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  1. Re:Get used to it, this is the future on Why Apple's iPhone Upgrade Program Is a Bad Deal For Most · · Score: 1

    I don't see why not. I lease by Bimmer and took out a personal line of credit for my Rolex, put my upcoming tropical vacation on my credit cards, and so this phone payment plan fits right in.

  2. Re:You still go through HR for jobs? on Do Old Programmers Need To Keep Leaping Through New Hoops? · · Score: 1

    Not bad except for the "scrum" part. That would have me seriously thinking about letting go the team member who referred this person.

  3. IBM invented timesharing on IBM Locking Up Lots of Cloud Computing Patents · · Score: 1

    so they have a valid point.

  4. Re: Thanks for the blotched printer migration... on System Administrator Appreciation Day 2015 · · Score: 1

    I don't have a basement and I make sure that the admin requirements are part and parcel of my written contracts when I do development or database administration.

  5. Re:Thanks for the blotched printer migration... on System Administrator Appreciation Day 2015 · · Score: 1

    Fuck sysadmins. I have root on all my machines plus any dedicated database servers and have done so forever.

  6. Re:Wired = Wired on Ask Slashdot: Best Wireless PC-to-TV Solution? · · Score: 1

    Get a bonded pair series 1 cable from Belden. I use a 25 footer daily from a mac mini and get 1080p no problemo either from an internet stream, file, or Blu-ray. http://www.bluejeanscable.com/...

  7. Re:Puzzling Paper on A Programming Language For Self-Organizing Swarms of Drones · · Score: 1

    "It's a bit of an assumption that it doesn't exist?"

    In the absence of any evidence that it does exist the default presumption should be that it does not.

  8. Re:Puzzling Paper on A Programming Language For Self-Organizing Swarms of Drones · · Score: 1

    "Q. There's no BNF available. A. I'll publish it, it's just not on the website yet. We just went public, there's lots of work to still. Good suggestion!"

    You do the BNF first dummy. You really should have just used Lisp if you want to create a domain specific language.

  9. Re:There is no cure for absolute fucking stupidity on Techies Hire Witch To Protect Computers From Viruses and Offices From Spirits · · Score: 1

    It's in the other thread about Silicon Valley and Diversity issues.

  10. Re:There is no cure for absolute fucking stupidity on Techies Hire Witch To Protect Computers From Viruses and Offices From Spirits · · Score: 1

    You'd be a case in point.

    I am neither a woman nor a minority. Your attempt at snide has failed due to your incoherent statement.

  11. Re:There is no cure for absolute fucking stupidity on Techies Hire Witch To Protect Computers From Viruses and Offices From Spirits · · Score: 2

    It's nonsense like this that is the direct result of lowering hiring standards in order to get a requisite quota of women and minorities employed where they should not be.

  12. Re:Too many white and Asian males on Silicon Valley Still Wrestling With Diversity Issues · · Score: 0

    There are very, very, few blacks or mestizos that have the requisite minimum IQ (IMHO 130) to do effective IT work. Those slight few that do are quickly glommed on to by big corporations and immediately put on fast track executive management programs where schmoozing rather than hard work is the main requirement for success.

  13. Re: How much you got? on Oracle Bullies Enterprise Clients Into Cloud Purchases, Consultant Claims · · Score: 1

    Informix was bought by IBM in 2001 and is still under active development. Latest release was 3 weeks ago.

  14. Re:ORACLE is on Oracle Bullies Enterprise Clients Into Cloud Purchases, Consultant Claims · · Score: 1

    He got caught twice. Lord knows how many goosed up quarterly reports went through un-noticed.

  15. Re:What does Oracle do well? on Oracle Bullies Enterprise Clients Into Cloud Purchases, Consultant Claims · · Score: 3, Interesting

    High volume ACID transactions and stored procedures.

  16. Re:Oracle and the decision makers on Oracle Bullies Enterprise Clients Into Cloud Purchases, Consultant Claims · · Score: 1

    The tried and true IBM sales strategy. Play golf with the client CEO & CFO. Get IT personnel fired if they don't get on board.

  17. Re:ORACLE is on Oracle Bullies Enterprise Clients Into Cloud Purchases, Consultant Claims · · Score: 1
    One does not become a billionaire by being a nice fair guy.


    No you do it by criminally mis-stating your corporate earnings in order to goose up the quarterly numbers which rug-merchant Larry did twice!
  18. Re:How much you got? on Oracle Bullies Enterprise Clients Into Cloud Purchases, Consultant Claims · · Score: 1

    "In other words, try spending as much on actually understanding your data and how it needs to be organized as you do on the thing you plan to store that data in."

    Yes and entity-relationaship modeling and a fully normalized logical data model are the tools used to do it in a rigorous fashion.

  19. Re: How much you got? on Oracle Bullies Enterprise Clients Into Cloud Purchases, Consultant Claims · · Score: 1

    Moronic. You better believe that transactional integrity is important. Care for an account from a bank whose systems didn't enforce it?

  20. How much you got? on Oracle Bullies Enterprise Clients Into Cloud Purchases, Consultant Claims · · Score: 5, Insightful

    After dealing with Oracle for over thirty years I've learned that the answer to the question "how much does Oracle cost?" is "how much money do you have?"

  21. Re:I'd suggest LISP on Ask Slashdot: Is C++ the Right Tool For This Project? · · Score: 1

    For a list use LISP.

  22. Relations on MEAN Vs. LAMP: Finding the Right Fit For Your Next Project · · Score: 3, Insightful
    What if two people share the same address but not the same account?


    Then you need an account table, a customer table, and a relational table that contains instances of paired keys from each. Learn some elementary set theory for chrissakes! The article is full of other stupidities as bad as this. /. keeps getting dumber and dumber. "Gee, my My SQL table has too many columns."

    I'll bet it does, you nitwit.
  23. Re:rename it "placebopathy" on Is the End of Government Acceptance of Homeopathy In Sight? · · Score: 0

    Heroin is an effective analgesic for many cancer patients. You have to procure it on the black market. That makes it homeopathy.

  24. Re:Windows Keys on Toshiba Introduces a Cortana Keyboard Button For Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    No, that was EMACS.

  25. Relational Data Base Management Systems on Ask Slashdot: How to Avoid The Worst of a Tech Bubble? · · Score: 1

    I spent over 30 years specializing in relational database projects for Fortune 100 companies and government agencies. Ingres, Oracle, Postgres, System R, Sybase, M$ SQL Server, DB2 or whatever they call their products now; I didn't discriminate and worked on energy, telecom, finance, and manufacturing projects and my employers didn't give a hoot about my prior industry. It was all applied set theory to me and I always got offers after the overwhelming majority of my technical interviews.

    I passed into the three figure per hour realm decades ago and never suffered from lack of work during downturns in the early eighties, 1991, 2001, 2008 or what have you. I took long vacations, socked away scads of dough, and don't work anymore because I invest when I'm not at the beach.

    There are still tons of jobs out there for people who understand how set theory and ACID transactions are implemented in databases.

    As long as your IQ is a minimum of 130 you shouldn't have any trouble finding work. Just stay away from fads like particular languages and anything that reeks of agile development or use cases and you will be fine. DBA's always have the final say on how crackpot developers will actually store permanent data despite whatever moronic methodology du jour the developers think they are using.