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Flipkart, Amazon of India, has sales of $100M in one day
Original EnglishWe had deployed nearly 5000 servers and had prepared for 20 times the traffic growth - but the volume of traffic at different times of …
Ask HN: Is Google still a cool place to work?
Original EnglishIt turned out to be easier to get a job outside of the company, so I did.
Ask HN: What is your job? Do you like it? What was your favorite job?
Original EnglishAnother point: running any kind of client service business, to a first approximation, is 100% about getting the right kind of clients.
Hotmail development team on Reddit
Original EnglishI lost 7 years of emails from high school, college, between myself and several girlfriends, chat logs I'd saved from IRC, photos, and other important …
The end of the cloud is coming
Original Englishour contract and the same "highly reliable" colo; we got money back per our contract, but not the customers we lost, even after apologetic/refunding communications …
LaunchDarkly gets $8.7M to put the right features in front of right users
Original Englishthe wild, make adjustments accordingly, and only then release it 100% along with any marketing initiatives that support it. …
Ask HN: Why XMPP failed and SMTP didn't?
Original EnglishI am not sure why -- was it a bad setup or an bad protocol? -- but experience was horrible compared to other chats.
Webdesign tool Macaw raises $275k on Kickstarter, $200k more than original goal
Original EnglishBut Adobe failed to market it properly (I actually never heard of Fireworks before 2011, several years after I started).
IBM Data Science Experience: Whole-Cluster Privilege Escalation Disclosure
Original EnglishI found once when trying to run Chrome in a container that it failed for some reason related to sandboxing. …