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• 06-Mar-2024

  
  Reading “I don’t like your examples” in 2024 One of my favorite pieces of writing, technical or not, is called “I don’t like your examples!” by Steven Feuerstein which he first published 2 decades ago on the O’Reilly website [internet archive link]. It has a publish date of 11 October 2000. In the essay, he writes about his book on PL/SQL for Oracle....

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• 05-Mar-2010
  Cloud computing described by Larry Ellison Apparently this “cloud” thing is made of computers, it’s not just water vapor. Funny video featuring Larry Ellison. https://youtube.com/watch?v=8UYa6gQC14o via Daring Fireball

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• 05-Jun-2002
  From The Dead Letter Department I’m getting rid of lots of paper. Where I can, I put the nuggets of wisdom online. These minimal notes are from the two-day seminar given by Philip Greenspun at Caltech several years ago. He used the WimpyPoint system to do the slides. Looks like his slideshow is protected, so I can’t provide the real...

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• 04-Apr-2002
  Instant addition to the sidebar: ADVOGATO Dang. Ever have a moment of realization like “Where have I been to have missed this?” While I’ve been nattering on about about xhtml vs. html; tables vs. CSS for layout; PostGRE or MySQL or Oracle or SQL Server; Advogato has been discussing things of real importance. Check a few recent entries: Trust Metrics (which...

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