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That's a cute writeup, but the author overlooked some important bits of history. For example, the original use of APL (before it was called APL and before anyone had implemented it…

That survey feels like the sort of thing I've filled out to get a temporary free trade publication subscription. But what's interesting to me is that my current situation has enoug…

None of these patents were original at the time they were adopted -- they all have obvious prior art. Someone should take away Level 3's patent card. And PersonalWeb really ought t…

You can shard RDBMS relatively easily -- basically you wind up pushing a part of your database structure into your clients, so your clients can decide which shard to use. The cost,…

I'd venture to say that for a blind non-participant the difference isn't necessarily that large. Meanwhile, aggression covers a lot of ground, which includes clubbing someone over …

Once upon a time, computer programming was a job for women, and not for men. So, based on that period of history, we can equivalently suggest: Maybe we don't need more men in softw…

To be fair, that was Larry Wall reacting to criticism in 1994 https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!msg/comp.lang.l... Anyways, my experience is that all languages will get …

If > was the idea you got from my writeup, I clearly failed to present my concepts adequately. Ok, yes, it's true that this can be an issue for some people. But that does not make …

I think this article is interesting, because it casts some shadows that help me see some of the current intellectual property issues, and the associated "creative value" issues. Fo…