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Having read Paul's treatise yesterday on the importance of improving our on-line dialectic, this story also reminds me that it may also be acceptable, if not appropriate, to occasi…

Why all the down votes, I was simply implying that if your wife isn't also your girl friend it is a sad place to be.

Man, that is sad.

Facebook may be like the Macintosh computer before desktop publishing. You may be not old enough to remember when the Macintosh was really just a toy, but it was. Don't count Faceb…

Indeed, to really address someone's arguments well enough to try to change their opinion takes a lot of time and effort. The question is, what is the benefit to you of doing that? …

No, Emmett is not right because there is no definition of qualified. It is a meaningless statement. The problem with the statement is that it implies that you are not funded you ar…

Oh please, what nonsense. Your statement doesn't even match up with what pg writes.

I've worked on professional Blackjack teams. It looks much more glamorous in the movies than it is in real life. Still, potentially making 35k in one night has its appeal.

I was wondering when someone would finally make a comment about Lisp. In fact, this could very easily be a story about Lisp. Using Lisp to create grammars to read and execute speci…

Chrysler is currently worth less than nothing, but Chrysler Financial has real value. Basically, they acquired the unfunded liability of Chrysler as the price of Chrysler Financial…

Indeed. All of the Detroit automobile companies are now off shoring to India and China to try to reduce costs. Open sourcing factor floor control and monitoring systems is simply a…

I wasn't suggesting you buy a Chrysler product. I was suggesting you buy Chrysler. You get it all, along with 5000 lines of very clever Java code that they probably couldn't even f…

That I can do!

You may want to finish the article. :-)

I told you too much already. :-) Several clever grammars were written. If you want any more, you have to buy Chrysler.

Agreed. The problem is, hackers don't tend to even have access to this type of problem because you need access to the very real environment of a large factory floor. And, even if y…

Yes. You have run into the nature of a non-disclosure agreement the big three have everyone sign. You cannot tell the good parts.

Writing two or three very clever grammars.

Two of my developers were on the original XP team at Chrysler. They don't to XP at Chrysler anymore either.

Executable specifications. The new compiler was about 5000 lines of Java. The developer says he can probably reduce most of 3000 lines of it to about 700 productions in YACC. Of co…

A lone programmer rewrites an entire project in 2 months. It uses executable specifications. It is thrown away because nobody else understands it. (LISP, YACC. or something else?)

Edison as I Know Him by Henry Ford. Around page 5? Edison was really happy with the "power plant" in the car idea of the internal combustion engine.

How about... installed for testing and occasionally accidentally used during breaks.

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas A. Edison One of the reasons Henry Ford was willing to risk so much to start …