January 2010
18 posts
“For thrift stores like the Salvation Army, about half the garments donated...”
– Rags and riches: Thrift-store clothing fuels global economy
“The founders of this nation warned about the dangers of corporate influence. The...”
– Editorial - The Court’s Blow to Democracy - NYTimes.com
“It’s weird to say your life needs more friction. But I think mine does....”
– De-optimizing, via minimalmac
“You can’t call reason insufficient and then turn around and offer a...”
– Faith: Future, Reason, and Revolution - the parish
“My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a...”
– Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Atlantic (July/August 2008)
Link Roundup: Hierarchical Data in Document...
Specifically MongoDB, but also for CouchDB. I needed a simple way to store a hierarchy, and here’s some links:
The “classic” sitepoint article: storing hierarchical data in a database
From Oracle, some information about materialized paths, also in SQL
The best overview so far, Sean Cribb’s Modeling a Tree in a Document Database
A question and answer on StackOverflow,...
“We mistake what we said we’ll do with what must be done. It’s rarely so; you can...”
– You can always do less - (37signals)
Nginx Development Script for Passenger →
run nginx + passenger from any directory
“I can never shake the feeling that people dislike getting into details because...”
– The Concept *is* the Execution (via gruber)
“It is true that both painters and programmers make things, just like a pastry...”
– Dabblers and Blowhards
“Prayer is the Quasimodo of theism, the ugly creature who should be hidden from...”
– Pentecostal Boys Aren’t Like Holden Caulfield, Part 17 - the parish
“Part of what was so toxic about the Bush era was the extent to which politics...”
– Heartache with Hard Work: There is a difference between being extreme and being radical
“Why do we fail to detect or defeat the guilty, and why do we do so well at...”
– The truth about airplane security measures. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
Findings - The Psychology Behind Putting Off What... →
“Our current response to terrorism is a form of “magical thinking.”...”
– Is aviation security mostly for show? - Bruce Schnier on CNN.com