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Ask HN: Why don't companies open-source the source code of their old products?
Original Englishwe open-sourced Theora (initally called VP3) partly because I (the CTO at the time) worried that if the company failed, all our IP would be …
GTK 5 might drop X11 support
Original EnglishSo I wrote a .bat file to store the configuration I wanted...just as I did in the old days.
BlueGreenDeployment (2010)
Original Englishafter I have to admit that fortunately 99% of our deployment are not about database changes so this "need to do it carefully" only happen …
Redis Sentinel properties and fail scenarios
Original Englishbut we've frequently had to re-populate the Redis store from our source of truth due to bugs or hardware outage / network partition scenarios which …
Ask HN: How do I feel less guilty about bugs?
Original EnglishI saved that, then opened it in a third shell and verified that it was in fact there.
Ask HN: What do you use to backup your VMs?
Original EnglishI use Robocopy and PowerShell to copy daily and weekly file backups, as well as SQL backup scripts for the databases.
Mistakes business students make when founding a startup
Original EnglishRather, I believe that business school instills a number bad startup practices into the way that business students think, resulting in higher failure rates.
I'm a developer not a compiler
Original EnglishI make a test suite to repeat something a hundred times and find out the failure ratio (eg, 30%).