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  • RE: New-Object Confusion.

    Shawn is spot on (again). In my haste I took the question at face value.

  • RE: The New Men of IT

    GeorgeCopeland (3/22/2016)


    ...I don't like the word resumé for the same reason that Tom doesn't. It is foreign and vague.

    I am not sure that Tom has any issue with it being...

  • RE: The New Men of IT

    TomThomson (3/22/2016)


    ...But nearly all properly qualified engineers and scientists speak Latin...

    Nice to know that I am not properly qualified. 😛

    Yes, I did see that Tom said "nearly all".

  • RE: Byte Me: Database Migra(ine)tion

    ...because the iTunes App would be such a better choice. :unsure:

  • RE: The Younger Generation

    David.Poole (3/22/2016)


    ...do they go gooey for the GUI?

    As someone who primarily has developed backends, components and services I can safely say they do. Even when the front end is a...

  • RE: Data for Ransom

    Stinks of being a ruse. Someone is playing an angle here.

  • RE: Byte Me:Oracle

    Charles Kincaid (7/28/2015)


    Iwas Bornready (7/28/2015)


    I don't get it.

    It's a quote from a Jim Henson film called "The Dark Crystal[/url]".

    In the film there was a fractured crystal (the MacGuffin). There...

  • RE: The New Men of IT

    Eric M Russell (3/22/2016)


    Gary Varga (3/22/2016)


    David.Poole (3/21/2016)


    ...I'm extremely wary of LinkedIn endorsements. I've been endorsed by people I've never heard of for skills I didn't know I had.

    Me too....

  • RE: There Are Always Constraints

    We must neither stop fighting the good fight nor let us be distracted when we get told to JFDI (Just Do It).

    Our clients (whether figuratively speaking or actual) rely on...

  • RE: The Evolving DBA

    Jeff Moden (7/22/2015)


    ...this is a timely reminder that ... it does NOT relieve the DBA from ensuring that the backups can actually be restored in an emergency...

    As I believe that...

  • RE: The Younger Generation

    Andy Warren (3/22/2016)


    ...I don't feel like schools do a good job of explaining what we do, or comparing it to what other professions do...

    In the UK schools haven't a clue....

  • RE: Is Skynet Coming?

    Has anyone considered that advanced AI already exists and that it has considered it too dangerous to make us aware of its presence?

  • RE: No Downtime Deployments

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/27/2015)


    ...Some of these changes are due to the inherent design of a database system. If I change a large amount of data, that takes a...

  • RE: What We Want and What We'll Pay For

    TomThomson (7/28/2015)


    Iwas Bornready (7/28/2015)


    robert.sterbal 56890 (7/27/2015)


    I always wish they would publish the previous survey and the actual results as well as the current one.

    That's actually a really good idea.

    No,...

  • RE: Visualizing in Space

    Rod at work (7/29/2015)


    Thank you, Steve. I've just downloaded R for Advanced Beginners PDF.

    Any good?

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