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  1. Re:Stupid question on Practical Django Projects · · Score: 1

    I saw one guy whose attitude was "I know PHP, so I'll just SELECT * and do everything in script"
    In fairness, this may work OK for small stuff.

  2. Re:Stupid question on Practical Django Projects · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's generally fascinating to watch people not grasp the fundamentally different world-view of a relational database with an object-oriented system.
    It's the difference between a warehouse and retail floor, yeah, you can blur things somewhat with a Costco or Sam's Club, but the ideas of how things are managed between a warehouse full of boxed bicycles and a bikeshed full of them is substantially different.
    The joy of watching someone take an .xsd and map it directly to a set of tables, with foreign keys to capture the nesting of complex types,
    then having them say "why does this query with 10 INNER JOINS run so slow?" is truly exquisite.

  3. Re:Son? on How To Encourage a Young Teen To Learn Programming? · · Score: 1

    M-x woman
    (goes after that man page like a pig at the troff)

  4. Piling on... on Firefox's Effect On Other Browsers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The SQLite manager add-on is incredible.
    I'm looking forward to canned index databases for interesting site(s).
    The whole idea of exposing data to the user is going to lead to some interesting long-term effects.
    If nothing else, one hopes that it will help usher the demise of that ugly data Bastille called the Windows Registry.

  5. Re:Conflict of interest on Study Says Open Source Software a Security Risk · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nonsense: GGP is properly spelled, employs a complete sentence, and proper punctuation. Modding it 'Funny' would be inconceivable.

  6. Re:Winter MegaHurtz on Switching To Solar Power – One Month Later · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's OK, he has Three Dog Night on the iPod.

  7. Re:A: Because it breaks the flow of a message on Kaminsky's DNS Attack Disclosed, Then Pulled · · Score: 1

    Fair enough.
    Possibly if they defaulted the top-level responses, starting the thought in the subject line would be less tempting.

  8. I've been deeply worried on Kaminsky's DNS Attack Disclosed, Then Pulled · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...about these Monsanto DNA attacks for some time...

  9. Re:Beginning of the End on Inside the Lego Factory · · Score: 4, Informative

    A/C:Bad analogies are a motor in Soviet Russia: it drives you! .
    Grammar nazi:That's not an analogy, it's a synecdoche.

  10. Re:short version on The Inside Story On the San Francisco Network Hijacking · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dude, you're never going to stay in office by communicating the simple truth.

  11. Re:Difference? on Knights of the Old Republic MMO Confirmed · · Score: 2, Funny

    Abuse? If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times, this is Arguments!
    Abuse is through the door, line on the left, one cross each.

  12. Re:Glad I don't subscribe to Scientific American on You, Too, Could Be Batman In 10 To 12 Years · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dude, education is so overrated.
    You can just 'feel' something about pokemon and have a PhD in "Pokemon Studies", anymore.
    See http://www.dourish.com/goodies/decon.html

  13. Re:Heh, heh, heh. on GPS Tracking Device Beats Radar Gun in Court · · Score: 1

    Nanny folks, nanny state: Villkommen zu Frandrescherreich.

  14. Re:Moon on Russia To Study Martian Moons Once Again · · Score: 3, Funny

    In Soviet Unification Church, Moon marries you!

  15. Re:Just wait on NASA Shuttle Replacement's Problems Are Worsening · · Score: 1

    Sounds fine to me. Good ideas have this noticeable habit of being re-used.

  16. Re:Just wait on NASA Shuttle Replacement's Problems Are Worsening · · Score: 1

    Invest? I'm talking about treating NASA like PBS or something.
    Capitalism is great, but private initiatives are happening at a completely different individual funding level than I'm talking about.

  17. Re:Just wait on NASA Shuttle Replacement's Problems Are Worsening · · Score: 1

    What about all of the touted economic benefits of the Apollo program, e.g. velcro?
    Or do you think those were one-time benefits?
    Or are we too steeped in Idiocracy to pursue anything beyond bread and circuses?

  18. Re:Just wait on NASA Shuttle Replacement's Problems Are Worsening · · Score: 1

    Cheaper and farther reaching would be a sober review of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Powers_Act, and whether the blurring of responsibilities between the Legislative and Executive Branches of the federal tree is sappy.
    Sadly, neither the Demmicans nor the Republocrats seem keen on such.

  19. Re:Just wait on NASA Shuttle Replacement's Problems Are Worsening · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Just set up a national tip jar on something akin to PayPal.
    Citizens actually want to fund space activities, not the stuff that's killing us: http://perotcharts.com/
    Dis-intermediating DC is step #1 in carrying out the will of the people.

  20. Re:Tons of Gems from Steve! on Inside Steve's Brain · · Score: 1

    Thank you, though that's among the more ronngg looking words I've ever seen that was, in fact, correct. English: can't live with 't, cannot live with it.

  21. Re:Tons of Gems from Steve! on Inside Steve's Brain · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's his unwillingness to share the means of resurrecting the victim between the killings that most deeply reflects his egomania.
    Probably hasn't figured out how to commoditize the technique.

  22. Re:mod what on McCain Campaign Uses Spider/Diff Against Obama · · Score: 1

    I think over- and underrated mods escape the metamoderation cycle.
    Handy tool for boosting/bashing posts.

  23. Re:Shut down before it could damage itself? on Mars Lander's Robot Arm Shuts Down To Save Itself · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You need to bound that forward-looking aspect of the law.
    As the decision tree gets huge, just about any tiny action will eventually lead to tragedy, or [odius] being elected.
    There is no real safety under the sun.

  24. Re:How about the reverse quotas? on The Push For Quotas For Women In Science · · Score: 1

    Eh, I'm an insomniac, so I'm up either way.

    This may be getting too detailed for a family-friendly website.

  25. Re:How about the reverse quotas? on The Push For Quotas For Women In Science · · Score: 1

    For unknown reasons, intercourse orgasms release four times more prolactin than masturbatory orgasms, according to a recent study.

    I submit that inability to differentiate between masturbation and intercourse indicates /. readers or idiocy (but I repeat myself). ;)