Are the posted questions getting worse?
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Chad Crawford (6/9/2011)
So I just started a consulting company and I have a question for you. What should my title be? If I'm the CEO, the company looks really small - any time the CEO is out doing something, there can't be that many people back at the "office". Although it's just me and will probably stay that way, I'd like the company to sound like it has clout. The other upside to not having a "top level" title is that when people you don't want to talk to call, you can always say, "the boss isn't in". If I'm a "Database Engineer", it doesn't sound like I know anything. Senior SQL Engineer? VP of ________? Director of Database Technology? Hmmm......Principal Consultant
Senior Consultant
Director sounds good
Chancellor
Owner
Proprietor
Obermeyer
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GilaMonster (6/9/2011)
I post too much.Serious congrats on that.
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Chad Crawford (6/9/2011)
So I just started a consulting company and I have a question for you. What should my title be? If I'm the CEO, the company looks really small - any time the CEO is out doing something, there can't be that many people back at the "office". Although it's just me and will probably stay that way, I'd like the company to sound like it has clout. The other upside to not having a "top level" title is that when people you don't want to talk to call, you can always say, "the boss isn't in". If I'm a "Database Engineer", it doesn't sound like I know anything. Senior SQL Engineer? VP of ________? Director of Database Technology? Hmmm......Senior Partner
Lawyers have been doing that since before time started, and it works for them.
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SQLRNNR (6/9/2011)
GilaMonster (6/9/2011)
I post too much.Serious congrats on that.
Nice way to freeze the mile stone.
Thanks for all the help you do!
Not long and you'll pass up Steve.
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That was a nice article[/url] by Gianluca today.
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SQLRNNR (6/9/2011)
Kiara (6/9/2011)
Tom.Thomson (6/9/2011)
Kit G (6/8/2011)
Wearing boots with a kilt isn't a problem (as long as we have socks). But sandals and a kilt? Perhaps... maybe... in a Roman Legionaire kind of way... maybe. (see above point about the legs.)What would you make of tulaichean pumps or gille brogues with a kilt then? I usually wear the latter, used to wear the former quite often but not much now, but depending on the occassion have worn sneakers, wellies, ankle boots, sandals, wrapovers, formal shoes, and flipflops with kilt - like most people, I suit footwear to the current task rather than worrying about fashion, and if the footwear is right for a given task it's right whether I'm wearing a kilt or something different.
As for socks with kilt:- short socks with casual lace-ups or ankle boots, long with wellies or formal lace-ups, and whatever (long socks, short socks, or no socks) suits the occasion (and the weather) with any of the others.
All of the above work.
It's not socks with sandals and a kilt that give me pause... it's the specific image of socks with sandals - and only a particular kind of "socks with sandals" image - that creates that reaction.
Because that brings back memories of a certain fashion era that I keep hoping is dead and gone...
No fashion era is dead. Bell bottoms made a come back. Gummy shoes (and accessories) made a comeback. Even the mullet made a comeback. Yet the worst of them all is flip flops and they keep coming back. Whether with formal attire or beach attire, people can't discern where flip flops belong.
I saw a woman this morning who looked like she'd stepped out of 1978. Farah hair, horizontally-striped long dress in earth tones and sandals.
And it isn't just fashion, construction apparently goes in these cycles too. There's a mall in Natick, MA that was built in the last decade and it looks like what they thought the future would look like in the 70s. Combine that with the 70s clothing and I've felt like I was having a flashback to my childhood. The biggest difference is the flatscreen monitors, which make it feel more like I've stepped onto the set of Logan's Run. The fire alarm went on when I was there and I turned to my fiancee and said "It is Corousel!"
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GilaMonster (6/9/2011)
I post too much.Congrats Gail! That's awesome.
The best part is that your posts are not useless point-getting restatements. Grrrr, I hate those. You post consistent quality.
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Gianluca Sartori (6/9/2011)
Thank you, Jason!
