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hugopeixoto··on GNU name system
There's namecoin, but I'm not sure if it is widely used: https://namecoin.info/
hugopeixoto··on Ask HN: How to find duplicated directory subtrees
I have exactly the same issue. Tons of backup archives nested inside each other. I have been reducing the mess manually, as I have not found a tool that would help. My approach is to use "diff -qr" between directories I know contain the same project and manually merge them / pick the best one. Merging is definitely the worst part of the process, as it cannot be automatically done. I thought about building a tool that builds some sort of sha tree through the directories but on the first try it generated many matches due to empty folders and stuff like that.
hugopeixoto··on “Eeny, meeny, miny, mo” and the ambiguous history of counting-out rhymes
That's what "counting out" means. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting-out_game
hugopeixoto··on Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL
One problem I have with postgres right now is that whenever I want to upgrade the cluster (say from 9.1 to 9.3) there's downtime while the cluster is upgraded.

Not even vanilla replication helps, right now. I think I'd have to use something like slony to replicate between different versions of postgresql, but I never tried it.

How does upgrading postgresql versions work in RDS?

hugopeixoto··on Show HN: Madrassa – Code and Design Courses Reduced to 5sec GIFs
Looks like a nice idea. Here's my two cents:

1. It's a bit hard for me to tell when the GIF starts or loops, specially when I try to read the text below it. Perhaps there could be some small delay at the end, or a progress indicator?

2. Could you possibly make the next/previous arrows regular links (with return false or whatever is used to prevent it from reloading the page)? I'm in a setup where using the mouse is awkward, and I can't reach that arrow using only the keyboard.

hugopeixoto··on Go at Google [video]
You can just check the slides here: http://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.slide

I read them a couple of weeks ago when I decided to take a look at Go,

and they were really helpful and eye opening to the problems it is trying to solve.

hugopeixoto··on What Killed Turntable.fm?
For me was becoming restricted to the USA. I never DJed, but I let it run for hours in the background.
hugopeixoto··on The Coinbase Android App Has Launched
The blog post describes this at the end:

  In particular, Isaac (a Coinbase user in Canada and previous Google intern)
  sent us a nearly completed Android app totally unprompted,
  and was kind enough to open source it.
hugopeixoto··on UVA Computer Science professor resigns over incompetence of board
I've always associated "uva" with the university of valladolid, spain (www.uva.es). It wasn't until I read this that the letter being in english finally made sense.
hugopeixoto··on We launch today. To thank HN we buried easter eggs (discounts) around the site.
I didn't find this anywhere on the webpage, but I assume that this is a USA only service, so no cookies for me.

The whole thing looks attractive, though. Points for prettiness :P

hugopeixoto··on Why are 95% of blogs abandoned?
This is why (in my case):

You asked for permissions to * See who you follow, and follow new people. * Update your profile. * Post Tweets for you.

This is a no-no for me. I believe you can specify that you want read-only access, which would solve my problem.

hugopeixoto··on Suggest HN: Hacker news circle on Google+
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hugopeixoto··on Ask HN: What do you eat, hackers?
Chocolate cereals & milk for breakfast. For lunch and dinner I usually start with soup and then random meat (beef, pork, chicken or turkey) with rice and salad (lettuce, tomato and onion).
hugopeixoto··on Ask HN: Please review my webapp http://cineight.com
You have the Movies Watched / Movies to Watch labels mixed up.