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Philosophy 101: A reason to consider using a NoSQL implementation

Note: the cross-section of people interested in philosophy and also interested in NoSQL is close to zero, but it’s my blog and I blog what I want to, blog what I want to.  The general philosophical point applies to all of life, the usage of NoSQL to discuss it might be interesting to people interested in NoSQL. This might not come as a surprise to anyone, but developers tend to be an opinionated bunch (ask me what I think about TDD). On a factor of something like 5X, DBAs are worse.  I believe I have some standing to...

posted @ Tuesday, October 11, 2011 10:26 PM | Feedback (0)
If it doesn’t exist in a current file format, does it still exist?

As an undergrad, I wrote a novel for my senior Honors thesis.  Even after all this time, I’m still unable (and probably too biased) to figure out whether or not, on a scale of 1-10, whether it rated a 1, or if maybe, just maybe, it was good enough to rate as high as a 3.  If I ever make it to that point, and have the time, when I’m in my fifties, I think I might try to re-write it.  But the purpose of this post is not about literary criticism. I wrote it on an electronic typewriter,...

posted @ Friday, July 29, 2011 7:56 PM | Feedback (0)
On the Ontological Nature of Comedic Discourse

Or, more succinctly, is Dane Cook remotely funny? Sirius Radio I spend a lot of time driving.  At a previous client, I used to have one of those fantastic 2+ hours a day commute going out to the west ‘suburbs’ of Chicago (if you can call either Lisle or Naperville a suburb) and while I don’t miss it at all (well, I miss a person or two from the client, I guess), I used it to keep at least vague track of contemporary music and listen to a lot of sports radio (digression…I have never, ever been accused...

posted @ Monday, June 28, 2010 9:53 PM | Feedback (0)