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by edoloughlin 16y ago
And a million pseudo-science/crack-cure marketers fire up their word processors...
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by edoloughlin 16y ago
Humanity does seem to have a predilection to devoting its brightest minds to unproductive activities. How much better would the world be today if the hot job of early medieval times was medicine instead of producing manuscripts? Science ins
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Strikes me as a marketing spin on an old idea rather than an innovative new product. They've figured out a way to make playing 'pirated' music palatable to the studios (maybe). Good luck to them.
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by edoloughlin 16y ago
1987: simpler times. I can't help but wonder what to author would have written today given the order-of-magnitude larger mistakes we've made since then, such as reality TV.
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by edoloughlin 16y ago
Here's something that's not a myth or legend: if I live in Europe I pay ~€150 more for the professional version than I would if I lived in the US. ( http://www.lispworks.com/buy/prices-1c.html vs http://www.lispworks.com/buy/prices-2c.htm
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by edoloughlin 16y ago
The “programmers should fix their past mistakes for free” argument is amusing when you consider that the leap second concept is nothing more than an hack.
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Very good and very pragmatic overview of NoSQL here: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Enterprise-NoSQL
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by edoloughlin 16y ago
That's kinda like the old AI canard: once it's obvious how it works, it's no longer considered AI.