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  • Reply To: Simple(r) Coffee

    Steve, I've been drinking coffee for probably 65 years now, and still prefer a nice clean mug of plain black to anything, just like I prefer my computer apps to...

  • Reply To: Happy New Year 2025

    Yes, Jeff, those were the days of news instead of propaganda.  Thanks for the memories.

  • Reply To: Happy New Year 2025

    Steve, I offer my congratulations on your endurance in this field of endeavor.  I'm sure there have been difficult times but you have apparently done well.  I wish you continued...

  • Reply To: On Looking and Acting the Part

    1974:  My first experience with consultants.  ( this really happened ).  I'll try to be brief.

    I'm hired as first IT manager at company who has hired a consulting group for...

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  • Reply To: Big Data or Small Data

    dplaut 49149 wrote:

    Someone here imported a large text file using ADF, and all the fields ended up as nvarchar(max). I was livid. I don't think the person who did this even...

  • Reply To: Comforting Habits

    Back in 1986 my wife and I put a coffee brewer with a timer in our master bath and set it to brew at 5:20, 10 minutes before our alarm...

  • Reply To: Big Data or Small Data

    Couple of things come to mind about this:

    I don't worry as much about big or small as I do about good or bad.

    Size doesn't matter as long as we are...

  • Reply To: Distributed Monoliths

    This reminds me of the old adage that my Dad taught me growing up on the farm.  "Don't put all your eggs in the same basket".  This was very literal...

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  • Reply To: Lies You Should Believe - Anything is possible

    My words of wisdom for the ages:

    1.  You can't get there from here.

    2.  Do we really need to do this sh!t?

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  • Reply To: Over-Engineering

    This reminds me of a situation I have related earlier on here regarding being overly cautious in getting things implemented versus getting things perfect.  Last shop I worked in was...

  • Reply To: Black Friday 2023

    Jeff, I hear you loud and clear.  I spent decades being on call 24/7/365 for supporting systems.  Had dinners with family and friends at restaurants interrupted, calls while on vacation,...

  • Reply To: Are We Dinosaurs?

    Zidar, I was one of the lucky ones.  Have related this before, but anyway, I faced  downsizing as I approached retirement.  I took their early out offer, started SS and...

  • Reply To: Are We Dinosaurs?

    'Relational databases' may change over time, but relational thinking is what gives value to data.

  • Reply To: I Need a CS Degree. I Don't Need a CS Degree

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:

    I am very skeptical on the ROI of a degree. Not the value, but the return based on costs.

    Years ago, one could get a nice degree for not too...

  • Reply To: I Need a CS Degree. I Don't Need a CS Degree

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