While I agree that it's a trash site and an embarrassment to its roots as The Chronicle's website, anyone like yourself who notices how bad it is would do well to take it as a reminder that your adblocker is missing or not working. It appeared as though it were a normal site to me with ublock origin.
Just paying it forward. As a visible minority in Canada, I am subjected to this kind of passive aggressive, plausibly deniable ad hominem on a regular basis - and often by the very same Canadian white progressives who claim to have been educated out of such bigotry and racism. When in Rome...
ClickHouse is just awesome and underrated.
I tried to use TimeScale DB for 1-minute stock prices, and it was super slow and inefficient. On ClickHouse, the same data works, and it is blazingly fast.
> i have a different overall vision than those products, and it's built with a more modern tech stack and design considerations. i have an ai prototype for appraising books that i've successfully used to appraise and list my own collection. and i plan to build in some automation tools that would be useful to a bigger brick & mortar, like "order me 5 more copies of 'as i lay dying' when inventory count gets down to 3" and other ways a savvy bookseller could hook into automation that could help them with their work. and for the non-technically savvy users, i'm hoping to have great customer service to help them with some automation. i think this might end up being a core part of the product but only time will time. i also have some marketing tool ideas that nobody has built, based on some past experiences working in library tech and my time doing marketing for a bookseller.
helps to have somebody helping me who works in a bookstore. and also helps to use it myself, since i am user #1. was waiting for the HN cynicism! glad you like it :)
