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Algorithms we develop software by
Original EnglishI've built a computer vision system that processed petabytes of data with only one or two bugs in production for any given year.
Huginn: System for building agents that perform automated tasks online
Original EnglishSince having it setup I've used it to:
Show HN: Recut automatically removes silence from videos – built with Tauri
Original EnglishSome back story: Recut is a tool I built to speed up my screencast editing workflow.
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.
Atlantic.net launches $0.99 SSD-based VPS servers
Original EnglishWithin 15 minutes, they fixed my GRUB configuration and had my server back up.
Ask HN: Is it still possible to live in a terminal?
Original EnglishAll of the native apps I use work faster than I do, I don't think they slow me down.
We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle for freedom (2016)
Original EnglishI'm not troubled by the music being locked in, because what I'm paying for is access to that library.
Postgres 9.2 will feature linear read scalability up to 64 cores
Original EnglishWe'd have paid thousands to avoid that problem, as that's what the time spent on avoiding that downtime is costing us (well, our clients).