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How We Failed at OpenStack
Original EnglishWe do our best to upstream our patches as quickly as the project allows, but they often need to be improved to work with other …
No such thing as “real programming” (2015)
Original EnglishI grew up programming and had my BASIC, Pascal, C++, Delphi and C# phases, I like web development (generally, the tooling sometimes sucks but as …
Ask HN: How many of you are consciously downsizing your devices/going retro?
Original EnglishI use it on Wifi only, and my life is improved by not always being connected to work.
Show HN: an alternative to AdSense
Original Englishbut I spent a lot of time tweaking the matching algorithm rather than on the sales/pitch side), and pitched it as an easier way to …
My experience hiring a developer on Elance to build my first iPhone app
Original EnglishOr I'd pay all 4 milestones but have no way of noticing huge bugs that would surface later on.
Atlassian's success reminds what a crappy place Australia is for tech business
Original EnglishI've worked in Melbourne in small tech companies for almost 15 years and have setup a few offices in my time.
I recorded a screen capture of a task. Gemini generated code to replicate it
Original EnglishWe're building an AI Agent that can perform manual testing on feature branches [1].
Ask HN: How come so many of you know about stocks/finance ?
Original Englishfor daily prices; data reliability isn't great but you get what you pay for there.
I'm not too happy about Sublime Text 3
Original EnglishI paid $59 for ST2 in order to get ST2, not in order to fulfill some abstract notion of "better than the free competition".