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System76 is moving product design and manufacturing in house
Original EnglishSure the up front cost is higher, but the time and money saved on not having to care is priceless.
“Stop reverse engineering our code”
Original EnglishWe had to do migration from 10g to 11g because Oracle wasn't supporting 10g version anymore.
When crawlers overwhelm a public service
A discussion of crawler load on a Git service surfaced rate limiting, suspicious request patterns, and the cost of open access.
Public access does not mean unlimited capacity.
Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respond, then charged €150
Original EnglishThe reason given was that I had failed to respond to an e-mail - that was sent yesterday on a Sunday(!) at 9:51 PM.
Ask HN: Building a side project that makes money. Where to start?
Original EnglishSo that if it failed to make money, you still have the tool you want.
Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administration
Original EnglishI use customer cast offs and even employee cast offs.
How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ into Stripe
Original EnglishYes, integration was much easier, because of the simple and effective API and great documentation (good examples with your own data included - brilliant!).
Back on Linux (after one year of Apple and OS X)
Original Englishthe past 21 years of working with computers I have found Linux to be the best fit for customization, speed, available software, ease of use, …
One year as a solo dev building open-source data tools without funding
Original EnglishSame as the author we tried to get funding and mostly failed.