This reminders me of being a Math undergrad where I learned about "proof by hand waving" in which you start a theorem on the chalk board (back when we had chalk boards) and then waved your hand and said either "and the rest is trivial" or "and the rest is left as an exercise to the student".
Judah On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Charlie Griefer <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Phillip Senn <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I read a few years back someone was developing a search engine on a par >> with Google. He said that his boss had wireframed the front-end and that it >> was his job to develop the backend database. >> He said that if he put all the content in the Application scope, then it >> would scream because there wouldn't be any disk contention. >> >> Has there been any progress made on this project? >> > > That was on CFC-Dev, and I'd like to think it was a joke. He said he was > 90% done with the search engine because he had completed the front end > (which one would imagine consists of a text input and a submit button). > > Then yeah, I think the rest of the plan was to store all of the data from > the internet in RAM :) > > -- > I have failed as much as I have succeeded. But I love my life. I love my > wife. And I wish you my kind of success. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:321168 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
