| Alistair 2007-03-17, 6:55 pm |
| On 16 Mar, 22:29, "Pete Dashwood" <dashw...@removethis.enternet.co.nz>
wrote:
> "Alistair" <alist...@ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Funny you should say that, I wondered exactly the same :-) I noticed Charlie
> reached for it at the end of the interview, but you were probably asleep by
> then :-)
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> Awww... that crease was there long before you fell asleep :-)
>
> If you don't use SQL a lot
I do use SQL but I think the idea of doing housework whilst listening
to the movie didn't really allow it to sink in. I did get a little
excited when they were talking about tying processing to the data and
remembered that Natural 2 did something similar back in the 80s.
> There are some very exciting ideas in the interview (that's why I posted a
> reference here), but they are not exciting unless they relate to what you
> are actually doing. If your world is Indexed Sequential datasets, XML is a
> mystery to you,
I'm a certified internet webmaster so I do know a little about XML (at
least enough to refer to it as XHTML rather than XML).
> the idea of sharing processors across a network is not what
> you need in your daily work, or you believe the real "Evil Empire" is
> MicroSoft,
I love M$. Honest (I do).
>
>
> Maybe... :-)
>
> Or maybe you are comfortable where you are and have no desire to move out of
> that zone?
I'm happy moving out of the comfort zone. Persuading others that I can
do it is the hard part (you need commercial experience to get a job).
>
> Thanks for commenting, Alistair. I'll get back about the booze... :-)
>
> Pete.
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