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"Error establishing a database connection" They running wordpress on mysql or something?

Blah blah blah Hyperlocal is the most awful buzzword I've ever seen. Out of all of them, ever. I was just reading some "Hyperlocal" news in a paper printed often enough that I see …

If the plural of goose is geese why is the plural of moose not meese?

I learned a new word today.

Anything Arc does better than Clojure that would be enough to offset the benefit of running on the JVM and full java interop?

If you can't make smalltalk with a girl then you can't make smalltalk with a guy either. Why does that matter, right? Well it isn't just girls you have a problem talking to. Chance…

"No, the problem is that Holocaust deniers make their arguments for one simple purpose - they want to finish what was started and wipe Jews off the planet." This is far from true. …

And a lot of my friends list New York, NY as their city as well even though we live in NJ. Mostly people in theater or photography or some other vanity based work. I bet there are …

Every time this story comes up I'm shocked at the number of CS MIT grads there are on the internets. MIT must be graduating something like 50% of the total internet. Also the comme…

Like every news aggregation website on the internet?

How many users did you retain after the spike relative to before the reddit submission?

The apache server at my office is set up to not serve files or directories starting with a . We use svn export anyway, but wouldn't ignoring (.) directories be the most foolproof s…

The Waterfall model didn't work for software and it doesn't work for databases.

The most reliable way to make money during the gold rush came from selling shovels.

I second that. Fark.com uses flat comments and it makes it incredibly easy to pick up a discussion of interest at a later time. Vs Slashdot.org, Digg, Reddit, or Here where a story…

Merge SqlAlchemy

I wouldn't call it a step backwards. Perhaps a step to the side.

Sorry, but an article which gives no credit to the widespread adoption of personal computers and the internet cannot possibly be correct when talking about what made the 1990s pros…

You aren't worth enough to see a down arrow I believe. There is some threshold of karma you need before it appears. I guess; I'm not worthy either.

I agree. The sentimentalists are denying it. The idea that site operators have to be responsible for the live-feed user-content on their sites is absurd. Yes, this kid killed himse…

That's the crux of it. The Big Three are selling cars at a loss, and you can never make up selling at a loss in volume. There is no plan in place to create vehicles profitably so a…

http://www.npr.org/news/specials/gmvstoyota/ GM's problem is that it costs them money to make a car. Profitability per Vehicle Source: 2005 Harbour Report GM: Loses $2,331 per vehi…

The $31/hour is the wages paid to the employee. $73/hour is the cost to GM (healthcare, retirement, etc)

You missed some follow up information. The person who wrote the original post is the only salaried employee (barely above market average) and has no equity or options within the co…

That's what I'm taking away from it. They put out a job listing for an employee, but are expecting that person to have the attitude of a partner.