With all the celebrating that happens on New Year’s Eve, even the best laid plans can go awry.
This time of year brings increased need for emergency contraception. This year, be prepared to start the year out right: make sure you and your friends know where to find EC!
You can…
This is a season of dangerous brinkmanship in America as warring politicians drag the country ever closer to a default. Compromise may still be possible, but there is nothing inevitable about it.
Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.
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I assume this was on I Love Charts at some point but my sister just forwarded it to me and BOOTS WITH THE FUR WILL NEVER NOT BE HILARIOUS.
The comb bike rack is finished! Knowhow Shop is breathing a sigh of relief now that the bike rack is enroute to Virginia. The 400 pound comb is handcrafted out of Mangaris using full mortise and tenon construction, while the hair is made from powder coated steel.
For any readers in…
Staircar: Redis-powered notifications
Staircar’s performance was beyond our expectations and very consistent, with average response times per request at or under 5ms, even during peak traffic. Extensive benchmarking showed Staircar was able to handle roughly 30,000 requests a second per server.
Blake made your notifications an order of magnitude faster and more reliable, and I bet you didn’t even notice (which is exactly the way we like it).
