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Why not use duckdb？ It is a column database, and more situated for log entries (seems to me).

Yes, and its cheaper even than google's price. I've just transferred to cloudflare a weeks ago.

Hey Chris, Great to know Rand is hiring engineers! I have worked with consulting engineers from Labor and Population department at RAND, and have visited HQ a few years ago. It is …

There are (currently) three host implementations of clojure: Clojure(JVM), ClojureCLR(.NET CLR), and ClojureScript(JavaScript). Supporting this reader conditional can facilitate co…

And on the preface to the 2nd edition of SICP, I noticed this quote from Alan J. Perlis: > Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded …

A link popped up within unstable Chrome, inviting me to test drive the Chrome notebook. Unfortunately I'm out of US. http://skitch.com/juvenn/rrnm5/selection-019

The original idea is to build a job board targeting passionate developers in mailing lists, including news.yc (as an exception). It's not rock solid, and may fail completely, but l…

Since the sensorship is beyond what Google's founders had expected. Even we native Chinese had not expected that then. However, given they have invested so much on the Free Music P…

Hi HNers, I've built a news aggregator based upon pubsubhubbub, running on appengine. It's an experiment project started far away in 08', but I gave it up as I cannot see any value…

Please clarify, it's the government , not all Chinese people, who can be as friendly and kindly as every faithful human on the earth.

For those who can't afford a premium private repos, it's a good idea. You'd better off not symlinking the repo in Dropbox dir, or you'll keep dropbox very busy when you are editing…

Unfortunately, it's not log based. Just like Google Analytics, you insert a little script in, when request comes in, the script will update MongoDB in the backend. Though, your nee…

And, it supports markdown, ++

That new node-based v2.0+ implementation can be 10x faster than the ruby-based implementation. # Ruby version $ time lessc -v lessc 1.2.21 real 0m1.681s user 0m1.492s sys 0m0.176s …

Have you noticed z-billing: http://www.zuora.com/products/zbilling/index.html then? Though not startup friendly, I guess.

Yeah, but I prefer the beautiful UI, not just functionalities, or the wine stuff will do the work.

With no Mac at hand, I'd like a native app for Linux, instead of wine stuff.

The author has a great series on How JavaScript Objects Work: http://helephant.com/2008/08/how-javascript-objects-work/