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by avthar 6y ago
Writing on your own domain and blog, and then re-publishing on places like Medium and dev.to etc seems to be the best combination. You get the ownership of your own site, and the reach and SEO of medium and 3rd party publications.
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by avthar 6y ago
Ps the benchmarks cited in [1] for TimescaleDB vs InfluxDB were actually updated in August 2020, so the numbers are fairly recent :)
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by avthar 6y ago
Great job Janelle!
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by avthar 6y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. But it's perhaps a case of "what's obvious to you, but not to others"
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by avthar 6y ago
Wrote up some of my experience with "shower thoughts" as a programmer and writer. Sharing so others who want to be more creative and better problem solvers can benefit
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Why you have your best ideas in the shower(avthar.substack.com)
7 points by avthar 6y ago|3 comments
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by avthar 6y ago
> Send that one last email. Even if it seems like a bit much, or things are settled, just be sure you ask and give the other person a chance to help you in ways you can't predict Good lesson for budding founders or indie devs. Shows
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by avthar 6y ago
This is a good beginners' resource. For those looking for similar Postgres related resources, I've found this handy Postgres Cheat Sheet [1] to be really useful. [1] https://postgrescheatsheet.com
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by avthar 6y ago
Sounds like you need a time-seres database for those sorts of narrow and deep queries :) What's difficult is to find a database that has good performance on both narrow and deep queries (e.g Price of stock X for past 5 years) as well a
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by avthar 6y ago
Perhaps the QuestDB team could add it to the Time Series Benchmarking Suite [1]? It currently supports benchmarking 9 databases including TimescaleDB and InfluxDB. [1] https://github.com/timescale/tsbs
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by avthar 6y ago
Are there any performance comparisons to TimescaleDB and Influx that you can share? A blog post perhaps?
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by avthar 6y ago
This is actually an underrated question. Time-series databases offer better performance and usability for dealing with time-series data (think DevOps metrics, data from IoT devices, stock prices etc, anything where you're monitoring an
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by avthar 6y ago
How about both cases. As a student you're on CPT and OPT. And after you graduate, OPT. Is there a huge difference?
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How to Find Your Strengths(avthar.substack.com)
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by avthar 6y ago
This is sad. Especially for players who had a good season this year like Lewandowski.
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by avthar 6y ago
> The best way to learn something is to teach it...Not only will you learn something by teaching, but you'll also help and inspire others. I especially like the last point about teaching what you learn and how you use accountability
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by avthar 6y ago
For international students in the USA who are looking to found a company, what's the path look like immigration wise? I know you can go down the H1-B, O-1 or Green Card route, but what do you commonly advise?
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by avthar 6y ago
Wanted to share this reflection on the importance of "Founder Mentality", and how to apply it both as a founder and an employee
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Founder Mentality(avthar.substack.com)
1 points by avthar 6y ago|1 comments
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by avthar 6y ago
It seems you can use the Postgres.app and install TimescaleDB on it Here's some instructions on how to do so: https://github.com/slashdotdash/til/blob/master/postgres/ins...
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Principles of Chamath Palihapitiya(brandonzhang.com)
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Disrupting Disruption(divinations.substack.com)
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by avthar 6y ago
No intention to insult - just trying to get more context :)
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by avthar 6y ago
Curious what you found difficult to deploy/ configure? Is this in a self-managed context?
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by avthar 6y ago
Echoing the sentiment expressed by others here, for a scalable time-series database that continues to invest in its community and plays well with others, please check out TimescaleDB. We (I work at TimescaleDB) recently announced that multi
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The Resume is Dead. And Content Killed It.(avthar.com)
1 points by avthar 6y ago|0 comments
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Platform or Aggregator? Key decisions for business in a box companies(nbt.substack.com)
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Is Apple Rent Seeking with the App Store? (2018)(stratechery.com)
20 points by avthar 6y ago|10 comments
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Developer Relations in the Covid Era(medium.com)
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Never Ending Niches(stratechery.com)
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