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sej: I think you mean the halting problem, not the travelling salesman problem.

Bryce: The blonde woman is Olga, his wife.

Perl's DBI API sucks
Python's DBI API sucks

Oracle has the right idea for transactions; a transaction is a child of a connection, and a statement is a child of that. Perl and Python both assume that a connection is a transaction, and that really sucks.

Oracle sucks

OCIServerAttach() allocates some memory; its reciprocal function, OCIServerDetach(), frees 344 bytes less. That's right -- if you make a connection to Oracle, you're excersizing a memory leak.

So I wonder what it takes to get mirwin to certify you.

katzj: lots of questions still need answering though; not the least of which being intermediate bytecode execution and write-trapping. Oh, and deletion.

katzj: probably not. I think I told you the gest of it at chargrill once though.

It occurs to me that I'm having ideas so bad that they just might work.

mbp: but what about yogurt?

/me agrees with cturner.

In other news, I finished reading my second computer book :). Damn, ADD is a pain in the ass. Anyway, the book was See MIPS Run which I recommend photocopying; the author isn't very nice. Next in line: the dragon book.

pictures

New ones are here and here.

work

There is no ROSWELL beta