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Re:I won $400 by coding and playing games on Monday July 19, 2021 @10:30AM (#27883018)
Ah, the winner didn't had to raise tricky PRs, which get scanned multi times with a fine tooth comb, unlike a bug bounty. or go through negotiation rounds to prove it's a bug or loophole in the first place. It's clean
Re:Redis 5.0 RC1 is out on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @01:37PM (#17181280)
Wow, humbleness embodied! As great is redis,so is the maker.
Re:Hard and Soft Skills in Tech on Friday December 29, 2017 @12:22PM (#16030517)
Technology and technologists are to solve the problems, they're not the problem or a part of it.

I have spent more than a decade working with brilliant technologists but haven't found anyone impossible to work with. As in technology, I have found some compatibility issues among/with technologists, but that can be worked out.

Also I have seen some technologists are unable to put forth a strong defense verbal or written when accused wrongly and thus becoming aunt Sally, people find them easier to put blame on.

Re:KSQL: Open Source Streaming SQL for Apache Kafka on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @01:44PM (#15126128)
this link is broken in the article [step through the demo yourself](https://github.com/confluentinc/ksql/blob/0.1.x/docs/demo.md...)
Re:Ask HN: What's the story behind Git vs. Mercurial war? on Friday February 03, 2017 @02:30PM (#13562505)
BitKeeper had been used for the version control requirements of the Linux kernel project. Mackall decided to write a distributed version control system as a replacement for use with the Linux kernel. This project started a few days after another project called Git, initiated by Linus Torvalds with similar aims

Source: wikipedia

Interestingly, both picked negative names. Git: simpleton, contemptible Mercurial: in the sense of fickle

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