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I accepted early on that working for a startup will probably not make me rich. Quite the opposite, I may wake up one day and find out that I no longer have a job or my next salary …

I'm an individual software contractor and I pay for a personal plan. GitHub UI and UX appeal to me more than competitors do. Also it seems that all the libraries I regularly use ke…

Lada 2101's aren't the same as Fiat 124. Russians bought the designs and rights to manufacture and changed them significantly enough. * Fiat used either OHV or DOHC, Lada used SOHC…

Long story short - I was brave and stood up for myself, demanding the righteous thing. I was 15 years old back then. I had just learned how to code and my hunger for programming wa…

Would you mind sharing where you found leads on technology oriented Slack channels? I'm old school, used to hang out on IRC some 15 years ago, but went silent and passive after sta…

I had such high hopes when I opened the arsenal. I anticipated it would an article of how to write code that's both JavaScript and Python syntactically correct.

Wow, this was a trip down memory lane. In fact it was Frontpage 98 that inspired me to try out my hand at building the web, back in 1999. I was just 10 years old back then. However…

I wish projects like this caught on and became an art trend, as in digital artists would create pieces like this and put them for sale. I love the idea of smart "paintings" that il…

Some suspicions can be clarified. Especially ones with clear photos available. As per online presence - we do not hire people that we have never seen. We're a remote and distribute…

No offence, but googling your name yields some very questionable search results about events in Woodstock, IL. If it's true, then perhaps the true cause of cultural discrepancy com…

If that happens, I feel it's one of the good things, speaking from general perspective on how humans interact with devices. I'm a power user, who discovered f.lux around 3 years ag…

An article about unhealthy desire for prestige has surfaced on HN, a subsidiary of a very prestigious VC firm, a site with clever upvotes and, most importantly, karma system. It st…

Not US, but my wake-up call was my sister purchasing a small apartment for just 8000$ in 2002, in an industrial part of the city, surrounded by beat-up apartment houses and humungo…

So it's the same issue as with many failed startups - solving a problem, that does not look like a problem for the end user. At all.

Software engineers are an interesting bunch... Reading all the bashing comments about Paw not being free, I can't help but feel a vibe, that some people expect to be paid thousands…

Or it would be even greater if it requested/generated all certificates upon configuration file parsing and delayed nginx from taking those values into account until valid certifica…

You do realize that you are breaking the license terms of Apple by installing OS X on non-Apple hardware, right? What the author did is a nice read and a cool tech gig, but it's il…

Norway has one of the highest taxes in the world. Combined with labor laws that are somewhat biased in favour of the employee. Wouldn't it be hard to create a scene like that in a …

Am I the only one who finds it really hard to fathom that it's 19 years? Almost two decades. I don't think I can find a single device that I had 19 years ago, but this takes contin…

I just discovered this, took my time to get acquainted with the whole situation and I must say that I'm amazed! You did a really great job, don't be too hard on yourself. As a deve…

For me(I maintain a purely platonic relationship with JS) it offers an easy choice. An example: I don't have to choose MongoDB over Postgres just because the Yeoman generator that …

MongoDB reminds me of an old saying that if you have a problem and you use a regex to solve it, you end up with two problems. I have personally used MongoDB in production two times…

This is a chip that gets soldered directly on the board. While it is possible to solder this specific chip to a detachable interface that can be removed, I highly doubt anyone will…

It's BGA, so it's soldered onto the motherboard/logic board. Non user upgradeable, and if the SSD dies, you're in for a costly repair. Another step in the direction of (very) dispo…

I have been eyeing Xiaomi for some time and even bought some of their products. And I was not disappointed. Something tells me that it's going to be the next Samsung.