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A Conversation About Databases: Stonebraker and Seltzer(delivery.acm.org)
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Erlang library which eases working with grid computing resources like Amazon's EC2(weblog.hypotheticalabs.com)
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by Shooter 19y ago
Fair enough. If that is your evaluation of the article, then that's cool. I usually try not to completely write off people that I know are smarter than I am in a particular area (Stonebraker), just because I don't understand or agree with
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by Shooter 19y ago
So...you read the Wikipedia link and the main thing you got out of it is that the guy is "academically merited"?! The part about him founding five DBMS companies and being the CTO of one of the largest DBMS companies in the world doesn't su
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by Shooter 19y ago
RE: "ivory-tower", "something useful" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Stonebraker
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by Shooter 19y ago
I appreciate the link wmf...I read Gruber's blog, but I missed that post. I agree with John's premise that "Just because someone is satisfied with a bad deal doesn't mean it isn't a bad deal." I'm not, however, going to get morally outrage
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by Shooter 19y ago
MacHeist groups a bunch of small Mac software publishers together, they each put one application into a discounted bundle, and then they give 25% of all sales to charity. You get to choose which of 10 charities you support (or you can spli
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Support Indie Mac Developers and Charity. Save $.(macheist.com)
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by Shooter 19y ago
They should worry about reliably delivering the 6 Mb/s they promised me first. Preferably at the price they initially agreed on. And without throttling. I signed up for their $99 Triple-Play package and my first several bills have been fo
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by Shooter 19y ago
Cool. PCL is a great book. And, yes, CL is incredibly practical for many purposes. PCL/CL are much more worthy of your time than newLISP.
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by Shooter 19y ago
[Diplomatic Hat On] I would personally stick with a Scheme or with one of the better CLs (SBCL, etc.) over newLISP. NewLISP is interesting for the space it occupies and it can be fun, but it also has some really wonky ideas that I think a
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by Shooter 19y ago
I was in a similar situation to you a little over a year ago, although from the sound of it our situation was a bit more dire: I learned that there were a number of patents (12+) that covered nearly every variation of our business method
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by Shooter 19y ago
I dunno, but half the Flash/Flex/Actionscript ads I see say that. "We need an Actionscript Rockstar! You must be comfortable with AS2, AS3, scissor-kicks, and fending off web standards groupies."
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by Shooter 19y ago
One of my favorite Barnum stories is probably more well-known: His Scudder's American museum in New York was struggling, in part, because the customers he did have would often end up lingering in front of the exhibits for an unnaturally lon
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by Shooter 19y ago
I believe the C students work for the B students in the business world. B > C > A. And the D students run the country (into the ground.) ;-)
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by Shooter 19y ago
You should still test BSD...we've actually had Linux software run FASTER in linux compat mode on BSD than on native Linux. It really depends on the software in question...
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by Shooter 19y ago
I HATE the "CPM and a prayer" mindset that masquerades as a business model. I don't understand why anyone starting a business these days would rely exclusively on ad monetization for their business. I personally would never invest time or
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by Shooter 19y ago
Google "Kerry Conran" He spent a few years working on his computer making a short film to please himself. The short earned him a big budget ($40 million) to develop a feature film based on his story and ideas. The project, Sky Captain a
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by Shooter 19y ago
What are your goals? If your goals are to gain experience and make money going the startup route, you don't HAVE to be the one with the idea if you're capable of implementing the ideas of others. For best results, you just need to be ab
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by Shooter 19y ago
Not many...I'm lazy ;-) I guess I'll just summarize here: I'm the co-founder (and, loosely, EIR) of a $4B alternative asset management firm in Chicago. We also have a small correspondent office in London. I have two co-managing partners th
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by Shooter 19y ago
"I'm not sure what you're basing your statements on. But it sounds like you've gotten a very bad deal in the past. Or, you've had no deals in the past...." Well, okay, if we're going to make ASSumptions: Maybe you're just sensitive to this
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by Shooter 19y ago
Yeah, I've seen all the Lisp screencasts. They're great, but I'm looking for a professional training product on DVD that is sequential and really takes people new to Emacs up to proficiency and that teaches experienced Emacs users new tips
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by Shooter 19y ago
I'll email you privately.
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by Shooter 19y ago
Upmodded. I've been hoping someone with more time would do something like this. I hope it doesn't die out too quickly. I would also love to see an Emacs guru create an instructional DVD series...everything from beginner stuff up to Wizard
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by Shooter 19y ago
I'd RUN away. They don't respect you at all and they're a completely lost cause. They're likely to screw you over or replace you at the first opportunity and blame you for any failures. Two percent is insulting for the sole tech guy on
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by Shooter 19y ago
One of the Linux magazines (Linux+, I believe) has been running a series on using iptables for the last couple months...
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by Shooter 19y ago
I think that in 99.5% of cases you should start trying to monetize from the very beginning, for three primary reasons: 1. You're more likely to piss of customers if you introduce advertisements/donation requests/subscriptions later than if
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by Shooter 19y ago
Do you attribute most of the difference in performance to the OS change or to the implementation change, though? (I'll never use Windows, but I've been considering using Lispworks again on OS X for a few things.) I've always used LW with
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by Shooter 19y ago
What specifically are you trying to do and what language are you using? For Python, I like NLTK at http://nltk.sourceforge.net Java has something similar, though I've not used it, at http://opennlp.sourceforge.net/ There are tons of o
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by Shooter 19y ago
I also tend to think of patents as a necessary evil...a defensive measure in a world gone crazy. I've secured a few BUSINESS METHOD patents where software is a large part of the mechanism, but I've never tried to secure a patent solely bas

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