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The state of Flow-based Programming
Original EnglishI used a visual data analytics toolkit for several years to help big telcos reconcile switch vs billing data.
Hachette/Amazon Business Interruption
Original EnglishThe customer wanted to keep the >$200 book and not send it back.
Weeks after adding Trader Joe’s, Instacart now supports Whole Foods
Original EnglishI should probably have sprung for the Amazon Prime-like pricing option and start planning more in advance, but lately I've run into problems where all …
Softlayer Cloud: An operations guy's rant about really bad service
Original EnglishTwice we raised support tickets and once it took around 6 hours to resolve and the other time it took 3 hours to resolve.
Self-hosted Git Server
Original EnglishI noticed this guy hosts his own repos (I tried links to bugsplat.rb) and it did not load, but I assume there is not bug …
Developer inequality and the technical debt crisis
Original EnglishWe've built an economy and a society that is entirely based on crappy software, because the economy could not bear the cost of as much …
Microsoft is killing Linux shops with Secure Boot
Original Englishwe used to try and sell Win XP as an upgrade (over 2K), people were aghast that the software cost money. …
How multi-disk failures happen
Original EnglishBecause a single percentage point improvement in their reliability will drastically reduce the costs associated to warranty claims and repairs.
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 …