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Hanging off this great comment, please anyone wanting to learn about relational databases I strongly suggest reading Database in Depth by C J Date. It's around 200 pages, you will learn a lot about the relational model, database/query/index design in a short amount of time, with a little bit of logic thrown in there too.

Just need a good SQL reference? 'The Art of SQL' or 'SQL and Relational Theory'

Are you not entertained? Fine, choke on this : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Manifesto

If you can't afford £50 a month for a software license. I doubt your ability as a "freelancer" or business owner. That is a very small price to pay for software which is your bread and butter.

Actually, all the replacements are free: http://html.adobe.com/edge/

And are much less poisonous than what comes out of Fireworks for dev teams.

"Turn this picture/HTML export into code please."

So long as banks exist, so will the mainframe business.

Probably not long, considering the Outcast series were a spinoff story, and the community is brimming with assets to re-create players, lightsabers, and maps from the films

I know it fucking is! Which is why I am seeing Experts Exchange (a tall claim), ahead of Stackoverflow!

Why not mono?

For not using .Net I can understand the his detailed reasons, Java because it's a grumpy old man, Haskell because it's a paradigm shift etc...

Now she has been fired, you two should start up your own tech company.

Wow inspired by Mirai! It was indeed a very cool application. In my oppinion stomped on PowerAnimator and Softimage.

Mirai was written all in common-lisp. Wings3D, inspired by Mirai, is written in Erlang.

In Star Trek the next generation; as different users interacted with different physical platforms (tablets, desk consoles, wall panels, tablets, voice activated devices, "desktops", etc), the work space would adapt to it's physical medium....so....I'm sold!

Are people really still writing these silly articles? Is it 2009 again?

Author does not know the difference between a caching layer, a transactional RDBMS, and distributed non-structured data store.

NoSQL is not ACID, any database NoSQL/RDBMS can be slow when not designed properly, caching is great when you can, and of course not enough people read documentation, only sensationalist trollop like this.

Adobe Photoshop 3 was released for Solaris

Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere all were released for IRIX. It's almost as if IRIX and Solaris used to have a very large workstation customer base then everything was migrated to NT, Mac, and Linux, how spooky those crazy expensive workstations didn't stay viable for long. O-M-G girlfriend, history is like totally repeating itself!

Is anyone distributing 64bit OpenJDK builds for windows?

EDIT: I found: https://github.com/alexkasko/openjdk-unofficial-builds

The photoshop competition was all on IRIX, and was a LOT better. Matador and Amazon were great applications, and better performers on 64bit MIPS hardware. Some got ported to Linux, but were then not maintained, or integrated into other codebases.

Old / dead image editors (with deep colour) better than Photoshop at the time:

* IFX Amazon

* Alias Eclipse

* Da Vinci or something? Not the Colour/DI suite.

* Deep Paint

* Avid Matador

* I actually used Combustion for years. You can keep your photo-pap!

Alive alternatives:

* Cinepaint (Yes it works fine)

* GIMP 2.9 or GIMP 2.10 when it is released

* Node based compositing apps i.e. Nuke.

I have always considered Android, to be Windows 95 for phones. I am a happy Android user.

A company which actively develops software has the ability to snapshot a stable development tree and call it a "New Engine"? Shock horror.

Fans of these games blatantly don't know what an engine is; the difference between a graphics library and a suite of tools and code to create a game.

Perhaps they are excited because the Valve developer wiki and Source Filmmaker have been teasing newer versions of the tools like Hammer, built with Qt.

Valve have never been one for pushing the limits of GPU's, like Blizzard, so they don't limit their audience. id tech, unreal, and crydev are the ones showing off what they can do with OpenGL/DirectX, not Valve.

Please tell them this, maybe on the community hub page!

I really don't know. I have never understood why anyone would actually pay for word processing software from 1992 onwards.

Most people use the most basic features (bold, center, adjust margins and printing). That is not worth around £200!

It's been said before in plenty of articles right here on HN, the move is minimal. Users see the same icons (open, save, print), the menus are in the same locations, Libreoffice and MSOffice look the damn same. It' just like most problems with marketing, a lot of people cannot differentiate products or companies.

MongoDB powers my latex doc database, and the CMS my team and I use. It's awesome.

I have an event logger, that logs "interesting" MySQL server events to a tab separated file and then out to a central mongodb database. So I can query several servers results at once.

Note: OS X Lion includes the command like psql client already installed. OS X Lion Server, includes a full PostgreSQL server.

Agreed, both parties were probably very disagreeable.

How does this affect me as somebody who builds their own computers for personal use? Does this only affect vendor sourced desktops i.e. HP, dell etc ?

I shall stick to XFS until BTRFS has made enough improvements. That's right everyone XFS has been here for a long time and doing great in production.

Why is he pissed? I assume he has custom sound hardware anyway, what can't he do with the last gen Xeon he can with the latest gen Xeon? It's Xeons...in a box. Most editors (video/sound) would be provided with fibre storage links from an all-in-one vendor, whilst it might be nice to see thunderbolt on a mac pro, you can't put infiniband on an imac...

Best thing about ARM? It's cheap, so you can just pick and choose between distributed or shared memory models.

CJ Date describes Normal Form as common sense in Database in Depth, "...the principles are common sense-but they're formalised common sense. (Common sense might be common, but it's not so easy to say exactly what it is!)".

Formalisation of your normalisation! Applied Mathematics for Database Professionals is on the reading list, looking forward to it.

mmm looks delicious. I have been an avid user of the Sketchbook Pro way-of-things since Studio Paint. I have ordered a stylus to try this on my girlfriends iPad.

Urr what OS do you think powers iCloud?

Remember the photos from apple's icloud datacenters last year? All linux, and linux powered appliances. Like the gigantic TerraData Extreme Appliances.

A terrible recruiter from flex-associates.com found me on linkedin, I came "highly recommended", from a super secret sauce. Next day they tried it on with my junior. Same person, same conversation tactic, same lack of knowledge about the industries I work in and the systems I work with and develop for.