Post a website, entertain me!

tanstaafl wrote:

Sigh. Remember when this was the web?

There's always Time Cube.

My first webpage was a gif, some text, and a scattering of black & white bitmaps I'd drawn by hand. It looked super awesome on Mosaic.

Reddit's co-founder built a travel startup called Hipmunk. Try a search to see why Forbes called it "the best travel site in the world." The magic happens on the results page. (hipmunk.com)

http://www.hipmunk.com
Via Reddit

Sparhawk wrote:
Reddit's co-founder built a travel startup called Hipmunk. Try a search to see why Forbes called it "the best travel site in the world." The magic happens on the results page. (hipmunk.com)

http://www.hipmunk.com
Via Reddit

Wow. That's pretty impressive.

Hipmunk is indeed awesome. Only annoyance is it won't do cross-carrier stuff, since it always redirects to the carrier's site. Sometimes mixing airlines is cheaper than booking one airline straight through.

And kids, this is why you always close your html tags...

http://sewingandembroiderywarehouse....

ETA: Oddly, it seems to display correctly in IE. Otherwise the letters just keep getting bigger and bigger as you scroll down.

tanstaafl wrote:

And kids, this is why you always close your html tags...

http://sewingandembroiderywarehouse....

ETA: Oddly, it seems to display correctly in IE. Otherwise the letters just keep getting bigger and bigger as you scroll down.

Yeah, that's what it does in Opera. I love that at the bottom there's normal sized text saying "If a problem persists, we recommend that you contact Sewing and Embroidery Warehouse"

"Sadly, this is not The Onion" (moderated by--or perhaps culled from--the "not the Onion" subreddit).

I'm a DBA/DB developer. At this very moment I have four open windows on my screen, all connected to the production instance of our company's database. It's the thought of something like this that keeps me awake at night.

How I Fired Myself

tanstaafl wrote:

I'm a DBA/DB developer. At this very moment I have four open windows on my screen, all connected to the production instance of our company's database. It's the thought of something like this that keeps me awake at night.

How I Fired Myself

How could that even have been a possibility? How do you wipe out every customer's character information with a single click?

I can't even delete a file on my personal computer without it being left a) in the trash, b) on my local backup, and c) on my cloud backup. And I'm just one dude with baby photos. How is my data more safeguarded against catastrophe than a company's?

You would be surprised.

In this case it looks like their company had dropped backups for some reason (we constantly get complaints from upper management about the cost of our backups and they ask if we can back up less data).

I probably could delete our entire Members table with a single right-click -> delete. It would probably give me an "Are you sure?" message but maybe not; I may have clicked "Don't ask me again" at some point in the past. Yeah, we have a backup from last night but we would be down for at least a day; our customers would not be happy.

Well that's alarming.

tanstaafl wrote:

I'm a DBA/DB developer. At this very moment I have four open windows on my screen, all connected to the production instance of our company's database. It's the thought of something like this that keeps me awake at night.

How I Fired Myself

Oh...GOD...I feel so bad for that guy, but not for the company who decided to just stop backing up sh*t.

Backups are important, but that's not the real horror in this story. Who does development on a production database? Mirror that sucker and muck about on a dev server. You must respect the production environment.

This reminds me of the horror I experienced long ago when I moved from working on Yahoo! Personals to Jdate. At Yahoo, we had dev mirrors of just about everything, most of them full of production data. At Jdate, there were only production servers and toy databases for testing. I lived in constant fear there.

The probable reason for the funky setup at Jdate was that they used MS SQL server, and they would have had to pay extra money to buy more licenses to support development.

BadKen wrote:

Backups are important, but that's not the real horror in this story. Who does development on a production database? Mirror that sucker and muck about on a dev server. You must respect the production environment.

If the database is large enough that can be challenging.

Katy wrote:

If the database is large enough that can be challenging.

If the database is large enough it's probably got enough value to be worth the challenge.

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Who says red Solo cups aren't classy enough for your party?

http://shop.redcupliving.com/

tanstaafl wrote:

Who says red Solo cups aren't classy enough for your party?

http://shop.redcupliving.com/

Someone sent us those wine cups for Christmas. My girlfriend can't lower herself to use them.

Veloxi wrote:
tanstaafl wrote:

Who says red Solo cups aren't classy enough for your party?

http://shop.redcupliving.com/

Someone sent us those wine cups for Christmas. My girlfriend can't lower herself to use them. ;)

Theme a party.

Shipwrecks visible from Google Maps

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=...

The website of the band Tennis is awesome. It's a play on Windows 95.

That it's just "Let It Be" over and over again?

Gravey wrote:

That it's just "Let It Be" over and over again?

Apparently yes...

Fun things to try
Start on a C major chord (a I chord) and follow the most probable chord sequence to find the most common chord progression used by popular songs. Hint: it’s the famous 4 chord song progression.
tanstaafl wrote:
Gravey wrote:

That it's just "Let It Be" over and over again?

Apparently yes...

Fun things to try
Start on a C major chord (a I chord) and follow the most probable chord sequence to find the most common chord progression used by popular songs. Hint: it’s the famous 4 chord song progression.

Pop will eat itself.