joshua 15769 (10/5/2016)

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From a programmer's perspective, I'd say, anything that you'd want to use to communicate with the database should be "tested". Anything which would be new to the database...

Did the DBA who refused the stored procedure say why?

The "why" is critically important.

I had a similar situation with a SAN administrator. When I sat down with them and...

I am playing with Apache Spark and the amount of stuff that this does under the hood for you which you would normally expect to write for yourself is mind...

I very much agree with Steve that culture and behaviour has to change if you are going to get the best out of a technique or toolset.

The building of a...

I'm struggling to see the point of keyless ignition. I go walking in the hills and live in fear of getting the fob wet. Batteries and moisture do...

I trust a black box to do the same thing for the same inputs infallibly. Whether what it does is infallible is another matter.

Tesla are trying to capture all...

Grant Fritchey (9/26/2016)

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Thanks everyone for the feedback. I was hoping someone would come in and argue in favor of hiding information since it sometimes seems to be considered a valid...

Utter lunacy.

A lot of our stuff is on dashboards which display on 55" monitors around the building. Production metrics need to be displayed where devs can see them

The things that hamper me are not having a properly configured workstation and tools set up and correctly configured. This means that I have to learn how to set...