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  • RE: Why Don't We Have Better Practices?

    Ralph Hightower (5/15/2014)


    Try programming in APL. That is one bizarre language!

    I'm not sure without researching it if APL and what we called in the old days Assembler Language are the...

  • RE: Why Don't We Have Better Practices?

    Koen Verbeeck (5/15/2014)


    skeleton567 (5/15/2014)


    Gary Varga (5/15/2014)


    The other reason is that because we deal with abstract concepts, as opposed to the real world with its laws of physics, there are...

  • RE: Why Don't We Have Better Practices?

    Gary Varga (5/15/2014)


    The other reason is that because we deal with abstract concepts, as opposed to the real world with its laws of physics, there are far more ways...

  • RE: Managers

    Some techies should not be managers, and I was one of them. At one point I was hired to start up a new IT shop for a fairly large...

  • RE: Duplicate Detection and Management

    Ed Pollack (4/29/2014)


    Comments posted to this topic are about the item <A HREF="/articles/Duplicate/109019/">Duplicate Detection and Management</A>

    First of all, check for the existence of a created/changed timestamp you might use to...

  • RE: How Long Before You Upgrade?

    How long needs to tempered by a responsible DBA constantly reminding folks that equipment and software are aging, becoming obsolete, impossible to support or fix if broken. Don't commit...

  • RE: X in Technology

    David.Poole (4/6/2014)


    Carla Wilson-484785 (4/3/2014)


    Stephanie J Brown (3/31/2014)


    ... If instead of "Women in Technology" the group was called "Breaking Barriers in Technology", it might be viewed through a different lens. ...

  • RE: X in Technology

    And when something DOES affect you directly, it's easy to lose your objectivity.:-)

  • RE: X in Technology

    Wow, just...WOW

  • RE: X in Technology

    Tom, you make good and valid observations about the supply of technical people when I (we?) started in IT. My college had a small computer, but it was buried...

  • RE: X in Technology

    Goofy, please understand that the concept of socioeconomic status has been around for decades and is a legitimate sociological term ( Sociology was actually my degree field ). Just...

  • RE: X in Technology

    GilaMonster (4/1/2014)


    skeleton567 (4/1/2014)


    Let me relate my real own experience with yardsticks. The largest salary increase I ever achieved without changing jobs was by using MY OWN yardstick.

    ...

  • RE: X in Technology

    "That has worked for me with some managers that appreciate what I'm doing.

    In other cases my stance has been - I'm being paid well under the industry average, and this...

  • RE: X in Technology

    "We want to be measured with the same yardstick, not a shorter one because 'oh, you can't handle what we do', not a longer one because 'oh, we can't possibly...

  • RE: X in Technology

    Now that's believable. 😀

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