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Bragging aside, explaining the whole business from a (potential) customer experience is what differentiates good from bad companies (_nb_ I was tempted to write successful vs faili…

> Maybe the ultimate solution is a personal wiki [...] Maybe this: http://zim-wiki.org (haven't used it myself yet though)

I've never upgraded before, just started out fresh. But y env got pretty complicated so I'd like to try an upgrade. What's the experience with the "Fresh upgrade"[1]? [1]: http://c…

Just (extremely curious): what's new about this new build system (except the Node.js dependency)?

I haven't read any of Zed's book and Amazon doesn't have a decent number of reviews, so I was wondering if someone could provide the shortest "why should I get this book" thanks

Can you share what you store in each of the databases? Here's what I'd speculate: - Redis: message lists for active users - Postgres: account details - Cassandra: all messages Than…

I use a bookmarking service (Pinboard) as I do for all pages I consider that I might need to get back to at some point. I also have the Pinboard archival service that saves a copy …

Do you accept visitors?

Everything's looking great... except the desks :-(

Beforing logging in, I'd really like to have an idea of what JellyReader is. The homepage looks good, but not as good as to show me what it is :-)

I think this is quite incorrect. I've recently got the new iPhone and looked at the possible options across AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile (I haven't included Sprint for a reason I cannot…

That's exactly what I've been searching for!

Thanks for digging this up. I find the 2 models being almost identical. And as one can read in that thread there can be subcategories that one might consider. My preference is stil…

When talking about painkillers I think we should also think about how many have that pain. If it's too little, then that painkiller can be a distraction. So while I fully agree wit…

I have always wondered how many people use the stock Janus/maximum-awesome Vim setups? How do people maintain their customizations? (the same questions actually apply to other conf…

I've recently tried adopting the http://www.bulletjournal.com/ system, but using Evernote. Unfortunately I wasn't able to make it work for me . After just a few days I've found mys…

> This is a picture of me in 2009, right around when I started Pinboard. I'm standing on a balcony in Botosani county, Romania, in the poorest county in the European Union. I had n…

Using git bundle looks like an interesting idea, but the solution suggested in the post is seems incomplete: 1. it's only working for master 2. it bundles everything making an upda…

That's a very interesting subcategorization of game changers. What I find quite interesting about thinking only in terms of hooks and painkillers is that this categorization might …

I think this is very much true considering Samsung's most (?) successful campaign lately has been focusing on the exact opposite message (Apple fanboys not knowing what's happening…

> Yeah, I thought about that, but it seems like you can only use them to get the "map" part of map/reduce... no aggregation. Unless I'm missing something. I think that's correct.

How about "they should be an invitation to learn more about the system" :D? As far as I can tell, in many cases these defaults have almost never been reviewed by devs because most …

Considering RethinkDB's secondary indexes can be defined around pretty complex ReQL expressions [1] you could already get some of it already. [1] http://rethinkdb.com/docs/pragmati…

One aspect of micro-benchmarks that is most of the time ignored is that they reveal different default settings various systems come with. And unfortunately after seeing the results…