SulphurSmell

7 ms·

1.
by SulphurSmell 4y ago
I am with you. Been messing with tools my entire life...have tried ratcheting screwdrivers of several kinds...Hard no. If I do lots of screws, I use a drill or impact driver. Or, failing that a nice 1/4 or 3/8 ratchet wrench wi
2.
by SulphurSmell 4y ago
Front page of the .pdf shows a neat lumber gauge in action. It's designed to fit on your finger and allow rapid checking of common dimensions. You can still buy these...or, in this case, an excellent reproduction here: https:/&
3.
by SulphurSmell 4y ago
I recall this fondly when it came out. I had a few racks of Sun servers at that time...and anyone I showed the video too were convinced it was bullshit. April Fools anyone? However, Brendan and Bryan know their onions...and all the naysa
4.
by SulphurSmell 4y ago
Here's a link https://www.edmunds.com/car-buying/where-does-the-car-dealer... FTA: "National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA), the new-vehicle department of a car dealership accounts for about 58% of a d
5.
by SulphurSmell 4y ago
I don't really doubt the numbers...in fact, I thought them a bit low. My feeling is that this will really change the automotive landscape for the overall lifecycle of a car. Seems to me that the dealership currently doesn't worr
6.
by SulphurSmell 4y ago
Canada,ditto.
7.
by SulphurSmell 4y ago
I am surprised I had to scroll this far to find a dBase reference. I am the same vintage as OP, and yeah... back in the day dBase was the key to riches...at least as a contract dev. I remember spending A Lot of Money on the big box of dBa
8.
by SulphurSmell 4y ago
Shelves and shelves of tidy orange binders. I had them too!
9.
by SulphurSmell 4y ago
I am also old. And tend to agree with you on this.
10.
by SulphurSmell 4y ago
Interesting. It was never an issue for us, as we were close to the CC servers. Some folks were not, so they ran their dev/build locally ("network close" to th CC servers) and VNC'd in from their actual location. In th
11.
by SulphurSmell 4y ago
I wish I could answer this. I have always had a penchant for any robust versioning system. Even the simple ones (CVS and the like) were amazeballs to me at the time. 20 odd years ago I spent a lot of time with ClearCase (initially Ration
12.
by SulphurSmell 4y ago
The compressor doesn't move any air inside the refrigerator. There is a separate fan in the freezer compartment that does that.
13.
by SulphurSmell 4y ago
Thanks. Scar tissue sometimes breeds insight. In further conversation on this phenomenon, I would argue that "long lived databases" are not so as result of brilliant design. Rather, it happens because the database itself is neg
14.
by SulphurSmell 4y ago
If I publish a stored proc as an API, it leaves me free (within reason) to alter the actual SQL supporting it. Like modern API design, as long as you don't remove functionality, then change it as required.
15.
by SulphurSmell 4y ago
I would be having words with the DBA about this. If there is a DBA. No DBA I would hire would allow this silliness. At least not in the actual application schema.
16.
by SulphurSmell 4y ago
Noticed I said "limit", and not "eliminate". The concept of NULLS in an RDBMS has been discussed and argued for decades. Three valued logic is generally not well understood, and as such, it's usually skipped over
17.
by SulphurSmell 4y ago
Ok, story time. Worked on a near-real-time system that processed millions of rows an hour. Devs routinely did a "select " and pulled 100K rows into an array on a local client. And they sorted it there*. The DBAs never looke
18.
by SulphurSmell 4y ago
This is going on my wall. Thanks so much.
19.
by SulphurSmell 4y ago
I think they are wonderful (from the Codd and Date days...) but mostly everyone else disagrees.
20.
by SulphurSmell 4y ago
>protect the DB I share this sentiment. The apps will come and go, the real value is in the data. If the database can cover its ass, I am less concerned about ham-fisted developers randomly messing it up with ill-conceived DML. It'
21.
by SulphurSmell 4y ago
Are you me? LOL
22.
by SulphurSmell 4y ago
>business logic is put into stored procedures This is a double-edged sword. I have seen massive business logic baked into stored procedures...so much so, that the applications themselves are rather slim. If this stored procedure code
23.
by SulphurSmell 4y ago
>the database is almost always the main cause of any performance issues I would be careful with the term "cause". There is a symbiotic relationship between the application and the database. Or, if talking to a DBA...a databas
24.
by SulphurSmell 4y ago
This article is informative. I have found that databases in general tend to be less sexy than the front-end apps...especially with the recent cohort of devs. As an old bastard, I would pass on one thing: Realize that any reasonably used
25.
by SulphurSmell 4y ago
Ah! Good ol' DNS. Nothing can go wrong now!
26.
by SulphurSmell 4y ago
Love this analogy. As a Canadian...we have the same monarch, but our own Constitution / elected officials. So...we are ourselves in the sudoers file...but surely we are different under this analogy than our UK brethren? What are we
27.
by SulphurSmell 4y ago
I think 1/100th is generous!
28.
by SulphurSmell 4y ago
Well isn't that great! Have to look at this. Thanks!!
29.
by SulphurSmell 4y ago
I don't think so. Certainly, EBITDA is part of any story. What I was trying to convey was that Broadcom very much wants their customers to be engaged in a strong subscription model... big, recurring license agreements. Customers who
30.
by SulphurSmell 4y ago
I still have my MP2000, and it powers up just fine. Although, it could handle year 2000...it seemed to hit the wall from a date range perspective soon after. Anyhow, I was soooo stoked at the time to get one. Back then, there was not a sm

More ›