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The Economist.com | Coffee-houses is a lively piece detail the history of how coffee-houses’ functioned as centers of scientific, literary, business exchange, and political discussion/dissent. Much of this I knew ( Lloyd ‘s , the Royal Society, the literary role Continue reading the Wired Coffee-house Nexus
Dev Shed – Using Transactions In MySQL (Part 1) – Moving Up has the skinny on the why, what, and how of Doing the Begin/Commit/Rollback dance with MySql, answering every CIO’s question : is it ready for the big time? Continue reading Dev Shed – Using Transactions In MySQL (Part 1) – Moving Up
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Via Joey deVilla , Accordion Guy Fiirst came the Clarke Axiom, named after the guy who coined it, science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Now we have Maciej Ceglowski’s brilliant quip from Continue reading The Ceglowski Axiom, clearly Canadian
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U.Texas At Austin Flywheel Spins To A Milestone Speed Record. Glad to see some work on getting Fly wheels up to speed. And what useful is space would be useful on the ground : storing energy when the sun shines, Continue reading U.Texas At Austin Flywheel Spins To A Milestone Speed Record