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by knb 14y ago
I was puzzled by the statement that he didn't learn much from the classes he took in formal logic. >(Consider "I don't know if I learned anything from them. " Footnote: 1 "In practice formal logic is not much use,..." ) This guy has pro
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by knb 14y ago
If I remember right, this joke is also told in the Hollywood drug-flick "Traffic", from 2000 or so. In the movie, the burnt-out drug czar of the old US administration mentions this joke to his ambitious successor, played by Michael Douglas.
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by knb 14y ago
You are wrong here. "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" is by Steven Covey. However, she said her favorite writer of management books is Peter Drucker, who described "Seven Sources of Innovation" http://snakecoffee.wordpress.com/2006
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by knb 14y ago
...And does anyone have a link to Larry Wall's talk? ("state of the onion").I'd like to know why there was a steaming toy penguin on the stage. https://twitter.com/merlyn/statuses/226149752440500227
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by knb 14y ago
Your post is so wrong that it is almost trolling. Just some counterexamples. The Fukushima Mark-1 reactors are of very dangerous design, and that is well-known. (For example their containment is perforated at key positions, by design) Ambie
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by knb 14y ago
in Germany : Chemnitz Linux Days / Chemnitzer Linux Tage. Happen usually on a weekend in March. Entrance fee is 8 Euros. Great value, very nerdy, never sold out, http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2012/info/index?cookielang=e...
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by knb 15y ago
Quoting from a forum thread: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=59896&#38... So as I understand it in order to be able to access a public dataset I create a new EBS volume and attach it to a given instance for use. So if a
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by knb 15y ago
What do you think about "grid computing" concepts? Are they too academic? outdated? more/less general? Is your architecture a different approach or just a variation on the theme, a special case?
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by knb 15y ago
Will there be a chapter about how your preferred architecture compares to in-memory databases technologies? SAP has been creating a lot of marketing hype on this in the last years. Indeed I think a lot of business problems can be solved by
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by knb 15y ago
How was the work split up between you and the co-author?
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by knb 15y ago
I live near Berlin. There is much wisdom in this essay on startups written by Paul Graham in 2006: http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html Quote: "I think you only need two kinds of people to create a technology hub: rich people an
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by knb 15y ago
In the EU, it is legal to mix different olive oils. Similarly, I think may be legal to mix honeys from different places of origin. So use n% american honey, (100-n)% non-american honey and supermarkets might still sell it under a brand name
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by knb 15y ago
To my understanding, the German version of the law that was passed says: The guarantees are basically possible, but they are still optional. Whatever the ESFS contract says, and whatever the EFSF Bureaucrats might decide: before any real mo