I think the sports analogy was incomplete. There are team sports, and individual sports. In team sports individual ability is one of only many attributes that contribute to...

JJ B (5/10/2013)

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I'm not sure this is what the post is talking about, but I use visuals for myself when trying to figure out more complex queries--both existing ones someone...

stephen.lloyd 63174 (5/10/2013)

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Both Edward Tufte[/url] and Stephen Few[/url] are excellent for very different reasons.

Tufte is more the theorist and artist. Few the practioner. I've been to both of...

TravisDBA (4/16/2013)

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True story, but people networking...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/16/2013)

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I'm not sure what you mean?

How is this different...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/16/2013)

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DavidL (4/16/2013)

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Thinking of me as a consumer product is what I find distasteful.

This does not mean I think it is not valuable to...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/16/2013)

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DavidL (4/16/2013)

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Am I the only one who finds this idea of 'me as a brand' demeaning and de-humanizing? It seems to me to represent...

Am I the only one who finds this idea of 'me as a brand' demeaning and de-humanizing? It seems to me to represent all the worst aspects of crass...

One of the difficulties involved in discussion of this topic is the idea of 'science', which for the layperson has strong connotations of 'truth'. In fact, 'science' as it...

The only way I could even think of approaching a problem like this is 'divide and conquer', so I am very very appreciative of an exhaustive play by play of...

hakim.ali (2/4/2013)

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Peter Trevor (2/4/2013)

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Many years ago I was in a team that had a manager who was prone to micro-manage. Usually we factored that in to our estimates but...

Come, come, GSquared. Don't be...

GSquared (12/5/2012)

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I once saw a comic (newpaper comics page type thing), titled "Before Astrology was a Science". Had a horoscope on it that went like this:

Taurus: You will interpret...

I've taken the myers briggs a couple of times, and always came out INTJ -- my wife definitely concurs that that is a fair result (within the limits of the...

The intro to this article in the daily newsletter said:

"This article talks about a few issues with using views too extensively in your design."

It doesn't say anything AT ALL about...