alt Hacker NewsMichael Stonebraker used to write long, scathing critiques of modern data storage/retrieval fads, and how they were forgetting important historical lessons.
They were terrific reads; his writing on object-oriented databases was the most fun technical reading I did in grad school. And I even learned a lot!
Where was this? I would like to read. I have read his papers and they are great, and usually surprisingly readable.