Steve Jones - SSC Editor (9/8/2016)

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I had a report about this thread. I think it's a valid discussion, and as long as everyone remains respectful, that's fine.

There have been a...

Marcia Q (9/1/2010)

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The way I interpret it: Since it's derived from our local time (which will bump by an hour on November 7), the UTC will also bump...

S Hodkinson (9/2/2016)

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Ah the classic line....'Enter Bluebottle wearing Arab headdress and cardboard knees'. Or the Ying Tong Song.

And while we're on it......Navy Lark or Round the Horne anyone?

No actually...

Definitely

Perform basic validation of datatype and format in the UI or input routines, Identify any exceptions and handle appropriately. Fail the validation immediately if these fail so we don't incur...

Frequently you do know what you don't know.

Here there are 4 categories of knowledge

Known knowns

Unknown knowns

Known unknowns

Unknown Unknowns

Most people will understand the first and last of these.

The second is...

RobertMcClean (7/28/2016)

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Good article, and good point about the difficulty in getting non-technical people to realize how much they can contribute. I recall that an Auditor once complimented us on the...

something along the lines of the work Google undertook to get house numbers into GoogleMaps

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/523326/how-google-cracked-house-number-identification-in-street-view/

Tuttle, Tuttle

One of my favourite films 🙂

you forgot M^c not that you see it used often nowadays.

There have been enough cases of incorrect identity that you would hope that any warrant to arrest Joanne Bloggs instead...

Peoples' names would be another, especially if it needs to handle misspellings, contractions and variants. There is also the issue as to whether middlenames are used.

I wonder if it works for home off<tap tap tap> ........

That sounds like you...

Sioban Krzywicki (4/28/2016)

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I keep trying to convince people that the most secure database would be one where they can't use alphanumeric table and column names. I created one that's all...

patrickmcginnis59 10839 (5/18/2016)

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Perry Whittle (5/17/2016)

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This is not an integer expression.

The code first checks the binary values for @a and @b-2,...

Bob,

It comes down to how the OS stores data

0x01 is an 8 bit hex number - binary 00000001

0x0001 is a 16 bit hex number 0000000000000001

if you compare these as 16...