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It seems to work for me. CL-USER> (defvar *arch-enemy* nil) (defun pudding-eater (person) (cond ((eq person 'henry)(setf *arch-enemy* 'stupid-lisp-alien)'(curse you lisp alien - yo…

Misleading title. Does not contain any 'story'.

"Most existing database clustering solutions rely on a shared disk storage to maintain their cluster state, as can be seen in the diagram below." In the case of RAC, although state…

Actually most production databases tend not to use ASM's High or Normal redundancy because the software level redundancy provided by ASM tends to perform very badly when compared t…

There are lot of use cases wherein 'dedup' helps, and it could be done in a number of ways. For eg: Lets say there is a huge email attachment and it needs to be sent to everybody i…

"While not intended for occupants to remain inside during a hurricane, the structure is designed to minimize catastrophic damage and preserve the homeowner’s investment, Mayne says…

Mailinator.com already does something similar. It creates a random email ID on the fly and lets one use it too - to verify email IDs.

I am not sure why your cell phone bill has not changed much over the past few years. However, a quick Google search returned these results, and this information seems to be at leas…

Most of the revenue generated by cell phone service providers through their walled gardens seems to be from voice and not data. It would be interesting to see how long these servic…

May be it exists in their coding guidelines? Although tablename.tablename_columnname sounds repetitive and verbose, it might in some cases be of help when one deals with too many t…

How about taking the approach of Steve Blanks 'Customer development' about which, there was a thread a few days ago to figure out where one stands?

You could have all the money in the world and still make a product that nobody wants. Looks like a guaranteed path to failure.

"This is academic gobbledy gook.I felt like I was hearing a bad tech sales pitch flipping through this with all of its markitecture diagrams." Is there a reason why you thought so?…

True, and this is probably the reason for media obsession with celebrity related talk.

From the link above, it appears that they came up with an integration product that pretty much talks to all other systems at the customer site. Given this, I would speculate that t…

We've had them in my previous company. How different are they from the regular whiteboards? They probably look a lot cleaner than the white ones after years of usage. If the ink in…

Given that the question reads "how to learn computer programming in 8 months?", I'd say there is no definite carved out approach to get there. Individual mileage might vary. Howeve…

This is a well known thing and pretty much everybody on HN is probably aware of this.