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Microsoft is a national security threat: ex-White House cyber policy director
Original EnglishThunderbird is a lot more reliable than outlook - I use both daily.
Hardware Security Exploit Research – Xbox 360
Original EnglishUnfortunately, after further testing IBM discovered that the errata was insufficient, so issued a second errata, which we also implemented and assumed all was well.
Clayton Christensen: How MBA-driven Profit focus is Killing the U.S. Economy
Original Englishauto industry in trouble, as one executive put it clearly: "we spent all the efforts in the bottom line in cost cutting but ignored the …
Why did Heroku fail?
Original EnglishI used DigitalOcean precisely for this reason, with Ansible deployment.
Ask HN: How was your experience with AWS Lambda in production?
Original EnglishWe also use API gateway with lambdas, its a small API, about 2 requests per second on average, but very peaky during business hours, its …
Ask HN: I got let go this morning. What should I do next?
Original EnglishIt's YOUR code - but it's also YOUR bug when they do come up.
Why I Program in Erlang
Original EnglishI tried getting used to it but found it just made testing more difficult and made setup a chore.
Ask HN: How do you earn your money?
Original EnglishI'm happy I've built up $30k in side income.
Ask HN: PayPal dismissed my claim, saying I didn't provide evidence (yet I did)
Original EnglishAnyway over the years we have had various customers who for whatever reason decided they regretted paying us after the fact.