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  • RE: Rethinking Hiring

    Jeff Moden (12/9/2015)


    Ah... sorry Gary. I knew what you were getting at. Didn't mean to make it look like I was sniping you. It's just that...

  • RE: Rethinking Hiring

    Jeff Moden (12/9/2015)


    Gary Varga (12/8/2015)


    There are technical fundamentals that I would expect practitioners at the applicable level to understand and be able to describe, however, I never expect anyone to...

  • RE: Building Better Communication Skills

    Ralph Hightower (12/9/2015)


    ...Her emails have many misspellings and grammatical errors...

    Someone please point her to the option in her email client that enforces a spellcheck before sending!!!

  • RE: An Inconceivable Scale

    below86 (12/9/2015)


    Iwas Bornready (12/9/2015)


    Just bought the grandson an XBox One with 1 TB. How much space do you really need to store a game?

    Yeah really, I think my first computer...

  • RE: An Inconceivable Scale

    I am Brian and so is my wife!!!

    Perhaps it is three orders of magnitude Steve?

  • RE: What is DevOps?

    Tavis Reddick (12/9/2015)


    Could there be a tendency, over time and in a successful devops team, for individuals to learn new skills from the 'other' side, to the detriment of learning...

  • RE: An Inconceivable Scale

    Using the wrong sized data type means that it is harder to get it right. The perfect example is the use of a date & time type when only a...

  • RE: An Inconceivable Scale

    I guess that suggests that you visualise Steve. I can't. I tend to conceptualise (which markedconn referred to as cognitive thinking as opposed visual thinking in a recent thread).

    This means...

  • RE: Rethinking Hiring

    There are technical fundamentals that I would expect practitioners at the applicable level to understand and be able to describe, however, I never expect anyone to remember syntax accurately. For...

  • RE: Building Better Communication Skills

    It seems that there is a midway point where people can write eloquently but not simply. The best writers produce books, articles, blogs, letters, emails, texts and Tweets that are...

  • RE: Building Better Communication Skills

    OCTom (1/10/2011)


    I doubt that Twitter improves writing skills. It seems to do the opposite. The nature of Twitter encourages shortcuts and abbreviations that may not aid communication.

    Over four years later...

  • RE: The Office

    cs_troyk (12/7/2015)


    jay-h (12/29/2010)


    Don't forget: any job that can be done from home can be done from a 'low cost country'

    Sure - Stephen King's next novel has been outsourced to Bangalore....

  • RE: No More Foreign Keys?

    What a ludicrous blog post...and a sensible Editorial response.

    A database might not need Foreign Keys but a RDBMS is less without them.

    The blogger says "There’s a hint that your system...

  • RE: The Office

    etm1109 (12/7/2015)


    ...Face time is overrated. Virtual meetings and presentations can be handled just fine online...

    I think that most meetings can be virtual but there are some that benefit from...

  • RE: Software Estimates

    It seems to me that the established professions either have a more rigorous framework for estimation and change control (e.g. construction) or have expectations of the unknown accepted in advance...

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