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Can Applications Recover from Fsync Failures?
Original EnglishI've built a few systems designed to be deployed either way.
Show HN: bef – a tool that encodes/decodes interleaved erasure coded streams
Original EnglishThe way I use it I’m able to get both dedup and lazy incremental backups, although with a computational cost, but not so significant.
Computers are amazing. So why is software so terrible?
Original EnglishSo I'd say modern software is complex and has problems that come with complexity but the slowness isn't really it.
Ask HN: Does retro computing make you feel younger or older?
Original EnglishI actively use for testing, and I just pointed out an article on The Register (1) because it talks about the same machine I use …
Manual work is better than bad automation
Original EnglishI use GUI programs like converseen for one off bulk conversion tasks.
Ask HN: Anyone using Swift on the server-side?
Original EnglishI wrote a little service to handle some of the Matrix client-server authentication API.
Bye-bye Boxee: how a startup failed to conquer the living room
Original EnglishI would gladly pay $10/month to use the software, but I would never buy that stupid box with all it's limitations.
Ask HN: Why don't more apps use peer to peer networking?
Original EnglishThe first layer is that it costs energy, and the mobile revolution is in large part possible because software and hardware developers got very aggressive …
Minefold (YC W12) launches Feed The Beast servers
Original EnglishI don't know that I'd pay any more money for faster startup, but it is something I consider before starting MC.