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System design hack: Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server
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Webapp.io Blog
Postgres is a great pub/sub & job server
If you need a publish/subscribe or job server at any point in your project, try using Postgres. It'll give you lots of data integrity and performance guarantees, and it doesn't require you or your team learning any new technology.
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Show HN: Python package and CLI to generate stylistic word clouds
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GitHub
GitHub - minimaxir/stylecloud: Python package + CLI to generate stylistic wordclouds, including gradients and icon shapes!
Python package + CLI to generate stylistic wordclouds, including gradients and icon shapes! - minimaxir/stylecloud
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The Billionaires Are Getting Nervous
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NY Times
The Billionaires Are Getting Nervous
Bill Gates and others warn that higher taxes would lead to lower growth. They have their facts backward.
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Users fear for privacy after Google buys Fitbit
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the Guardian
'Tossed my Fitbit in the trash': users fear for privacy after Google buys company
Fitbit says data of its 28 million users will not be sold or used for Google ads
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Yakovlevian Torque
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Ransomware, Data Breaches at Hospitals Tied to Uptick in Fatal Heart Attacks
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Parallel Commits: A New Atomic Commit Protocol for Distributed Transactions
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Cockroachlabs
Parallel Commits: An atomic commit protocol for globally distributed transactions
Parallel Commits are an atomic commit protocol in CockroachDB. The feature promises to halve the latency of distributed transactions by performing all consensus round trips required to commit a transaction concurrently.
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At GitHub we do not use foreign keys, ever, anywhere
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GitHub
Thoughts on Foreign Keys? · Issue #331 · github/gh-ost
Hello, Thanks for your hard work on gh-ost! As I familiarize myself with the way it all works, I noted that foreign keys are explicitly not supported, but that they may be to some extent in the fut...
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Netflix, HBO and Cable Giants Are Coming for Password Sharers
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Apple is trying to kill web technology
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Medium
Apple Is Trying to Kill Web Technology
The company has made it extremely difficult to use web-based technology on its platforms, and it hopes developers won’t bother
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Systemd needs official documentation on best practices
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Benjamin Libet's argument against free will is being questioned
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The Atlantic
A Famous Argument Against Free Will Has Been Debunked
For decades, a landmark brain study fed speculation about whether we control our own actions. It seems to have made a classic mistake.
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IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display
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Righto
IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display
What explains the popularity of terminals with 80×24 and 80×25 displays? A recent blog post " 80x25 " motivated me to investigate this. The ...
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The troubling age of algorithmic entertainment
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The Week
The troubling age of algorithmic entertainment
How streaming platforms are changing art
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The Valentine’s Day Text Message Mystery
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NY Times
Inside the Valentine’s Day Text Message Mystery
Did you get one of the more than 168,149 strange texts sent in the middle of the night?
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My Decade as a Fugitive
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The California Sunday Magazine
My Decade as a Fugitive
"I avoided anything having to do with my old life."
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Visual6502 Remix
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Mark Twain playing with electricity in Nikola Tesla's lab in 1894
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Open Culture
Mark Twain Plays With Electricity in Nikola Tesla’s Lab (Photo, 1894)
You'll get a charge out this picture taken long ago. It captures Mark Twain, a literary giant of the 19th century, tinkering in the laboratory of the great inventor, Nikola Tesla.
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Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox and you should too
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Fast Company
Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox and you should too
The time has come.
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On Safety Critical Software
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Swift Achieved Dynamic Linking Where Rust Couldn't
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