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WikiHouse – Open source buildings and interiors for self-build
Original EnglishIt is strong, buildable, airtight, performs well on cost etc, but yes, at the moment, it is limited in terms of span, height...
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 …
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.
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 …
Why does everyone run ancient Postgres versions?
Original EnglishIn retrospect I wish we'd used SQLite, whose backwards-compatibility guarantee has now reached twenty years.
Try Out Rust IDE Support in Visual Studio Code
Original EnglishThis setup allows me to use AWS snapshots to have the disk backed up (crash consistently) once a day (but it could be once an …
Storage for Photographers
Original EnglishAn inexpensive (<$25) option of "only backup current projects I'm working on and anything I shot in the last month", that actually works...
Switching to the Mutt Email Client
Original EnglishSure, there's a learning curve, but there is no faster mail client out there for handling large volumes of mail.