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by brandur 10y ago
(I'm a developer at Stripe who helps maintain our language bindings.) +1. The original system was designed to be as flexible as possible and had the advantage of being able to support many different integrations that were straddling ma
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by brandur 10y ago
CitusDB is essentially vanilla Postgres now that they've moved their implementation to an extension. It won't specifically address the problems posted here, but will solve other ones like trying to scale a system beyond a single n
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by brandur 10y ago
Interesting post! While I suspect that a MySQL installation is just as likely to have its own problems in the long run, I'm not smart enough to provide any kind of compelling point-by-point refutation. However, a number of the points m
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by brandur 10y ago
Agreed. San Francisco, for example, still has many SROs in operation, and it's not even remotely clear whether they're a net benefit. That said, I think they might be onto something with respect to affordable places to live. I&#x2
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by brandur 10y ago
Can anyone with direct and frequent experience with Amazon Drive comment on how well the product's been working out for them overall? I've just been playing with its interface a little bit, and although its interface is unquestion
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by brandur 10y ago
> Does that setting apply to any subdirectory? The article linked in a comment above states otherwise. No, unfortunately it doesn't. One workaround that I use is to upload files without an extension and explicitly set their content
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Introducing Heroku Teams(blog.heroku.com)
12 points by brandur 10y ago|1 comments
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by brandur 10y ago
> This will be highly subjective but you need to get over the "postgresql has the longest feature list so why don't you use it". I think if you re-read it, you might see that at no point did the post that you're reply
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by brandur 10y ago
Many are fixed for the entire duration of the mortgage's length (e.g. 25 years). You can find variable rates as well though. Being from Canada, I couldn't believe that this was possible when I first came down here because it seems
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by brandur 10y ago
There's no question that it's a major factor. Even well-heeled individuals/couples don't take out mortgages on the order of $800,000 if they don't get minuscule rates on the order of ~3%. Banks wouldn't be able
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by brandur 11y ago
> Plans start at $1,800 a month, with the introductory plan including a total of 48 GB of memory for your database (one primary node and two compute nodes, each with 16 GB of RAM and two cores). You may need something that's a littl
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by brandur 11y ago
> Data durability > > As a data service our first priority is keeping your data safe. We utilize WAL-E (link is external), the popular continuous archiving tool for Postgres. A slight aside, but it's definitely worth looking a
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by brandur 11y ago
It might be worth taking a look at Citus, which provides a roughly equivalent distribution and sharing story for Postgres. It's also recently been reworked as an extension and now available as open source [1] so that you can run it you
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by brandur 11y ago
Yes, exactly. You could fork Go and add generics support, but you'd be maintaining that fork forever. The Go core team would never allow it to go back upstream.
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by brandur 11y ago
Thanks for the reply! Although it's generally fun to run these things in the cloud so that you can get a working service online, I'll definitely give the Vagrant deploy a shot.
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by brandur 11y ago
It's pretty unfortunate, but penalizing the airlines financially is the only way that they'll stop kowtowing to these sorts of unreasonable requests. Hopefully if this goes through, similar lawsuits will be brought against non-Isr
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by brandur 11y ago
Excellent work here! I've only started looking into Kubernetes recently, but it's obvious that a truly magnificent amount of work has been sunk into this project, and the sophistication of its features really shows it. One thing t
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by brandur 11y ago
It's true, but you might want to give them a pass on this one. The post isn't attributed to any particular author, but it looks like the top five contributors are all Japanese: https://github.com/gitbucket/git
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by brandur 11y ago
I think the trouble there is just that many other modern languages haven't taken the extreme stance on typing that Go has. It's much easier to learn say, Rust or Scala, than it is to fork and maintain a branch of Go, and there&#
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by brandur 11y ago
When we talk about "big" patches, it's probably worth examining full change sets. The changes for removing vacuuming are here [1]. Compare that to those for the "biggest" 9.5 feature, upsert [2] (by Peter Geoghegan)
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by brandur 11y ago
I see this sort of strong arming happening in San Francisco pretty frequently. It all makes a lot more sense when you consider that the drivers know that even they accidentally push it a little too far and kill someone, there won't be
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by brandur 11y ago
Exactly! It's a little questionable that the linked website doesn't mention the existence of these types of records considering how widespread they are these days. Every DNS host I've used in the last five years has supported
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by brandur 11y ago
If I was a betting man, I'd side with you on this one in that low interest rates may be a permanent fixture until the Fed has pushed to the extreme and the system can bend no further. Can you elaborate on why you think it's "
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by brandur 11y ago
Impressively, not only is there what looks like a fairly complete API, but it's shipped and part of their language bindings already. Go interface (the docs haven't been updated as of yet): https://github.com/aws&#x
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Tim Harford: An economist’s dreams of a fairer gig economy(timharford.com)
5 points by brandur 11y ago|0 comments
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T-Shirts Unravelled (data on changes in size over time and sizes between brands)(threadbase.com)
3 points by brandur 11y ago|0 comments
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by brandur 11y ago
Regarding the fifth point on SSL, I agree, but I'd recommend investigating a combined Heroku and Cloudflare stack as I've described here: https://brandur.org/fragments/cloudflare-ssl You can stay on the free
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by brandur 11y ago
Just for anyone else who was curious, here's some more information on the Citadel: http://goldeneye.wikia.com/wiki/Citadel It wasn't really an intended secret. It sounds like to make it accessible, a player h
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Rate Limiting, Cells, and GCRA (+ Go Implementation, Throttled)(brandur.org)
3 points by brandur 11y ago|0 comments
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by brandur 11y ago
Exactly. The linked video is slightly dated (about a year old), but it's recent enough that he's able to talk about modern languages (Go, Rust, and D) and why he doesn't believe that they'll be suitable for practical gam

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