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"As Bruce Sterling has puts it: "I'll believe in people settling Mars at about the same time I see people settling the Gobi Desert. The Gobi Desert is about a thousand times as hos…

Why are you talking to him? Sounds like you should be talking to a lawyer or debt collection agency about him.

> or I find some kind of way out of here This is a better path to try first. How can we help? What's the biggest problem, what types of solution can you see that remove that proble…

http://stackoverflow.com/a/2681413 SET CONSTRAINTS ALL DEFERRED Then do your inserts, followed by whatever work needs to be done without referential integrity, in the same transact…

Looks fantastic, great idea!

Cool result. But: "Was this worth it?" - looking at the last step of optimisation, it looks like that would be the hardest to do correctly without bugs, hardest to maintain, docume…

"I strongly suspect what you saw in this paper was Samsung's[1] auto-trim " Yes, that was the reason for picking that drive (the research budget for the project was a mere $500!), …

One other thing, if you want to try this out at home, all the code we wrote for our experiment was given at the end of the PDF paper as open source scripts, feel welcome to try it …

Hi, I'm the author of the first reference cited by this article, and the coiner of the term 'self-corrosion' for this phenomenon. First of all, thank you to the author of the headl…

You, sir, are expecting too much from your audience. It's interesting in that the assumption of formality in 'you, sir,' suggests the speaker is about to be rather discourteous in …