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Ask HN: A Microsoft engineer is hoping to hear your devops pains
Original English- It's difficult to debug websites on IE8 because it doesn't have modern debugging tools.
Show HN: Launch React components in your app with no-code
Original EnglishWe built this server-driven UI approach because we believe it provides teams an option that balances quality and speed.
Ask HN: Do companies need commercial support for open source software?
Original EnglishThe last place I worked was a medium-sized software company (60 people, $xx mil ARR) and we paid about $8k/month for MongoDB's enterprise support (generally …
Why Rust is taking the data engineering world by storm
Original EnglishI rewrote it in Rust (also using polars) and it wasn't necessarily faster but it was rock solid.
Ask HN: what projects are you working on?
Original EnglishOur current offering to clients is a potential 70% speedup in data processing using our system for Pen and Paper data entry.
Ask HN: Open-source software authors – why do you do it?
Original EnglishI open source the code I write because it costs me nothing extra to do so, and I learned a lot from open source when …
Ask HN: Should I use my old computer instead of cloud?
Original EnglishThis weekend I made backup images of my SD cards.
Ask HN: Easing wife onto Linux laptop How to?
Original EnglishWe spent most of our time with LibreOffice. She's not an Office power-user which probably made things easier.
CGI programs have an attractive one step deployment model
Original EnglishI don't recall CGI being sensitive to web server, version, or configuration, in practice. CGI should interface the same today as 30 years ago.