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what I find most frustrating is that finance institution buy extremely overpriced and brittle software from renowned vendors not because of technical excellence but for risk manage…

I wrote a Ruby library[1] that builds on Active Record and implements SCD-Type 2 using updatable views and INSTEAD OF triggers. It has its pain points, mostly related to how hackis…

I also like bare-bones stuff, and I am currently evaluating this https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/json-formatter/bcj... that is fast, easy on the eye and minimal. Haven't …

try: git://github.com/{user}/{repo}.git or https://github.com/{user}/{repo}.git anyway, not working right now for me (Italy) EDIT: working, give it 30 seconds to start.

Can you please remove the anchor from the submitted URL? Thanks.

I have implemented a proof-of-concept of a SCD type 2 temporal database system (with valid-time only) using postgres' table inheritance, exclude constraints and the rule system. I …

video/image hosting is not the point, it's community that counts here: youtube is just a vehicle to deliver your video to more eyeballs, because poking around youtube is easier for…

Jamendo is quite a different beast, because it's a CC label, not a music sharing/streaming medium.

Actually it uses the flex framework (as you can see by looking at the scrollbars and the tooltips) that then produces an edible binary .swf for the flash player :). Back to the top…

I may sound like an utopian, but I think that being satisfied in what we do and how we accomplish it is the only goal to target, to be happy and satisfied. One should always seek f…

Maybe because the average human is inherently lazy and doesn't want to re-learn how to use the new UI? Or maybe because the average human is pleased when something does never chang…

That's not true: he was able to write the right software at the right time[1], when nobody else had will/time/whatever to scratch their own itch. The Mongrel HTTP library is today …