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This is pretty much my routine as well. I find morning and evening prayer / reflection very useful to help me make small, continuous improvements.

Well played...

Sorry for the delay in getting back to this... The wind-down cost was very small in comparison to the price Oracle paid.

Sorry for the delay in getting back to this... All the engineers went to work for Oracle and were given large incentives to stay for 2 years. Most stayed and got their incentive pa…

I was a Sherwood Partners client in 2010. Oracle bought our startup, DataScaler. However, they bought the core assets of the company, not the corporate entity. That's a fairly comm…

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The new "clj" CLI tool is not a javascript tool. It is for Clojure, not Clojurescript.

I am also a happy UTOPIA user. I have a full symmetric gigabit pipe to my house for less than $100 per month. There are huge benefits to open choice networks.

I think that at the rates Twitter is writing counter data (Many TBs per day denormalized, ~0.5TB normalized), a RAM-based solution like VoltDB would be prohibitively expensive. Rai…

Salesforce.com was "The End of Software."

How about just going with the disk-based line if the candidate goes there? On-disk data structures is a rich area for exploration. I think you're getting people a little riled up h…

hard really is backwards reading

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I enjoy home improvement. I head over to Home Depot most Saturdays. My daughters (8 & 10) go with me and we talk about the various interesting things we pass in the store. After we…

This is Trevor Blackwell we're talking about. Perhaps you should be careful before casting aspersions. http://tlb.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Blackwell Ad-hominem atta…

I used Aquamacs for 2-3 years but never really learned emacs until I swapped Aquamacs for Carbon Emacs and learned the real thing. Training wheels is a good analogy. You aren't rea…