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• Scott Sanford commented on Mendel Acquisition Squares : A Game of Futures
  ...the Burroughs/Univac merger should have been Bunnivac rather than Unisys. Would they specialize in hardware or customer service? There was an old schematic diagram of a mechanical rabbit as a computer which is, apparently, not on the internet where I can find it right now....
• abelard commented on Mendel Acquisition Squares : A Game of Futures
  Im still waiting for Pokémon Bitcoin. The Algorithm creates pokemos with algoritmic behaviours. Cathing them gives you PokéCoins to store in your Pocket. Instead of using up electricity, people get excercise....
• Charlie Stross commented on Mendel Acquisition Squares : A Game of Futures
  I will note that everyone who works there except folks in PR and executives who happen to be standing in front of a microphone at the time call it "Random Penguin"....
• paws4thot commented on Mendel Acquisition Squares : A Game of Futures
  As implied in #44, this also allows a U-16 imprint of "Random Puffin"; tell me that's anything other than a Good Thing!...
• Joseph Brenner commented on Mendel Acquisition Squares : A Game of Futures
  I'm not hip enough to understand most of these jokes, but I thought "2" was funny, imagining flashmobs of citizen stringers with cellphones descending on any hotspot thought to be ripe for news. As for 1, Mysql isn't that easy to own-- there are already paranoia-forks like MariaDB which are no doubt restraining Oracle's heavy-hand. Also, the cool kids are moving on to PostgreSQL which is better-engineered, has more snob-appeal, and has been racking up convenience features in recent years, like clever indexing of JSON blobs......