Worst scooter driver in China. LMAO!!! This made my day. Dude hits every car and truck in sight. The money shot is at the end when he drives through the fence and into a massive hole. This is proof as to why people need to pass a driving test!
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We’ve talked a lot here about the flat design trend here at Designmodo. We’ve raved about it, showed you plenty of cool examples and even developed a free user interface kit for you to download and use for projects. But what if you want to do it yourself? One of the most important parts of […]
Remember to use a Color Contrast Analyzer such as Lea Verou’s Contrast Ratio
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From several presentations we’ve learned what Facebook insiders like Aditya Agarwal and Robert Johnson, both former Directors of Engineering, consider their secret sauce:
- Scaling Takes Iteration. Solutions often work in the beginning, but you’ll have to modify them as you go. PHP, for example, is simple to use at first, but is not a good choice when you have tens of thousands of web servers.
- Scaling Takes Iteration. You can say that again.
- Don’t Over-Design. Just use what you need as you scale your system out. Figure out where you need to iterate on a solution, optimize something, or completely build a part of the stack yourself.
- Choose the Right Tool for the Job. Realize that any choice comes with overhead. If you really need to use Python then go ahead and, we’ll try to help you succeed. Yet with that choice there is overhead, usually across deployment, monitoring, ops, and so on.
- Get the Culture Right. Build an environment internally which promotes building the right thing first and fixing as needed. Stop worrying about innovating, about breaking things, thinking big and thinking about what is the next thing you need to build after the building the first thing. Isolate the part of the culture that you value and want to preserve. It doesn’t happen automatically.
- Move Fast. Get to market first. It’s OK if you break things. For example, Facebook runs their entire Web tier on HipHop which was developed by three people. This is a risky strategy. It brings the site down regularly (out of memory, infinite loops), but there’s a big potential payoff as they figure out how to make it work.
- Empower Small Teams. Small teams can do great things. Facebook Search, photos, chat and HipHop were all the result of small teams. Get the right set of people, empower them and let them work.
- People Matter Most. It’s people who build and run systems. The best tools for scaling are an engineering and operations teams that can handle anything.
- Scale Horizontally. Handling exponentially growing traffic requires spreading load arbitrarily across many machines.
- Measure Everything. Production is where the really useful data comes from. Measure both system and application level statistics to know what’s happening.
- Gives Teams Control and Responsibility. Responsibility requires control. If a team is responsible for something they must also control it.
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Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah)For more photos from the observation of Yom HaShoah, see the #YomHaShoah and #יוםהשואה hashtags and the a href=”Yad Vashem location page.
From sunset today to sunset tomorrow marks Yom HaShoah (יום השואה), a day to honor the memory of the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust.
Yom HaShoah is a national holiday in Israel, commemorated by speeches by the President and Prime Minister at Yad Vashem, the lighting of six torches by Holocaust survivors, prayers by the chief rabbis and two minutes of silence across the nation. While other countries have their own Holocaust days as well, many Jews around the world also observe the day at home and at important historical sites.
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"I need to be better for you."
This is what he told me tonight. He of all people.
He hurt me yesterday, unintentionally of course, but hurt all the same. Unable to reach Him I channeled my hurt into anger, an emotion I can better process and control. Finally able to speak to Him today I told Him I was angry and listed off all the reasons why before finally breaking down and admitting I was hurt and had been worried. He listened and validated every crazy feeling and thought I poured out. By the end of our brief conversation I was no longer angry or hurt, only relieved that He understood where I was coming from and had solid suggestions as how to prevent situations like Sunday’s from occurring in the future.
So when I saw Him tonight I was so relieved by how things had gone that I didn’t really process what He said, that He needs to be better for me. Reflecting now on the conversation though it breaks my heart that He uttered those words. This man has the kindest heart I have ever known. He treats me far better than I could ever imagine being treated and the impact He has had on my self worth, self esteem and general well being is immeasurable. He had done more for me than I could ever hope to repay and yet He thinks He needs to do better.
I don’t deserve him; I know this. I can only hope I find the courage to let Him know how much He means to me, how better my life is for having Him in it. I pray that somehow I can give Him at least a fraction of the happiness He has given to me. He deserves so much more but I have no idea how to show it.
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