding of the code should be dispersed, so that any other employee can get up to speed with …
What It's Like to Fail
Original Englishbecause they were 5+ years out of college and the only thing they'd ever known was how to fix bugs and implement features in one …
An Email Thread Between a Developer and Gigster
Original EnglishI tried to raise this issue with the Delight Team (internal customer service) but apart from taking 2 weeks to even get back to me …
Show HN: Cs16.css – CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI
Original Englishthe window in favor of minimal, clean, flat, "sleek" UIs because the screenshots are easier to market. …
Hidden rework in AI-generated UI: library and version mismatch
A developer reports that generated React/MUI code mixes in another styling system and deprecated APIs despite explicit instructions.
Plausible-looking code may still violate project constraints.
Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits
Original EnglishWe have an api client that we use in our spring tests that also compiles to kotlin-js.