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Ask HN: Do people not have hobbies anymore?
Original EnglishI've considered creating a YouTube channel to help fund things, but my interests are too niche to turn a profit.
PostgreSQL: the good, the bad, and the ugly
Original EnglishVendor tells my boss and my school it will cost us $5,000 due to my mistake for them to fix something (Took them 15 minutes …
Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money?
Original EnglishWe wrote our own db which stored XML (but was mostly in memory), our own frontend language in XML.
Colocation: Non-Clown Hosting
Original English4) We run some test Hypervisors and then only support Windows + Hyper-V (or VMWare on their "cloud").
ODesk vs Elance vs Freelancer vs Guru
Original EnglishI've also learned when to recognize that the clients are looking for speed/volume vs.
Snapchat’s product is booming
Original EnglishI don't use Snapchat much myself nowadays, but I used to be a customer of many of these premium snaps years ago.
402: Payment Required
Original English"They would need 30k readers to pay 1/3 of a cent in order to break even just on the cost of the article.
Why IntelliJ IDEA is hailed as the most friendly Java IDE (many screenshots)
Original EnglishBecause Eclipse eagerly compiles everything with its special compiler it seems to have a much faster startup time for unit tests.
The Apps are Too Damn Big
Original EnglishThe link is specifically complaining about resource files, which are probably easier to manage than libraries, but it's still probably not worth the effort for …