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FYI, Ireland has not been in the UK since 1921.

> The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel, you will never be stuck. Th…

Would someone care to summarise the possible benefits of being able to do polled IO, without entering the kernel?

https://hooktube.com/watch?v=rNQdSfgJDNM (youtube mirror site)

> Russia’s media watchdog to block the messaging app Telegram for its refusal to share users’ information with the government Wondering if whatsapp is unblocked because it already …

JS fully disabled in this day and age?

Yeah but OP is trying to point out a specific piece of information that's relevant for hacker news users. It wouldn't have been read through otherwise.

Out of all the links posted in this thread, https://www.debuggex.com/ is by far the best especially because of it's visualisation.

Ubuntu != Linux Mint

I'm really happy to see PostgreSQL doing so well. They've been up against MySQL and Oracle for so long and really deserve it due to all the hard work the team have put into the ama…

Fixed :)

Sorry. There are hundreds of Database projects and I can see where you're coming from. I added the most popular and had a search around for some smaller ones that seem to be gainin…

I think the only easy way to find that sort of stuff out is through the comments as HN doesn't allow for much customisation. It has its upsides though.

The reason I thought of adding ElasticSearch in the end was because some projects have started to use it as a DB on its own.