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Why isn’t New Zealand richer and more productive?
Original Englishthe time-zone is an advantage when it comes to deployment - a 4am deployment German time is happily within normal 9 - 5 hours in …
How does Ada's memory safety compare against Rust?
Original EnglishI've written Rust professionally for the past 6 years, and pretty much exclusively for stuff where memory safety is the least of my concerns (even …
EdgeDB is now Gel and Postgres is the future
Original Englishwhen i was at github we used vitess to roll out a migration that took 3 weeks to complete.
Clear Linux Project
Original EnglishI've seen plenty of monolithic apps deployed to a single server, where in practice upgrading an underlying language/system breaks part of it.
Ask HN: Do you manage your family's digital safety?
Original EnglishI back up (export) 1Password vaults quarterly to an offline backup I maintain.
Show HN: Material Files – Open Source Material Design File Manager for Android
Original EnglishI also use the FTP server to backup my devices once a month.
How to set up a mail server on a GNU / Linux system
Original EnglishIt required some upfront configuration, but it has run itself with minimal configuration changes and 'apt-get' updates for almost 6 years now.
First 3D Commercial Web Game Powered By asm.js
Original Englishthe Chrome team "How much of the Pepper API does Chrome's Flash Player use?" and the half-joking response was "150%" because Chrome's Flash Player relied …
Building data infrastructure that will last
Original EnglishI switched to DigitalOcean 5 years ago and the deployment script didn't change, period.