London South Bank University? I think that used to be the East Walford Arthur Fowler 6th Form College, so the Goodall comparison is more accurate than you might think.
I've met more than one very good developer who didn't grok database design.
One subcontracted me to teach his girlfriend who needed it for a course she was doing. Basically, it involved us all going to the pub and talking about movies and music while she scribbled furiously. It's a good teaching example because it involves natural/surrogate keys (how do you deal with movies/bands/artists with the same name, or movies with more than one title?), multiple relationships (an actor might also direct, a musician can also be a producer) etc.
Another had gone through the induction training in half the normal time, so he'd caught up with my cohort and we were on a DB concepts course together. The DB instructor just couldn't make him understand the difference between "Gone With The Wind" in the abstract and a particular tape of it. In the end I think I convinced him that in the first case it always stars Clark Gable, but in the second we might have two in the shop (of which one is reserved) and the third is out and overdue. At least he shut up and let us get on with the class...
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Nerds are not interested in champagne & handbags. Get ye to idle!
No, it's the natural way to do it for a computer.
Isn't it the compiler's job to sort out shit like that?
That's over 9000!
Actually, you're assuming that he said that, when in fact he didn't.
I certainly wouldn't try it with my only head.
FTFY
At Mach 5 you'd only hear it after it hit you.
Correlation or causation? And if it's the latter, which way round?
You appear to be confusing science with engineering, which makes me suspect you know very little about either.
Spherical is the way to go, especially if you like cows.
How many other nouns form plurals by adding a d?
Maybe because it's a public holiday in some countries. Enterprisey stuff likes to know things like that.
As to there being two, I understand that the benighted heathens of the Byzantine persuasion calculate it differently to the bead-jigglers in Rome.
Then again, it's PHP so all bets are off.
I agree. Purely for defensive & preventive purposes, of course.
Explained joke is explained.
In Soviet Russia, you are belong to our base!
Is that short for motherfuckers?
London South Bank University? I think that used to be the East Walford Arthur Fowler 6th Form College, so the Goodall comparison is more accurate than you might think.
How do you know? You might have been drunk.
GP wrote "designing software", which is a kind of documentation, and not the same as actual coding.
Can you read?
The cold causes any oxygen present to liquify which in turn causes the packets to skid.
This is why Monster Cables are best.
Bullshit. I watch BBC news at least twice a day, and I don't even recall the last time I heard Fahrenheit mentioned.
It is, is it?
And then send it back because it doesn't fucking work.
I've met more than one very good developer who didn't grok database design.
One subcontracted me to teach his girlfriend who needed it for a course she was doing. Basically, it involved us all going to the pub and talking about movies and music while she scribbled furiously. It's a good teaching example because it involves natural/surrogate keys (how do you deal with movies/bands/artists with the same name, or movies with more than one title?), multiple relationships (an actor might also direct, a musician can also be a producer) etc.
Another had gone through the induction training in half the normal time, so he'd caught up with my cohort and we were on a DB concepts course together. The DB instructor just couldn't make him understand the difference between "Gone With The Wind" in the abstract and a particular tape of it. In the end I think I convinced him that in the first case it always stars Clark Gable, but in the second we might have two in the shop (of which one is reserved) and the third is out and overdue. At least he shut up and let us get on with the class...