February 2009
36 posts
redis - Google Code →
Redis is a key-value database. It is similar to memcached but the dataset is not volatile, and keys can be strings, exactly like in memcached, but also lists and sets with atomic operations to push/pop elements.
re: strings as keys : non-unicode only?
What if the feminist blogosphere is a form of... →
Feminist blogs currently function as a wolf in sheep’s clothing. We are supposed to rally behind these mega-blogs because they call their work “feminism,” but should we really be expected to support a system that perpetuates larger oppressive dynamics and marginalize the voices of queer, working class, non-American, and/or women of color?
Javascript + JSON on the server →
All the HTML in Urbantastic is completely static. All dynamic data is sent via AJAX in JSON format and then combined with the HTML using Javascript. Put another way, the server software for Urbantastic produces and consumes JSON exclusively. HTML, CSS, Javascript, and images are all sent via a different service (a vanilla Nginx server).
Great idea. Instead of using templating languages,...
“The role of a polyglot is limited to experimental teams, either in start-ups or...”
– Robert Fischer
Five languages in seven lines, or how not to do... →
This way of doing web development is very much like democracy: it’s awful but there’s nothing better.
“I’m not anal, except in the good way”
– pretty dumb things
“A rape culture is a funhouse mirror version of the anti-choice culture’s...”
– pandagon
Lucene 2.4 in 60 seconds « LingPipe Blog →
“Wittingly or not, she touched on issues close to the heart of reproductive...”
– Bristol Palin stammers the truth
“Now to say that “hey, I’m from a tough neighborhood and these things have...”
– Tricia Rose on The Hip-Hop Wars, Race, and Culture
“the very stereotypes that drive the profit for hip-hop -among mostly white...”
– Tricia Rose on The Hip-Hop Wars, Race, and Culture
Women in Science: 50 Must Read Bloggers →
Lessons Learned: The free software hiring... →
Mixed Messages: Fat Toys With Good Intentions →
The problem with using a chubby Barbie in an ad to encourage kids to be more active is that Barbie’s original physique isn’t typical for a child either
THE FEMINIZATION OF LOVE →
An Exercise in Species Barcoding →
Uses the Hamming and/or Levenshtein distance functions. A little simplistic, but I’m sure there are more sophisticated distance functions, especially for DNA (which I know nothing about).
Jazzers and Programmers →
“M.I.A created a wonderful too-real moment, invoking body issues, TV standards...”
– No Trivia
“In fact, perhaps our recency bias has led us to conclude that the situation...”
– Nate Silver
Careers And Marriage - Forbes.com →
Point: Don’t Marry the asshole (Michael Noer), go with Elizabeth Corcoran
“The global economic growth of the last several years was in reality a global,...”
– Baseline Scenario, 2/9/09
Study: Obesity Linked to Headlessness →
“We’ve read almost every study on obesity as reported in the media, and there is compelling evidence that many overweight people — and particularly morbidly obese people — are headless,” said Dr. O.R. Chard of the Center for the Study of Media-Reported Studies. “Whether this link is causal or merely correlational is as yet undetermined, but certainly merits...
“Calling the current state of search engine competition a horse race is an insult...”
– Coding Horror: The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture
Connect The Dots →
Unit testing is not (generally) useful →
Heresy!
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/02/04/oba... →
The bursting of the housing bubble caused the current crisis, but the underlying problem began much earlier — in the late 1970s, when median U.S. incomes began to stall. Because wages got hit then by the double-whammy of global competition and new technologies, the typical American family was able to maintain its living standard only if women went into the workforce in larger numbers, and...
“Small-minded niggas think I’m readying a rock but
in reality I’m...”
– Clipse on coke and coke rap
“coke rap is about embracing an illegal and immoral lifestyle, flaunting its...”
– Daniel Levin Becker
“Drug dealing is a cryptic presence in cocaine rap, alluded to by dozens of...”
– Coke Is It
“I brought some [mosquitoes]. Here I’ll let them roam around. There is no...”
– Bill Gates
STEVE FORBES: That gets to a point you make in terms of when people put together these new [financial] products, it always works in the past.
JOHN BOGLE: It's so ridiculous, and so much of the system is based on this, Steve, that for example, the long-term return on stocks has been 9 1/2 percent. That's a 4 1/2 percent dividend yield and a 5 percent earnings growth. The 9 1/2 percent means nothing when the dividend yield is 1 percent. It means that you've lost 3 1/2 percentage points of future return. So instead of 9 1/2, the future return at a 1 percent yield level should be about 6 percent.
http: //www.forbes.com/2009/01/09/intelligentinvestingbogle.html
“Both movies deal with the depravity of suburbia, but the big difference in...”
– pandagon on Revolutionary Road vs American Beauty
“I am here to say that 99 percent of Ted’s [Haggard] sexual experiences were with...”
– Gayle Haagard on her husband being a “heterosexual with homosexual attachments”
Anywhere API - GOP.gov →
Might be some good data there for watchdog.net
I'm Gonna Watch This Michael Phelps Marijuana... →
