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citext doesn't solve your problem of case-insensitive search?

Thanks for the great write-up with links to many more interesting articles and code! I have long stopped working on Linux kernel but deep dives like these are very exciting reading…

If possible, could you please explain what your slopware does?

Exactly my reaction. Every time I've used something from Google, it ends up dead in a few years. Life is too short to waste so many years learning something that is destined to die…

Great puzzle. Do you ship internationally?

I clicked on a random open problem and found https://www.erdosproblems.com/170 . The text of the problem didn't make sense. The wikipedia article stated the problem much more nicel…

For someone whose interaction with spatial data is very limited, I found the article to be a treasure trove of information. Also, thanks for sharing S2! It'll be nice to look at.

https://github.com/rubysherpas/paranoia is enough to solve problems at very large scales. There is nothing about Rails or MVC preventing someone from doing this. This is a very com…

Does someone know which are the books lying on his bookshelf? Alternatively, is there an interview with Donald Knuth where he mentions the books he studies.

Could someone suggest a good book on Geometry beyond what is taught in high school? I find co-ordinate geometry to be more algebraic than geometric and miss knowing the interesting…

When you stop consulting stackoverflow to find answers to your queries because you know that you know more than the most people browsing and willing to answer your question on stac…

Have to disagree a bit. If you aim to have this level and breadth of skill over a n-year period where n But if this is built over 5+ years by reading, doing and learning from other…

Agree.

Pretty much agree with what r-s has written above.Have spent 11+ years working/consulting for mostly startups. Have used everything listed above except Salt (Nothing against it but…

No, it's not that hard. It's more about getting the priorities right. The developer and production environments should be separated at a deep network level making it very very diff…

Nope, new sorting algorithms are still cropping up all over place. Already published sorting algorithms are still being implemented. And people are still accelerating the already e…

While agreeing to the fact that performance does always matter, I think the idea that "someone else did it better" is not always a good one. One should always understand the limita…

Nope. I happen to be a product manager for one of such internal applications with around 60 users. This can be considered as a handful of users when compared to the internet scale.…

Yes! We are right now testing to see if there are any issues. Will move soon afterwards hopefully.

I just checked your resume linked to from your website. To be blunt, you have mentioned too many unrelated things on your resume and it sends out the message that you are a jack of…

Or you can start your own company and write good old code at work for profit.

This comment from antirez: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8433770

You made my day! I'm booking a slot right now.

Agreed.

I am going to discuss insurance with my employer. It looks like it is a pretty big deal in the US. We've visited several countries in the past. So, cultural differences should not …