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- bbebop said: hurricane bbebop?
- Anas said: These comics REALLY ARENT FUNNY NAV
- Chris R. said: Big fan of both the cos(x) and Tron jokes.
- Ryan said: XKCD has conveniently mapped out the 2008 hurricane season.
- Nikki said: Ha-ha! Tron-cycle hurricanes!
- Robin said: Wish I could blog this, but it's a bit inappropriate for work.
- Jason Matthews said: "hurricane illinois has it too easy." actually our people call that a "tornado."
- spiller said: brilliant!
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- FINiK said: How true :)
- Jason Wojciechowski said: PERFECT
- Photar said: lollerific!
- mernisse said: this is a fun game. i have been playing it with my employer for almost 5 years. suckers.
- ervin said: Tökéletes.
- Craig said: I think every time somebody is talking about a problem they're working on I'm going to suggest trying logarithms
- Josh said: Love the finno-ugric reference.
- William said: Take that, Jacques!
- Tom said: the sociology one cracks me up.alt text: If you think this is too hard on literary criticism, read the Wikipedia article on deconstruction.
- Macky said: heh so true about literary criticism. I often feel it is the most pointless and overanalysing subject I take.
- Powera said: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
- MR said: Laugh or cry.
- Nav said: Pfft. 8 papers and 2 books. I'd totally have it down in 7 and 1...
- Chris McQueen said: Woot! English majors for the B.S. win!
- pigliapost said: 48 secondi!!!
- xhantt said: I work as programmer for more than three years and they haven't caught on.
- Bill said: I loved doing this at parties- I'd pretend to be a sociologist who studies human behavior based on what they throw out.
- Abby said: OMG, I so have to share this with my ex-husband. He'll either laugh or KILL me!
- John said: I'm seein' storyboards for the next Sacha Baron Cohen movie. :-)
- Steve M. said: i think my mind is officially blown--for like the 3000th time.
- Nate said: I actually think it would be harder to fool good literary critics than that. Like, you'd have to actually read what you're talking about.Anyways, this comic is bound to anger a lot of fuzzies.
- Leooon said: Programador de ActionScript: 3 anos, 7 sites, 2 sistemas e ainda estou aqui!
- Jason Sares said: awesome
- Casey said: Zing, indeed.
- logan said: So, so true.
- Aurélien said: Très très bien. a envoyer a tous les profs de l'école
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Maybe Normalizing Isn't Normal (176)
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One of the items we're struggling with now on Stack Overflow is how to maintain near-instantaneous performance levels in a relational database as the amount of data increases. More specifically, how to scale our tagging system. Traditional database design principles tell you that well-designed databases are always normalized, but I'm not so sure. Dare Obasanjo had an excellent post When Not to Normalize your SQL Database wherein he helpfully provides a sample database schema for ...Shared by 4r1f (6) Alan (0) Alan Dean (55) Alan Phillips (1) Alexandru Savu (36) Amit (16) André (12) Andrei (18) Andréia Bohner (5) Andy (10) Artem (52) Arvin (7) atul (75) Augusto (12) Bijou (13) Border (4) Brandon (3) Brent Ozar (10) Bruce Boughton (1) Bruno Campagnolo de Paula (60) Byron Packwood (2) Carsten (10) Chad Kieffer (1) Chandoo (9) Chris (10) Christian (56) cirpo (8) Clint Ecker (15) Colin Charles (27) Compuwizard123 (34) Cuneyt (4) D. Hayes (2) D. Lambert (2) D. Shaw (14) Dan (6) danutz (0) David (5) David LEVY (0) DIAMOND-TIN (2) Dom Derrien (4) Doug (26) Drew (20) Dylan Bennett (7) eelco (10) elstudio (7) Emil Kaiser (8) Eric (2) Eric (7) EricAppel (5) Fenng (46) finalcut (3) Florin (3) Frank Sons (10) funkatron (0) George (3) Glen Horton (4) Harper (91) Imran (0) Jack Shedd (0) Jannik (1) Jason (8) Jeff (10) Jeff (43) Jeremy (91) jerobins (15) Jesper (1) Jim (28) Joel (1) Johan (12) John (0) JonB (9) jonezy (21) Jorriss (15) Joseph (0) jschultz (9) kapoing (0) Ken Sykora (2) kev (15) Kevin Branigan (7) Kevin Jump (1) Khan Tasinga (7) kidakaka (0) kiran (68) kmartino (4) LaptopHeaven (7) Leo K (6) Leonid Mamchenkov (12) lishevita (5) LouCypher (57) lpalli (4) Luke (2) madMilo (8) Marcos Toledo (0) Mark (6) marshall (1) Martin Gordon (12) Matt (6) Mattia (2) mattw (0) Maxim (4) Michael Sallmen (12) Mike (0) Morton Fox (75) Mr. T (6) n2linux (9) NasirJumani (246) Nathan (5) Nico B (0) Nicolas Roberge (14) Nikpay (0) nybble (15) Olivier Favre (Innovablog) (30) Patrick Altman (10) Pavan (3) peysal (0) phoenix (11) Pramod (21) psvensson (25) Ralf (14) rhymes (5) Richard (2) ritesh (16) Rob (1) Rob Knight (0) Robert Fischer, Smokejumper Consulting (4) Roberto (21) rochoa (4) Ron (9) Roy (0) rveguilla (5) Samiq (6) Satyajeet (0) Scott (5) Sebastian (9) SengMing (13) Shaun (16) Shine (11) shivanand (4) Skrud (3) smuggyuk (2) Srinvard (68) Stephen Voorhees (0) Steve (7) Steve (10) talios (15) Ted (8) TiernanO (3) tim (35) Tim (43) Tim (1) Tim Goh (10) Timm (0) tjd1 (1) Toby (0) Todd (10) Todd McKinney (2) Tom (8) Tom Q (7) tOMPSON (5) tosh (0) TravisPUK (14) tsangal (21) Vashira (5) vevck (12) Vinay (2) Vipul (42) wayne a arthurton (6) Wesley (7) Wing (11) wwj (11) xrx (39) Yaakov (10) Yasin (3) Yusuf (3) Yuvi (29) zapnap (33)Explore read 15 notes- kapoing said: Desnormalizar ??? NAAAAAAO.Leiam o post, nao sigam os links.
- D. Lambert said: Wow - great post. Really good insight, and great resources.
- Cuneyt said: Wow, what an article. Take that CS Profs! So much for the ivory tower. Wonder what BigTable developers would think.
- mattw said: My entire life centers around a vague sense of duty to the ghosts of Boyce-Codd
- Nathan said: This is a great post. Definitely check out some of the "war stories" he links to. Good read.
- Tom said: it's crazy that normalization issues haven't been abstracted away by a clever engineer.
- Steve said: It's worth it for the last line. :)
- jonezy said: seems to be a more prevalent attitude these days in DB design
- Roberto said: Just took a Database class this year as a 2nd year undergrad. Normalization came up. Perforamce considerations in nomalzation came up twice, briefly. In any case, databases are hard enough without having to extensivly nomralize and then retrive via multiple joins.
- tosh said: interesting
- lishevita said: On my current project, and the last couple of projects I've worked on, I've had questions about how best to deal with exactly these issues. I'm not a database specialist, It's just something I do as part of the bigger picture of Web application development, but when I first learned to use databases in Web applications, I learned to ALWAYS NORMALIZE, so that is, by and large, how I design apps today. In really big apps, though, I've also wondered if this isn't more problematic than it's worth. It just doesn't scale well past a certain point. I like the fact that this article supports my gut intuition that it makes sense to hybridize the design of a database -- part normalized and part denormalized -- based on actual data usage.
- wayne a arthurton said: Interesting take on Normalization in databases.
- Dom Derrien said: Read this article with a wider mind: it's not just a matter of always normalizing databases, it's related of following rules because someone taught them! Be pragmatic, not purist ;)
- JonB said: pull quote: As the old adage goes, normalize until it hurts, denormalize until it works.
- ritesh said: dobs, bubbs and palla, please read this article. Should give you some insight on how to tune your db for query intensive operations.
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Is it possible for the shot clock to have more time on it than the game clock ?Those of you paying close attention to the Suns vs Spurs game might have noticed during the 2nd overtime, Ginobli grabbed a huge rebound and while he was expecting to get fouled, the shot clock turned over to 24 secs and seemed to be stuck there. Then as the game clock continued to wind down, an interesting thing ...Shared by Dan (6)Contribute comment -
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Not the greatest picture, but it works. From left to right: 2007 WS Ring, 2004 WS Ring, 2001 WS Ring, 1993 NLCS Ring. Pretty incredible day, from the rogue jet looping the formation on the flyover to seeing Bill Buckner finally lauded for being what he was, a great player, to Pesky and Ortiz raising our second world series banner in 4 years, today went off without a hitch. Then add Dice-K dominating and us ...Shared by Dan (6)Contribute comment -
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Posted by James McGill, Maps API Team For the past three months I have had the great pleasure of working as an intern with the Google Maps API team in Sydney. Unfortunately my time is now up and I must head back to the mundane life of a undergraduate scholar, but before I do I'm ecstatic to announce that my intern project is FINALLY complete: Street View is now in the Google Maps API! Many ...Shared by Dan (6)Contribute comment - Revisiting The Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering (5)
