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If you're not familiar with his blog, he also occasionally does benchmarks of databases & extensions. He starts every post by outlining his setup.

The USA.

A mod might remove it if enough people flag it. I think it's still interesting as an example of a new type of fraud, though. The site's been up since January of this year and Amazo…

I don't think this is actually created by the company that owns the brand, Zwilling J.A. Henckels. I think someone managed to get this domain and generated this page (rather quickl…

What? No, this was always supposed to be a parody. Did you find this 10yrs ago and think it was serious?

That's Bonappetit for you. All of their videos of this nature have wildly unqualified folks. One of them featured Alex Delaney who I think was the editor in chief's assistant befor…

No no no no, it is absolutely necessary to salt the different components that go into a dish. Many things will absorb salt during the cooking process. Salt can also draw water out …

I have a friend who's looking to study CS but is intimidated by the competitiveness of admissions at the name brand schools (Stanford, MIT, etc). What are some schools that have a …

If you only have six people, maybe :] But we're commenting on a post that's talking about the best time to introduce an OKR process. At my company we don't have an "API guy" and an…

No, they are completely different things. Real time chat doesn't make people feel like they understand the overall goals of an organization. If someone says in Slack "we really nee…

This sounds awful.

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/instagram.com

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9323416/using-memory-allo...

this is cool. Watching the comment counts rise is mesmerizing

http://justquillin.com/

Nobody said you aren't allowed to share it, I simply disagree with you. As I said, I use a very similar pattern in a large project; I've used new/this/prototypal style OOP in other…

Cloudspeaker is 'up', but it has to be 'started' by some controller. Going to the page just makes you a minion in their system.

Your approach is essentially the 'module pattern'. This article describes some other reasons you might not want to use it: http://snook.ca/archives/javascript/no-love-for-module-pa…

That's because "override the 'general' toString() function" doesn't make sense. This is a method. It must be overriden for a particular class of objects. The first part of your exa…

"... all the linux users are going to switch to windows because they hate change." Where the hell did you get this from? Made me lol.

Well, it'll toss all of your templates into a convenient object, rather then having to do _.template($('#thing')). Still, doing the templating fully on the client seems a little wa…

http://vimbits.com/ http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_Tips_Wiki Your .vimrc is essentially just going to be a collection of snippets that you've found that seem to do some good. Many o…

are these still available?