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Freenode has blocked the Mibbit client permanently.
Original Englishthe software behind an irc network that's bigger than freenode (I wrote justin.tv's chat server, which has had a peak of more than 360k concurrent …
How Experienced Developers Can Handicap a Lean Startup
Original EnglishBut the alternative is not hackhackhackhackhack, the alternative is being more familiar with the cost/benefits ratios and picking the winners, some of which will still …
Ask HN: Why don't companies open-source the source code of their old products?
Original Englishwe open-sourced Theora (initally called VP3) partly because I (the CTO at the time) worried that if the company failed, all our IP would be …
Monsti – a free and open source CMS written in Go
Original EnglishI wrote it because the last Python-CMS I used consumed some hundreds of megabytes of memory for one simple site, and I could not run …
Running a Modern Startup on PHP
Original EnglishI can hack a website together in PHP faster than any other language, but it will be exactly that, a hack.
Ask HN: Help, Investor wants money back in 7 days "Or else"
Original Englishwe had developed, refused to be accountable to any touches/sales goals, hired staff without budget approval, purchased equipment/services without approval (sometimes express disapproval), took 20% …
Ask HN: Experience vs. Education?
Original Englishbut I have spent the past 5-6 years building a professional portfolio and a base of clients, including acquiring recommendations on LinkedIn -- which is …
Ask HN: What was life like before and after a baby
Original EnglishI have paid time off because of my kids.
Follow-up on 4K displays for programmers
Original EnglishBut each of them cost me $1,100 and that's the same price I paid for my first 30" monitor several years prior, a Dell 3007WFP.