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Re: i am your canadian boyfriend (I get my comics on Saturday. It was a good week.)

seldo — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:49:01 -0000

Saturn girl looks basically exactly like Number 6 from BSG. Just sayin'.

Re: Start-up studies: A pop quiz

seldo — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:04:55 -0000

The bicycle stand example has exactly the same problem as the ones suggested. You need something to measure the tire pressure, you need materials to make the booth and the signs. I bet you'd have trouble finding those for $5.

Re: i am your canadian boyfriend (I should probably cut back on my sugar intake.)

seldo — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:05:07 -0000

OH MY GOD YOU CAN FLY!

I knew it. You ARE Green Lantern.

Re: Databases Should be Dynamically Typed

seldo — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:18:56 -0000

The advantage of statically typed RDBMS that you're leaving out are (a) storage optimization (b) query optimization.

You could get halfway to simulating a dynamically-typed RDBMS by declaring all your columns as, say, VARCHAR(5000). You could store strings, integers, floats, dates, etc. all in there pretty simply. However, they would use a lot more storage space as strings than they would as native data types (e.g. integer 1000 is one byte, string '1000' is 4). Over a large data set that would really add up. Secondly, when doing queries, your comparison operators (e.g. WHERE date > 2009-07-06) would be way less efficient as string comparisons than native type comparisons.

These considerations are also, of course, limitations of various (but not all) NoSQL systems.

Re: lowindustrial.

seldo — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:53:05 -0000

To be fair, he was only ever really a model who dabbled briefly in acting.

Re: skylor.me

seldo — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:30:32 -0000

The annoyingness of your "high resolution" overlays is particularly evident here.

Re: Weird

seldo — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:32:32 -0000

Don't be silly, everybody knows who Namor is. Hot dude, has a thing for Susan Storm.

Re: skylor.me - O rlly?

seldo — Sun, 17 May 2009 03:53:45 -0000

What about next year, when we'll hit 05:06:07 08/09/10?

Re: skylor.me - Even though I find deaf boys INCREDIBLY cute...

seldo — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:58:41 -0000

He's not deaf, he's a sign language interpreter :-)

Re: skylorlicio.us

seldo — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 05:11:26 -0000

This looks suspiciously like the same guys who did the cha-cha slide video, and it's all much gayer than I would have thought soldiers would be comfortable with. Are these really actual soldiers?

Re: http://skylorlicio.us/post/70242745

seldo — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:39:45 -0000

Me too! :-)

Re: From 30k feet - The implementation may be herculean but it isn’t rocket surgery

seldo — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:16:54 -0000

Uh... your descriptions of the Publishing and Applications groups are identical. Is this an elaborate joke I'm not getting?

Re: The Blue Angels in San Francisco

seldo — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:03:24 -0000

I dunno if I lose cool points, but I thought they were pretty awesome when I saw them last year. Also, I can't believe it's been a year since the last Fleet Week already. Geez.

Re: In Defense of the Animal Cracker

seldo — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:20:21 -0000

You... may be taking this matter a little seriously. Also, your link to Stauffer's crackers goes to Keebler instead.