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by giardini 19y ago
"In the early 19th century, subject matter that made up the liberal arts curriculum was fixed: the ancient classics, rhetoric, logic, Greek and Latin." With the possible exceptions of Greek and Latin, liberal arts colleges should restore th
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by giardini 19y ago
Knew a developer who solved problems by modifying code until it worked: a veritable one-man GA (Genetic Algorithm) poor at math but able to sling code 24x7. He worked atrocious hours. Usually he got something close enough to correct for oth
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by giardini 19y ago
Misleading title - for "300 Million" read "Half Million". From the article: "How big is your system?" "We had more than half a million unique visitors yesterday and growing fast. We're on track to do more than 300 million page views this mo
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by giardini 19y ago
"I use tools for that (either generators or O/RM)." As long as you know what your tools are doing. "If you don't trust your devs and applications against the DB, you've already lost." No distrust is necessary. Consider developer error: man
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by giardini 19y ago
The author's thesis: "I really would like to challenge the conventional wisdom that stored procedures are the best and/or that hand-crafted SQL is the only way to achieve good performance." The author is obviously confused. Both stored proc
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by giardini 19y ago
many, if not most, high-end OLTP systems didn't (and don't) use relational technology anyway. Programmers do what's necessary to get the job done. IOW this is preaching to the choir.
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by giardini 19y ago
Merely by asking, you've incorrectly answered Google employment question #76. Think about it: their system has redundancy; yours doesn't. A priori, it's most likely a non-Google problem (or as you state it, your problem). FWIW I have no pr
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by giardini 19y ago
But Microsoft has been declared by the courts to be a monopoly that has abused it's market position. Every acquisition must be considered in that light. So they won't be buying up Silicon Valley anytime soon. (and certainly not with a Democ
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by giardini 19y ago
What's the alternative? He's writing AI programs that reason about events: ergo the need for temporal reasoning.
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by giardini 19y ago
The article doesn't say that marriage turns genius off, it says that marriage and _children_ turn it off. BFD My bet is that children alone absolutely destroy productivity and further, that marriage without children would (at least initiall
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by giardini 19y ago
comp.lang.prolog is the prolog newsgroup. The comp.lang.prolog FAQ contains information about the various implementations: http://www.logic.at/prolog/faq/ SICSTUS Prolog ( http://www.sics.se/isl/sicstuswww/site/index.html ) is a widely
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by giardini 19y ago
Before digging into the various books others have suggested, you would do well to read "Where Mathematics Comes From" by George Lakoff and Rafael Nunez: http://www.amazon.com/Where-Mathematics-Comes-Embodied-Bring... That book explains th
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by giardini 19y ago
Prolog. For info see "P-99: Ninety-Nine Prolog Problems" at https://prof.ti.bfh.ch/hew1/informatik3/prolog/p-99/ Scroll down to the section on Graphs (after problem 73).
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by giardini 19y ago
These things _did_ occur, but they are not the cause of the demise of the Native American. The mere _arrival_ of Europeans, who carried diseases to which Native Americans were not immune, doomed them. These diseases were rapidly spread to
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by giardini 19y ago
But you _can't_ apply the gains from one incident to buy additional insurance for the second, because the two incidents could happen simultaneously (before you had purchased additional insurance). And this is not merely a theoretical situat
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by giardini 19y ago
I have a problem with the example, which I quote at length: "An industrial company had called Lehman with a problem. It operated factories in Japan and California, both near fault lines. It could handle one of the two being shut down by an