Loving Django’s prefetch/select_related
— that, along with a few small changes, reduced a task which was taking > 500,000 queries to 4558
Loving Django’s prefetch/select_related
— that, along with a few small changes, reduced a task which was taking > 500,000 queries to 4558
#iceland is green, white and blue:
One wonderful project which could really use some design work is www.gutenberg.org, especially the distributed proofreaders system — I can’t imagine just how many people want to contribute but are put off by the incomprehensible #ui
left-arrow.net ⇦ ⇤ ⇠ ↩ ⇶ ↣ ⇰ right-arrow.net #bookmark #typography
Jovian Salak looking good!
@karltryggvason thanks for the suggestion, we listened to it at work — amazing stuff! I need to listen to more radiolab now :)
@wilto what, like this:
Erin Richie which company is that? I’m doing some research on the UX of data export at the mo and they sound like a good bad example :)
What is it with facebook games being called “xyz saga”? They barely qualify.
This is a saga: youtube.com/watch?v=Jisqle37uWI
(I hope you’re taking notes, facebook game developers)
I’m thinking the time might have come to write a wrapper around #php DOMDocument which actually makes it usable. Thoughts:
querySelector
and querySelectorAll
are implemented for both the document and individual elements via Symfony XPath → CSS converter and relative XPath queriesinnerText
, innerHTML
for consistencyI seem to have a private little klezmer concert next door tonight #music
Please forward this new @edXOnline course to any creationists who cite lack of evidence as proof evolution is wrong: Introduction to Human Evolution
#listening to Ravel’s Bolero, after learning the first part on the #gurdy yesterday
Aral Balkan heh, that in itself is a good (if diluted) example of how surveillance and record keeping can be used against people
@benwerd okay, on hindsight it was a mistake. But I giggled every time they said “positronic brain”
Time to fix the fact that, for one reason or another, I’ve never seen I, Robot all the way through
Heard a good #mondegreen over lunch — not sure what the lyrics were supposed to be but sounded a lot like “I’ve got a professional… lawyer”
I’m thinking of actually writing the code I used to calculate those stats and run it for previous and future indiewebcamps, too — might be fun to see how we’re growing!