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After VWO’s acquisition, its founder reflected on workflow problems, customer feedback, and keeping growth within the means of the business.
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Idempotent Web APIs: What benefit do I get?
Original EnglishI also would prefer 200 - with a description of the entity that was deleted, again, for verification and system maintenance needs.
Don't depend on JavaScript to render your page
Original EnglishSomething has to render the content, as with most programs everything is a CPU vs Memory vs IO/Network trade off.
The perils of programmer education in the bazaar
Original EnglishI decided that the business ought to run on its own revenue, something that is ultimately a good thing but was a harsh change because …
Mailspring: Cross-platform, fast, open source mail client
Original EnglishIt's still semi-maintained with small bug fixes every now and then, but it hasn't seen any changes in years.
Penny wise and cloud foolish
Original EnglishIt also means don't completely change the pricing model after I've built a business around the old model.
Can Applications Recover from Fsync Failures?
Original EnglishI've built a few systems designed to be deployed either way.
Show HN: bef – a tool that encodes/decodes interleaved erasure coded streams
Original EnglishThe way I use it I’m able to get both dedup and lazy incremental backups, although with a computational cost, but not so significant.
Computers are amazing. So why is software so terrible?
Original EnglishSo I'd say modern software is complex and has problems that come with complexity but the slowness isn't really it.
Ask HN: Who is riding his weekend project straight to profitability?
Original EnglishAs a result of that weekend I've ended up getting a pretty nice side income from advertisements from the free version and straight revenue from …