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Ask HN: What are the signs a piece of technology will become commoditized?
Original EnglishA lot of it was about getting clean data, but there was a lot of model tweaking/testing/maintenance as well.
Ask HN: I got duped into working on legacy code, should I leave?
Original EnglishAnyways, I ended up getting another job and this one too -- I worked on a "cold client base" that was at least 2 years …
Tooling has improved for ambitious software developers
Original EnglishIt’s not perfect, but I absolutely love it, and it’s made my life so much easier.
Moving from PHP to C saved my web startup.
Original EnglishResult: Processor 99% idle even during heavy use and memory usage basically stays exactly the same whether or not more people are watching the auctions.
Rackspace launches “Fanatical Support for Developers”
Original Englishthe configuration and everything looked ok to me-- but even during times of super slow response, the server was showing vmstats that looked 99% idle. …
Mongoose IM 6.2.1 – Erlang Solutions robust, scalable and efficient XMPP server
Original EnglishI'm using Snikket to host a small server for family and friends, with accompanying mobile clients.
Scaling out Postgres, Part 1: Partitioning
Original EnglishI used to hack a fork of Postgres a few years ago, and the project is probably about 10-20% bigger now:
Idempotent Web APIs: What benefit do I get?
Original EnglishI also would prefer 200 - with a description of the entity that was deleted, again, for verification and system maintenance needs.
Don't depend on JavaScript to render your page
Original EnglishSomething has to render the content, as with most programs everything is a CPU vs Memory vs IO/Network trade off.