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Running a private mail server for six years, easy peasy
Original EnglishI used to support small business IT customers back then, Outlook was by far my least favourite tyre on the raging intergalactic rubbish fire. But …
Minimal Viable Product is old and busted
Original EnglishWe believed we fully understood what the customer needs and that we should build the right product before we started selling.
My life in Accenture before startups
Original EnglishI used a few hundred k of seed funding and a team of 4 to build a web app over about 4 months.
Do call yourself a programmer, and other career advice
Original EnglishThis is the primary reason why I do my own assembly; assembling computers is way easier than negotiating Dell down to a reasonable price.
Free Software Foundation issues statement on new iPhone models from Apple
Original EnglishI enjoy this setup immensely, but if you search through my comment history you will see that I am very critical of it when talking …
Reverse engineering a software crack
Original EnglishI opened it using a hex editor, converted (using calc.exe) to HEX the count I wrote down on (2), searched for it, and found it.
The Disappearing Art of Maintenance
Original EnglishI’m all about maintenance, but mostly in a literal sense.
Fear makes you a worse programmer (2014)
Original EnglishI'm breaking every rule there is on jinxing things but there hasn't been a single bug introduced due to those updates and there's ~85% coverage.
Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining
Original EnglishOf the original team hired under the founders only about 30% of us are left (we've hired some replacements), and the founders were part of …