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  • RE: Mudita: Joy in the success of others

    Well, don't be surprised too much. What you younger folks are facing is the fact that a company can discover a need for a skill, and instead of training...

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

  • RE: Mudita: Joy in the success of others

    Rod:

    I had the same experience for many years of the lack of company involvement in furthering your IT skills. One good solution is to take it upon yourself to...

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

  • RE: Mudita: Joy in the success of others

    It's not a sad day to see better coders if you contributed to making them so. Mentoring is a benefit and pleasure of being the oldest and most experienced.

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

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

    david.wright-948385 (5/15/2014)


    skeleton567 (5/15/2014)


    Then along came the likes of COBOL which made so-called 'programmers' of those who weren't and shouldn't have been.

    Horses for courses: if you produce a product using Cobol,...

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

  • 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...

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

  • 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...

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

  • 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...

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

  • 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...

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

  • 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...

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

  • 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...

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

  • 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. ...

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

  • RE: X in Technology

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

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

  • RE: X in Technology

    Wow, just...WOW

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

  • 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...

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

  • 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...

    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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