samk117

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by samk117 9y ago
Can I generally use off-the-shelf postgresql bindings in most languages with CitusDB, or are there things about CitusDB that would require custom bindings? If the latter is true, for what languages are bindings available (ruby/node.js&
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by samk117 9y ago
I will throw money at you if you set up a basic/crappy $5/month (or free!) node that can gradually get upgraded in-place to higher and higher plans to the point where it is using your sharding technology etc.
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by samk117 9y ago
I appreciate your response, but my point is this: people are going to go with the service that they can scale up from $5/month to $28,000/month without any interruptions or switching of providers. It would be great to see you guys
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by samk117 9y ago
Yes, GCP would be extremely desirable.
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by samk117 9y ago
These guys need to add a cheap/freemium tier so small-time developers can scale up their services from nothing. $99/month for their trying-it-out/developer plan is a bit overreaching.
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by samk117 9y ago
update: Because of the popularity of this article here and on Slashdot, and the controversial views I express in it, I have been terminated from my contracting position at my current employer, which was my main source of income. You can rea
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by samk117 9y ago
I could have just written: "Even if we ignore the unpredictability of humans, there are deep, logical, Halting Problem-related reasons why coming up with accurate software development time estimations is idiotic." But then this wo
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by samk117 9y ago
Sorry you'll have to deal, for undergrad I double majored CS and Philosophy. That's literally my favorite 2-sentence section in the entire article, and I spent about 45 minutes to an hour revising just that section for flow and me
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by samk117 9y ago
thanks for the links!
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by samk117 9y ago
^ author here if anyone has any questions or comments!
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The myth of software development time estimation(medium.com)
12 points by samk117 9y ago|7 comments
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by samk117 10y ago
been waiting for this FOREVER
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by samk117 10y ago
translucency
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Writing cross-platform C++ is easier in Node.js than it is outside of Node.js(medium.com)
2 points by samk117 10y ago|0 comments
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by samk117 10y ago
...for mac users