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Hospitals that make profits should pay taxes
Original EnglishFor example, let's say I run a non-profit hospital.
Linux boot partitions and how to set them up
Original EnglishI use it since my first kernel compilation and find it simpler than dealing with initrd.
The unfortunate math behind consulting companies
Original EnglishOf course, I'm just bitter because I failed as a body shop, in spite of having very good people who were able to immediately move …
Show HN: Porter Cloud – PaaS with an eject button
Original EnglishI'm running 3 apps on Fly.io and I'm still so low in the pricing that they're invoicing me $0.
Codebase as Database: Turning the IDE Inside Out with Datalog (2020)
Original EnglishI use that every day and I still miss the two orders of magnitude difference in speed that Eclipse used to have.
Java 18 / JDK 18: General Availability
Original EnglishJVM backwards compatibility isn't perfect, but it's a much more stable target than other languages I've worked in.
Issue 8788 - Every day around 9 AM Brussels time, huge drop in GAE performance
Original Englishthe life of the universe commit any money to Google, because they made it starkly apparent that I would never get what I paid for... …
If money doesn't make you happy, you probably aren't spending it right (2010) [pdf]
Original EnglishSome stuff was damn near free (my solid oak desk was $20) Some stuff I ended up paying a fair price for, because I would …
Web Programming Is Hard
Original EnglishSo, perhaps web programming is hard, but there are several ways travelling the path is made easier - maybe even easier than on the desktop.