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Show HN: Xata, serverless database on top of PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch

https://xata.io

Hi!Xata was on HackerNews once before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28590816) a bit over a year ago, when we were at the beginning of our development. We've promised we're going to do a Show HN page when we come out of Private Beta, and this just happened today.Xata is a product in the serverless database space. We know that the space is fairly crowded now, with lots of great companies...

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Re:Ask HN: Any great books about technical writing? on Thursday August 04, 2022 @11:34AM (#32344268)
I suggest reading Good With Words. The book good for any professionals who depend on effective communation. It is originally for created for lawyers, but it helped me tremendously at work as a software engineer. URL: https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/1v53jz538
For some reason I never knew that Hungarian Maths teaching is so outstanding. My high school teacher who came from Romania to Hungary always told us that he learned topics much earlier than we did. For example he learned equitations in grade 5 and we learn them in grade 7. So I figured that Romania must be better at teaching Maths.

Having gone through all levels of Maths in Hungary, from elementary school until BSc of university, I want to point out that this method sounds good as long as the teacher is able to keep the attention of the class. In my school, a few teachers were unable to do that and it was a disaster. Children were playing, talking and doing nothing in classes. Even preventing others from learning the material. Fortunately, I have never had these kind of teachers. However, if someone did they were doomed at university, because the expectations were too high for them. So I think it is quite a big disadvantage in Hungary. If you miss out in high school, because you were busy being a rebellious teen, there is a good chance that you never make it. You only realize it after you started university, because it is pretty easy to get into science courses of top universities in Hungary and very hard to actually graduate.

Re:Interactive command-line tool for HTTP inspection on Saturday February 04, 2017 @06:28AM (#13566621)
Nevermind, I have found it in the README. It is planned to be supported according to the TODO section.
Re:Interactive command-line tool for HTTP inspection on Saturday February 04, 2017 @06:03AM (#13566568)
This could make scraping easier, as it shows the plain response. Is there plan to support XPATH queries in search?