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Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
Original EnglishI started selling online, total sales so far over $300k.
Tarsnap performance issues in late March, most of April
Original English$15 a month is far below my care floor for making sure that my backups are working and that I do not get sued into …
All Websites Look the Same
Original EnglishI tried, but hey, I got paid, and his business suffered in the long run- and I mean went bankrupt...
I've got 10 btc for the best CoffeeScript/JavaScript Nodewar bot
Original EnglishLater I came back, and turned out my progress was not saved.
Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
Original Englishwe moved all our VMs from Linode to Storm because we lost confidence in Linode (DDOS, security, lack of transparency) even though the ratio performance/cost/reliability …
Migration from Postgres to Datomic
Original Englishbut not as often as we released), but not all of the build, deployment, and infrastructure tools and config you would actually need to turn …
Tesla failing to deliver Semi-trucks on time to PepsiCo, Sysco, UPS, and Walmart
Original EnglishLike I've had customers pissed off about missed deadlines, but they didn't leak or churn because we tried to keep them happy.
Seagate Introduces a 60TB SSD – Is a 3.6PB Storage Pod Next?
Original EnglishIt's not a huge deal (we're using $5/month Digital Ocean instances), but it'd be nice to have support in b2 for the same thing.