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I didn't see any ads, probably because of adblock. And given the nature of its conceit, I didn't expect an attribution. I just came across it and thought HN would appreciate it.

vapor, where?

aside: has anyone read a good discussion of Codd's original relational paper? http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.98.... Thanks! I'm confused by his five examp…

No, just referencing a well-known event; but it seems you're right that he's not teaching that course any more http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=531490 However, he did say that s…

I don't know if business people do a lot of scripting (if any) in spreadsheets, because it side-steps the ease-of-use GUI of spreadsheet in favour of a programmer's UI...

Is it really true that business people use R directly? Being in Forbes is consistent with it... I recall that SQL was intended to be used by business people... and it probably has …

Language you think in is constraining... unless your language is the best that could ever exist. Of course, if you can only think in it, you couldn't imagine anything better. Mathe…

And Sussman switched to python. Religious wars are for followers, not Creators.

I've started trying to narrow the scope of features required for launch, where the minimum set of features is not with respect to the full set I want, nor with what customers might…

That link suggests "the beginning of the end" is from Shakespeare - do you know which work? I only know it from Churchill, and assumed it was his.

9. prozvonit is to prank , in slang I've heard & used here in Australia. bonus: tingo - "to borrow things from a friend's house, one by one, until there is nothing left" in Pascuen…

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it! faux-Goethe http://german.about.com/library/blgermyth12.htm

I think he covers this in his last paragraph: If you are betting on emerging trends it is better to keep your burn low and runway long.

Yes, the harder I work, the luckier I get. I think of a startup as a game with a 1-in-10 chance - but you can play as often as you like. The odds of failing n times in a row is .9^…

We currently have two Zones in Manchester, UK - we plan to launch additional regions in separate geographical locations throughout Europe and the US in due course. http://beta.brig…

The Innovator's Dilemma is full of inspirational stories of markets discovered retrospectively. An example off the top of my head is honda motorcycles being used as off-road recrea…

I like the idea of Zones on different continents. Not only can this provide faster responses for each continent, but it also enables peak times in one time-zone to be supplemented …

IMHO the difficult part is seeing the commonality of those edge cases. That requires firstly knowing about the edge cases, and secondly seeing the problem (the commonality of those…

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It is by logic we prove, it is by intuition that we invent. - Henri Poincaré