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Very happy to see Timescale making more features available in the community edition. We first started evaluating time series databases a month or two ago, some features like contin…

Same here. We're on their catalyst program.

Slides and videos aren't available at this point. But he is presenting this again at Web Rebels. https://twitter.com/swannodette/status/336816354868989953

I'm also hunting for video and slides. No luck so far.

When I first learned about Prolog in AI class, the first thing that struct me was how beautiful Prolog/logic programming solutions are. In non-declarative languages like Java, you …

I find Clojure Programming ( http://www.clojurebook.com/ ) to be an easy and practical introduction of the language. It often compare and contrast the Clojure way of doing things v…

I've found the Clojure community at large to be well reasoned in general and very intelligent. KirinDave's posts may be a little hot, but I think it is a sign of growth for Clojure…

> I am surprised a Clojure programmer would have much respect for Rails. Its aggressive share-nothing approach leads to inconsistency, poor performance, awkward architectures, and …

> by and large Clojure basically obsoletes Ruby and Python Care to qualify how Clojure obsoletes Ruby or Python? Both of those languages have great tools (rails, for example) that …

The parentheses may seem like a disaster at first, but one can quickly learn to use and abuse them. Also, there is great support from lisp-friendly editors to handle parentheses ma…

Since 1.0.0rc1 that was released 5 months ago (1.0.0 went gold 2 months ago), the custom attributes used for by AngularJS can be turned into valid html5 attributes by prepending th…

For me, the best take-away from the post is this one line: "I didn’t care how much I ran, as long as I went out and did it." I have seen many people starting a new exercise regime …

The Hong Kong Basic Law stipulates that it will have high degree of autonomy at least 50 years after its transfer to Chinese rule. (ref http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong ) The…

Is the group still active? My request's been on pending for a while now :-(

Hong Kong has several vibrant, English-speaking startup/hacker communities where people are passionate about building stuff and making things work. Some notable communities to chec…

"Because being tired makes us better coders. [...] Similar to the ballmer peak, being tired can make us focus better simply because when your brain is tired it has to focus! There …

This is a good and necessary move for the WebFaction guys. I had a basic shared hosting account with them, and with 80MB of memory, you will run out of memory quite quickly if you …

Perhaps one of the reason why people are still capable of getting an acceptable Internet experience from IE 6 and 7 is because Flash 10 (and 11 for IE 7) supports them. Thank goodn…

I worked for a Mainland Chinese manufacturing company for a while, and they run all their desktops on Windows 2000. They have several applications that targets IE only, and will no…

I was thinking of the exact same thing. It's ironic when a piece of writing tries to present you with factual information begins with a deceiving title, all in the name of attentio…