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by ucee054 14y ago
And, as I have said many times, that's OK. No, your stubbornness is not OK. It is called a lack of intellectual integrity. You aren't supposed to go around wearing prejudiced "glasses" based on what your grandparents did, you are supposed
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by ucee054 14y ago
Let's just disagree. I really don't see it your way No let's just admit you are wrong. You are entitled to your opinion but not your own facts . However inconvenient the actual facts may be to you. Sorry. The facts are that it was the
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These are examples of economic war (Sun Tsu) tactics rather than "things of real worth". So shooting up all the way from war-ravaged societies to developed first world economies in just 40 years (from the 40s and 50s to the 80s) doesn't c
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by ucee054 14y ago
It just happened and private enterprise made it happen. No actually. The total amount of private sector activity (measured in dollars) in this space may dwarf anything the public sector put in, but that's businesses setting up their own w
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by ucee054 14y ago
Few things of real worth happen due to master planning Those few things include Japan, South Korea and Singapore. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaibatsu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Economy,_Trade_and_... http://en.wikiped
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by ucee054 14y ago
SQL Server seems maybe too focused on usability. Oracle's query interpreter, for example, is extremely anal, you have to commit everything and Oracle is likely to reject your queries if they are slightly off, which helps catch errors. SQL
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by ucee054 14y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ym2L1urOz8
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by ucee054 14y ago
This is bullshit. There was never any bargain . Women have kids because women want to have kids. It's not because men are pressuring them into having kids and giving everything else up against their will. Women will split up with men who d
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by ucee054 14y ago
"I don't believe in this anymore" = shutting down something is exactly the right thing to do The funding you get from VCs comes from Grandma's pension fund. You think it's better to burn millions from the pensions of Grandma and her frien
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by ucee054 14y ago
and justifiably so Yeah! How dare they defend their own country! </sarcasm>
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by ucee054 14y ago
I don't think making wild guesses The problem is that the Scenarios section in any business plan is typically full of this kind of bullshit. In business schools they teach the MBAs to layer it on by the ton . The 1% thing I find frankly
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by ucee054 14y ago
I am referring to Red's torpedoes, asymmetric attacks and possible multiple thermobaric strikes specifically targeted at the oil. Red doesn't have MAD, but Red does have a deterrent .
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In reality Blue would not do that because then they wouldn't have access to petroleum ever again. All the mideast oil would be burned. Mad Max, anyone?
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by ucee054 14y ago
When you are talking about large markets 1% is not a short term goal This is where you are precisely wrong. A VC wants to cash out within 3 years. Finally 1% is never a good metric to aim for. If you wouldn't accept it for retention rate
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by ucee054 14y ago
Aiming to get only 1% of a market to me means you ether don't have huge faith in your product. You forget the question of time . Maybe the product is good enough to get 100% eventually . But maybe you'll go bust in the meantime if you h
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by ucee054 14y ago
Bollocks. 1% is not a fallacy. It's just a way of mentioning a low-risk target without specifying the strategy. You don't know the specifics of the strategy because you're a startup - to quote Clayton Christiansen, the needed market researc
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by ucee054 14y ago
"because you realise that the point he is making is at this point, not that SQL IS relational after all, but that the Relational model is so absurd and stupid to begin with so as to be useless." No, I was saying that your (and Fabian Pasc
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by ucee054 14y ago
somehow the most technologically-advanced nations are also those with healthier, longer-lived populations Maybe the other nations are worse off because the "advanced" have been busy destroying them?
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by ucee054 14y ago
Just out of interest, how are your opinions on the superiority of NoSQL systems received by http://www.cs.cornell.edu/johannes/ and http://www.cs.cornell.edu/annual_report/99-00/Demers.htm ?
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by ucee054 14y ago
Well no, you make a fool out of yourself by reading something that isn't there. Instead of resorting to ad-hominems, you could have actually explained what I am supposed to be confused about, and what I am supposed to have "understood" from
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by ucee054 14y ago
Oh I forgot to add, the rules of relational database are exactly what CODD said they are because CODD invented them and said "I define the relational model to be this" What they are NOT is what you, Chris Date and Fabian Pascal want the
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by ucee054 14y ago
What precisely am I confused about? You are linking to the 1NF wikipedia page section on atomicity. Are you alleging that I am confused about atomicity? Because I said strings and dates are not atomic. Here is your link: "A character string
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by ucee054 14y ago
No, the fact that he's not living in reality does. I never heard about Codd complaining about IBM's first relational implementation. In fact, have you read Codd's papers defining relational databases and normal forms? To even get to 1NF, yo
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by ucee054 14y ago
You've been smoking too much FabianPascal
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"I'm sad now because" Why would you be sad ? SQL databases are just a tool, and happen to be the right tool. Why does that make you sad ? It's like saying "I wanted to eat soup with chopsticks and everyone told me to use a spoon instead
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by ucee054 14y ago
You destroy meaning if you confuse the two different usages of the word. When describing drug cartels, "cartel" means "mafia" When describing the oil cartel, "cartel" means "monopolistic syndicate" There is no comparison between OPEC and Lo
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by ucee054 14y ago
No, by adding features you add complexity and therefore compromise reliability. So what we are REALLY talking about is how you want to "endlessly pursue" my devices and "better" them until none of them work anymore .
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Where did I say you weren't? I said you have twisted values and ridiculous expectations, which you do.
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by ucee054 14y ago
Well no, there is no gravy train. And there will not be as long as technical people internalize the low value that people like you put on them. Instead they should ignore people like you. It's not like your sales "superstars" are a rare bre
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by ucee054 14y ago
The last time the bubble burst, a lot of the devs I knew moved into banks and hedge funds. They stayed employed through 2007-now, and two of them are running their own portfolios now. And demand for Quants with C++ is hotter than ever right

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