George William Herbert

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• Commented on Metacommentary
  Back on original topic, I think "the future" is the attractor; where other authors and futurists tend to glaze over details, Charlie is focusing on making a more solidly believable (i.e., "Hard" speculative fiction) extension than the average. So he...
• Commented on Metacommentary
  Magic Ed writes: There was only one or two spare pods in the world, one was in Helsinki, where ABB made them, and i heard talk of one in the far east. A major problem involves drydocking your ship, and...
• Commented on Rhesus Chart: blood dripping fresh ...
  All I have to say is that eventually, the things in the Abyss begin to fear back, if they know what's good for them....
• Commented on The Rhesus Chart: Chapter One
  Hmm. Thought - Andy's experiment reminds me of early Bob. But whereas Bob got away with it, this went Wrong... Higher background attention level from Other Places, or Andy's just not as good, or?...
• Commented on The Rhesus Chart: Chapter One
  OGH: Here's a freebie non-spoiler: "The Armageddon Score" (Laundry Files book 6) is already written in first draft and will be published next July. And ... ... It's narrated in the first person by Mo, not Bob, and it overlaps...
• Commented on The Rhesus Chart: Chapter One
  Mkellis: Unreliable Narrator 8-)...
• Commented on The Rhesus Chart: Chapter One
  You can do medium to big data mining / analysis in Excel. I've done 1.5 M underlying data point / 50M active cell spreadsheets for data analysis purposes in it before, it ran fine. When you don't know what the...
• Commented on YAPC::NA 2014 keynote: Programming Perl in 2034
  I have been unable to comment for a bit due to a security foo. Catching up... There are x86 systems out there which can do more than 4 TB of RAM, in the server space at least; 6 TB in...