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Agreed. (Prepare to be downvoted for making a rational statement contrary to the prevailing fads.)

"SQL Databases"? SQL is a language. "Queries [in a relational database] do not need to be particularly fast, they just need to return correct results eventually." I stopped reading…

Nevertheless they seek techno-drones.

Given an unknown object, how would your program distinguish between meta-info and property?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranial_cavity Glad we've finally cleared up the function of that space filling matter. Aristotle asserted that the brain's function was to cool the bl…

I guess nature misunderstood the problem domain of organizing the body: http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Modularity.pdf

"Sorry John, we can't promote you. You're just too good at what you do." It would have been far more interesting to investigate alternative structures for large organizations. And …

Workers in any field that requires creativity, yet is subject to industrial production and economic realities, will likely air the same sentiments.

Its a tragedy that all geek theaters are ultimately reduced to a chorus ...

Look up "more" in the dictionary.

He seems to miss the point that TDD is more critical in a weakly typed/dynamically typed system. Yes, C, C++, and Java didn't have TDD when they started, but there was this thing c…

"If one were to look downward to the bottom of society instead, one finds mostly men there too. Who’s in prison, all over the world, as criminals or political prisoners?" A somewha…

(Just read Jason's piece the other day, actually. You can't leave comments on a .plan ...) I agree that details matter a great deal. In any event, the comment specifically question…

Pray tell us why it "isn't working", Dave. (btw society != clique)

Come on Paul. IM is hardly ancient geek history.

And following the link trails we find: Paul Graham (Viaweb) On raising money: “The advice I would give is to avoid it. I would say spend as little as you can because every dollar o…

"Masterpiece" is pushing it. The section is entirely banal, with little imagination beyond plan extrusion. When you think of the possibilities of the site, the client, and the conc…

The Swiss have been doing this for a while. Saw a herd back in 2000 in Thusis munching on the grass near the railway station.

Nanite seems to be laying the foundation for something similar to Heroku. http://brainspl.at/articles/2008/10/11/merbcamp-keynote-and-introducing-nanite http://github.com/ezmobius/…

Agreed. Erlang is actually very friendly. (Much more so than Clojure, for that matter ..)

Now that's funny. "new concepts". "DOS". Its actually quite amusing for hackers in my age group to watch the kids "discover" ancient programming history (again (and again (...)))

Using same here. Main UI criticism of S4b is the placement of the tabs on top of the window, which has overloaded their usage semantics. In any event, I switched to safari when Fir…

I agree with you regarding the clumsy gui -- UML editors suffer from the same general problem. What I took away from his presentation were the 2 core points: 1) linear expression i…