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sdiepend

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I really appreciate you taking your chances and building something for yourself and being able the live off of it is even better. I'd call it "hack your life" ;) and find Timwi's reaction overly negative.

I also share the feeling it could have been a Tell HN instead of a Show HN.

But let's be honest, of course you want to promote your product. It's not a bad thing to admit that.

Diving into a old undocumented codebase and then deleting code, rewriting code and document it without breaking stuff can be more challenging than designing and writing new code.

> we don’t use DNS internally — just configuration-managed /etc/hosts files

This seems very odd and redundant. Does someone manually edit all servers when a new server comes online?

That's what configuration management does for you, edit the file in one place(preferable it's also in version control) and it will change it on every system for you. Some config mangement "tools" that do this for you: Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Saltstack, ...

We have a global economy but not a global tax system or a global set of rules. That's the essence of the issue here I think. What also happens is countries upping one another with lower taxes and exceptions to attract big companies hoping to get some (small) benefit from it.