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by barnabask 8y ago
Top highlight: "When the execs are extremely smart people making ten times what you do, there’s a tendency to give them the benefit of the doubt." So true. Even with concrete data to back up an unpopular opinion, one tends to seco
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by barnabask 8y ago
I wonder if Amazon Aurora is what you’re looking for: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/ Does anyone have any real world experience with this, in comparison to these more traditional DBaaS offerings? Not sure if i
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by barnabask 8y ago
The calculator doesn't factor in IOPS, and that's good to know, thanks. I just wanted a blunt tool to get a feel for these vendors' price points at least using the common denominators of memory, CPU, and storage. I could be w
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by barnabask 8y ago
Fixed that just now, thank you!
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by barnabask 8y ago
For a hobby project that I wouldn't expect to monetize, $200 is too much, I totally agree. For a side project that makes some passive income however, I would hope to start out under $50 and scale up as needed.
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by barnabask 8y ago
Thanks Graphguy, I didn't know about that. I'll check it out. Finding out about other options was part of my motivation of putting this out in the world.
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by barnabask 8y ago
I totally agree. But, I wrestled with putting the AWS numbers at the 1-year commitment level when none of the other vendors have that requirement. In the end I decided that was the level of commitment I'd put toward a side-project.
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by barnabask 8y ago
Good suggestion, I'll work on it, thanks! I'm trying to keep the comparison apples-to-apples, and I believe only their dedicated instances ($50 and up) provide the PostGIS extension. That's kind of a requirement for the proje
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PostgreSQL DBaaS vendor comparison and calculator(barnabas.me)
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by barnabask 12y ago
The irony of a scientific paper dissecting the popularity of "Socially Awkward Penguin" is thick.
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by barnabask 12y ago
I'm reminded of the cartoon where a man is feeding money into a vending machine labeled "Gullibility Test $1.00"
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by barnabask 12y ago
Given the jaunty tone of the documentation, I really think they missed an opportunity to somehow have a "Beard Papa" version. Randomly inserts cream puff ingredients or something.
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by barnabask 13y ago
Actually, this is the glimmer of hope. eBay bought Skype in 2007 for $2.5 billion hoping for "synergy". It left a lot of people scratching their heads. When they sold Skype to MSFT for $8.5 billion 5 years later then it didn'
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by barnabask 13y ago
I felt the same way when he was doing Armadillo Aerospace too. There are more people than JC who have said: "I invented some cool tech, made a lot of money, started a family, and also I think I'll start a rocket company on the sid
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by barnabask 13y ago
On one hand I think this is an innovative presentation, and I enjoyed the creativity. Also I like fonts. On the other hand, (and this is a critique of scrolling/parallax navigation in general), as a user I always feel like I'm doi
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by barnabask 13y ago
When I literally want to use the word "literally" literally, I will now say "non-figuratively", as in "I non-figuratively cannot believe it's come to this."
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by barnabask 13y ago
Ultimate Tic tac toe, check. Angular, check. Firebase, check. GitHub, check. I cooked exactly this recipie a month ago: https://github.com/Barnabas/tictac9x . I'm not complaining; delighted actually. This game is a
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by barnabask 13y ago
Here's an example of that kind of situation happening for a fire department in Tennassee: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/10/04/122193/county-f...