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When will we fix the tools that run the world?
Original EnglishBut in an enterprise context it can be a nice simplification and enable much lower latency UI than in a typical web app.
Show HN: CashGraphs – A securities portfolio optimizer
Original EnglishThis is a portfolio optimizer I made to help select portfolios for my clients.
Choose Postgres queue technology
Original EnglishHowever, I encountered issues when scaling it up for high availability in a clustered setup.
There is No Such Thing as Proprietary Client-side JavaScript
Original EnglishThe software package that I'm working on has about 100K lines of javascript.
Show HN: Floro – Visual Version Control
Original EnglishThe reason it's happening on the landing page is because we use floro for editing the site and testing our changes offline first before pushing.
Show HN: An opinionated and statically-typed TypeScript SDK generator
Original EnglishIt's not perfect, but we've used this to help run our own unit tests (and have a few customers trying it out too)!
Ask HN: Would a .Net back-end put off potential acquisitors?
Original EnglishMono is about 25 to 50% slower on computational stuff, which is negligible in almost any business application that has a multi-server topology.
Ask HN: Why did consumer 3D printing take so long to be invented?
Original EnglishAs I recall, 3D printers rose to prominence at about the same time and speed as we started getting genuinely powerful personal computers.
Why don't companies use FreeBSD as much in production as Linux?
Original Englishbut I used to spend hours trying to patch and compile upgrades to software. …