Italy is screwed
The European debt crisis isn’t even close to being over.
sad but not surprising
reblogged from civicmass
web designer vs web developer. so true.
understanding patents
outstanding episode on This American Life radio show
We take you inside this war, and tell the fascinating story of how an idea enshrined in the US constitution to promote progress and innovation, is now being used to do the opposite.
Getting Bin Laden
Great story:
No American was yet inside the residential part of the compound. The operatives had barely been on target for a minute, and the mission was already veering off course
(Source: newyorker.com)
haven’t laughed this hard in long time. if you know italian all the better
sublime. beautiful. work of art.
64 million empty apartments in China and growing…. different bubble than the US but nonetheless a bubble
less meat better than local food?
Shifting less than one day per week’s worth of calories from red meat and dairy products to chicken, fish, eggs, or a vegetable-based diet achieves more GHG reduction than buying all locally sourced food.
but you should still do both
(Source: blogs.hbr.org)
claim to think different, act like everyone else
know thy sql
The most obvious problem with ORM as an abstraction is that it does not adequately abstract away the implementation details. The documentation of all the major ORM libraries is rife with references to SQL concepts. Some introduce them without indicating their equivalents in SQL, while others treat the library as merely a set of procedural functions for generating SQL.\
