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yangyangon Making MySQL Better at GitHub

That can work both ways though. Sometimes if you chose a less popular option it can make it easier to find outstanding candidates.

yangyangon Making MySQL Better at GitHub

I think there is some truth in it though; that and the inertia it currently has.

If you're picking up a framework, do you use the default database or try to do something non-default on top of what you're already learning?

yangyangon Making MySQL Better at GitHub

> Definitely not.

Have you used both professionally? Not being arsey, seriously interested.

yangyangon Unknown orange-red glow over Pacific Ocean

Just wait for the plane to turn.

yangyangon Ask HN: What programming font do you use?

Consider aligned colons, something like

  {
    a  : 10,
    ab : 40
  }

If space and "b" are not the same width, that won't look great in a proportional font.

yangyangon Ask HN: What programming font do you use?

Alignment probably more than anything, though obviously the necessity for that depends on the language and style.

yangyangon Writing Analytics SQL with Common Table Expressions

And SQL Server.

yangyangon PostgreSQL Workload Analyzer

Interesting. I've been monitoring my clusters with a custom Python script that grabs a lot of the data from the pg_stat_ tables, along with the current xlog location and table / database sizes, at regular intervals and saves it in a Graphite database, which I then examine with Graph Explorer [1] and the normal Graphite frontend.

This looks like it only operates at a statement level. I'm sure it'll be interesting though.

[1] https://github.com/vimeo/graph-explorer

yangyangon My wish list for Postgres 9.5

Windows licences are not cheap.

yangyangon My wish list for Postgres 9.5

SQL is always the query language, though. You still have to use it with pl/Python, pl/sh etc.

yangyangon My wish list for Postgres 9.5

I fully agree with this. I used pgAdmin for a while but have recently switched to psql and it's much more useful.

In particular, learn the \ commands. It's extremely useful to be able to quickly look at the structure of a table, dump the source to a function and so on, from a command prompt rather than navigating trees with the mouse in pgAdmin.

It uses readline where available so you get history, completion etc.

yangyangon My wish list for Postgres 9.5

QUEL? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUEL_query_languages

:-)

yangyangon Show HN: Track changes in product price, get notifications by email

Also see Camelcamelcamel (http://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/) - they do a great job of price tracking on Amazon. They have historical data for a surprising number of products too.

yangyangon Major U.K. Real-Time Train Database Opens Up To More Developers

On a related note, Realtime Trains is an excellent website (and app) for showing current (and historical) train running times: http://realtimetrains.co.uk/

It often shows platforms before they're announced in-station, which can be very handy.

yangyangon OS X Command Line Utilities

You can also run Emacs as a daemon, and connect to it from both graphical and tty sessions. So you could ssh into your desktop and (with emacsclient), work with the same instance running on your X desktop.

yangyangon OS X Command Line Utilities

A frame in Emacs terminology is actually a top-level window.

yangyangon Babun – A new Windows shell

You can't invoke binaries on the host that way, though.

yangyangon Matt Blaze: My life as an international arms courier (1995)

I wonder what would happen if someone tried that now. I suspect officials may not be so flexible.

yangyangon Amazon, in Threat to UPS, Tries Its Own Deliveries

Yes it often looks like casual labour, occasionally we see someone from the depot though. They made a few mistakes at first, delivering to wrong address and leaving parcels in inappropriate places. They seem pretty much fine now.

They don't have the fancy tracking that some of the larger couriers have now (30-minute delivery windows etc) but they seem better than some of the super-cheap couriers (e.g. HDNL).

yangyangon Amazon, in Threat to UPS, Tries Its Own Deliveries

They've been doing this for quite a while ("Amazon Logistics") in London, UK. They have a depot in Croydon. Since late 2013, at least.

yangyangon CEO complaints : employee not motivated after being fired

Switzerland is not part of the EU.

yangyangon TimL – Clojure like language which compiles down to VimL

It's a start, but one of the huge advantages of Emacs is the fact that a very large chunk of the system is written in Emacs lisp.

yangyangon ReactOS 0.3.16 released

You can install Firefox 26 from the ReactOS Applications Manager. It crashed on first startup but has worked since then for me.

yangyangon ReactOS 0.3.16 released

I just downloaded and installed in a virtualbox VM. It feels ridiculously snappy compared to windows. Runs Firefox with the odd crash. Impressive to see how far it has come but there is still some way to go.

yangyangon TEPCO Quietly Admits Fukushima's Reactor 3 Could Be Melting Down NOW

"Published On: Mon, Dec 30th, 2013"

yangyangon Google rebrand experiment

I kept reading it as "Gcogle" - not great.

yangyangon London to Brighton train ride, 1953-2013 [video]

Does Essex count as Southeast England? Because the LTS (C2C) line is overhead-electrified. So is HS1.

yangyangon Jeff Atwood's Code Keyboard Review

The Kinesis Advantage comes with Cherry MX browns or reds. The function keys are a bit dodgy though.

yangyangon ZTE Open Firefox OS phone is available on eBay

I thought that too, but then I found the ZTE Tania, for £69.99, same seller as the Open. It's a Windows Phone, but it's got a faster CPU, 800 x 480 screen, 217ppi (vs. 480 x 320 on the Open), bigger battery, more flash. No micro-SD slot though.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Brand-New-Unlocked-ZTE-Tania-Windo...

Comparison: http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=5320&idPhone2=...