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  • RE: The Worst Comments

    Jeff Moden (3/22/2015)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/16/2015)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (3/13/2015)


    Digressing slightly, how would the threadizens describe the optimal code comments? Obviously the opposite of that would be the worst;-)

    😎

    I want...

  • RE: Common Mistakes

    CGMChris (3/20/2015)


    What exactly is the "chef problem"? A quick Google search didn't turn up anything seemingly relevant. Or perhaps Steve meant "chief"?

    It's the kind of problem that they bring...

  • RE: Small Experiments in Data

    brannanliz (3/17/2015)


    In reading the linked article about what Amsterdam is trying, I found this paragraph:"Traffic density is a major problem for the small IJburg community, so ASC is also partnering...

  • RE: Computational Biologist

    I love the fact that there are computational biologists, but there are a lot of common assumptions in the field of medicine that really need to be examined. Like...

  • RE: Try It

    To paraphrase Thomas Edison, I know 300 ways of how not to make a lightbulb.

    Always play, especially when a new version of SQL Server comes out and has new features!...

  • RE: The Worst Comments

    Stack Overflow did a bad comments thread two years ago at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-comment-in-source-code-you-have-ever-encountered. A friend on LiveJournal posted the following:

    #define TRUE FALSE

    //Happy...

  • RE: The Worst Comments

    markjholmes (3/13/2015)


    I'm guilty of a number of bad comments in my code. ... I present my old self as an example of what not to do. 😀

    "No one is...

  • RE: The Worst Comments

    GilaMonster (3/13/2015)


    Toby Harman (3/13/2015)


    Many years ago I found a comment by my boss in the code which read something along the lines of

    -- Don't touch this code

    -- It does fancy...

  • RE: The Express Choice

    Charles Kincaid (3/12/2015)


    ... I'm the kind of person to jerk out the antenna cable mid-transmission just to test recovery. ...

    Me, too! At a previous employer we had a...

  • RE: RIP: Sir Terry Pratchett

    Tell me about it. I picked up his book of things he'd written as a very young man, it came out earlier this year. They're sorta YA and...

  • RE: Data Breach Danger

    There was a recent OpEd piece by, IIRC, Bruce Schneier talking about digital intrusion. If your house is broken in to or invaded, you can call law enforcement. ...

  • RE: The Express Choice

    Gary Varga (3/11/2015)


    Eric M Russell (3/11/2015)


    ...Today in 2015, always on internet should still not be taken for granted...

    Microsoft wanted to make that assumption for the Xbox One and had to...

  • RE: Access Disdain

    GoofyGuy (7/17/2014)... In my experience, the shadow IT groups got started the moment someone outside IT bought a copy of Access.

    The problem I have with Access isn't Access itself, but...

  • RE: Server/database consolidation questions

    JarJar (3/10/2015)


    ... "separation of databases which don't play nice together" is my answer. sharepoint must be on its own instance, bi on it's own instance, application databases on their own,...

  • RE: Left joins and query plan compile times

    roger.price-1150775 (3/9/2015)


    After reading other posts spotted something I would consider a problem for the compiler.

    select <many items>

    from A

    left join B on B.id_A = A.id

    left join...

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