April 2009
2 posts
“[Today] is Paul Revere Day, so wear your Keep The Ride Alive T-shirts with pride...”
– by Colleen.
Today is a great day, where over 350 people across this country (and in 7 other countries) are wearing a Keep The Ride Alive t-shirt to honor the midnight ride of Paul Revere and the power of an individual.
Whether or not you’re wearing a shirt, take a moment to tell someone about what...
March 2009
17 posts
If the opposite of con is pro then is the opposite...
dlifson:
kaytee:
I know this is supposed to be clever and witty and whatever. It is not anything more than etymologically ignorant.
Pros and cons is a modern abbreviation for the latin pro et contra, meaning “for and against.” While the prefix pro- bears the same meaning, contra- is not the same as the prefix con-, which means “with.” The root or suffix of the word, gress, means “to go,” so...
“This isn’t beat up the geek, big guy, this is the internet establishment!...”
– Dialog from yesterday’s episode of Dollhouse. Best episode of the season so far!
Write good code now, improve it later.
dlifson:
marco:
Jack Cheng quoted Adam Wiggins’ Order of Operations for writing code:
Make it work.
Make it elegant.
Make it fast.
Make it secure.
I disagree. The biggest problem is that this ignores reality: once it works, how likely are you to go back and make it elegant, fast, and secure? If it’s for personal use, how likely are you to care? If it’s for work, how likely is your...
Amazon's 2.7 Billion Dollar Question →
Good article on amazon reviews and helpful votes.
(reblog from jingc)
“The Lust of the Irish […] Erin Go Braughless”
– today’s marquee on the Lusty Lady, Seattle.
dailyprincentonian confirms they're a bunch of...
Think we’ve got it bad? U. Chicago has it worse
Yea, we had huge Core requirements, midterms all the fricken time, short reading periods, and enough work to think that taking more than 4 classes at a time was insane. But guess what: WE LIKED IT.
(link from iseff)
now on tumblr
update for rss readers - just updated my old feedburner feed to point to my new blog on tumblr. content will be more or less the same, just shorter and (hopefully) more frequent posts.
user_id = 1
Ian:
me: i signed up :P
Ian: fucker!
i havent yet!
you just stole user id 1
me: YES
Ian: mysql> update users set id = 3 where id = 1;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.04 sec)
me: dick!
1 tag
sotd: metric - gold guns girls
preordered the new Metric album yesterday — really excited for it to come out in a few weeks. I was surprised to see that ilovemetric.com uses an all-flash checkout pipeline. Html pretty much nailed the simple form usecase over a decade ago, seems like using anything else is just making your life harder.
check out “Gold Guns Girls” on hypem.
“is it ever going to be...
starting from scratch
sometimes is a good thing.