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Launch HN: Castled Data (YC W22) – Open-Source Reverse ETL
Original EnglishManish and I were founding engineers at Hevodata, an ETL company, when it went from 5 customers to around 300 customers.
Comfy, the 2D rust game engine, is now archived
Original EnglishI have used C but only deployed one very small thing in production.
How to colocate your first server at a datacenter
Original EnglishI had one motherboard failure, but it was a VIA technologies chip/board, and since then I have switched fully to the intel-produced slim Mini-ITX Atom …
Comcast customer discovers huge mistake in company’s data cap meter
Original EnglishComcast will later say we lost 0 customers in areas we switched to metered bandwidth.
Why Zynga Failed
Original Englishthe stock stays flat until 11/17: the scenario remains the same except I've paid interest on the stock I borrowed (probably about $30). …
Ask HN: What are your failed projects / ideas?
Original EnglishEstimates indicated a lot of profit, but it took just a week to know that there is no such thing as a 'betting market'.
Chrome Canary for Developers
Original EnglishI've been running Dev channel as my primary browser for about 3 years now, with no show-stopping bugs, and only a handful of minor ones.
Hiring technical talent: An exercise in clarity, patience, and preparation
Original EnglishI've written plenty of software bugs in my career, as has everyone I suspect, but I've never been fired.
Native Client: Google's craziest idea yet
Original EnglishJVM has been around for nearly 15 years, being many times more powerful than Mozilla and WebKit's wildest dreams, yet it has failed outside of …