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Why git is so fast (or why Java is not as fast as C)
Original EnglishThe client needs to be non-java, to avoid the startup cost there.
From Gatsby gridlock to Astro bliss: my personal site redesign
Original EnglishI made a couple of landing pages for clients and my own projects with Astro and the maintenance experience was eye-opening.
Dropped IE support for Instapaper
Original EnglishI estimate that supporting IE6 has added more than 30% of the interface development costs to the complex projects I have worked on that use …
Show HN: Deskulu – Opensource knowledgebase and ticketing system
Original Englishbecause of how painful our D6 to D7 migration has been and how buggy and incomplete almost every module we use has been. …
Ask HN: Anyone making a living off of desktop applications?
Original English- support is easier, because you don't have to dig in the users specific setup
Indian Government adopts an open source policy
Original EnglishOn any Linux based distro none of that stuff works so what ends up happening is my repeat customers every 2-4 months are Windows users …
Clojure's machine learning ecosystem
Original EnglishI have deployed production code that I wrote in Clojure.
Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other
Original Englishthe last time we were at Ikea were we used that laserthingy ourselves and paid with the plastic card instead of waiting in a line …
Linode Managed Databases
Original EnglishI am not the OP but I setup a fairly expensive server to run my Postgres,redis,and other fire and forget processes.