Steve Jones - SSC Editor (9/21/2011)

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djackson 22568 (9/21/2011)

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And you want us to worry about things like whether a business is closed?

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We are fighting against significant odds of success. I...

My initial thought was - what do you expect? Look at society. The majority of the media blast the one group that is willing to actually be journalists,...

chrisn-585491 (9/21/2011)

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At work we have a quote about quality; "All data sucks, some data just sucks less."

Just dealing with millions of name and addresses from hundreds of different systems,...

Aaron N. Cutshall (9/13/2011)

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That's very true. For example, I can get into trouble if I...

Aaron N. Cutshall (9/12/2011)

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djackson 22568 (9/12/2011)

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One thing I forgot, soon your health records will be shared across the nation with anyone who wants access. It is called HIE's and...

roger.plowman (9/12/2011)

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I keep seeing the chest-pounding developers who claim if you don't know how to implement low-level structures in C (or equally low-level languages) that you're not a real developer/CS...

6. The legal/seizure environment is suitable (if the FBI or whatever nation it's hosted in has their federal internal law enforcement officers enter the provider to seize a few...

steve smith-401573 (9/15/2011)

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If it's got truly sensitive information (e.g., corporate financials, PII, banking information, etc), then consider partitioning off a 'private cloud' either internally or with a boutique 3rd party...

IceDread (9/15/2011)

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I do believe that the could is the way to go in the future, but you would own your own cloud and have the data yourself.

However, the clouds...

Tom.Thomson (9/12/2011)

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djackson 22568 (9/11/2011)

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Huh?

First off, there may be hoardes of algorithms to sort, but I laugh when young developers try to tell me how Java can sort faster than the...

roger.plowman (9/12/2011)

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I keep seeing the chest-pounding developers who claim if you don't know how to implement low-level structures in C (or equally low-level languages) that you're not a real developer/CS...

One thing I forgot, soon your health records will be shared across the nation with anyone who wants access. It is called HIE's and HEN's. These groups will...

Saying there hasn't been a death yet is ridiculous. Did the author investigate every death in every hospital, clinic and doctor's office?

I think it is fair to say nobody...

Tom.Thomson (9/10/2011)

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Then you go on to say "became grounded in theory, struggled through assembler class, and understood the classic waterfall development technique. They could write bubble sorts and quick sorts,...

IceDread (9/9/2011)

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Ben Moorhouse (9/9/2011)

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I have to disagree with those saying that degrees and training outside of the workplace are good things.

Whilst I've only worked with a limited number of developers,...