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Syncthing Android App Discontinued
Original EnglishJellyBean hadn't even reached 10 years old before my app broke, it's pathetic that app support crumbled and rotted away that quickly.
So very sad to hear about the passing of Ruby legend Jim Weirich
Original EnglishThere was a lot of hype about the best new testing methods with RSpec and this new thing called Cucumber, 100% paired programming all the …
Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad
Original EnglishOn my servers, for example (which are typically running OpenBSD or some GNU/Linux distro), I'm at least somewhat-okay with backwards-compatibility breaking (within reason) if it …
Is PostgreSQL good enough?
Original Englishupgrade that didn't make things faster or less memory-consuming, but failed to
What’s so great about functional programming anyway?
Original EnglishI used to live all the best practices, but over time learned that the number one enemy in a codebase is complexity. 90% of software …
Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After E-Mail to Staff
Original Englishwe don't pay Amazon salaries, but a peek at Glassdoor says that Amazon doesn't really pay that well, particularly for the cost of living around …
Building a r/place in a weekend
Original EnglishThat would work, but I don't think it would make anything simpler.
Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac
Original EnglishThat is the story of my $2800 VNC client with buggy keyboard, crashy kernel and iffy mail client.
GNU sed 4.2.2 released, maintainer resigns
Original EnglishIn the early days they sought to monopolize some of the key labor for the GNU project (and they succeeded, because they paid much better …