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by bredman 10y ago
IMO it's not that bad, people are used to paying locksmiths that much when locked out of houses or vehicles.
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by bredman 12y ago
The one constant that seems to come up in all these founder stories is that you better love what you're doing. There's no guarantee that your new business will be successful or profitable but it seems inevitable you will sink near
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by bredman 12y ago
It's not as easy as it could be but you can accomplish aggregate pushdown by using executor hooks in your FDW. As an example I'd point you to our (Citus Data) recent work on doing this with our columnar store foreign data wrapper:
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by bredman 12y ago
Thanks, I haven't looked at Udacity much so I'll give that look. I like using Python as it's a bit practical. To clarify her goal isn't to land a job, just to learn a new skill and be able to relate to her coworkers that
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by bredman 12y ago
Thanks! Reminding myself of her feedback I think that pacing might be a significant issue which is something I hadn't considered too much (oddly). She's someone that has lots of computer experience but the closest she's gotte
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Ask HN: Best online programming class for newbies?
4 points by bredman 12y ago|6 comments
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by bredman 12y ago
"So the government can have a monopoly in a space" - always a good reason to ban a successful private enterprise.
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by bredman 12y ago
Interesting but the devil is in the details with systems like this and the article doesn't go into much of that. I do like the decision to separate AtlasDB from the underlying K/V store.
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by bredman 12y ago
The business implications of this are interesting. In my opinion this is another warning shot that if you don't open source your business someone else may just do it for you. If I was LiveFyre or Disqus I'd definitely be nervous a
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by bredman 12y ago
Interesting, I've have had the exact opposite experience for #2. If there's a movie, or TV show that I want to watch I'd rather pay $5 to watch it than just be told it's not available. This has had such a strong effect o
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by bredman 12y ago
The benchmarks use cstore_fdw which is a columnar store that is accessed via the PostgreSQL foreign data wrapper system. ICMS is a different implementation of a columnar store for PostgreSQL. I don't know it extremely well but my under
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by bredman 12y ago
If you use cstore_fdw with PostgreSQL you can use the full PostgreSQL SQL dialect for querying your table. However, we don't currently support writing to your cstore_fdw table using SQL commands like INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE. Pos
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by bredman 12y ago
Actually CitusDB, which we also produce, does distribute data and queries across a PostgreSQL cluster. You can see some performance comparisons of using cstore_fdw on CitusDB in the blog post and the performance improvements are even more s
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by bredman 12y ago
Ben from CitusData here. At a high level columnar stores are good for analytical workloads and not great for OLTP workloads. Some reasons for this: * cstore_fdw currently only supports modifying data via the COPY command. This means that UP
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by bredman 12y ago
To clarify, you can already pay to watch past seasons of Game of Thrones on Amazon Video on Demand in the US. It's just not included for free with Prime which as I understand is the change that's happening for a subset of HBO cont
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by bredman 12y ago
For those curious here's a similar post from ~4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1411937
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by bredman 12y ago
In the article there's a screenshot that strongly implies the ads will be coming via email ("this consent supersedes any prior email unsubscribe notification I may have with AT&T")
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by bredman 12y ago
I love the "I LOVE ENGAGING WITH BRANDS" text in the screenshot.
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by bredman 12y ago
This was released on March 28th: http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2014/03/announcing-g... Guess this is just on the front page because of XKCD about the other Google DNS product?
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by bredman 12y ago
I feel like they have to stop at some point but I agree this would make much more sense than something like Oculus Rift. I can imagine lots of great ways to integrate this into Facebook.
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Mexican entrepreneurs inspired by SF build a mezcal startup(npr.org)
2 points by bredman 12y ago|0 comments
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by bredman 13y ago
Am I the only one that's not that impressed by 2 hours of downtime a year? I've worked at other companies where I was responsible for running a service and 2 hours of downtime a year was considered a failure.
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by bredman 13y ago
I think this means not all outages tracked affected all users equally. Some users would have seen more or less downtime than the 2 hours mentioned.
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by bredman 13y ago
Could someone explain DJB's point to me: Cryptographers are certainly not responsible for this superstitious nonsense. Think about this for a moment: whoever wrote the /dev/random manual page seems to simultaneously
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by bredman 13y ago
IMO this is the most widely trusted standard benchmark: http://www.tpc.org/information/benchmarks.asp . However not everyone publishes benchmarks and there are a number variations for different workloads to consider. If
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by bredman 13y ago
I'm not a CloudFlare expert but my guess is that there are some risks to the "bleeding edge" optimizations. The decision probably comes down to a trade-off of how much you want to minimize risk and support older browsers in e
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by bredman 13y ago
I think he did this to show how even with a very restricted dictionary you could still build a relatively secure login system. Having a restricted dictionary could also help with the issues other people are discussing with humans being soci
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by bredman 13y ago
It came out in theaters first, they acquired the rights to it after it had been released there. The best I can find about availability on Netflix is "early this year".
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by bredman 13y ago
I see your point; ALIAS records are not a CNAME substitute and should not be treated as one. However, they do have their uses and the risk is minimal if you understand what ALIAS records are doing and how to use them. I'm having a bi
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by bredman 13y ago
I think the article short changes the value of startups that can be described as a specialization of another. There's lots of differentiation that can happen in a single space across verticals. Think about what features are important t

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