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  • Reply To: The Best Graph

    Rod, at my age I like to use both good graphics and good summarized data.   Suffering from my OCD (self-diagnosed) I almost daily have to check in on my retirement...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: The Best Graph

    Steve, this posting brings back a funny memory of my last DBA position with a company that was purchased by Bridgestone Firestone a few years before I retired.  It makes...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: Empathetic Design

    m60freeman wrote:

    I have a 36" wide stairway to my basement. The builder installed a 32" door at the top of the stairs. It saved money, but I can't get most...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: Empathetic Design

    Rod, I will respond to your original post that I still have in an email notice.  Your description of your work situation regarding the boss and software design is intriguing,...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: A New World of Data

    Just looking back at this old article and responses, I will throw out that my home network has now grown to 34TB of storage on two 4-drive NAS devices and...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: Empathetic Design

    I have commented for many years that software developers, and even for most product developers, it should be required that they actually use what they design.  It just doesn't make...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: Design Lessons for Software

    Some days I look out at the world and ask myself "What have we done?"

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: Design Lessons for Software

    wrote:

    Keep it simple: Simple designs are often the best designs. By keeping things simple, you can reduce complexity and make your software easier to use.

    Protolabze:

    I agree on the keeping...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: The Survivors

    below86 wrote:

    Yeah, I need to find my resume.  I think I backed it up to the cloud, I hope so , my other PC died about a year ago.

    That's OK,...

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 1 months ago by skeleton567.

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: The Survivors

    ArthurFED wrote:

    This post could really benefit by addressing those dedicated workers doing IT for government agencies.  My work group is only down 50% from the staff level in place when...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: The Survivors

    Over my 42 years in IT I suffered layoff three times.  Fortunately, every time it worked out that I was in better shape afterward.  Of course it is traumatic when...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: A Third Break

    Steve, we did a cruise that left Seattle and landed in Alaska, then continued with a bus tour up along the pipeline route all the way north to the Arctic...

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 1 months ago by skeleton567.

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: A Third Break

    We loved the Colorado Rockies.  About 10 years before retirement bought a historic mining claim of 10 acres in the forests outside Pitkin, Co and built a log cabin at...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: A Third Break

    My wife and I had a great experience on a Rhine-Danube cruise from Amsterdam all the way to eastern Europe ending with land travel to Ukraine and Romania where we...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: The Loss of Knowledge

    "The higher up a manager gets within the organisation the broader their view becomes at an expense of depth."

    David, your comments are amazing, and I think exactly on the mark. ...

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 1 months ago by skeleton567.

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

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