Can anyone recommend a cool place in San Fran Frisky for a late(ish) nite dinner, a place that's not cheap and not really pricey, but is a good n' hip hangout like the old Hamburger Mary's (RIP) way back in th' day? (A place where Danzig and Frontline Assembly fans and modern primitves would hang out, for example.) Somewhere in SOMA, Haight or th' Castro would be ideal! + a bair with mixed drinks big plus!

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Although they start out looking like chickens and mice, baby turtles go through a unique folding process inside their eggs that forms their upper shells, a new study shows.

Hi everyone,

A friend of mine is looking for an appartment in SF and has found a place she likes near Fulton & 25th. Now, the problem is - she is not really familiar with that neighborhood, so she is concerned with how nice/not nice the area is. And by "nice" she mostly means "safe" since she is a single mom with two teenage kids and her elderly mom also lives with them. What do you think? Could you please share your opinion on pros and cons of living in that area?

Thanks a lot in advance!

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Two years after most of Russia's geysers were lost in a landslide, a peculiar geyser has emerged on the Kamchatka Peninsula that spouts water every 6 to 20 minutes.Video.

The Rocky Mountain Raptor Program was on the local news last night.  It was neat to see the place where I volunteer being featured.

See the video here.

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In addition to body armor never before found on a crocodile species, the ancient reptile had jaws that allowed it to chew like a mammal, paleontologists say.

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I always have a great time hanging out with my friend Reid, so I was excited when she suggested a day trip to Namur last month. I didn’t know anything about the city, but I figured even if we get there and turn right back, I’ll enjoy the time chatting with her in the car. The car trip was fun, but we also found some nice sights in Namur.

It was stormy day with dark clouds hovering just overhead. We skipped the famous Citadel and spent our time looking in churches and wandering the shopping area. We found a really cute toy store where she found some goodies for her daughter and I found some cute wooden necklaces for my neice’s birthday.

I took my wide angle lens on this trip for a change of view and it was very helpful in capturing the churches we visited. The churches here so much fancier (and older) than in the US. They have gorgeous stained-glass windows, amazing architecture and details, and are just huge.

Namur was  a cute city, with some fun shops, but I wouldn’t put it at the top of a list for visitors.  Still though, we had a great time.  You can see more photos from our short trip on Flickr and on Reid’s blog.

• Day Trip in Namur (10 photos)
• Reid’s Blog Post on Namur

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The current #20 in the German single charts

"Ich bereue nichts" - I don't regret anything
"Silbermond" - Silver Moon


Top 20 here~
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WORT DES TAGES
der Tisch (pl. die Tische) - table

Maria deckt den Tisch. - Maria sets the table.

Er deckte den Tisch. - He laid the table.

Die Jungs spielen Tischtennis. - The boys are playing ping pong.

Frisch auf den Tisch. - Fresh on the table.

Wenn die Katze aus dem Haus ist, tanzen die Mäuse auf dem Tisch. -
When the cat is away the mice will play.

Die Sache ist vom Tisch. - It's no longer an issue.

Related:
der Schreibtisch - desk (literally: writing table)
das Tischgebet - grace (literally: table prayer)
die Tischdecke - tablecloth
das Tischtennis - ping pong, table tennis

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Rabe [n]: large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail...

"I've tried both cars and guess which one is quicker"
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As a continuation of my previous post, let me mention what happened with the Thrift experiment I blogged about some time back.

Thrift is broken in many ways. It allows importing definitions from other services but fails to generate working code in such a scenario, so you can forget about having structs or typedefs that you want to use for multiple services.

Next, it includes type specifiers for fields and return values but don't expect any type checking. Those specifiers exist purely for marshalling/unmarshalling hints. The only "help" you get is when the runtime throws ugly exceptions that you, an experienced senior engineer, can comprehend to be due to datatype mismatches.

On the PHP side, it does something super brilliant. It IGNORES namespaces! WTF! So, you can't call out to two services that, God forbid, define classes (Thrift structs) with the same name. Class redef error. Oops!

Next, Thrift totally doesn't allow you to write services in a layered manner. E.g. You want your service to have a request validation layer that verifies a signature, strips it and passes it on to the next layer that, perhaps, does some quota checks or logging, strips more of its book-keeping data and passes the rest to the implementation.

Super easy with HTTP REST, right? Nawt so with Thrift. Muddle each and every end-point's signature for each service with parameters it doesn't even want to know of. I can't imagine writing services this way. It's sheer sadomasochism.

Last nail in Thrift's coffin is custom client and server code for each service. How 1980s is that? I had just two services to deal with and one client for that service and I was driven crazy to my wit's end trying to keep things in sync.

Experience teaches people a lot about some things. Some learning is supposed to be transient and some persistent. It's good to keep checking on the validity of your beliefs once in a while. I did it once with Java when I joined Hadoop. Indeed Java turned out to be a programming philosophy unto itself. One that was all about constraints, inflexibility and programming equivalent of the tunnel vision syndrome.

I did it again with Thrift, this time revalidating what the title of this post says. Data wants freedom. It does not need to be tied to programming language constructs. Exchanging data as objects is bad juju.

Even in the scope of the same language, passing PODs (strings, numbers, arrays, dicts) brings immense flexibility. So much flexibility that the trade-off against type safety is easy to go for. I've been programming without type safety for over 5 years now and except for the first couple of months, I never missed it.

The day you realise that an object is just a dictionary in essence, and that methods can be invoked by their names represented as strings, you'll reach a new state of programming mindset. Or maybe not, but at least I did.

I get an email called "Out to Launch" that features new advertising campaigns, and this one featuring a songbird and his well appointed home is just too darn cute! Here's the link.

Ohhhhh, to be back in Scotland where I thought I was going to freeze to death. To feel the cold wind whip the hair back from my face, to carry my rain gear in my day pack every day...just in case.

Or.........Colorado would be nice.....

“Go straight inside baby” Bhiku the rickshaw wala told her before dropping her off at the gate. It was the month of July, schools had just re-opened and all of 8 year old, Gulgul, the girl with chubby cheeks felt liberated. It had rained heavily in the afternoon and at 4 o’clock when the school ended, the roadside was full of big and small puddles  making her mind race and imagination run wild as she sat in the rickshaw to reach home.

And there it was, a huge puddle just before the door. There was a stone way through the puddle to the veranda of the old bungalow and it was easy to reach the door without getting her feet soiled -as she was told time and again, girls ought to behave demurely and in proper fashion, she even started to walk on the pathway. One step and the second one, she saw her own reflection in the puddle, stood there admiring the sky being reflected in water.

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"Обала" на сербскохорватском -набережная. Баном, по крайней мере в Первой Югославии, называли правителя какой-нибудь территории, вроде губернатора (судя по памятнику Бану Йеладжичу в центре Загреба, в период вхождения этих земель в состав Австро-Венгрии такой термин тоже использовался). Кто такой Кулин -понятия не имею,даже у Яндекса забыл спросить.

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