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Does your company have a ton of thick-client apps? I feel like so many workloads are on the web right now and thick clients are slowly becoming a thing of the past - but maybe in Enterprise there are still stubborn thick client Win32 apps that are mission critical.

If I were starting a company today I would make sure that the majority of my apps were web based. (CRM[netsuite or sf.com], O365/GoogleDocs, workday|gusto, etc.)

Please consider comparing pg_clickhouse to pgrust.

https://malisper.me/how-we-made-postgres-hundreds-of-times-f...

Re:Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10 on Thursday July 30, 2026 @02:22AM (#49106634)
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Re:Ask HN: Chromebook Leads for K-8 School In Need? on Sunday February 22, 2026 @10:24PM (#47117711)
https://chromeos.google/products/chromeos-flex/

1. Find older Intel Core Based Windows Laptops (at least 6GB of RAM) 2. Put ChromeOS Flex on them 3. Students will be sad it is still ChromeOS, but they will be happy it is like 3x faster.

I had an old Windows laptop laying around and I did this for my 80 yr old parents and they were super happy.

Re:Why CUDA translation wont unlock AMD on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @08:38PM (#45987742)
https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/03/08/AMD-...

https://tinygrad.org/ is the only viable alternative to CUDA that I have seen popup in the past few years.

Re:Why Austin Is Falling Out of Favor for Tech Workers on Monday July 07, 2025 @01:39AM (#44487112)
There are enough people out of work right now (with bills to pay like mortgages, childcare, tuition, etc) that most potential candidates will be more than happy to work in the office for a paycheck.
Dude - who is this person so the world can avoid working with him.
Re:Demystifying Financial Leverage on Friday November 11, 2022 @05:12PM (#33567584)
Economics is supply/demand.

I would focus on investing, particularly defensive investing.

1. 'The Intelligent Investor' By Benjamin Graham 2. 'David F. Swensen' Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment

If you want the easiest allocation possible put some portion of your paycheck in an S&P500 fund and in 40 years you should have enough for retirement.

Good luck!

Re:Musk’s First Email to Twitter Staff Ends Remote Work on Thursday November 10, 2022 @02:35PM (#33551883)
Whatsapp had 1B users with far fewer eng, why is Twitter so big?

Here is my back of the envelope math of how big I think the company should be for their main offering. Over the past years Twitter has acquired a ton of companies, but I'm going to leave them out of this equation.

Eng (250)

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Backend/Storage: 100 eng

Subscriptions: 50

Front-End: 50 eng

iOS App: 20 eng

Android App: 20 eng

UX: 10

Abuse/Moderation (200) ========================= Abuse: 100 Moderation: 100

Marketing/Sales (210)

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PR/Marketing: 30

Ad Sales: 180

Mgmt/overhead (40)

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Legal/GDPR/compliance: 20

HR/Recruiting : 10

CEO/CFO/etc.: 10

What do you think? How far off am I? If more people turn to subscriptions perhaps the abuse/moderation team will shrink in the future.

Product Requirements Documents and Design Documents are a good start. At least then you have a 'human readable' understanding of what they were trying to accomplish. Note that diagrams are often part of a design document.