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Okay, but EDB is the largest corporate contributor to Postgres, and one of the people pushing against the feature (Bruce Momjian) also works for EDB? The PG community is a lot of t…

Your comment doesn’t seem to be in good faith. What cloud company is pushing this through?

How does this handle sort ordering / collations?

pgbackrest works purely at the file level, by looking at checksums. It’s rather primitive by comparison.

It seems that “younger generation” programmers underestimate the value of governance in OSS. The recent Terraform kerluffle couldn’t have happened if Terraform was in the ASF, etc.…

3 of 7 work at EDB, and the core team doesn’t drive the project roadmap. And EDB hackers fail to get patches in all the time, just like everyone else :)

I’ve personally deployed O(TBs) and O(10^4 TPS) Postgres clusters on Kubernetes with a CNPG-style operator based deployment. There are some subtleties to it but it’s not exceeding …

Cloudant develops cutting-edge data and analytics products for the next generation of globally distributed, highly available business applications. At Cloudant, we aim for two thin…

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CPAN vs RubyForge vs PyPI isn't exactly an appropriate comparison. Take a look at: http://www.google.com/trends?q=python%2C+perl%2C+ruby&ct... vs http://www.google.com/trends?q=cpa…

The bottom-of-the-page bar in Safari can be toggled with CMD+/

This is drivel. The author labels Google "pirates" for linking to AP content and states that there would be no online marketplace for music if the RIAA hadn't sued napster, even th…

Agreed. Newspapers aren't generating the content that the 'hyperlocal' sites are focusing on; how often does a school board meeting story come off the AP wire? The 'trivial and irr…

I think I missed the RSS reading part of it; it makes more sense now. Seconded on the themes looking very nice! @jacobbijani: I'm not sure if you care much, but Firefox users can r…

I'm guessing it's your site, since the name 'Jacob' is all over it. Why didn't you post a comment about it in typical Ask YC style? Anyway, outside of the marketing-counter thing, …

How is Google's search share nearing 100% any different from Microsoft's OS share nearing 100%? Microsoft could have quite easily done whatever it wanted with the flow of informati…

Open source does not thrive on the fuel of non-profit alone. Red Hat and Sun are for-profit, but they're major contributors to open-source projects. Open source is successful with …

WordNet is actually quite good. If you're looking for some accessible NLP tools, NLTK ( http://www.nltk.org/ ) is nice. It's written in Python, and uses WordNet in several ways. Th…

There's no way that Google is "threatened" by Twitter search. Google's search dominance is not maintained by providing the best car reviews or up-to-the-minute news. I'm not going …

Here's hoping News.YC doesn't become "Job board for suits looking for hackers"...

How high does the quality have to be before the average user pays for it?

Re: the web "site"/web "app" split: It would be nice to see someone elaborate on this a bit more, past the "where it came from" bit. In "Snakes and Rubies", I got the impression th…

Care to expound a bit? (I'm not trying to be antagonistic, just interested.)

It's bad form to ask him to defend his point when you're defending your own by reiteration. Why won't innovation in such a magnitude 'happen again anytime soon'?