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  • RE: Asking for Interview Questions

    patrickmcginnis59 10839 (4/18/2013)


    I'm now getting the general idea about some of these "pressure" situations I'm hearing and based on what I'm understanding from you guys, I'd like to take the...



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    Jim P.

    A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.

  • RE: Asking for Interview Questions

    patrickmcginnis59 10839 (4/18/2013)


    I don't mind pressure situations, where something must be done quickly with lots of people asking/watching.

    Lol I've never felt that to be a pressure situation. That could be...



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    Jim P.

    A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.

  • RE: Modeling the Earth

    Thats not obviously my final conclusions, there could be real downsides to the topics this seems to address, but my first impression is that its a net drive for...



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    Jim P.

    A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.

  • RE: Modeling the Earth

    patrickmcginnis59 10839 (4/17/2013)


    Now, I'm willing to play devils advocate for either side, so I'm curious about what alternative motivations for each side we can think of? Obviously big measures taken...



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    Jim P.

    A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.

  • RE: Don't Be a Ghost

    I've personally had some activity way back when on SSC, but moved over to Experts Exchange for the most part. It has a broader view and the certification in multiple...



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    Jim P.

    A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.

  • RE: The Command Shell

    Jeff Moden and opc.three

    Now that you two have finally agreed to disagree, I'm going to throw oil on the fire.

    Vendors are not your enemy!

    I (and our team) were responsible to...



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    Jim P.

    A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.

  • RE: Don't Accept Defaults

    I agree with not accepting defaults. But if you set a rule against a default -- make it consistent.

    My SW company was sold to a different parent company last October....



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    Jim P.

    A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.

  • RE: Development, Operations, or Accounting

    Jeff Moden (4/4/2013)


    For example, if you have some performance challenged code that uses a huge number of resources because someone simply used DISTINCT to get past an accidental Many-to-Many join,...



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    Jim P.

    A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.

  • RE: The Command Shell

    I've been following this post since the beginning. You want to talk about not seeing the forest for the trees? This is getting into not seeing a tree because of...



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    Jim P.

    A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.

  • RE: Halo 4 and Hadoop

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/29/2013)


    Jim,

    You can dislike it, but that doesn't mean you're right or wrong. That was my point. There are hundreds of millions of office users. Lots...



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    Jim P.

    A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.

  • RE: Halo 4 and Hadoop

    Randy Rabin (3/29/2013)


    Off the desktop or off the start menu?

    Desktop (and for grins, try both).



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    Jim P.

    A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.

  • RE: Halo 4 and Hadoop

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/29/2013)


    MS shouldn't listen to you. They should listen to large trends, and that isn't necessarily you. I hear lots of SQL power users thinking MS...



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    Jim P.

    A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.

  • RE: Halo 4 and Hadoop

    SQLRNNR (3/28/2013)


    Randy Rabin (3/28/2013)


    I always turn off the "Send usage data to Microsoft" setting when installing....

    Same here.

    I have turned it off in everything MS, and 99.9% of all other...



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    Jim P.

    A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.

  • RE: A Good Security Response

    I worked for a bank for a number of years. We were very good about shredding everything, to the point that if any quantity of paper was found in the...



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    Jim P.

    A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.

  • RE: Zettabytes and Beyond

    Revenant (3/25/2013)


    Will anyone care what we left on our hard drives? Does anyone care what is punched in the cards that were processed 50 years ago and which are,...



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    Jim P.

    A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.

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