rorygibson

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by rorygibson 9y ago
I agree about Slack's search - it can be slow too. (I actually had so much of a problem with this that I built my own enterprise search tool for my Slack, Trello and GDrive, and now I'm productizing it - https://getctx.
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by rorygibson 9y ago
Hi Jacob, That should be fixed now - I've emailed you directly to discuss :-)
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by rorygibson 9y ago
Founder / author here. tl;dr - I spend too long trying to find that email I know I have around here somewhere. Or was it a Slack message?! Coulda been a Trello ticket... so I built something that helps. CTX - https://getct
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Show HN: Tool that searches your cloud apps (Trello, Slack, JIRA) in one shot(getctx.io)
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by rorygibson 9y ago
Replacing other forms of communication is always a non-starter; every org builds up data legacy in the various tools they've tried out over the years. (Shameless plug: that's why I built CTX - https://getctx.io - a Saa
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by rorygibson 9y ago
The "organisational memory" point is one of the driving factors behind the tool / startup I'm building. https://getctx.io tl;dr - It's basically all the good bits of Enterprise Search, but set up to pull
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by rorygibson 9y ago
tbh I haven't looked into PostgreSQL as a direct competitor to ES in the text search space, mostly because I have quite a lot of ES experience of things like aggregation for faceting, stemming and textual analysis, and I had a (perhaps
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by rorygibson 9y ago
Hi devj, You're absolutely correct that an RDBMS would be an odd solution for a search index * Anyway, on CTX I use PostgreSQL for storing things that deserve to be relational - job control, batching, users, accounts, billing, invitati
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by rorygibson 9y ago
Yeah it works quite well. As usual, the biggest problems are with video and mics in meeting rooms with bad acoustics. Everything else is good. #achievements works especially well because it gives a persistent, short-form log that people can
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by rorygibson 9y ago
I've previously run with a #standup channel in Slack for distributed teams, where everyone makes sure there's an update in-channel at 0900 GMT of what they did in the preceding time they worked. Plus an #achievements channel where
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by rorygibson 9y ago
EDIT: oops, link updated. Thanks justinclift! Performance, mainly. Partitioning mean your data can be spread across more physical areas (or FS partitions, or whatever) at lower level, giving the database (and you) more control of performan
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by rorygibson 9y ago
As a long time user of MySQL, I've switched to PostgreSQL for my most recent startup precisely because the PostgreSQL team continue to innovate in a sensible way. One of the core requirements is a stable, fast and reliable initial impo
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by rorygibson 9y ago
Cold calling is not illegal in the UK, for either consumer or B2B. There are, however, restrictions. Here's a good summary. http://www.inbrief.co.uk/consumer-law/cold-calling-and-the-l... And here are the actual
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by rorygibson 9y ago
I built CTX - https://getctx.io - to help me find stuff in all my cloud services. Years of leading agency and consultancy projects for other people and never being able to remember whether stuff was in a Trello card, a Slack mes