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Programmers are people too

Whether the world likes it or not, programmers are people too. They eat, drink, sleep, dream and work just like everyone else. A programmer looking at the St. Louis Arch will almost certainly see something that is taller than it is wide – just like everyone else. Even when it is known that the arch is as wide as it is high, the eyes tell a different story. We cannot help the illusions we fall for.



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Better backups

Terabytes of backup storage...and still the mess persists

| Opinion | Hardware | Personal tech | 07/22/08 at 11:00 am |


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Where are the Stones?

Dual processor? Sounds good. Is it?

| Opinion | Hardware | Software | 07/15/08 at 2:58 pm |


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Only the cloud can scale

The future is shared infrastructure. The future is the cloud. Not because it is trendy but because only the cloud can scale.

| Opinion | Development | Offbeat | 07/07/08 at 6:26 am |


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