Tom Stafford-438908 (5/28/2010)

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Most people would be surprised how doing your hobby as a living is not as much fun as you think it would be. Playing guitar, having to...

Ben Wilson-179630 (5/27/2010)

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i would quite happily give away databases to scuba dive full time, as long as i could earn the same money! i have enough other hobbies that i...

RobertYoung (5/24/2010)Since ASCII (BCD/EBCDIC is another kettle of fish) is cased, they would have to write routines to un-case the encoding wherever. It's so much easier to let it...

djackson 22568 (5/21/2010)[hr

I once worked with a guy who, coding in C/C++, was unable to write an IF statement and get it to work. The reason is that (assuming...

Charles Kincaid (5/21/2010)

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Phil, as for shouting the code across the crowed room you put me in mind of the late Victor Borge. The "Phonetic Punctuation" would come in...

Seen it? I drink several cups a day!

Your comment about how to convey the curly braces, square brackets, etc., verbally made me stop and think . . . suppose you had been dealing, via video conference, with...

When I do independent/subcontract work, I have a very simple, 2-page contract that covers both my and my client's . . . uh . . . ASSets. This contract...

kennydevries (4/16/2010)

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RalphWilson (4/16/2010)

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...Needless to say, one of the ngs I do NOT want to hear offered is a "Team T-shirt".

However, after reviewing some of the other responses, I'm torn...

Take your choice on how to phrase it, "in the good old days" or "back in the day" but, when HP first started out and was a small, single factory...

One place I worked, my team (there were 3 of us) worked 69-80 hour weeks for about 9 months so that we could get a project out the door. ...

Like one of the other respondents, I, too, tend to extend the life of my home computers beyond the normal write-off period for companies. On the other hand, most...

Greg Edwards-268690 (4/9/2010)

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GabyYYZ (4/9/2010)

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Greg Edwards-268690 (4/7/2010)

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When you change the data type, you can lose quite a bit. Dates have special functions and edits, and this is probably even more important...

Matt Miller (#4) (4/8/2010)

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RalphWilson (4/8/2010)

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nelsonj-902869 (4/7/2010)

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Take the time (and bite the bullet) to write a preprocessing module to edit the batch coming into your database and edit the darn field....

nelsonj-902869 (4/7/2010)

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Take the time (and bite the bullet) to write a preprocessing module to edit the batch coming into your database and edit the darn field. Any record not...