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Mainmatter ( https://mainmatter.com/rust-consulting/ ) | REMOTE (EU) | Rust Engineering Consultant | Full-time | 80-100k€ Mainmatter ( https://mainmatter.com ), the company behind …

Mainmatter head of engineering here. From what we've seen on real projects, I can confirm that asking an AI to migrate the code results at best in somewhat functional but unmaintai…

This week, my wife and I made an online version of Cards Against Humanity: https://www.cardsagainsthumanity.online Try it with 4+ players while on a video chat. We just play-tested…

Their marketing got my attention, and their rates were so much better than the competition that it outweighed the terrible brand image. They could have gone straight to the point: …

Their marketing material in NYC was incredibly douchey, like "stick it to the big banks". I was using Xoom ( https://www.xoom.com ) at the time, which had a brand image of a trustw…

Good point!

On a parking lot, not 100% is used by cars. Lots of space for driving/walking through and around. The example above show the paring lot partially full with a lot of space for solar…

This website could use some more demos!

Yep, cool footer! http://screenshots.kevinbongart.net/VHUpQ.png

This is really strange… would you mind letting me know (contact@kevinbongart.net) if that's a commercial firewall, or if a specific message shows up? First time I hear about this i…

Hey there HN, Mostro team here :) In a nutshell: - "If CPU on #worker servers is critical for more than 1 minute, then send alerts via PagerDuty and Slack" - get a server fully mon…

Interesting move and really good news! I'm glad new engines are already being added, particularly Rubocop and Bundler Audit. In the end, I'm confident this will have an important a…

The concept is really nice! BUT WHY OH WHY THE SCROLL HIJACKING?

No, it isn't.

I've been using Xoom to send American dollars to France every two weeks for three years now, it works great, reliably, the interface simple, polished and offers a lot of useful fea…

Wow, really impressive. I tried the first Jazz lesson, completed it, was prompted to register, happily signed up and I'm very excited about the other lessons!

Worth noting: there's a Code Combat challenge on ChallengePost: http://codecombat.challengepost.com You have 50 more days to build a working parser and help others learn to code in…

While this is a cool project, I unfortunately doubt it will convince the 90% of people who don't back up their stuff. I had an idea like that a few months ago after spending time w…

Looks cool! Installation instructions would be a nice plus