February 2007
18 posts
“Ning, the latest startup of Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, is looking to...”
– ~InformationWeek
“From a legal perspective, online poker may differ in some ways from online...”
– ~Wikipedia
“A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.”
– ~Carl Sandburg, Quotes about Parenthood, Babies, and Children
“The NY-based team at Clipmarks just launched 2.0 of their product, a unique web...”
– Techcrunch
“Yet while the benefits of valid code may not be glamorous, we can—and...”
– ~Ethan Marcotte
“Americans hate their jobs more than ever before in the past 20 years, with fewer...”
– ~LiveScience
“According to the survey, some 34 percent of Internet users have logged onto the...”
– ~Walaika Haskins
“Vista’s user interface suffers from more friction than its predecessor XP,...”
– ~Gregg Keizer
“After researching the market, Ruby on Rails stood out as the best choice. ...”
– ~Evan Williams, creator of Blogger and Twitter
Rails Performance Hits: SQL
The first part of the problem is usually described as the “1+N” query problem: if you load a N objects from class Article (table “articles”), which has a n-1 relationship to class Author (table “authors”), accessing the author of a given article using the generated accessor methods will cause N additional queries to the database. This, of course, puts some...
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
– ~Plato
On Poker
Poker’s popularity experienced an unprecedented spike in the first years of the 21st century, largely because of the introduction of online poker and the invention of the hole-card camera, which turned the game into a spectator sport. Viewers could now follow the action and drama of the game, and broadcasts of poker tournaments such as the World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour brought in...
“The planet is now ready for incarnation.”
– ~Peter Koenig
Send me your money month
Leonard: http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/broadcast/radio/profile_america/009530.html
March will be "I made sone shit up" month.
me: haha
Leonard: April will be "Send Leonard money" month.
me: lol, how can i get in on that shit..? i want some money, too!
Leonard: Well, you can't have May, that's my birth month, so it's "Send Leonard even more money" month. You can have June.
me: sweet!
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“Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the...”
– ~Sidney Madwed