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Postgres-XC, the PostgreSQL cluster(postgres-xc.sourceforge.net)
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by sheff 15y ago
If you use Textmate and basically miss the project drawer in Vim, there is a version of MacVim which has that integrated ( see https://github.com/alloy/macvim/wiki/Screenshots ) . There is also Vico ( http://www.vicoapp.com/ ) which is
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by sheff 15y ago
Looks like they are a "domain investment firm" and will probably ask for a inflated price. It can't do any harm to put in an offer and see how much they want. I'd also look around at domain markets such as Buydomains and Sedo to get ideas f
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by sheff 15y ago
Check out the "Community" section of any of the major VPS hosting companies - some of them have really detailed admin tutorials for their customers. What I start with whenever I need to do Ubuntu admin is the Linode Library ( http://librar
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by sheff 15y ago
"Pro Puppet" is a good one to start with for the Puppet side of things. http://puppetlabs.com/blog/pro-puppet-a-handy-indexed-guide/
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by sheff 15y ago
Not many people outside of media circles are talking about the real trend that's going on nowadays (although Monocle magazine keeps sharing the secrets Interesting. I had a look at the Monocle website but couldn't find anything. Do you ha
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by sheff 15y ago
Its one of those things - you have to start somewhere, and sequencing the DNA of individuals with unusual characteristics ( such as long lived people ) is an interesting data set to have for future analysis and comparison. There are a numbe
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DNA sequenced of woman who lived to 115(bbc.co.uk)
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by sheff 15y ago
Another data point : Amy Hoy mentions that her first webapp and those of two other people running SAAS businesses all took 2 years to hit 200k after launch - add on some dev time and it approaches 3 years. http://unicornfree.com/2011/drawi
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by sheff 15y ago
Depending on how much time it needs ( you mention "a little bit of actionscript" ) something which I have used in the past to speed up this kind of small task is to look at oDesk and search for developers who know the technology in question
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E-book reader with High Speed E Ink(reghardware.com)
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by sheff 15y ago
I tried out both Puppet and Chef a while ago, and was also a bit confused by the Chef documentation when trying to do anything beyond the basics. While not brilliant, the Puppet docs seemed better and when added to the Pro Puppet book ( ht
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by sheff 15y ago
I'm migrating an old MySQL based app to Postgres at the moment. Heres some of the things I'm looking at in addition to the base tools. 1) taps ( done by some people from Heroku ) : https://github.com/ricardochimal/taps and http://adam.he
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by sheff 15y ago
They are not available in Postgres at the moment, but I believe that covering indexes / index only scans will be coming some time next year, as theres a patch that should hopefully go into the next release. http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2011/0
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by sheff 15y ago
Some previous "Ask HN" threads which have details of single founder businesses include : Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567487 Ask HN: Anyone making a living from jus
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by sheff 15y ago
I believe this was one of the talks at Postgres Open - I came across the slides from most of the others earlier at http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Postgres_Open_Talks_2011 , and they have some good tips on scaling with Postgres. There was
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by sheff 15y ago
As Heroku has a Postgres backend, I imagine you could also install PG4WP ( http://www.hawkix.net/tag/pg4wp/ ) which is a plugin to get Wordpress working with Postgres DBs, and just deploy directly using Heroku alone. You may run into proble