I think you hit the nail on the head when you talked about the Internet being an extension. You trust it to act as shared memory, in the same...

Quite an interesting topic. Assuming the same educational opportunities I have had today, I would likely have wanted to work as an accountant or electrician. But I'd want...

Who said you can't have leaf fights as adults? I had one with one of my...

Well, I have no children of my own but one of my friends did this for her niece and nephew - food fight! She put the kids in old...

Enjoyable series of editorials this week. Excellent idea, thank you for putting this together.

But if you were at an interview and the manager tried to sell you the job by saying that s/he is a great manager I think I'd turn it down....

That work does sound like it'd be rather frustrating to do every day. I grew bored at one company where there was no challenge anymore but I could have...

I agree the 4 year sentence is rather harsh, especially since we're looking for a new network admin here :-P. Even though Terry here is obviously a bit nuts,...

blandry (7/28/2010)

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but there is a real downside to what you are suggesting if one works at one of those behemoth companies where people are deeply involved in "protecting their little...

Thank you for the feedback. I hadn't thought about the possibility of conflicting rules. Perhaps I'll add something to make sure that an order is followed so that...

When I have problems like this, I start by reprocessing the dimension. Then I'll run the fact table query and identify records with the missing key. Then I'll...

That wouldn't be the first time I've heard of a recommendation from the technical side get implemented completely the wrong way by management! At least they meant well. ...

It sounds like you have some reasonable people at that company, so I can see why you'd like to stick around. Two employers ago, I was underpaid based on...

A small shop could probably get away without one as long as they have someone who's sharp enough to figure it out. But career prospects seem to be good....

Ah, one time I set up a database on my machine at home and was careless when I set the collation to case sensitive. I didn't notice until I...