Even the successful inventors get treated badly.  Christopher Cockerell wasn't even allowed to pilot his hovercraft and didn't get much from his invention.

Take a look at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/5158972/Starlite-the-nuclear-blast-defying-plastic-that-could-change-the-world.html...

There are still some poorly designed user interfaces that make handling long filenames difficult.  Apart from that there's nothing much apart from habit that keeps this going.
The max...

Quite enjoyed building an ETL framework using Python and Apache Spark.
Doing loads with Pandas, HP Vertica & RedShift.

The one I'm most enthusiastic about is encouraging colleagues to...

Once you've worked in a large hierarchical structure you realise that hell isn't fire and brimstone, it's being teased for ever with the promise that a simple decision with an...

I've spent some time reading a summarised version of the GDPR regulations.  These regulations give HUGE levers to those of us who favour doing things properly.  I think it is...

I've been asked to provide a high level architectural design for a system.
I've also been set DB scenarios as interview questions but haven't been asked explicitly for a DB...

I found that the brittleness in replication is due to the complexity and flexibility of the facility.  The brittleness was more down to inadvertent misconfiguration than an inherent problem with...

I wish I could find the blog post that addresses business logic in databases.
The gist of the article was that "Business Logic" was too broad a term to have...

I use AWS RedShift on a daily basis which is based around PostGres 8.  I like the reduced DBA headaches but there is nothing like using another DB to make...

There are genuinely good reasons for adopting some of the NOSQL solutions.  The trick is to understand where the proposal to adopt a NOSQL solution is to satisfy a real...

I think many job descriptions aren't worth the paper they are printed on.  My role varies so much you could write it as "Do stuff with data for money.  Mentor...

Someone once said to me that what you get when you buy expensive software is a bigger bug list.

I think the logic is that something like Microsoft Word...

There's what users want and there's what users need.  If you are lucky there is a lot of overlap between the two.
I find that over customisation has many causes