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"The Mind Illuminated" ( https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Illuminated-Complete-Meditation-... ) is very good, and contains all you need for your practice. The author is both a long term…

One of the great things about Ruby at the moment is the number of Ruby implementations around, including several Ruby like languages which attempt to do things slightly differently…

I wish, instead of adding new features, they had a release which dealt with all the problems from previous versions. Its generally a good product, but one thing that I find really …

This looks great! The upcoming developer edition that will work with templates sounds really useful as well. Any plans to support the SASS version of Bootstrap ?

Looking at the Sibdo pricing page, it looks like much higher pricing (compared to the more established competitors) at $95 a month for use on a SINGLE website with a confusing limi…

The linked post says : "I think we shouldn't release 9.4 unless it goes in." I haven't been following the PG developers mailing list that closely recently and the article doesn't g…

Another very simple thing I use when procrastination strikes is Seth Roberts Magic Dots technique. ( http://blog.sethroberts.net/category/procrastination/magic-d... ) He came up wi…

Continuous archiving (WAL) is something quite different from incremental backups. Incremental backups involve taking a full backup once in a while and then making interim backups o…

Postgres is a fantastic database. That said, I've also used Oracle quite extensively in the past when clients have needed it and it has some features that would be great to have in…

If you make a low enough offer that they can't accept, they will tell you and they have told me in the past that its because its below the sellers reserve. Whois may also give you …

Something else to look forward to in 2014 for Rails performance, along with the planned arrival of JRuby 9k !

I have bought domains from them in the past. I would start off by offering half (as a maximum, less if you can) and sticking to the offer. The thing to remember is that they may ha…

This sort of thing is happening increasingly frequently. I really like the idea of AskPatents ( http://patents.stackexchange.com ). It seems to me that as developers we need a simi…

I'd definitely pay for a tool like this but as a desktop application with perhaps an annual license fee, rather than as a hosted SAAS which needs access to Github repositories. The…

Instead of scraping HN directly, have you looked at the HN Search API, from the old HN search engine ? ( https://www.hnsearch.com/api ) The current search engine looks like it also…

It would be interesting to see how many HN readers develop and run SAAS apps, and whether they are side projects or your primary focus. And, as this is HN, what tech does your app …

I personally would love to be able to donate more to open source (specifically Postgres and some of its related projects) but I haven't found a way yet which meets my few simple cr…

On a happier note, here is a list of authors whose works will be entering the public domain tomorrow in various parts of the world. http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/12/10/class-o…