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by demallien 19y ago
Exactly. It's a bit like Blub in the database space. Sure, you can do anything in a relational database, but there are certain problems that are better handled other ways. Relational databases have been optimised to do a certain task very
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by demallien 19y ago
Yeah, talk about an inflammatory title... Now, if he had said that "The MacBook Air Is Wearing Those Awful Low Slung Jeans That I Hate", rather than claiming that it is actually naked, maybe he would have a point. Jason, maaaate, let me exp
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by demallien 19y ago
I'd agree with that. The one piece of software that I have written that people choose to use (as opposed to being forced to because the code is embedded in the widget they just bought)has got to be the most trivial thing I have ever done -
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by demallien 19y ago
Hyperion by Dan Simmons. It starts off with separate storylines touching on all the great sci-fi clichés - time travel, FTL travel, computer nets, out-of-control AIs, lost civilisations, humanity scindered into two estranged parts, mysteri
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by demallien 19y ago
I think the tipping point has already been reached. My partner has a MacBook, so when I bought her a Garmin nuvi GPS for Christmas, I was expecting to have to fire up Fusion on my own MacBook fairly often to update it, load maps etc. Imagi
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by demallien 19y ago
Diplomacy is easily the most evil game known to mankind. I remember playing in a large group in high school, and the best proponents were the two most devotely Christian members of my year. These two, butter wouldn't melt in their mouths,