tcwc

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by tcwc 14y ago
http://www.hetzner.de/ are pretty good price/performance wise .
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by tcwc 14y ago
JSON support in Postgres is currently limited to a validated plain text field, it doesn't let you efficiently query inside the json object.
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by tcwc 14y ago
It's a theme from http://bootswatch.com/ . I wish more sites used one of those, completely agree with you on the black top bar.
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by tcwc 14y ago
Rather than polling, zeromq >= 2.2 allows you to set ZMQ_RCVTIMEO on the socket which seems to be what the author is after. It would be nice to be notified of disconnected peers, but the timeout + retry approach has been good enough fo
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by tcwc 14y ago
How about the Freebase quad dump? Can't I just import that into virtuoso and do the same sparql queries?
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by tcwc 14y ago
If you've not read it yet I would strongly recommend http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm for more on this.
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Bing Search API Pricing Announced(bing.com)
5 points by tcwc 14y ago|0 comments
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by tcwc 14y ago
I can't see this yet, but it looks like Google pull most of the structured info from Freebase (which they acquired in 2010). You can play with that at freebase.com.
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by tcwc 14y ago
This happened a few years ago when Yahoo BOSS started charging, back then Gabriel said they'd moved over to Bing ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1612081 ). I'm sure they still make heavy use of the Bing API, but have since expanded th
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by tcwc 18y ago
Is this your startup? IIRC summize.com used to be a pretty cool visualization of Amazon reviews... mind me asking what happened to that?
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by tcwc 19y ago
What about their Open Source version - http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecountry ? I haven't started using it yet, but they claim it offers only slightly less accuracy with access to all of their libraries.
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by tcwc 19y ago
Looks amazing. And not a single negative comment on Techcrunch?!
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by tcwc 19y ago
I was just making a comparison of pricing. Not everyone needs a database, and not everyone will be too bothered by the other EC2s drawbacks. For my app the persistent storage issue doesn't matter, and EC2 is good value for a number of oth
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by tcwc 19y ago
Even if used 24/7 is EC2 that bad value wise? Assuming it costs about $70/month for one instance it is a lot cheaper than most dedicated servers. EC2 is a lot more powerful than the average VPS, that is not really a fair comparison. I wo
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by tcwc 19y ago
I was at a talk by Jim Buckmaster (CEO) at Edinburgh University earlier this year, he mentioned this. He attributed the lack of staff turnover to the generally relaxed work environment rather than one of these specific reasons. Seems like
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by tcwc 19y ago
I agree with the others re the design. After loading your page it takes a while to work out what the site is actually about. The mass of text is quite confusing, and I think you need to better explain the relationship between "resource" a