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willlll··on Introducing Citus Cloud
Also the author of WAL-E works with me on Citus Cloud.
willlll··on Postgresql 9.6: Support parallel aggregation
Oracle is writing Russian IT shops to try and convince them from moving to postgres http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CANNMO++6tPiwBv2OKcy-Hh...
willlll··on Spawkfish: Neural network chess
You can play against the bot online at http://spawk.fish/play/

I lost, but I'm bad at chess.

willlll··on NoSQL Benchmark Compares PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Neo4j, OrientDB and ArangoDB
If they weren't going jsonb and the gin jsonb-path-opts index, they shouldn't have even included postgres.
willlll··on Show HN: Density – Anonymous People Counter and API
I disable right click on my Website.
willlll··on Heroku Redis Now Available in Public Beta
Elasticache does not support passwords http://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/faqs/
willlll··on PostgreSQL Outperforms MongoDB in New Round of Tests
You can use PLV8 to do that in javascript on heroku.
willlll··on The New Heroku Postgres Database Experience
The server-side part of pg:diagnose is a go program I open sourced at https://github.com/heroku/pgdiagnose . It'd be easy enough to run locally for your own stuff, probably.
willlll··on Bitcoin Slips In The Wake Of The IRS’s Tax Decision
Except this hasn't been true for several years in most states http://usa.visa.com/personal/get-help/checkout-fees.jsp
willlll··on Rethinking the limits on relational databases
no
willlll··on LinkedIn suffers DNS hijack
How has app.net adoption been going?
willlll··on Are HN comments broken for everyone?
The real problem is that it's impossible to actually have a discussion with HN comments, because of the up/down voting.

It's optimized to read once, and fire of some inane comment (like this one), because by the time you come back to a topic, everything has shifted all around so you have to re-read every comment. It's terrible.

willlll··on Postgres Indexes – Expression/Functional Indexing
IMMUTABLE STRICT is used properly in all of these examples. However, it is important to not lie to postgres and declare your functions are IMMUTABLE (always same output given same input) and STRICT (no side-effects) when they're not, or you'll get wrong answers.
willlll··on Tom Lane joins Salesforce.com
Tom Lane is a hero. Guy worked on TIFF, did a ton of PNG, then organized JPEG, and now does seriously awesome work on postgres, and has for some time.

He also responds to a ton of postgres mailing list emails http://www.citusdata.com/blog/57-postgresql-full-text-search

willlll··on Dart Is Not the Language You Think It Is
Untyped languages are okay. Typed languages are also okay. Typed languages with inference are okay.

Optionally typed is extremely strange.

willlll··on Vim 7.3.1000
Here's to another 1000 commits for the world's best text editor. Cheers!
willlll··on A Better Way to Manage the Rails Secret Token
I wish Rails supported two secrets the way Rack::Cookie does by always signing with the first, but accepting either. That way you can rotate the secret without signing everyone out.
willlll··on PostgreSQL 9.3 Beta 1 Released
Clearly the best addition in 9.3 is \watch to psql
willlll··on [dead]
My favorite command is pg:mandelbrot
willlll··on Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox taken down for hours by ‘another strong DDoS attack’
Yes. http://web.archive.org/web/20070817170606/http://mtgox.com/g...
willlll··on Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox taken down for hours by ‘another strong DDoS attack’
People who want it to go back to its original function of a magic the gathering online exchange
willlll··on Poll: What is your age?
I always vote every option in any poll that you can pick more than one thing.
willlll··on PostgreSQL 9.2.4, 9.1.9, 9.0.13 and 8.4.17 released
Simple ec2 security groups is not enough because we also run an arbitrary code execution service (dynos)
willlll··on What technical reasons are there to have low maximum password lengths?
Brilliant
willlll··on Access the database of a heroku application from another heroku application
For the standalones we give more warning, sure. But not for the ones attached to apps.
willlll··on Access the database of a heroku application from another heroku application
Addon providers (of which heroku postgres is) can change the the config var they set at any time. Simply copy-and-pasting creds from one app to another will leave the second app broken when those creds are changed.
willlll··on Ask HN: Tech companies which do not allow telecommuting?
Yahoo
willlll··on Concurrency is not Parallelism. Rob Pike at Waza 2012 [video]
Yeah I know there is one on like every desk at my office. So ugly, it's the worst thing about golang. Which as far as worst things go isn't so bad, but man. Ick.
willlll··on Concurrency is not Parallelism. Rob Pike at Waza 2012 [video]
Thanks for sharing, everything makes more sense now.
willlll··on Concurrency is not Parallelism. Rob Pike at Waza 2012 [video]
I really love this talk, but man oh man the gophers are seriously creepy.
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