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This is like saying just because China and the US act much in the same way (for example, they are the leaders in environment pollution) there is no distinction between people who b…

This comment is too smart for me (and added a new word to my english vocabulary). Care to elaborate on what you mean?

Got to reply to myself here. I forgot to mention Joe Haldeman who still writes and is one of my forever SciFi heroes because of "The Forever War". And now I discovered that Ridley …

Nope, you did not miss anything. There is not a single argument in the whole piece. But hey, what do you expect from a Republican? Hey, just got down voted by a Republican. That's …

Thanks for the list, I will check it out. I think I read something by Reynolds, but it didn't stick. Will look at it again.

"The gold age of SciFi is between 8 and 12" Only someone who doesn't truly love Sci-fi can say that ... Also, if you are saying that Dick is dull (by the way, Dick is totally diffe…

It's not bad, but hardly hardcore sci-fi.

I am a hardcore sci-fi fan. Although I basically grew up in a library, the most fascinating part of it were the two or three racks nobody frequented than me: the racks were full of…

All germans know that this is not going to happen. The euro is here to stay, and germans (at least those who generate most of the GDP for germany) are willing to pay in order to ke…

Well, if you want to know what ESOP rejection reviews look like: http://phlegmaticprogrammer.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/reviews... and the response to these reviews here: http://phle…

I think jrd79 doesnt care, he just wants to boost his carma

I think jrd79 doesnt care, he just wants to boost his carma

For anyone interested in that kind of stuff: read "Musimathics", volume I especially.

For example, I continuously found myself often type stuff like var me = this ...some local function body that uses me... Probably "boring" is the wrong word. "Tiring" is more to th…

Open standards are nice, and Javascript is in many ways better than Java or C# (but not better than F#, for example). But I am a professional programmer, and from my point of view …

I am happy with 2.8, I use it to develop another programming language :-) I am careful though to depend not too heavily on Scala libraries, because of surprises I have experienced …

Well, I would need a little bit more info than the "detailed information" presented there.