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Dokku is great, and has a PG plugin:

https://github.com/Kloadut/dokku-pg-plugin

DO has a Dokku vm you can select when you spin up a new droplet.

trailnayon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2013)

SEEKING WORK - Remote/SF Based Web Developer Strong: Ruby, Rails, Redis, Mysql, HTML/CSS Medium: PHP, Postgres, Javascript, Jquery yan [at] cal-sys.com No recruiters please

trailnayon Fewer Hours, More Happiness, More Productivity

I can't even count the number of places I've interviewed and the number of entrepreneurs and startup engineers I know who work insane hours. I took a stand last year and said I'd stop working >40 hours a week -- full stop. It was the best decision I ever made. Sure, I got laid off from a small startup, but they had their priorities all wrong and weren't doing much right anyways. Now I'm at a place where the office is deserted at 6pm and I've never seen as much success and high quality innovation. I wish more folks in the startup scene would stop with the pissing contest of hours. It's seriously dumb. We're about disruption, right? Well how about disrupting silly norms like the 40 hour workweek?

trailnayon Rally cry for sinking companies: all hands on deck

DHH nails it again. What a champ!

trailnayon One Hour Hire - Hacking Engineer Interviews

"Not the place to swing around"? Firstly, there's plenty of entrepreneurs here who don't code at all. Secondly, that's a really silly thing to say. Do you honestly think that you can't be a great Rails engineer without having fluency with linked lists off the top of your head in an interview type situation? I can think of a thousand questions that would give me a much more accurate idea of how good a candidate would be as a web developer and the day to day issues they would face.

trailnayon One Hour Hire - Hacking Engineer Interviews

  "unable to implement a simple linked list"
  "Vet the technical competency of full stack rails engineers..."

because there are linked lists in ruby? rolleyes

3 hrs of backend/algo testing? rolleyes

4 hrs of frontend? rolleyes

I hope they enjoyed tooting their own horn, yet another place I know to avoid bothering to interview at.

trailnayon Startup cost by city - infographic

80k for a developer in SF? I don't know how accurate that is right now

trailnayon Fukushima nuclear pollution more concentrated as it approaches U.S. West Coast

I keep hearing this rumor, and while IANAE, I'm pretty sure the pacific current doesn't just go straight east to west... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Corrientes-oceanicas.gif