Would that Factorization had become the dominant development methodology of those and subsequent days...<!--more-->

I think the basic Agile argument is not that it's "faster" overall, but that customer engagement is "sooner", more continuous. Not like the "big bang" approach of "give us specs...

Microsoft is "getting into hot water"? Learning to "boil the ocean"?  😛

I'm surprised that, as when driving in Russia, dashboard cameras aren't mandatory for everyone, even (or perhaps especially) for autonomous vehicles. https://boingboing.net/2018/04/16/gentleman-in-car-crash-gives-p.html
How do we know that 'learning vehicles' are...

That's DevOops for ya. Development, Test, and QA databases (if they even exist) too small or under powered compared to production. And never synchronized with production. I lived that dream...

Of course the issue exists. I've known DBAs that decree no new feature of the DBMS can be used until it's at least one release old (so that other people...

Thank you.

Why not DENSE_RANK instead of ROW_NUMBER?

Steve: And I thought you were going to wrap up with some horrible joke about how your career progressed from waiting on tables (in restaurants) to waiting on tables (in...

Good to meet you! Just had this vague notion that Craig Ferguson was more than just a late night TV host... what if he were a database guy...

I can't really concur with Dreamweaver's analogy with human development. But Evil Craig F (Ferguson?) is spot on with:

The powers that be must understand that you WILL require entire...

The not-so-flattering Agile analogy (not invented by me) is like trying to build a house one-room-at-a-time (where software is the "fine carpentry and dry wall" and data structures are the...

Every small-town speed trap is proof that democracy descended from piracy. I have no illusions that democracy...

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...I once worked as a team manager once but that was not for me ...One thing that has struck me is that I haven't seen many persons in their...

The only places I know that are "up front" about salary are universities and the U.S. Federal government. Universities typically pay entry-level salaries, so they phone-screen applicants by declaring...