I just hope it's better than the crappy draft you just reviewed for me.
I haven't had the time to fix it yet. 🙁
Well, better flow yes. Content was good in that draft.;-)
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Jim Murphy (6/9/2011)
The best part is that your posts are not useless point-getting restatements. Grrrr, I hate those.You mean the parrot effect? Someone posts a solution and suddenly three or so other people post exactly the same solution. Amazing how multiple people suddenly come up with the same idea at the same time... </sarcasm>
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GilaMonster (6/9/2011)
Jim Murphy (6/9/2011)
The best part is that your posts are not useless point-getting restatements. Grrrr, I hate those.You mean the parrot effect? Someone posts a solution and suddenly three or so other people post exactly the same solution. Amazing how multiple people suddenly come up with the same idea at the same time... </sarcasm>
Like when somebody posts the same solution you did - only 10+ minutes later. Polly want a cracker?
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SQLRNNR (6/9/2011)
Yet the worst of them all is flip flops and they keep coming back. Whether with formal attire or beach attire, people can't discern where flip flops belong.You live in Florida too, huh? @=)
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SQLRNNR (6/9/2011)
GilaMonster (6/9/2011)
Jim Murphy (6/9/2011)
The best part is that your posts are not useless point-getting restatements. Grrrr, I hate those.You mean the parrot effect? Someone posts a solution and suddenly three or so other people post exactly the same solution. Amazing how multiple people suddenly come up with the same idea at the same time... </sarcasm>
Like when somebody posts the same solution you did - only 10+ minutes later. Polly want a cracker?
Okay, let's be a little fair. How many of these people actually read past the question to see if it was already answered? And how many of those read past the first page on the thread?
I've seen it happen a number of times when a poster does a mea culpa for not reading all the way through before responding. And we've seen it happen on this very thread, too.
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Brandie Tarvin (6/9/2011)
SQLRNNR (6/9/2011)
GilaMonster (6/9/2011)
Jim Murphy (6/9/2011)
The best part is that your posts are not useless point-getting restatements. Grrrr, I hate those.You mean the parrot effect? Someone posts a solution and suddenly three or so other people post exactly the same solution. Amazing how multiple people suddenly come up with the same idea at the same time... </sarcasm>
Like when somebody posts the same solution you did - only 10+ minutes later. Polly want a cracker?
Okay, let's be a little fair. How many of these people actually read past the question to see if it was already answered? And how many of those read past the first page on the thread?
I've seen it happen a number of times when a poster does a mea culpa for not reading all the way through before responding. And we've seen it happen on this very thread, too.
Some of those people could also have responded without noticing that the question was already answered.
And, yes, the posted questions are getting worse. 😀
I want my cracker now!!!
-- Gianluca Sartori
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Brandie Tarvin (6/9/2011)
SQLRNNR (6/9/2011)
GilaMonster (6/9/2011)
Jim Murphy (6/9/2011)
The best part is that your posts are not useless point-getting restatements. Grrrr, I hate those.You mean the parrot effect? Someone posts a solution and suddenly three or so other people post exactly the same solution. Amazing how multiple people suddenly come up with the same idea at the same time... </sarcasm>
Like when somebody posts the same solution you did - only 10+ minutes later. Polly want a cracker?
Okay, let's be a little fair. How many of these people actually read past the question to see if it was already answered? And how many of those read past the first page on the thread?
I've seen it happen a number of times when a poster does a mea culpa for not reading all the way through before responding. And we've seen it happen on this very thread, too.
Yup - there are times when it is legit.
It is perfectly fine to throw in support of the correct answer from time to time.
I have had a thread open on occasion working on an answer and sometimes it takes a while for various reasons. When I submit my response I see somebody else beat me to the punch.
Of course there are times when multiple answers all come in at the same time saying roughly the same thing.
There are times though that it is just odd for somebody to throw out an answer that has already been given.
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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