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Running Lisp in Production (2020)
Original EnglishWhen I picked up C++, I ended up with fewer crashes, as I found it easier to deal with pointers to objects.
Using Erlang hot code updates
Original EnglishI used to work on a pretty big elixir project that had many clients with long lived connections that ran jobs that weren't easily resumable.
Stack Exchange Raises $40M Led by A16Z to Boost Its Programmer Forums
Original EnglishThey're getting that revenue because they've got high-quality candidates.
Show HN: Given an API, Generate client libraries in Node, Python, PHP, Ruby
Original EnglishYes, you can get away with having a less verbose description language if your needs are simpler, but that to me just ends up moving …
Show HN: gpudeploy.com – "Airbnb" for GPUs
Original EnglishAs soon as we deployed the compute, we immediately had a customer on them, all without a website. Just word of mouth.
Why didn't Larrabee fail?
Original EnglishLarrabee is in the wild but it's a hell of a long way from 'not failed' -- every single deployment I'm aware of suffers from …
Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google
Original EnglishThe big reason for why Facebook succeeded while Google+ miserably failed is that Facebook is a platform.
Reasons for servers to support IPv6
Original EnglishI'm personally skeptical it would be worth their while for the 0.001% of residential customers that would want this service though.
Linux Namespaces and Go Don't Mix
Original EnglishThe system was designed in the mid 80s and 65535 flights was an insane amount, but but when the software failed on Christmas it interupted …