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  1. A Manifesto for Tech Interviewees

    We've all heard the tech industry's lament that there are not enough software engineers to meet demand but you wouldn't know it judging by some of the brain-dead hiring processes I come across routinely after 20 years…

    3 points 2
  2. What's left for solo devs in a cloud-centric world?

    I've been a freelance solo software engineer for most of my 21 years in the industry but that world seems to be shrinking. My modus operandi is to grab a VPS and run through a config recipe. In half an hour I'm done.…

    5 points 13
  3. Facebook May Have Once Used Coldfusion

    Although Facebook is commonly identified as a PHP site there exists an archived version of Facebook's home page built with Coldfusion: https://web.archive.org/web/20120620044923/http://www.facebook.com/index.cfm . Ph.D…

    10 points 10
  4. Ask HN: Spec of Facebook's First Server?

    Regarding the launch of Facebook in February 2004, all I've been able to glean is that they were initially running the site on a rented server costing $85 per month. Digging around in The Internet Archive for hosting…

    1 points 0
  5. Personal Programmer?

    Decision-makers have personal assistants of various kinds so why not a Personal Programmer? I'm sure anyone proficient in bash/Perl/Ruby/Python could be invaluable for ad hoc automation yet I've never come across this…

    2 points 0
  6. Create React App (294Mb) Compared with Re-Frame (72Mb)

    A new create-react-app project currently weighs-in at 294Mb with a 293Mb node_modules folder containing 1017 modules. A new Clojurescript Re-frame project, by contrast, totals 72Mb of which node_modules makes up 12Mb…

    12 points 12
  7. Node_modules Is a Cancer

    I just scanned my home directory and discovered thousands of node_modules directories filling-up my disk. Many of these are in dot config directories but it seems every bit of software these days contains the obligatory…

    1 points 0
  8. Ask HN: Sources of part-time programming income?

    Employment tends to be all or nothing but often a day's work to provide a basic income while working on a startup idea is what's needed. Recruiters tend not to be interested in part-timers so what kind of programming…

    3 points 1
  9. Ask HN: Wikileaks tech stack?

    I can't find any info about the tech stack used at Wikileaks. I know Rubberhose was written in C but what about the web platform? Did they customise MediaWiki or something like that?

    6 points 0
  10. Ruby gem output has declined significantly in recent months

    According to modulecounts.com Ruby gem output has declined significantly in the last 3 months. For the last 3 years output remained constant at 40 to 50 gems per day but in June it dropped to 33 and the trend seems to…

    3 points 5
  11. Ask HN: Why is Angular 2 size acceptable?

    The recent release of Angular 2 + Router weighs in at a whopping 697k minified. How does this represent progress considering Angular 1 + Router minified is only 166k? Is this really acceptable for CPU-constrained mobile…

    2 points 7