Extremely good advise, Steve. I'll add just one thing and that's if you find you need to look for another job, it might mean relocating, if the opportunities aren't...

Most of the organizations I've worked for were IT centric - where folks tend to be rational, competent, and focused on their job. The better employers will weed out individuals...

Any candidate who fails to get the joke doesn't get a 2nd interview. 🙂

Organizations that hoard data indiscriminately and fail to properly secure data should be seen as robber barons who cheat the system and put the public at risk. We should judge...

So do you want the government to have a searchable database of all the flights taken?

If the airlines have to keep it, and the government can draw from it...

I was under the impression that post 9/11, the airlines were required to maintain better records about flight passengers. I guess the questions being asked about CPOVID19 are substantially different...

Everyone in our IT department are working from home now. Our VPN and collaboration apps have held up well - practically no issues from what I've observed. This work from...

I'm simply saying we have to maintain perspective and resist the urge to let hysteria and conspiracy theories affect our...

Yes, society's [response] to the Corona virus...

".. I'd like to think this is a short term crisis, but I really have no idea. As I look back week to week, I barely recognize the world. Things...

Explain this title: "Don't Lose Data [Without a Hacker]"

Yes, it seems that the SQL haters and relational purists have both lost the fight to the broader IT user base who prefer their database to be something more in...

This is one of those situations where the severity of a threat is dependent upon the public's reaction to it. Stock market crashes, riots, political elections influenced by fake pandemic...

HDFS is alive and well - just like SQL was never threatened. I'm reminded of those Reeses Cups commercials from the 80's where two people collide - one...

HDFS is alive and well - just like SQL was never threatened. I'm reminded of those Reeses Cups commercials from the 80's where two people collide - one with a...