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PostgreSQL 9.2 Beta 1 Released(postgresql.org)
4 points by sheff 14y ago|0 comments
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by sheff 14y ago
Have you tried one of the website selling marketplaces like Flippa.com ?
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IamA European billionaire who is launching a new Airline in Africa - Reddit IAmA(reddit.com)
1 points by sheff 14y ago|0 comments
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by sheff 14y ago
One of the other nice things about Postgres is the pretty much annual release of a new version. 9.2 should apparently hit beta in the next week or so, which will bring some cool new features : http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2
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by sheff 14y ago
repmgr is one option but its still command line. In my opinion Postgres is more likely to gain traction in Unix environments where it can replace MySQL pretty much anywhere and Oracle in quite a few use cases. I like Postgres, however in my
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by sheff 14y ago
I've had the same annoyances/issues when using recent base Ubuntu distros. I really dislike alterations in user interfaces for what seems to be little end benefit, so looked around and found Xfce and LXDE which both have Ubuntu variants. I
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Sharding Postgres at Instagram(databasesoup.com)
12 points by sheff 14y ago|1 comments
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by sheff 14y ago
Rails 4 looks like it will have some nifty features - anyone have any information on when the first Release Candidate will be ?
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by sheff 14y ago
This will definitely make me buy more Tor books. I'm one of the "voracious" readers that Charlie mentions and while I really like the Kindle DX hardware, I'm increasingly concerned at being tied into an Amazon ecosystem long term. Baen, O'R
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Replacing music talent show judges with AI(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by sheff 14y ago|0 comments
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by sheff 15y ago
You're absolutely right, there is still a lot of dross in there without a doubt - probably because very few people sell their decent, stable, money making sites. I use it as more of an idea generator and its one of the few places where you
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by sheff 15y ago
Flippa has a lot of sales listings of somewhat questionable value. However the "Just Sold" section ordered by descending price is a good place to look for valuable business niches, as it filters out a lot of the spammier listings : https:/
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by sheff 15y ago
Unless the penalties from Google are long term I can't see this as being very effective, as you would assume competent SEOs will just tweak their processes in response. From what I've read over the years, basic SEO mainly boils down to : -
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by sheff 15y ago
Couldn't help but laugh at this bit from the linked article : "It even has a nice restful API so you can spawn companies and file for bankruptcy 100 companies/second. If you want more there is a premium plan."
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by sheff 15y ago
One of my favourite tech entrepreneurs. If any of you haven't read Michael Lewis's "The New New Thing" ( http://www.amazon.com/New-Thing-Silicon-Valley-Story/dp/0393... ) its a great book about Jim Clark and the dotcom boom.
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by sheff 15y ago
I also had a problem with this URL being inaccessible from my phone without logging into Google. The course they are talking about is this one : http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs253 .
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by sheff 15y ago
Somewhat off topic, but I remembered the author of this Excel add in's "Ask HN" when it first came out ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=794317 ). 2 or 3 years later, it looks like he's expanded and now has 2 software products and a S
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by sheff 15y ago
The keyboard is what I look at first as well, as I dislike laptops without a decent arrow key layout. Engadget ( http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/10/dells-xps-13-ultrabook-an... ) had some pics recently, including some of the keyboard.
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by sheff 15y ago
If your window tiling needs are simple, check out Spectacle ( http://spectacleapp.com/ ). Its open source as well.
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by sheff 15y ago
EnterpriseDB (who sell a commercialized version of Postgres) have a couple of MySQL vs Postgres white papers on their site, but hidden behind a registration wall : http://www.enterprisedb.com/resources-community/whitepapers-... . Robert H
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by sheff 15y ago
Thanks for the summary. I was drawn in by the magic phrase "PostgreSQL benchmarks" but didn't know enough about DragonflyBSD to know the reason the results presented were of note.
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by sheff 15y ago
Having 1000 users who have been paid , or otherwise incentivized, to sign up for a service means nothing really as they generally won't be the kinds of early users you need. Plus, this model won't really work if what someone is actually lo
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by sheff 15y ago
I like the point the author makes that "If prospective users are still available, the idea is still available." Take online time tracking applications for example. I was looking through Mixergy earlier and there was an interview with an ent
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by sheff 15y ago
Rubymine has a fairly decent VIM mode ( http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?id=164 ) but its a lot less snappy than MacVim. I only use it (Rubymine) now and again though, for things like browsing through projects I don't work on often,
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by sheff 15y ago
Its great that this project has finally hit 1.0 so that there is a Rails based ecommerce engine available - I installed it recently to try it out. Two caveats : 1) Works with Rails 3.1 , not 3.2 as yet, although this is on its way I believe
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by sheff 15y ago
Just a suggestion, but what about books which don't look at all technical but are full of cartoons and humour, eg "Land of Lisp" ( http://nostarch.com/lisp.htm ) , the Head First books and so on ? These might be acceptable. Secondly, one
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by sheff 15y ago
Check out the Capistrano docs at https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/wiki which are pretty comprehensive for getting started with Rails deployment.
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by sheff 15y ago
Please consider having an annual payment option ( discounted or not ) as well as a monthly one. If its a service I've decided I want and I sign up for it, I generally want to pay once and then not think about it again for a year. From the s
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by sheff 15y ago
This is excellent news. After the long lead times for 6.0 and 6.1 its very reassuring that CentOS seems to have gotten its momentum back and is tracking the Red Hat releases with minimal lag.
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by sheff 15y ago
This is a good suggestion , as the Chris Pine book is a very easy, quick read. Also, the O'Reilly Head First books are usually good - with a fairly light-hearted, humorous approach for starters - and their "Head First Programming" book is P

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