Comment Original Slashdot post on SNO Results (Score 1) 58
I think this is the original 2001 Slashdot post from SNO (Sudbury Neutrino Observatory) in Sudbury, Ontario. It did not attract much Slashdot discussion at the time.
I think this is the original 2001 Slashdot post from SNO (Sudbury Neutrino Observatory) in Sudbury, Ontario. It did not attract much Slashdot discussion at the time.
I am the same age as Gosling (and even went to the same university as a kid.) I have worked with and observed many world-class programmers in my career, and have never seen the likes of James. He is the Wayne Gretzky of programmers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle-cell_disease
This is a disease (an inherited disease, perhaps like dental caries) that conveys a fitness against something else that is more serious.
I own around 3000 books and have used it for several years. It may not do everything you want, but it is probably close.
I'm with bokmann on this. But I go with both a numeric id and mnemonic. The details can be looked up. And just to get away with the crushingly boring aspect of workstation / names and to help with communication (Was that 'frodo' that died or workstation '431234'?), I've picked a large namespace from some mythology or other. The most fruitful has been Tolkien. In general I use place names for servers and people/elves/hobbits for workstations. Tolkien has a *lot* of characters.
In past incarnations of hardware, I've used Greek and Norse mythology and even names of stars ('polaris','algol', etc.)
OpenSolaris ZFS
Free and the best.
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS
In English, every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.