Entries written in December 2008
If you’ll excuse me, I’m going to take a geek break and go learn Python over my christmas break.
Hmn, wonder what this does?
import skynet
Paul Graham (Y Combinator, the first spam filter, and the first web-based app: Viaweb) is one of the smartest guys on the internet when it comes to startups. He makes some great points in his article about placing controls on processes in big companies and small startups. His thesis …
Good article by Sheeri Cabral: Why you Want to Switch to MySQL 5.1. The 5.1 branch has gotten a bad rap, but there’s a few things in there like the table change locking that will help us with our replication environment.
Now Drizzle. I do not get cloud computing (maybe someone can explain it to me). Its fancy, its hype and I am sure there are plenty of people that need it, next to the other 99% that do not.
There’s the old saying about missing the forest for the tree, but …
Malcom Gladwell wrote a post that discusses the similarities between the way teachers and quarterbacks are hired and evaluated. Gladwell’s a blowhard. Frankly, except for careers in which you’re evaluating people based on a set of physical characteristics for which there is no adjustment (i.e. ballerina, horse jockey), you’re …
I’d forgotten about the PHP Advent until Matthew tweeted earlier with a link to “Yet” by Marco Tabini. This is the magnum opus of PHP descriptions — so far, it’s detailed everything I love, hate, and love to hate about the language.
A few choice quotes:
If there were
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It’s been quiet around here for the past few months. I’ve been busy working on central syslogging of all kinds of different things, and the project’s been killing my free time because it’s downright interesting to put together this many things all focused on one task.
The end goal …
Talk about unintended consequences.
Facing a state budget crisis in July, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger fired about 10,000 temporary and part-time workers and ordered the 200,000 permanent employees to be paid only the minimum wage of $6.55 an hour until the legislature passed a crisis-solving budget. However, a week later
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I rarely make political or personal posts on this blog; it’s mostly a scratchpad for what I’m doing at work. Occasionally I run across an article I can’t resist commenting on — like this one linked from Get Rich Slowly, called The End of Wall Street’s Boom. In …
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