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One of my favorite pieces of technical writing is Brandur Leach’s “Transactionally Staged Job Drains in Postgres” where he reasons through the outbox pattern from first principles.…

Ironic to show ads only to your users with the least spending power. Me thinks this will not last. Once the ads get “good enough” they will be everywhere.

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Hi HN! This is a silly side project I built for my friends and I. You submit your body measurements and let AI figure out what sport you may have a competitive advantage in, given …

I just want to express my gratitude to Wes and the team of people who worked on this. I had to go back and read it twice that it's been 10 years since the PR for v5 was opened. Tha…

I propose we call these engineers Fungineers

Really cool! But your site could really benefit from having more examples. One image is not enough. Maybe you can link to an instagram account with examples that users share with y…

Because Nacha (and ACH) is explicitly not a government system

I’ve been enjoying the ByteByteGo newsletter. The content is often very abbreviated, but the breadth of topics touched on keeps it interesting. I always learn a little bit about so…

Yes - 5 years ago I had my own small startup building Shopify apps. The business wasn’t growing as fast as I’d have liked and so I was taking on part time contract work on the side…

I read it for the first time last year and found most of it still very relevant. And there’s an updated version with a chapter on http/2. I’d love to see an http/3 chapter added.

Eh, I’d bet the arbitrage window is pretty brief, and that prices will fall closer to $0.15 pretty quickly.

Cool. Where have you found good coaches for these activities?

Intelligence Squared[1] did a debate on this topic. It's definitely worth listening to. To summarize a couple of the more compelling arguments in the camp _against_ extending lifes…

> Also do the same rules hold for higher up in the management (like say for instance the CEO ;-)). Brian Halligan (the author) is the CEO.

AA was built on their wholesale business, and only later built their direct sales model. So it's hard for me to believe 'edgy' had much to do with their initial growth. As of Q1 20…

Good points. Sometimes value added becomes much clearer after a product or feature has been built and people are using it, in which case we don't have the option of choosing how fa…

In the opening paragraphs of this First Round article http://firstround.com/review/speed-as-a-habit/, Dave Girouard, CEO of Upstart and former Google Exec, states: ==== "I’ve long …