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by pjlegato 12y ago
Addendum: The apparent scope of the icon is browser-wide, not limited to the current page. Since the "power on/off" icon is unqualified, it seems like clicking it will turn the entire plugin on and off, not merely whitelist
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by pjlegato 12y ago
It's not at all obvious what that button does. The icon is typically associated with "power on/off." While I can see how this is supposed to suggest whitelisting in an abstract and metaphoric sense, making that connectio
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Le Video in San Francisco was as good a candidate as any in the world for a saveable video store: they have a huge selection of movies curated by a profoundly knowledgeable staff who can talk cinema for days. They made heroic efforts to poi
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by pjlegato 12y ago
It's not about goal choice at all. "Productivity versus happiness" is not the issue. The specific goal can vary and doesn't matter to the question of whether there is a "right answer." For any arbitrary goal, y
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by pjlegato 12y ago
I explained how science works because the original post says that "strongly divergent opinions" is, in and of itself, probable evidence that the matter is "divisive but inconsequential." This proposition can only follow
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Er. According to the article, all of the studies also found that happiness as an employee suffers on almost all metrics in open plan offices. Having happy employees is a key aspect of running a successful business.
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by pjlegato 12y ago
That a question is controversial does not in itself imply that there is no right answer and it's all just a matter of personal preference. The controversy tells us mainly something about the people holding the divergent opinions, such
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by pjlegato 12y ago
The whole point of the article is that the differences are empirically and objectively measurable on a wide variety of axes, and almost universally against the open office. It is not a question of personal preference. That is, there actuall
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by pjlegato 12y ago
As an east coast transplant, I am still utterly amazed that this sort of thing actually is normal on the west coast: someone is seriously shocked and hurt because someone else "shut you down" by saying "not right now" wh
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by pjlegato 12y ago
We use Clojure in production to run Database Labs, https://www.databaselabs.io . The account management and billing web app is Clojure + Postgres, proxied through nginx. I couldn't be happier with Clojure for webapps.
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Two observations: - Plenty of 4k/month San Francisco apartments get you into terrible public schools. - Inverting your point, at least people in NYC / finance are generally honest and upfront about their desire to make lots of mon
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by pjlegato 12y ago
I'm afraid the reality of being a doctor is not quite so rosy as all that. Take a look at these before you make the decision: - https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=doctors+suicide - https://encrypted.googl
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by pjlegato 12y ago
I said it is "relatively rare"; it is definitely not "typical," as the original poster wrote.
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This does not tell us that it's "typical" for those with health insurance in any sense. It tells us only that bankrupcies of insured people are often caused by health bills. This does not imply the inverse, that insured peopl
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by pjlegato 12y ago
About 16%[1][2] of Americans don't have health insurance. While the situation you describe is tragic and too common, it is a gross exaggeration to say it's "typical." Someone unfamiliar with the United States would read
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by pjlegato 12y ago
It's not about base desires, it's that some people are simply assholes. No amount of training will overcome someone's asshole nature. There is a prevalent and totally erroneous school of thought which naively assumes that peo
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Er. Wow, that's a pretty awesome idea! You can create and update user roles without altering pg_hba.conf, which I think would let you run most of that. What's the case where you'd need to alter pg_hba.conf directly?
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Our guarantee to the customer with regard to the upgrade process is that we will use our best efforts and accumulated knowledge to make the right decisions about how to manage the thorny questions around the upgrade process, to which there
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Interesting. My reading of the 9.4 docs[1][2] is that set_config can't be used to change one-off settings that require a server restart, such as wal_level. It also doesn't seem to be able to change the config file at all. Is there
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Hi, Database Labs founder here. We offer 99.99% uptime, with refunds for outages beyond that. We can set up read replicas manually for you at this stage; a user interface control for that is in the works. Multi-master is not available yet.
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by pjlegato 12y ago
We handle the system-level administration of the server itself. Wal_level, for example, can only be set at server start. We set that in the config file, which users can't edit. Users receive superuser on a blank slate Postgres, and the
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Hi, Database Labs founder here. That phrase could be a little clearer, I agree. I'm going to update the site soon to incorporate the feedback I've gotten. What we mean is that the Postgres system itself is "server / OS l
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Hi, Database Labs founder here. We indeed are very upfront and transparent -- no hidden costs, and no teaser free tier followed by a massive price jackup once you actually get any significant traction. Free tiers also invite abuse by shady
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Yes, users get full Postgres superuser access. You can freely create/delete/update databases, roles/users, privilige assignments, and so on.
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by pjlegato 12y ago
No worries, I think it's good to cover all possibilities rationally, and your feedback helps. We've gone through the same process, too, and come to a somewhat different conclusion. :) We perceive a gap in the market -- as you ment
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Hi, Database Labs founder here. You get superuser access to the Postgres server, so administratively you can do anything at all that can be done from an interactive psql session - create/delete/update databases, roles/users,
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Hi, Database Labs founder here. We do nightly snapshots plus ongoing continuous WAL logging, so yes, you can do point-in-time recovery to any moment in the retention window. The retention window is 14 days minimum, with longer windows avail
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Hello, Database Labs founder here. As others mentioned, we do continuous offsite backups (to Amazon S3) via WAL logging, as well as daily snapshots. I'll be updating the features list soon based on feedback we've gotten here to ma
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Thanks, that seems like a good starting point.
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Hello, Database Labs founder here. Thanks for the feedback. I will be revising the features list shortly to (hopefully) make the unique value proposition clearer based on this and other feedback from this thread. I wrote of some key advanta

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