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You make good points this morning. I think I was always the 'find the answer myself' type, mainly because lots of my career was before the days of electronic interaction...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
October 16, 2019 at 12:40 pm
You've hit on a great case for virtualization but also makes me wonder if code is getting worse over time because hardware has become so inexpensive.
I believe this is...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
October 11, 2019 at 3:30 pm
"I was reading a post from someone recently where they noted that they didn't worry to much about the architecture of the system since it wouldn't likely last very long."
This...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
October 11, 2019 at 10:40 am
Well, Steve, as Bill O'Reilly says, I can see you drank the Koolaid too. I'll give you a current example. My credit union, two states away and in a different...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
October 9, 2019 at 1:19 am
Well, it's a realistic view. Just like calling someone on the phone, if a system is down, another system should be smart enough to 'call back' and retry a process...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
October 8, 2019 at 10:29 pm
From the perspective of about 42 years in IT, I always have to ask so what's the big deal if I have to stop a machine to make some patches. ...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
October 8, 2019 at 12:04 pm
Actually, doing this very thing was what got me the largest salary increase in my 42-year career. I had been 16 months without any mention of my salary or a...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
September 29, 2019 at 12:53 am
Wow, this makes me think about when I started coding exactly 50 years ago. The way we began was not to write code at all, but to create a 'flow...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
September 17, 2019 at 12:13 pm
About midway through my career I took a position as manager for a new start-up IT organization in an old well-established family wholesale distribution company with about 25 mobile sales...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
September 16, 2019 at 11:45 am
This brings back memories of about my third job as a developer at a company where we leased payroll/personnel software at the source-code level, and then made modifications for our...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
September 5, 2019 at 12:13 pm
Banned temp tables? This is a first for me to hear about problems with them in tempdb. I also started with SQL Server in v4.5, and used temp tables of...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
August 27, 2019 at 3:24 am
In 1974 I began my fourth position in IT as manager of a brand new installation at a company that was entirely new to IT. We started out operating 24...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
August 17, 2019 at 11:50 am
OK, I hear you. I guess I just always assume that Relational DBMS systems are best suited for SQL. I'm definitely getting obsolete. In my days, it was the best...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
August 16, 2019 at 9:57 pm
Agreed. Elasticity rather than cost is very often the clincher when it comes to cloud. But whether cloud or on-prem it seems to me that most of the interesting...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
August 16, 2019 at 7:51 pm
There's definitely truth in the idea that a wave of tools aimed at generalist users (e.g. Notebooks like Jupyter and Zeppelin; platforms like DataIku) are continuing to broaden the...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
August 15, 2019 at 5:07 pm
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