At the risk of stating the obvious, in the Google story there was a human in the loop, and look what happened 😉 . Certainly a truism that no matter...

If I have a requirement, I'll only look at software that fulfills that need. It doesn't matter how many features are available in a free version of a product if...

This doesn't just work at a personal level; it also works well as a strategy.

I've come across quite a few companies who maintain a relatively small IT function for dealing...

The site is first and foremost a technical resource for people working with a specific product - SQL Server. IMHO, it fulfills that purpose excellently.

However, IT these days is in...

rVadim (5/12/2010)

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Among Russian programmers there was a phrase that I can translate as “licking the code”. Just like cat or dog lick themselves in order to get clean, programmers lick...

If you write ten in its numeric form, you end up with ID 10 T (or...

jlennartz (5/11/2010)

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My favorite was quote by my manager of an error received by an end user on well tested and very stable program. It was an ID TEN...

Michael Meierruth (5/10/2010)

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The cathedral in Milan took forever to build.

And now its bowels...

Michael Meierruth (5/9/2010)

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anelson 66875 (5/7/2010)

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"steaming pile of bytes" describes, well... what you think it describes. Usually the result of the first couple of weeks of frenetic activity on a...

My company tends to refer to any interfaces we develop as "sticky stuff", since it glues to disparate systems together.

Not related to the code as such, but more the people...

Like Phil, my company has a healthy attitude to training; indeed it's an integral section of our regular formal performance reviews. That means, of course, that if either manager or...

Tom.Thomson (2/28/2010)

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....I often found that correcting mistakes in private was pretty pointless: if I took someone aside to explain an error they would generally go back to the rest of...

Gary Varga (2/25/2010)

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majorbloodnock (2/25/2010)

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Gary Varga (2/25/2010)

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majorbloodnock (2/25/2010)

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...even though this is a very public medium I believe the basic rules of considerate communication can still be maintained.

Semper in excretia, sumus solum...

Gary Varga (2/25/2010)

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...like only...

jcrawf02 (2/25/2010)

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I think I will have to disagree with you, for purely selfish reasons, if the setting is a forum such as SSC. With the intarwebz so open to search,...