April 2008
6 posts
I’m reading about origins of The Manhattan Project right now. It’s a little shocking how easy it is to make an atomic bomb. Extremely difficult to make the fuel, yes, but the actual weapon? You just put these two chunks of rock together, quickly. Making a military-grade version took an elite team of scientists and engineers, of course, and that process ultimately resulted in the...
Comment Cool-Down Using memcached
Caught this nice tip from the makers of Forumwarz, re: preventing users or bots from flooding you with form submissions:“Memcached allows you to set an expiry for any key you set. So, instead of using the timestamp column in the database [to prevent multiple requests within a timeframe], you can simply set a key in memcached with an expiry of your cool down period. Then, when you are about...
Remember the Octothorpe
Maybe you call it a pound sign (US) or a hash (UK) or a sharp (music), but the real name of the # symbol on your phone is the octothorpe. Octo, because it has eight legs and thorpe because… well, no one really knows why. I prefer the “eight-fronted field” explanation, personally, because it also explains the name Orangethorpe.
