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by pjlegato 12y ago
Hello, Database Labs founder here. DigitalOcean users are indeed a key market for us, for this reason. Besides DigitalOcean users, if your app is in a reasonably well connected data center, in many scenarios the additional network latency i
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Hello, Database Labs founder here. Yes, our defaults are way better than an out-of-the-box Postgres. That said, we are acutely aware that significant further tuning specific to a particular database's workload can deliver even better p
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Hi, Database Labs founder here. > I am not sure whether not having control over upgrades is a feature or a bug. I think different people will have different answers to that question depending on their circumstances and abilities. Some wa
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Show HN: Database Labs – Postgres as a Service(databaselabs.io)
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Exxon, BP, Shell, Chevron...
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by pjlegato 12y ago
The lines are still there today: https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4070/4642915654_4fbb595e20_z.j...
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by pjlegato 12y ago
I personally agree that it is distasteful. I didn't say it was tasteful. I was pointing out that your 'public shaming' suggestion would be totally ineffective as a means of addressing the problem, since the people who do thes
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Public shaming? Are you joking? The manufacturers advertise these capabilities openly! There are hundreds of them, maybe thousands, and they are in intense competition for your business. Contact a few USB stick vendors on Alibaba and see fo
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Checkmarks (positive, accepted item) are quite often opposed to X marks (negative, undesired item).
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by pjlegato 12y ago
The use of the X symbol to mean "cancel, close" isn't nearly so mysterious as the author claims. "Cross off" and "cross out" are common phrases in English, and traditionally denoted by an X symbol (the &qu
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Almost equivalently, a Muni subway along Geary that wasn't slow, overcrowded, and prone to breakdowns would be transformative. The N-Judah should also become a subway for most of its aboveground route; there's too much traffic now
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by pjlegato 12y ago
I agree, the infrastructure isn't there. The problem is that they do want high density offices, but not high density residences. That just shifts the problem of housing all the workers elsewhere. There needs to be a regional agency to
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by pjlegato 12y ago
It is psychologically advantegous for bourgeois bohemians (rich people who profess liberal or leftist political views) to find a way to magnanimously allow a few poor people to live nearby, so they can disingenuously convince themselves tha
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Rather, rent control is a wealth transfer from "people who have moved recently" to "people who have not moved recently." Poor people move too, all the time, for the same reasons as anyone else. They're the ones who
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Yep. But even the big stick doesn't always work. For example, Silicon Valley cities have managed to indefinitely delay the (approved and funded) state-level plans to upgrade the CalTrain link between San Francisco and San Jose to becom
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by pjlegato 12y ago
They need to start building medium or high density apartments near public transport, not $2m low density McMansions.
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Unlike the Soviet Union or China, we do not have internal passports and residence permits in the United States. Residents are free to move whereever they can rent or buy a place to live. Who do you think is charging those insane rents for a
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by pjlegato 12y ago
There are simply not enough housing units available in Mountain View, etc. Local governments authorized the construction of huge office parks, but deliberately kept residential density very low. They want the economic benefits of big busine
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Compounding the problem, many Silicon Valley cities routinely authorize the construction of huge office parks for tech giants, while explicitly prohibiting the construction of any new housing. The people who work in those offices have to li
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Ack! This does not do anything to increase my confidence in the Maven project's guardianship of our collective security.
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Yes, a very interesting question. It'd be very expensive. It occurs to me that BitTorrent technically solved the problem of high bandwidth costs long ago; millions of people transfer 1.1TB files around every day without worrying about
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by pjlegato 12y ago
All of Maven central is only 180gb, according to https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-mirror-settings.h... How hard would it be to just mirror it to S3 and use it from there via HTTPS?
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by pjlegato 12y ago
This scenario is not far-fetched at all; the Snowden documents indicate that the NSA is already doing exactly this: - http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/16/nsa-bugged-cisco-routers/ - http://www.
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by pjlegato 12y ago
That's another problem with Linux. "Linux" is a kit of 50,000 mostly-compatible little parts. If your hobby is assembling systems out of these parts, that's great; but it's less useful to you if you want to do highe
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by pjlegato 12y ago
A main reason to use Apple products is that the hardware and software are always bundled and guaranteed to work together without any additional tweaking or messing around. You turn it on and it just works. Both Windows and Linux suffer from
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by pjlegato 12y ago
This is precisely the problem with Linux. Everyone wants to work on cool kernel-level stuff or daemon-level stuff; nobody wants to bother with the tedious, unglamorous last-mile work of actually delivering a polished user experience around
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Cool idea, but how do we know that destroyer.io itself is not an elaborate phishing front?
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Is this signficantly different than http://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/ ?
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Er. But you're advocating prior restraint of advocacy of prior restraint.
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Belgian FM accuses Russian government of waging cyberwarfare against EU(bloombergview.com)
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