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Radioactive Japanese Fish are "okay to eat".

> If I had the nerve I would join them. .. having convinced yourself it is not the ultimate meta-honey-pot.

Not everything is an object. Also you should try coding against both object and graph dbs from an (OO) domain model. Object identity is a fundamental problem that has nothing to do…

Because this the end goal - control over movement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport_system_in_the_Soviet_U... (Unreasonable searches; practical denial of the right to assembly…

In the general sense, you are correct regarding the possibility bottom up order. But the bottom falls out from the argument given that the 'context' in question e.g. "political+soc…

Lua Lua, Salvatore! When?

The echo chamber is very important and as with inbreeding appreciated not for its expected failures but rather for exceptional specimens that narrowly and forcefully focus the grou…

It is always a pleasure to read the calm comments of an untroubled mind on contentious subjects.

What Google is doing is exactly the same thing Microsoft tried with Java (TM:). And Google is not doing Java community any favors by fragmenting the platform. Google is a behemoth …

http://www.wqsb.qc.ca/philemon/pmessier/images/Galois.jpg

Make sure you don't neglect its contrary twin: Emperor's New Mind. (The entire dialectic between these two books is something straight out of G.E.B.)

The essay was about programming aesthetics. (Related: http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html ) My read of it was that systems 'like' Unix are in a cooperative relationship wit…

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37573643/ns/disaster_in_the_gulf... Quite strange that we need to rely on BP to get the facts. (That's like asking the thief to assess damages to his vi…

http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.htm Smoke gets in one's eyes and that apparently affects accepting "truth".

Meaningful answers to questions such as "Should I study CS?" are critically informed by the questioner. Obviously, if you want to make a living in IT and already know how to code, …

We geeks are the enablers of the upcoming Techno-Police State. Fully responsible.

Because these 5 people have an interest in publishing "news" and the Corporate media does not.

A call is invoking a known method bound to the object. In a call based system, the semantics of the object are defined by its interface. A message is invoking a universal message r…

You've never been to architecture school, eh?

Its actually watered down aop. AspectJ sets the standard in AOP for Java.

Don't think the optimization point holds. Optimization for Java really kicks in at runtime and the JVM is fully in loop regarding byte code modifications.

"There was a time when the pen was mightier than the sword. That was a time when people believed in truth and regarded truth as an independent power and not as an auxiliary for gov…

http://counterpunch.org/roberts03242010.html

Have you considered the possibility that the privacy considerations may be in regards to Facebook itself?