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Introducing pgzx: create PostgreSQL extensions using Zig
Original EnglishInitially we implemented this function directly so we can directly initialize the fat pointer without having to get the string length after doing the conversion.
How JPEG XL compares to other image codecs
Original EnglishI tried AVIF but in practical testing, webP was simply better.
Enterprise Sales for Hackers
Original EnglishI was CIO at a $50M/year sales organization by age 24, now I am going to be taking over 170 (as of writing this) startups …
If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy
Original EnglishAnother reason I failed to mention that Java is in decline is that the geek / utility-driven folks at Sun had essentially said "Java is …
Ask HN: Did you start a company whilst employed?
Original EnglishNow, a 1 1/2 years later, our product has become passive income with almost no effort now.
Backblaze B2 Drops Download Pricing by 60%
Original EnglishYes, the first API call requires authenticating first but every additional call reuses cached credentials, so no change to latency.
Hell freezes over: Forrester urges IT to support the Mac
Original EnglishI will say that in 11 years of going on-site to clients to do security assessments, I have only once encountered a company that had …
Study of 49 programmers: static type system had no effect on development time
Original EnglishThe productivity boost for new development in Ruby is very real; I converted a 10K LoC java program to < 1K LoC Ruby in about …
My $300 Home Cloud Server
Original EnglishHmm seems like he made the classical mistake of thinking that an x86-64 server is somehow special and more worthwhile than just buying a bare-bones …