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…
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,…
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"…
...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
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…
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,…
Quoting from a forum thread: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=59896&... 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…
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 outdated?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?
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…
How was the work split up between you and the co-author?
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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"…
...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
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…
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,…
Quoting from a forum thread: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=59896&... 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…
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?
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…
How was the work split up between you and the co-author?
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…
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…
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…