I used to always be worried about what would happen the next day, for the rest of my life, etc. It took a few years to change how I think, but I think this book probably had the biggest impact on my life over any other single book.
I think that all the things you mention were enabling factors, but I think the key factor was Michael Dell, the original founder of Dell Inc, taking over again as CEO at the beginning of 2007. And even before that he was probably doing more hands on management behind the scenes.
Actually, in Hindi the word Indians call themselves is Hindustani, which means the land of Hindus. Both words Hindi and Hindu come from the same root. So you were basically right at first.:-)
I can't believe no one has mentioned Structured Text yet. It's really simple (you only have to learn a few simple rules of editing plain text ASCII files to express structure) and pretty intuitive (it's like Python in the sense that your indentation expresses your structure). You can convert it to decent looking html with existing scripts (that come with zope). You can convert this generated html into.pdf automatically using the GPL htmldoc program . And the Zope book was written in Structured Text, to prove that it scales.
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I used to always be worried about what would happen the next day, for the rest of my life, etc. It took a few years to change how I think, but I think this book probably had the biggest impact on my life over any other single book.
Thanks Ayn Rand.
I think this is one of the best posts I've ever read. I actually read it twice to make sure I understood it.
Since no major American company is going to pull out of China right now if they're being responsible to their "shareholders", I see two possibilities:
1. Google is doing some hard bargaining, and we're seeing part of it.
2. The NSA is pulling Google's strings here as part of a security initiative.
If they stay in China then it's #1, if they actually pull out then it's #2.
I think that all the things you mention were enabling factors, but I think the key factor was Michael Dell, the original founder of Dell Inc, taking over again as CEO at the beginning of 2007. And even before that he was probably doing more hands on management behind the scenes.
Actually, in Hindi the word Indians call themselves is Hindustani, which means the land of Hindus. Both words Hindi and Hindu come from the same root. So you were basically right at first. :-)
I can't believe no one has mentioned Structured Text yet. It's really simple (you only have to learn a few simple rules of editing plain text ASCII files to express structure) and pretty intuitive (it's like Python in the sense that your indentation expresses your structure). You can convert it to decent looking html with existing scripts (that come with zope). You can convert this generated html into .pdf automatically using the GPL htmldoc program . And the Zope book was written in Structured Text, to prove that it scales.