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IMO it's not that bad, people are used to paying locksmiths that much when locked out of houses or vehicles.

The one constant that seems to come up in all these founder stories is that you better love what you're doing. There's no guarantee that your new business will be successful or pro…

It's not as easy as it could be but you can accomplish aggregate pushdown by using executor hooks in your FDW. As an example I'd point you to our (Citus Data) recent work on doing …

Thanks, I haven't looked at Udacity much so I'll give that look. I like using Python as it's a bit practical. To clarify her goal isn't to land a job, just to learn a new skill and…

Thanks! Reminding myself of her feedback I think that pacing might be a significant issue which is something I hadn't considered too much (oddly). She's someone that has lots of co…

My wife has never programmed before but is trying to learn. She's started taking the online CS50X course (https://www.edx.org/course/harvardx/harvardx-cs50x-introduction-computer-1…

"So the government can have a monopoly in a space" - always a good reason to ban a successful private enterprise.

Interesting but the devil is in the details with systems like this and the article doesn't go into much of that. I do like the decision to separate AtlasDB from the underlying K/V …

The business implications of this are interesting. In my opinion this is another warning shot that if you don't open source your business someone else may just do it for you. If I …

Interesting, I've have had the exact opposite experience for #2. If there's a movie, or TV show that I want to watch I'd rather pay $5 to watch it than just be told it's not availa…

The benchmarks use cstore_fdw which is a columnar store that is accessed via the PostgreSQL foreign data wrapper system. ICMS is a different implementation of a columnar store for …

If you use cstore_fdw with PostgreSQL you can use the full PostgreSQL SQL dialect for querying your table. However, we don't currently support writing to your cstore_fdw table usin…

Actually CitusDB, which we also produce, does distribute data and queries across a PostgreSQL cluster. You can see some performance comparisons of using cstore_fdw on CitusDB in th…

Ben from CitusData here. At a high level columnar stores are good for analytical workloads and not great for OLTP workloads. Some reasons for this: * cstore_fdw currently only supp…

To clarify, you can already pay to watch past seasons of Game of Thrones on Amazon Video on Demand in the US. It's just not included for free with Prime which as I understand is th…

For those curious here's a similar post from ~4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1411937

In the article there's a screenshot that strongly implies the ads will be coming via email ("this consent supersedes any prior email unsubscribe notification I may have with AT&T")…

I love the "I LOVE ENGAGING WITH BRANDS" text in the screenshot.

This was released on March 28th: http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2014/03/announcing-g... Guess this is just on the front page because of XKCD about the other Google DNS pro…

I feel like they have to stop at some point but I agree this would make much more sense than something like Oculus Rift. I can imagine lots of great ways to integrate this into Fac…

Am I the only one that's not that impressed by 2 hours of downtime a year? I've worked at other companies where I was responsible for running a service and 2 hours of downtime a ye…

I think this means not all outages tracked affected all users equally. Some users would have seen more or less downtime than the 2 hours mentioned.

Could someone explain DJB's point to me: Cryptographers are certainly not responsible for this superstitious nonsense. Think about this for a moment: whoever wrote the /dev/random …

IMO this is the most widely trusted standard benchmark: http://www.tpc.org/information/benchmarks.asp . However not everyone publishes benchmarks and there are a number variations …