... I am not clear what you mean by "good fit by design" When you asked in an earlier message "whether the math techniques that were developed to provide...
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goran@...
Jan 2, 2007 10:45 pm
Hi all! ... And a "response"; from me: http://goran.krampe.se/blog/Bits/ODBvsRDB.rdoc But... let me ramble a bit about the RDB life cycle stuff. JJ IIRC talks...
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bryce@...
Jan 2, 2007 10:50 pm
... I'd say if you're placing the database schema at the center of your large system or you're using the query facilities. Relational algebra is often just...
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Robert Withers
reefedjib@...
Jan 2, 2007 11:22 pm
Can anyone demonstrate how I could display a grid of images within a SystemWindow? For example, I have a 5 by 5 grid and each grid would display a scaled...
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Peter Crowther
Peter@...
Jan 2, 2007 11:24 pm
... If you could go from a clean slate for each unique problem, probably none. Same for almost any other widely-deployed technology - almost by definition, if...
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Peter Crowther
Peter@...
Jan 2, 2007 11:34 pm
... Thanks for the response - didn't know how they'd be taken. ... clean-slate ... Yup. Because the (technically) "easy problems" are organisational ...
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Joshua Gargus
schwa@...
Jan 2, 2007 11:39 pm
(I see that the conversation has moved along since the time that I started to draft this, but here goes...) ... What, really? There are many possible reasons...
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Howard Stearns
hstearns@...
Jan 2, 2007 11:39 pm
... lots of good comments. (Thanks.) ... Heh. Bingo. But the other side of the coin is that so many projects in this "easy problem" world are failures. A...
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Peter Crowther
Peter@...
Jan 2, 2007 11:44 pm
... People find it easy to understand tabular data and to cross-reference between tables. Relational databases contain tabular data. So people find...
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Jimmie Houchin
j.squeak@...
Jan 2, 2007 11:52 pm
... My apologies for an ignorant and naive reply. So forgive if I am way off base. But it seems to me that being able to perform arbitrary joins relatively ...
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Todd Blanchard
tblanchard@...
Jan 3, 2007 2:40 am
... So if it is objects instead of tables - how is this different? Uh, and the alternative would be what? Take a typical company that makes and sells stuff. ...
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Bernard Notarianni
bernard.notarianni@...
Jan 3, 2007 2:54 am
... I never had the opportunity to work on an Object Oriented Database (such as Gemstone) used for integration between multiple applications, as would be a ...
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Jerome Peace
peace_the_dreamer@...
Jan 3, 2007 3:30 am
What is the extent of a truncated rectangle? (from heading = forwardDir... thread) was heading = forwardDirection + rotationDegrees (was Re: How can we deal...
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Jerome Peace
peace_the_dreamer@...
Jan 3, 2007 3:58 am
Hi Lukas, hi Bill, ( and JJ) A good user story gathers resources to it. And the ball starts rolling. Next two things are needed. Roles need to be negotiated....
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Robert Withers
reefedjib@...
Jan 3, 2007 4:51 am
Ok, I found a way to do this. First I WarpBlt one of the source images into a tempForm appropriately sized as a portion of the Window. Then I BitBlt that...
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Brian Rice
water@...
Jan 3, 2007 7:12 am
Hi Rob, ... That's interesting, and reminds me of Eddie's WarGame (see below). ... I hope your eventual target is full-screen mode. ... Have you...
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Marcel Weiher
marcel@...
Jan 3, 2007 7:20 am
... Well, I have worked in a large-ish enterprise and my experience was that moving *away* from the RDB was central to improving performance around a hundred-...
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Marcel Weiher
marcel@...
Jan 3, 2007 7:29 am
... Yes, Java. I think Python is very different from Java in this context, as Java also wants to run the show, and I think this is where it is quite similar...
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Marcel Weiher
marcel@...
Jan 3, 2007 7:34 am
... For some definition of 'work', yes. My experience so far is more that they are 'perceived' to work by enterprisey management-types. "If it's got a...
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Marcel Weiher
marcel@...
Jan 3, 2007 8:08 am
On Dec 28, 2006, at 10:51 , Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote: [also snipped rather radically] ... In theory: refactor. Make the the "something better" something that...
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Marcel Weiher
marcel@...
Jan 3, 2007 8:38 am
... This sounds so incredibly familiar, even if the domain is quite different. And I thought that financial processing would be the one area where RDBMSes...
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Laurence Rozier
laurence.rozier@...
Jan 3, 2007 9:02 am
Paul, Thanks for sharing this essay. I think it brings up many important topics which I'd like to comment on one at a time(or perhaps on my blog) ... ... ...
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goran@...
Jan 3, 2007 9:27 am
... Objects offer encapsulation and sharable behavior. Tables offer just shared data. ... [SNIP of quick description] ... [SNIP] ... I am not saying that I...
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Ralph Johnson
johnson@...
Jan 3, 2007 11:34 am
I agree that RDBMSs tend to be knee-jerk reactions that produce as many problems as they solve. My favorite alternative is not a real OODBMS, but instead a...
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Todd Blanchard
tblanchard@...
Jan 3, 2007 12:34 pm
FWIW, The usual answer to this is to encapsulate behavior behind an api written as stored procedures and forbid direct table access....
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goran@...
Jan 3, 2007 12:43 pm
HiI! ... regards, Göran...
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Jon Hylands
jon@...
Jan 3, 2007 3:50 pm
On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 09:54:35 -0500, "Paul D. Fernhout" ... I'm working on some serious AI research right now, using Squeak (of course). My idea of the brain...
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Paul D. Fernhout
pdfernhout@...
Jan 3, 2007 3:59 pm
... Thanks for the other comments. On the "keyboard"; analogy: Consider if you move to a Dvorack layout on your keyboard instead of Qwerty. Then you might need...
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Paul D. Fernhout
pdfernhout@...
Jan 3, 2007 5:49 pm
... Of course, as LISP often shows, or Squeak's VM generation system, the line between code and data can often get blurry. :-) ... Interesting project. I'll be...
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Jim Gettys
jg@...
Jan 3, 2007 7:03 pm
... Bill Gates has put enough money, and more importantly, time and energy into philanthropy in the developing world over the last number of years that I do...
