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PostgreSQL 9.6 Released(postgresql.org)
553 points by sheff 10y ago|128 comments
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by sheff 10y ago
"The Mind Illuminated" ( https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Illuminated-Complete-Meditation-... ) is very good, and contains all you need for your practice. The author is both a long term meditator and used to be a neuro
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by sheff 13y ago
One of the great things about Ruby at the moment is the number of Ruby implementations around, including several Ruby like languages which attempt to do things slightly differently. Crystal is one language with Ruby like syntax and the goal
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by sheff 13y ago
I wish, instead of adding new features, they had a release which dealt with all the problems from previous versions. Its generally a good product, but one thing that I find really annoying (with the Rubymine branch of the product) is the wa
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by sheff 13y ago
This looks great! The upcoming developer edition that will work with templates sounds really useful as well. Any plans to support the SASS version of Bootstrap ?
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Logical Decoding in upcoming Postgres 9.4(depesz.com)
2 points by sheff 13y ago|0 comments
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by sheff 13y ago
Looking at the Sibdo pricing page, it looks like much higher pricing (compared to the more established competitors) at $95 a month for use on a SINGLE website with a confusing limitation to "50 users" whatever that means. Not only
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by sheff 13y ago
The linked post says : "I think we shouldn't release 9.4 unless it goes in." I haven't been following the PG developers mailing list that closely recently and the article doesn't go into any details as to why it may
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by sheff 13y ago
Another very simple thing I use when procrastination strikes is Seth Roberts Magic Dots technique. ( http://blog.sethroberts.net/category/procrastination/magic-d... ) He came up with it based on reinforcement stud
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by sheff 13y ago
Continuous archiving (WAL) is something quite different from incremental backups. Incremental backups involve taking a full backup once in a while and then making interim backups of the changes since the base backup. WAL ( or archive logs i
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by sheff 13y ago
Postgres is a fantastic database. That said, I've also used Oracle quite extensively in the past when clients have needed it and it has some features that would be great to have in Postgres - as well as some features which we won'
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by sheff 13y ago
If you make a low enough offer that they can't accept, they will tell you and they have told me in the past that its because its below the sellers reserve. Whois may also give you a clue as to who owns the domain. They have fairly dec
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by sheff 13y ago
Something else to look forward to in 2014 for Rails performance, along with the planned arrival of JRuby 9k !
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by sheff 13y ago
I have bought domains from them in the past. I would start off by offering half (as a maximum, less if you can) and sticking to the offer. The thing to remember is that they may have acquired the domain for registration price so even $2000
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by sheff 13y ago
This sort of thing is happening increasingly frequently. I really like the idea of AskPatents ( http://patents.stackexchange.com ). It seems to me that as developers we need a similar site where people can start objecting to ove
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by sheff 13y ago
I'd definitely pay for a tool like this but as a desktop application with perhaps an annual license fee, rather than as a hosted SAAS which needs access to Github repositories. The FAQ ( https://www.pullreview.com/site&
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by sheff 13y ago
Instead of scraping HN directly, have you looked at the HN Search API, from the old HN search engine ? ( https://www.hnsearch.com/api ) The current search engine looks like it also has an API ( https://hn.algolia
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Ask HN: Which JavaScript frameworks do you recommend in 2014?
1 points by sheff 13y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Do you run a SAAS app?
15 points by sheff 13y ago|18 comments
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The Top 7 Best Linux Distros for 2014(linux.com)
2 points by sheff 13y ago|0 comments
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by sheff 13y ago
I personally would love to be able to donate more to open source (specifically Postgres and some of its related projects) but I haven't found a way yet which meets my few simple criteria. * The money has to specifically go to developer
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Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition review(jx0.org)
141 points by sheff 13y ago|165 comments
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5 Years of SaaS Growth: Every Month, Exact Numbers(unicornfree.com)
16 points by sheff 13y ago|0 comments
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by sheff 13y ago
On a happier note, here is a list of authors whose works will be entering the public domain tomorrow in various parts of the world. http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/12/10/class-of-2014/
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PgModeler - PostgreSQL Database Modeler(pgmodeler.com.br)
1 points by sheff 13y ago|0 comments
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by sheff 13y ago
Have you looked at Rubymine ? I have used its model diagrams in the past to get an overview of models, and it also has class diagrams. http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/webhelp/viewing-model-dependen...
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by sheff 13y ago
For any HN'ers based in London the British Library in St Pancras is a fantastic resource, and their Business and IP Centre ( http://www.bl.uk/bipc/ ) has an easy signup for a Readers Pass for entrepreneurs.
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by sheff 13y ago
Your testing VM setup sounds like it might be really useful for the pgjdbc-ng project (a project to create a new JDBC driver for Postgres). I was looking through the project issues on Github yesterday, prior to starting to play around with
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by sheff 13y ago
Translation rights for books in human languages are a well established thing. I wonder if there's any analogue for technical books using a particular computing language, ie the base explanatory text is kept the same (as much as possibl
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by sheff 13y ago
I agree - one of the areas it would be great to have some development work done around is making replication administration simpler and easier. One feature which would be really nice to have is the ability to do a manual switchover, ie maki

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