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How Pixar Almost Lost Toy Story 2 To A Bad Backup
Original Englishtheir backup and failover mechanism wasn't what I'd documented, but involved an identical piece of hardware nearby which was powered off.
Ask HN: Do you trust solo entrepreneurs?
Original EnglishI've also tried to get support from Apple, Google, and Microsoft on occasion over the years and it's close to impossible to talk to anyone.
Show HN: Pgs.sh – A zero-install static site hosting service for hackers
Original English- I totally respect your pricing at $20/month.
Stripe Raises New Funding and Partners with Visa
Original EnglishAPI works as well, though their client libraries aren't quite up to date with it yet, and you have to setup a webhook because ACH …
Google Interview Warmup
Original EnglishMost places I've worked people have discussions - perhaps there are disagreements, but they don't burn into my memory like the last two examples.
Announcing the new Rust package manager, Cargo
Original EnglishI was having trouble with (including a bug that was triggering occasional 100% CPU usage on some machines), and has cleaned up the process of …
Stop claiming you’re profitable
Original EnglishBut we started just like that — slowly, and not profitable.
My website was stolen by a hacker and I got it back
Original EnglishOver the next 6 years I've made a complaint about every single fault, bill error, outage and mistake they have made.
The AWS Spend of Our SaaS Side-Business
Original EnglishIntegrating API gateway into our deployment took a little bit of work, but we're happy to have it part of our automated deployment process.