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Providing well-written documentation helps people understand, make use of, and contribute back to your project, but it’s only half of the documentation equation. The underlying system used to serve documentation can make life easier for the people writing…
6 January 2015Hacker News
On September 29, 2014, CloudFlare, a web security company and CDN provider, announced that they would begin offering free, automatic SSL to all its customers (including those on their free plan). This is an enormous step forward for enhancing security and…
6 January 2015Planet Mozilla
Here’s an obvious statement that has some subtle consequences: Only an individual programmer can resolve code complexity. That is, resolving code complexity requires the attention of an individual person on that code. They can certainly use appropriate…
6 January 2015LWN.net
Here is a lengthy post from Tim Cuthbertson on the virtues of building servers with NixOS. "It should hopefully be obvious at this point why NixOS is better than puppet: Both are declarative, but puppet is impure and non-exhaustive - when you apply a…
5 January 2015Planet Mozilla
A/B tests are a simple way to determine the effect caused by a change in a software product against a baseline, i.e. version A against version B. An A/B test is essentially an experiment that indiscriminately assigns a control or experiment condition to…
5 January 2015Hacker News
CGI-Node provides the ability to run JavaScript on any web server just like PHP as a CGI using Essentially allowing developers to use a single programming language, JavaScript, for both client and server. You can even run the same code (libraries) on the…
4 January 2015Hacker News
3 January 2015Hacker News
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. I am starting this thread in desire to document ZFS (FreeBSD) and HAMMER1 (DragonFlyBSD) feature differences for people who are interested in…
3 January 2015Hacker News
3 January 2015Hacker News
Much time has passed since AngularJS birth (given the fact how fast front-technologies evolve). Now on the internet, there are a huge amount of posts praising this framework, and the critics are not so many as it deserves. But such posts are slowly…
3 January 2015