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I came here just to post that link. I still have that song in my head when I hear the word "floppy".

Kinda reminds of the time Microsoft used git internally but was pushing Team Foundation Server.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br4-VsvRcII

For Go, we've been using this library which supports ZSTD. https://github.com/klauspost/compress

Founder of Smarty here, so there's some obvious bias. We've been in the geocoding space for over 12+ years. A geocoding API should be easy to set up, deliver rooftop-accurate geoco…

Debian is fat?? I always thought it was a nice, minimalist server distro.

We use Nomad where I work and we LOVE it. Previous to Nomad we used K8s for several years which, at that point, allowed us to become cloud agnostic. With the move to Nomad about 3+…

I just replied to an earlier message on this thread with the same offer: I’d love to have you email your mailing address to support@smarty.com with a link to this HN thread. We may…

Send your address to support@smarty.com and link to this HN thread. I’ll keep an eye watching out for it. I’d love to see what our system does with your address. We have non-postal…

Thanks for the shout-out. Founder of Smarty here. Regarding article, it really depends on the use case of whether to use ZIP Code (TM), postal code, Canada Post Forward Sortation A…

A.Z. Fell has a decent bookshop but when I called recently they said: "Fell's Bookshop. We probably don't have what you're looking for and we wouldn't sell it to you if we did."

They should put it on all of their officially supported ones too! https://killedbygoogle.com/

This reminds me of the droid in the 1987 Robocop movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYsulVXpgYg What could go wrong?

Why would you start with the two-smartest species on the planet? [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_th...

Aeron is another awesome project from Martin Thompson (Disruptor, Simple Binary Encoding, Mechanical Sympathy, etc.). That guy really knows his stuff regarding performance.

Obligatory Spaceballs reference about combing the desert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYge6ehH9fo

I probably shouldn't mention how much seawater I accidentally swallow whenever I'm in the ocean swimming.

When I saw this idea all I could think of was the ASP.NET "postback" form data and URL data! I'm glad to not have to deal with that anymore.

I only had Notepad (the default Windows text editor). I longed for Microsoft Frontpage and HoTMetaL and Dreamweaver. Looking back, I'm glad gained experience on the native experien…

I've been running Arch Linux for about 2 years two high-powered desktop machines (home and work). I run `sudo pacman -Syu` every day and I've only had one video driver update (nvid…

Just bought the 12-pack version. I love Julia's website.

Lab grown? That's beyond impossible.

Whenever these tales arise, I can't help but read them. I know that they're not particularly relevant to anything I do or even have done. Even so, it's like watching an archeologic…

My favorite quote from the article: > Watching non-programmers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf.

I have a co-worker who was in charge of the build system at WordPerfect back in the early 90's. He worked on the the UNIX edition and he managed the whole workflow using a series o…