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Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
Original EnglishAgreed that this is why Yahoo is pricing it this way -- but I imagine it won't stop the pricing feeling "wrong" to many people.
Organizing complexity is the most important skill in software development
Original EnglishI kept asking to be done, but instead they just wanted me to figure out some way to bill the client for 60 hours a …
Tell HN: Burnout is bad to your brain, take care
Original EnglishI sacrificed those magazine cover dreams but in return I got a wonderful life and I am building again, just at 0.5x speed.
Accidentally destroyed production database on first day of a job
Original EnglishWhen we first onboarded them I strongly recommended that the first thing we do is get their DB backups happening on a fixed schedule, rather …
VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas
Original EnglishThe VSCode users on this team had their own containers, so however their setup was didn't affect me.
What are your most used self-hosted applications?
Original EnglishI run it with PHP opcahe enabled and nginx caching to speed it up.
Stadia died because no one trusts Google
Original EnglishI used to work on Google Fiber, and something that our customers complained about was that they couldn't upload files to Google Drive at 1Gbps.
Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says
Original Englishwe failed to raise our next round because of it and had to drastically downsize the company, causing even more churn (about 80% net churn …
Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
Original EnglishNot sure it’s long term the most valuable thing I built, but definitely short-term most profitable: