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by spratzt 2mo ago
They’re also completely illegal in Europe under GDPR regulations.
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by spratzt 10mo ago
Isn’t strange that this talent shortage never translates itself into decent rates?
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by spratzt 1y ago
Rubbish! I have an iPhone 16 and it has a sim slot.
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by spratzt 1y ago
The silence is deafening
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by spratzt 1y ago
I used to do similar work. Back in the day I used 25 TB as the cut off point for single node design. It’s certainly larger now.
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by spratzt 1y ago
You’re absolutely right about the organizational dynamics. Many mangers in large companies, derive their status and power from a knowledge of existing business processes and procedures. Any substantive changes to those procedures obviously
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by spratzt 1y ago
Kent’s original book is a masterpiece. He pretty much defined data modelling nearly fifty years ago. It’s depressing how little of real interest has been added since. For the reasons you rightly pointed out, the current edition is a disaste
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by spratzt 1y ago
Even as an entry level business analyst you’re probably make more than a COBOL programmer. Don’t touch it.
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by spratzt 1y ago
As somebody who has written both COBOL and APL, I can assure you that they are both obsolete.
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by spratzt 2y ago
You certainly won’t hit it with most corporate OLAP processing, which is nearly all read-only SQlite. Writes are generally batched and processed outside ‘normal’ business hours, where the limitations of SQlite writing are irrelevant.
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by spratzt 2y ago
No. The issue is whether you NEED to not whether you want to. 10 to 15 years ago, you could argue, however implausibly, that hardware constraints meant vertical scaling was impossible, and you were forced to adopt a distributed architecture
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by spratzt 2y ago
I would go even further and argue that vast majority of businesses will never need to think about distributed systems. Modern hardware makes them irrelevant to all but the most niche of applications.
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by spratzt 2y ago
Genuinely curious about what sort of business stores and processes 14 PB on a 60 node cluster.
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by spratzt 2y ago
I absolutely agree. It’s also a silly to believe that because it’s old it’s culturally significant. There’s plenty of ancient dross in the back catalogues.
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by spratzt 2y ago
Frankly, these words are too kind.
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by spratzt 2y ago
It’s slightly more nuanced than that. Investment banks and consultancy companies are really interested in graduates who are smart and articulate. The nature of their degree is not that relevant. I know an extremely clever young woman who gr
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by spratzt 2y ago
The vast majority of jobs on LinkedIn are fake. Even so your figures confirm my claim; 24k graduates versus 15k jobs. The supply is greater than the demand. As a sibling comment has pointed out, there are too many software engineers in the
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by spratzt 2y ago
Unfortunately in 2025 you can probably add software engineering to the list of degrees to avoid.
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by spratzt 2y ago
The vast majority of businesses will never need more than single node architecture. Hardware advances are continually increasing that percentage. SPARK and its modern counterpart Databricks are essentially obsolete for these organizations.
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by spratzt 2y ago
The market can remain depressed for longer than you can remain solvent. We should be encouraging people to look at alternative careers to tech. Life after tech. We should also be making it clear to students that while there are exciting thi
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by spratzt 2y ago
It’s extraordinary how frequently companies discuss the cost of a bad hire and never consider the opportunity cost of a no-hire. Companies that keep waiting for Mr. Right are really saying that the opportunity cost of not completing their p
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by spratzt 2y ago
This was wonderfully explored in the following paper https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/668166
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by spratzt 2y ago
Extraordinary! I can’t think of any of the advent of code questions this year where a database would have been of any use. Do tell us more.
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by spratzt 2y ago
I suggest you come over to the UK. I know several guys with postgraduate STEM degrees and 10 years of development experience who can’t even get interviews. It’s very bad here.
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by spratzt 2y ago
You’re too kind. There’s nothing borderline about it.
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by spratzt 2y ago
The requirement for programmer’s is absolutely going to decline. Some will undoubtably transition to broader based business consultancy services. For those unable or unwilling to do so the future is bleak.
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by spratzt 2y ago
You don’t have to go to China. I live and work in the UK and use Apple Pay for everything. I haven’t carried a wallet in years.
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by spratzt 2y ago
For those interested in escaping the Hacker Prison where ‘Weeks of coding can save hours of thinking’ I strongly recommend William Kent’s book “Data and Reality’.
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by spratzt 2y ago
I’ve always liked Foucault’s inversion of the old cliche: ‘Power is knowledge’
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by spratzt 2y ago
Try this. https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/

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