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  1. Re:If you have abstraction, switching is a LOT eas on When Should We Ditch Our Platform? · · Score: 1

    ... an earlier one, the last time I looked at it. ... but the point remains -- abstraction layers are easy with stored procedures and a couple of classes to wrap the calls to them.

  2. Re:If you have abstraction, switching is a LOT eas on When Should We Ditch Our Platform? · · Score: 1

    err... he said an abstraction layer.

    An abstraction layer does not need to criple anything. It can be as simple as calling a stored procedure on the SQL server. Oh wait.... MySQL doesn't do that... NOW THAT is what I call crippling!

  3. Re:Which platform? on When Should We Ditch Our Platform? · · Score: 1

    What is "Pacal"?

    A non-plural version of Pascal?

  4. Re:One opinion on How Do You Find Programming Superstars? · · Score: 1

    I did not get a job once (with coned) because I had less .NET experience than the candidate who did. I may or may not be a superstar, but I don't lie in an interview -- a clear example of someone who is most certainly not a superstar...

    At the time I had 3 years experience in .Net and it had been out for 3 years.

    Go figure.

  5. Re:Incorrect interpretation on Borland C++ Can No Longer Be Used To Make Free Software? · · Score: 1

    Actually I'm no English guru but using differently here would imply that they read it different, while using different implies that the act of reading by lawyers is inherently different.

    In other words I was saying that lawyers are actually different - not just that they read different.

    It is subtle point of style, but not a spelling mistake.

    But your point is well taken - it was impolite of me to sic the guy - the spell checker highlighted it and I corrected it at first and then decided I could not do that because I was quoting him.

    As for Macs, the closest I ever came to one of those was an Apple ][e I had in college -- does that count?
    Hogan

  6. Yes there is a whole net for OpenSource on IRC Support Channels? · · Score: 1

    There is a whole net for opensource called the openprojects.net.

    Check out this link: http://openprojects.nu

  7. Re:Incorrect interpretation on Borland C++ Can No Longer Be Used To Make Free Software? · · Score: 1

    "(incidently [sic], I have no legal training, but I did take English classes once a long time ago)."

    Isn't that the whole point - that lawyers read the same sentence different than people who read English?

    Thus I would put forward that you don't know what this document actually says.

    (I think it means - you can distribute binaries created with your code, but not created with our code. Borland includes a full list of the source for the C library - thus you could recompile them and re-distribute them if not for this clause.)

    Hogan

  8. Re:AI on the web? on What AI Elements Could Improve the Web? · · Score: 1

    Does START also teach you how to spell too?

  9. Question for Adams on Ask Douglas Adams About...Everything · · Score: 1

    So, when ya' gunna write another book?