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William Thackeray lives !!!

try "use of weapons" and "excession". imho they are much much nicer than "consider phlebas".

no greg-egan or ian-m-banks or arthur-c-clarke...what gives ?

carl sagan's "dragon's of eden" also touches upon these themes, and is very cool (imho ofcourse).

> If your developing web applications its completely possible to be self-taught and produce high quality applications. it's all ones and zeros, how hard can it be ? i, just press the right key at…

anagran ( http://www.anagran.com/ ) seems interesting...

is hex(-1) still '-0x1' ?

iirc it allows for two different versions of code running at the same time. application is responsible for consistency issues. mostly used for hot code loading. of course, this is assuming i got your …

oldie but a goldie. obligatory non-scribd link ( http://bulk.fefe.de/scalable-networking.pdf ). if you are in this business get 'network algorithmics'. read it, be one with it ! it is sicp of network…

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it. - lazarus long

fixed-mobile-convergence

older advert by the same folks: http://programmermeetdesigner.com/listing/view/2490

alan-j-perlis in his intro to sicp ( http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-3.html ) pretty much sums up the reason for me.…

why should i care, i have the body of a god : http://www.huongsengrand.com/

"OTP should re-branded as "OTP on rails" it's really just a framework for building fault tolerant systems." nice ! edit: using that as the title, would have gotten this much more upvotes.

programming the universe, seth lloyd is very nice.

in india that's exactly how it works.

i just bought "programming collective intelligence". it's basically machine learning for engineers rather than mathematicians.

some like water, some like wine. to each his own.

> Creating lots of branches takes a lot of time and energy, bs. it just means that your version-control sucks at that. > The history of a branch is hardly ever looked at. bs. i am sure folks l…

would you take your dog to visit a penitentiary ?

with some elbow grease, systemtap + kprobes on linux is not a bad combo at all. edit: comparison of systemtap and dtrace feature sets http://sourceware.org/systemta/wiki/SystemtapDtraceCompariso... …

i don't really understand this: why do you have to wait for a specific day for this ? aren't you grateful _everyday_ ?

why not just use a separate branch for doing those experimental changes ? it just seems too complicated.

they failed faster, and they failed cheaper. it was doomed anyways.

fwiw, gibson's neuromancer comes to mind here

this above all: to thine own self be true... - polonius, hamlet edit: maybe this is what underlies the xobni phenomenon that we are watching unfold ?…

pg said it best "The pointy-haired boss miraculously combines two qualities that are common by themselves, but rarely seen together: (a) he knows nothing whatsoever about technology, and (b) he has ve…

in the immortal words of ogden-nash: here's a good rule of thumb: too clever is dumb what's more interesting is that it applies to programming. quite nicely too!