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  • RE: Better Comments

    I've just finished reading "Clean Code" by Robert C Martin.  It takes a dim view of commenting code preferring instead to refactor the code to the point where all functions...

  • RE: SQL Server Tuning Skills

    jeffgonnering - Wednesday, June 6, 2018 11:04 AM

    Amazon link  You missed a great opportunity to plug Grant Fritchey's excellent book...

  • RE: Will Coding Be Less Important?

    Eric M Russell - Tuesday, June 5, 2018 6:39 AM

    Voice activated bots are actually not the most effective user interface for self...

  • RE: Do We Understand Data?

    Eric M Russell - Monday, June 4, 2018 12:54 PM

    I don't think fake (or even real) news on social media does...

  • RE: Will Coding Be Less Important?

    15 years ago I specialised in content management systems.  My colleagues and I found ourselves wanting to program at a lower level and effectively reversed engineered the way that the...

  • RE: Do We Understand Data?

    I've long felt that a lot of what gets left to the DBAs of this world is due to the abdication of responsibilities from people who are ignorant of what...

  • RE: Lessons for all of us

    My wife bought me a Garmin Fenix watch that tracks all sorts of metrics including stress, sleep and heart rate.  It's been an eye opener for many reasons. Last week...

  • RE: Pause and Backtrack

    For me its a case of "with great power comes great responsibility".

    I have been having a similar debate on a related subject.  It is basically a "How can...

  • RE: How do you keep yourself from burning out?

    I burnt out due to workplace bullying from an indirect manager, directionless non-participation by my manager.  I'd be given a goal by my manager and then find that my manager...

  • RE: Does the Tone matter?

    Successful communication is that which is received, not that which is given.

  • RE: How do you deal with disappointment?

    Perhaps, given the specifictys of the article and follow up quotes it would be best for all concerned if the article and thread were removed from this site.

    The...

  • RE: How do you deal with disappointment?

    Walk a mile in another mans shoes.  Before you cast the splinter from your brothers eye, look to the plank in your own.  Why did you exclude your co-worker?  What...

  • RE: Would You Move to Linux for Price?

    Solomon Rutzky - Friday, May 4, 2018 10:27 AM

    True. Also, I think it would be wise for everyone (regardless of their...

  • RE: Navigating Hadoop Resources

    As an over simplification

  • Hortonworks see their USP as being entirely open-source 
  • Cloudera see their USP as being the proprietary elements they bring to the open-source stack 
  • MapR...

  • RE: Intrinsic or Extrinsic

    I've always been fascinated by computers.  I learned on a Commodore Pet prior to buying my first computer, a Commodore Vic20.
    The fascination with data and databases comes from the...

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