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slykaron Show HN: Zepel, a Jira alternative for product teams

I really love when apps like this are free for small teams.

Most of the time I work alone or with 1-2 people. We would look for free options anyway. Because it's free, I get hooked up and then I stay with the tool for bigger projects.

Looks very appealing. I'll definitely try this for my next project!

slykaron Go is Google's language, not ours

> I wonder why so many companies are happily paying Oracle [...] instead of sponsoring an open source project like PostgreSQL.

Corporate world is ruled by liability. When you are working on a multi-million dollar project and the database breaks, you want to be able to put as much responsibility on the 3-rd party as much as possible.

Open Source projects come with no guarantee. If someone hacks into a system because of a flaw in the Open Source project you are screwed. If it's a software delivered by Oracle, then Oracle is responsible and needs to pay your million dollar fine.

Of course I'm simplifying, because there's probably still a lot of legal process behind it depending on the country, but it's essentially that.

slykaron Rain ruins one of Norway’s richest men

If he were successful with the gambling the news title would probably be different.

It's not the rain that ruins him, it's his decisions.

slykaron Big fish are found deep not because of age, climate, or prey, but because of us

That's because those people (online community) are the same stupid as those who believe earth is flat. They are just on a different side of the barricade, praising the story they are more comfortable with.

I guess they might think that agreeing with science people automatically makes them smart and critical thinking.

slykaron Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It

I had the same feeling in my area, until I came out of the house myself, just to see a lot of youngsters in parks, chilling on the bench, playing on the playground.

But it's just in the summer.

I think back when I was a kid we didn't have anything better to do on colder, moody days. Heck, I myself preferred to stay home and play video games.

slykaron The DisplayPort Pin 20 Problem

I've been bitten by this with almost every cable. I couldn't find a shop that would be able to tell me whether they sell cables that don't do this.

I simply destroyed the pin and isolated it with some paper...