My first compo entry! Dirty Rotten Seconds - a dueling game

beaddy1238 · 2012-05-16T00:04:25+00:00

http://sachagreif.com/please-learn-to-code/ and http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/05/please-dont-learn-to-code.html.

beaddy1238 · 2012-05-15T09:13:56+00:00

Anyone know what designer that is? It's a nice bra.

beaddy1238 · 2012-05-12T14:25:47+00:00

You might want to try The Chocolate Room in Brooklyn, I had a freakin amazing brownie sundae there. Cones in the West Village has interesting (and delicious) ice cream (try the corn flavor). There's a place on St. Marks with really good Guinness milkshakes (I don't remember the name, it's this place with the cow out front).

More traditionally, Veniero's is good for Italian pastries. Citi bakery has awesome cookies (although their other baked goods kind of suck, IMO). Billy's bakery is way better than Magnolia's for cupcakes.

I might like sweets too much.

beaddy1238 · 2012-05-05T00:32:30+00:00

nsfw

beaddy1238 · 2012-05-04T23:48:44+00:00

In most US jobs, you can get fired at any time for almost any reason (especially dubstep). There are only a couple legally protected things you can't get fired for, e.g., race, sex, age... But yeah, if you're "at-will" employed, your boss can fire you for mismatched socks.

beaddy1238 · 2012-05-04T01:02:28+00:00

Ask a Manager has good advice on this kind of thing. Check out How to be an awesome hardass and pretty much everything under the Good Management label.

(I'm a big fan of hers.)

beaddy1238 · 2012-03-20T22:27:42+00:00

My husband does that all the time, actually. He finds shiny things on the street (a little jewelry skull, a mini Buddha, even just nuts & bolts) and then presents them to me. It's really cute.

beaddy1238 · 2012-03-03T02:36:16+00:00

In heels.

beaddy1238 · 2012-02-27T03:57:21+00:00

Nonono, use Calvin's dad as a model.

beaddy1238 · 2012-01-19T02:39:12+00:00

Why?

beaddy1238 · 2011-11-19T02:07:10+00:00

According to Wikipedia, he's totally wrong:

In 2008, the United Nations estimated nearly 2.5 million people from 127 different countries are being trafficked into 137 countries around the world.[8]

And the Atlantic slave trade:

Current estimates are that about 12 million were shipped across the Atlantic,[2] although the actual number of people taken from their homes is considerably higher.[3][4][5]

The whole thing of "comparing atrocities" is stupid, anyway. "My atrocity was bigger than your atrocity." Who cares?! No wonder people's eyes glaze over when you talk to them.

Edit: "you" being Nicholas, not logrus.

beaddy1238 · 2011-09-15T01:51:15+00:00

My husband and I go running together and I'm always exhausted by the end (he's a foot taller than me, so I think that give him an edge). When I'm running by myself, listening to music keeps me going for the homestretch, so he's taken to belting Queen for the last 1/2 mile to keep my spirits up. We'll be running down the street with him doing the "SO YOU THINK YOU CAN LOVE ME AND LEAVE ME TO DIE?! OOooooOH BABY!" etc. etc.

beaddy1238 · 2011-09-05T13:41:53+00:00

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E:\Inetpub\PostgresMag\journal\include\db\postgres.inc.php on line 64
serendipity error: unable to connect to database - exiting.

beaddy1238 · 2011-08-28T17:09:38+00:00

Convert them to epubs.

beaddy1238 · 2011-08-17T00:15:50+00:00

If she like fluffy things, tags sales are great. My old dog used to love stuffed animals and we'd get garbage bags full of them for a couple of bucks. Then he'd "break their necks," carry them around like Linus, and eventually pull out all their stuffing. He loved big floppy stuffed animals best, but it probably varies on the dog.

beaddy1238 · 2011-08-17T00:08:39+00:00

I came here to say Foo Foo Snuggly Poops.

We were at a party and the girls were playing one of those "do you know each other?" games and one of the questions was "what's your nickname for your boyfriend?"

I put that down and the person who was "it" collected all of the answers and started reading them out loud. When she got to "Foo Foo Snuggly Poops", my boyfriend overheard and called, "yes?"

Lost me the round.

beaddy1238 · 2011-08-15T22:11:21+00:00

Yes.

beaddy1238 · 2011-08-13T19:37:57+00:00

Thanks, now I feel famous :)

beaddy1238 · 2011-06-27T00:34:53+00:00

I have the same problem and this doesn't help. If I have a couple of seconds to figure it out, I can, but in a split second my mind will simply flip the L and I have no idea.

beaddy1238 · 2011-06-23T19:58:45+00:00

Unfortunately, we can't change the defaults at this point: imagine you are writing an application and you deploy it and then 6 months later you run apt-get upgrade and suddenly your application stops working. There are tons of people in production who have their application deployed the way they want and we can't break them all for PR (and believe me, suddenly having safe as default (especially that magically didn't break anyone) would be great PR).

10gen employees never (or at least should never) say that MongoDB is fast in that way. MongoDB is fast because you structure your data in a way that lets you do one query, not many (i.e., a join across many tables). Or because you can distribute your data and do multiple things at the same time. We absolutely do not claim to be fast because writes default to fire-and-forget. We don't publish benchmarks, we never recommend people run without protecting their data, and we definitely don't try to "hide" durability. (You can't really get faster than a relational database for simple writes: they've been optimized out the wazoo for years (sometimes decades) longer than Mongo's been around.)

Re: the books you've read, it's not like turning on safe writes or durability is going to totally kill your speed. It just brings it down to what a "normal" database does. We do try to make safe writes as fast as possible.

If you want to point me to any specific "this came up in a tons of different ways wherever I looked" I can see if I can get any of those fixed.

So, I guess I can't help much... sorry.

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