It falls into the 'right tool for the right job'

Financials, order entry, etc need to be exact. By comparison many of the largist data set operations (such as business/trend...

Back in the stone age (1980) there was a saying "no one ever lost their job for buying IBM". Basically it was a case of CYA even if it wasn't...

The highly questionable 'technique' of opening the properties worked. Since that time the issue has not recurred.

djackson 22568 (4/11/2011)

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... If I depend on automatic wipers and lights, and then drive a car without them, when I need to turn them on I am not focused on...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/11/2011)

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Very true, but I wouldn't think this is the case because someone...

There is LOTS of silly fluff in cars, and lots of unnecessary automation. If you can't determine when you need your wipers on, you do not belong behind the wheel....

Nadrek (3/31/2011)

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For those with RAID; how many actually run consistency checks on a regular basis, to detect single drive corruption?

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I would also note that planning for regular failure is both...

Google has the right idea. Failure WILL happen and the issue is to design around it. Their approach is resilience

Unfortunately this reality has not fully found its way into the...

There needs to be a mix of formal and informal systems.

While several have commented on the formalized structure, there is also the common sense component? Is the request out...

Yes I'd probably continue to do SQL but I'd probably choose to do much more coding (espcially C++).

James Goodwin (3/4/2011)

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Jay,

In your response you are assuming that the bureaucrat's job is to punish you. In truth the bureaucrat (who is, after all, just another office worker like...

James Goodwin (3/4/2011)

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It was a PITA, and I can't remember if it went to the state (probably) or the feds, but they seemed to take a dim view of "candidate...

hmmmm

that might have something to do with Chrysler's 'Imported from Detroit' slogan?

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Though I remember...

Dizzy Desi (3/2/2011)

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What about when management forces or tries to force you to do something that you know is wrong? Such as giving them data that's private, but they...

This is a huge problem.

A while back there was a discussion of police officers who were fired/convinced to leave for abusive conduct who promptly became officers in other towns becasue...