FROM BUILDERS, FOR DOERSVOL. 03 / QUALITY-FIRST DISCOVERY

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Nextcloud: Open-Source Cloud Apps

Original English

Performance issues don't bother me as I only host for myself but there are UI issues and bugs that get in the way of functionality.

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Bootstrapped startup saves over $100K by dropping IE

Original English

We have never had a client object to having to use Firefox to manage their content, however in running people through our "Decal 4 minute …

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Java 22 Released

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Half the time I use java closures and I get complaints in compilation that I don't get in Groovy, but maybe they've improved closures more.

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Dropbox's Summer 07 YC Application

Original English

I have a friend who has been running a travel business for about 6 years.

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Achieving an open-source implementation of Apple Code Signing and notarization

Original English

This is my use case (I implemented notarization API support in rcodesign).

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Heroku Blog: Routing Performance Update

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Oh by the way, as soon as you get around 200-300 dyno's deploys start error'ing out as well because heroku can't start up enough dyno's …

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Open source maintainers underpaid, swamped by security, and going gray

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Most of the FOSS we use already has plenty of paid devs.

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Mongo but on Postgres and with strong consistency benefits

Original English

I wouldn't not use Postgres because of this problem, just like I wouldn't not use MongoDB because they had bugs in a new feature.

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Mobifree – An open-source mobile ecosystem

Original English

I use Droidify which is simpler to use especially adding repositories.

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