To my fellow NoSQL-istas, present and future as well as everybody else who is interested:
Every time I read about somebody “having learned about NoSQL” at a conference or meet-up and they took away that “NoSQL is about X”, boy do I have a low opinion about the presenter (not pointing fingers…
Aquamarine Hug Machine
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Originally named Pee Wee, but later renamed due to fears of an inferiority complex, Scooter eats out of an egg cup three times a day and sleeps in a shoebox. (via Scooter may be world’s smallest dog | World News | News.com.au
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I don’t buy this gain-without-pain notion. Duality resides, indissoluble, at life’s core — Faust’s two souls within his breast, Anna Karenina’s shifting essence. Life without death would be miserable. Its beauty is bound to its fragility. Dawn is unimaginable without the dusk. When life extension supplants life quality as a goal, you get the desolation of Canto the monkey. Living to 120 holds zero appeal for me. Canto looks like he’s itching to be put out of his misery.
Op-Ed Columnist - The Meaning of Life - NYTimes.com

