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Jon Udell on the Nerd's Spreadsheet
rcs1000 writes "Jon Udell has a interesting article on a new type of spreadsheet: one targeted specifically at techies. The skinny is that any spreadsheet is actually a computer program, only in Resolver One, the product profiled in Udell's piece, this is explicit rather than implicit. And the code is IronPython rather than VBA. There are some other cool things it does — allowing cells to contain objects, and allowing spreadsheets to back-end websites." Udell's screencast gives a good demo, though the presenters are a bit hard to hear due to the phone connection. Resolver's own screencast is an alternative.
Gotta respond to a part of your sig:
Patriotism is akin to racism.
This isn't true. Nationalism is akin to racism. There is nothing wrong with loving your country as long as you don't start believing that its citizens are somehow superior to everyone else.
> Nationalism is akin to racism.
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That is not true. Patriotism akin to racism. There is nothing wrong with loving your country as long as you don't start believing that its citizens are somehow superior to everyone else.
Really, it is like geek vs. nerd. Some people try to assign all the good attributes to one of the words, and all the bad attributes to the other one. But it doesn't work, and not just because people disagree about which word should be the good one. The real reason is that the good and the bad attributes are connected in the real world.
There is no requirement that you must love your own country in exclusion to all others. Anyone who decries the erosion of foundational rights, for example, is expressing patriotism.
In the end it's all about labels; Patriotism is whatever people want it to be, I guess.
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
I love my wife, and I don't love your wife. You (hopefully) feel just the opposite. Both women may be 'equal' in the abstract, but one is mine and one's not.
Patriotism is due, partly, to the special relationship of a person to their country that they do not share with any other country. That's reasonable, and that subjective tie can be recognized without losing objectivity.