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Uh oh. Somebody got out of the cranky side of bed this morning.
In my experience, unless you're in a union shop you really can't afford to be that literal...
August 3, 2010 at 12:27 pm
Take the moral high road by not snooping and you'll end up in front of some executive committee explaining how the pirated software/porn/viruses ended up on your system and resulted...
August 3, 2010 at 9:20 am
Virtuoso coding, certainly, but why not take advantage of SQL Server's ability to create custom aggregation functions? Microsoft's example can be found here:
July 6, 2010 at 9:09 am
I think employers underestimate the value of giving geeks paid time to play with new technology. There's not a lot of cost there, especially if you can work it...
April 16, 2010 at 9:13 am
I agree, education is great. Now I think we've beaten that particular topic to death, Steve. Can we talk about something else?
What about the need to take control...
April 14, 2010 at 9:16 am
I think developers ought to take certification out of the hands of Microsoft (for which certification is simply a lucrative side business driven by HR departments which can't be bothered...
March 23, 2010 at 9:38 am
Wow! I had to look at the replies just to see how many geeks had a hissy fit about the difference between average and median. Not one! ...
March 3, 2010 at 9:12 am
How you store the date is less important than how you retrieve it.
I inherited an application in which every SQL query had a WHERE clause based on <event time field>...
March 1, 2010 at 9:35 am
In most businesses, because they deal with physical inventory, there don't subtely increase their prices in this manner.
Ha! I think you ought to read the book "The Undercover Economist"...
February 17, 2010 at 9:17 am
I agree with GSquared. There's no magic number; it depends on how much time might pass before problems are detected and how hard it is to recreate the data...
February 12, 2010 at 9:18 am
That the proposed solution meets the requirements of the client/user is simply a given (assuming of course they don't violate the laws of physics or of the state).
I think goodness...
January 19, 2010 at 9:50 am
Seems pretty straight forward to me:
if effort_required_to_do_it_right < effort_required_to_hack_it_together + SUM(effort_required_to_fix_it * probability_fix_is_required) then
do_it_right
else
hack_it_together
end if
January 19, 2010 at 9:18 am
I'd be willing to bet that the reason most people don't unit test is not because it's boring; it's because the boss wanted the solution yesterday. Boredom would be...
November 10, 2009 at 9:43 am
Whew! If it weren't for the fact that I'm enough of a geezer to remember Knuth and Thompson I'd have failed that one.
At least this interview test...
November 9, 2009 at 9:43 am
I agree. DBAs need to get out more.
I once had a DBA ask me if I'd mind phoning a client for him because he "didn't like talking to clients".
I...
October 26, 2009 at 9:38 am
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