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After VWO’s acquisition, its founder reflected on workflow problems, customer feedback, and keeping growth within the means of the business.
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App Engine down
Original EnglishWe'll instead plan for failure, design our architecture to continue operating under some degree of failure, and keep shipping.
Ask HN: Did some of you try the digital nomad lifestyle and not like it?
Original EnglishThere's a lot to recommend it, but it involves a nontrivial cost and effort.
Automation is set to hit workers in developing countries hard
Original EnglishWe started a few years ago paying $285 per month.
Favor real dependencies for unit testing
Original EnglishI run "Compile" on some production data and it blows up.
Go's Concurrency Examples in Java 19
Original EnglishI actually maintain a few multi platform kotlin things that support co-routines and they work great on both the jvm and in a browser.
Criticizing Hare language approach for generic data structures
Original EnglishI'm not saying that memory unsafety isn't a problem, but if you really want to make software better, you should address the biggest problems first.
How quitting my corporate job for my startup dream f*cked my life up
Original EnglishWhen you go into a client you don't know at all, and you do 6 weeks of work and develop a business strategy...
Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates
Original EnglishFor example, I did a bunch of Pro Bono web development for a non-profit because I liked the non-profit.
I don't like Python. Does that make me a bad person?
Original EnglishIt took me 5 days to learn the language enough to do so and to write the entire tool, at which point I "got it".