Anarchaia

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

18aug2008

Serving static files with Django and AWS, yay.

Q/A: What Thread-safe Rails Means, “basically it means removing the single coarse-grained lock around every incoming request and replacing it with finer-grained locks around only those resources that need to be shared across threads.”

Something_to_see_here_3 by shoebappa

And it’s been a long time
Which agrees with this watch of mine
And I know that I miss you
and I’m sorry if I dissed you
— Modest Mouse, Trailer Trash

Towers of Silence are circular raised structures used by Zoroastrians for exposure of the dead. “To preclude the pollution of earth or fire, the bodies of the dead are placed atop a tower—a tower of silence—and so exposed to the sun and to birds of prey.”

Dijkstra award 2008 goes to ‘Sparse Partitions’, by David Peleg and Baruch Awerbuch.

On the App Store, Steven Frank on how it rejects the principles of every software developer. Worth reading.

If it doesn’t kill you
It will shape you
If it doesn’t break you
It will make you
— Siouxsie Sioux, If It Doesn’t Kill You

Tokyo Dystopia is a full-text search system, based on Tokyo Cabinet.

I spend a lot of time here. by shanda.w

Rules To Follow When Cell Phones Drop Coverage, so obvious, so good.

GIT 1.6.0 has been released. No more path pollution, and more nice features!

It’s Magit!, a Emacs mode for Git, can do hunkwise operations.