diseasedyak

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1. 31.▲
   by diseasedyak 4y ago

   I was 6 years old, 7 or 8 years away from acquiring a Commodore 64 and typing out my first code in BASIC from the back pages of a Compute! magazine... I'm an old man.
2. 32.▲
   by diseasedyak 4y ago

   Hah, not quite nowadays but I, too, was dealing with one from around '97-2000'ish. What a pain in the ass. That was just one network in the building, I also had to deal with 10base-t, which was also a nightmare. shudder
3. 33.▲
   by diseasedyak 4y ago

   Throw a few dozen Rain-X wipers from AutoZone on that baby, she'd be good.
4. 34.▲
   by diseasedyak 4y ago

   I've been in the IT job market since 1995-ish, and have worked for a lot of companies, both big and large. In all my experience with interviews, I've only had one that was a rude disaster. It was for a DBA position with a small t
5. 35.▲
   by diseasedyak 4y ago

   I've worked over 20 years as a DBA, mainly Oracle but also with Netezza, Teradata, Postgres, MS SQL Server, DB2, and Mongo. I would say DBAs are still in demand. I recently was laid off from a place that wanted to outsource DBAs and
6. 36.▲
   by diseasedyak 4y ago

   I worked for over a decade as a DBA for one of the largest private data warehouse companies, and it was hilariously fun to get the so-called "naughty word list" for customer suppression reasons. I learned so many creative slurs b