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  • RE: Gadgets

    Somebody else got it first, but I would really like to start a racing league with these:

    Wicked fast electric cars

    I think it would be a great way to promote...

  • RE: Retooling

    No, it's because the help file is high-level, and he hasn't been taught how to drill down to low-level. This isn't an instinct, it's a research skill that should be...

  • RE: Retooling

    FYI, I did have the advantage of a fairly good understanding of CJ Date, *before* I ever typed a single SQL statement. It is not impossible to teach it that...

  • RE: Retooling

    "And they may be an adequate coder, but they're never going to be a good systems analyst because they don't have the training and background in theory and analysis."

    ...which in...

  • RE: Retooling

    You know, it's hard not to be cynical when they are doing this stuff at the Grade School level. I love playing with my Lego NXT, and I gave one...

  • RE: Backup Testing

    "delete with no WHERE clause"

    Hehe... sometime in my first week of my first real job, I did an 'update with no WHERE clause' and I was staring at the message...

  • RE: A Broken Quorum and Protecting the Witness

    Hehe... did you see that tagline on that? Totally NSFW...

    Did they misunderstand the meaning of the term Deep Six? Cuz it just sounds dirty that way. What kind of a...

  • RE: A Broken Quorum and Protecting the Witness

    "Microsoft has done a good job of implementing this technology"

    Do you really think so? Replication and clustering seems to work better on all other platforms. It's the only drawback of...

  • RE: Upgrades

    I'm for small incremental updates like they do in the Oracle world. The problem is that you can't roll out major new features and everything has to always be back-compatible....

  • RE: Ethics and Honor

    This idea of getting the answer by any means possible including cheating is being taught at the high-school level. You only have to spend an evening on Yahoo Answers to...

  • RE: The USB Issue

    Back in 2000, I had to put a 12 GB database into SQL 6.5, and I basically used a programming solution to split the data into logical units, then I...

  • RE: Is Computer Science Dead?

    Ouch... sucks to be you. I've worked in places like that, and I don't like it. Things get documented if they get done. I don't spend time writing about stuff...

  • RE: Checking Up

    I went for a drive and this got real clear in my head. Background checks are useless because they don't give any information about the person's current state of mind....

  • RE: Is Computer Science Dead?

    Here's another side point that popped into my head... how much programming can you do WITHOUT using a computer?

    The answer: almost all of it.

    The answer for most script kiddies: none.

    It's...

  • RE: Is Computer Science Dead?

    Around here, we have "Melissa" - as in "Hey Melissa, what's 378 times 173?" and she gets it right every time. I don't know how she does it, but it's...

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