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Bootstrap 4 drops IE9 support and goes full flexbox
Original English90% of coders move on to the next profit making exercise.
Lessons learned from my failed startup after 2 years, 300 users and 0 revenue
Original EnglishIn my case the customer was willing to pay ~$10k a month to get what he wanted.
Dear sir, you have built a compiler (2022)
Original EnglishWhen I work in Go or in Python I use the testing frameworks that are part of that ecosystem.
Devenv.sh: Fast and reproducible developer environments using Nix
Original English{DEBUG:-0}` as the syntax to use the value of `$DEBUG` if it's set and `0` otherwise, but I can never remember it without googling
Why Software Outsourcing Doesn't Work Anymore
Original EnglishThat means 65-70% of employee hours must be billable to a client.
WireGuard multihop available in the Mullvad app
Original EnglishI use (and really like!) Mullvad, but have never tried the app, preferring to use my existing OpenVPN clients with the profiles Mullvad provides.
Lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012)
Original EnglishFrom all the evidence I've seen in places I've worked, the motivating stories of "we increased revenue 10% by a random change nobody thought would …
How We Knew It Was Time to Leave the Cloud
Original EnglishI wrote a white paper for Bart comparing GFS cost per gigabyte to the NetApp cost per gigabyte, and NetApp was way cheaper because it …
Microsoft Pledges to Use ARM Server Chips, Threatening Intel's Dominance
Original EnglishWhen you say "there's no money to be made...so Micosoft has no reason to bother", this attitude is a major reason why ia64 failed, and …