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by fendale 15y ago
I've seen some Oracle systems push some big data around and handle pretty high trans per second, but I have never worked on any of these financial systems which seem to require more speed and trans per second than any system I have ever bui
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by fendale 15y ago
Well, I can't imagine SQL Server handling your requirements, and I find it unlikely a mission critical system like this will use MySQL or Postgres (primarily because Enterprises like to pay a lot for that 'security' of support), so I'd shoo
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by fendale 15y ago
Can you say what DB you are running? Is it Oracle?
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by fendale 16y ago
It always baffles me why an organisation with a large number of highly technical staff decide to outsoure things en-mass to suppliers. I currently work for a company with a large number of highly skilled IT people, but it still insists on o
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by fendale 16y ago
I know at least two guys who are getting paid closer to £1000 a day to work in London for a bank. The money is pretty much insane imho, and the guys tells me the 'talent' is just like anywhere else - ie most people are meerly compentent (b
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by fendale 16y ago
Yea, I have seen Oracle do basically the same thing, and our solution is to stick in a stored outlined (effectively locking the plan). If you own the code (ie it is not a 3rd party COTS package) you can also use hints to control queries. I
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by fendale 16y ago
I agree with this so much I wish I could upvote it more! I'm a very experienced Oracle developer and Oracle does a really good job, but I need hintsto fix problems more often that I would like, especially on complex reporting queries.
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by fendale 16y ago
Good point, I actually thought of doing that and then dismissed it. Maybe the best perfoming way would be to use the remainder as the index to an array (suggested in another comment)?
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by fendale 16y ago
I had to lookup what itoa is not being a C programmer. Which got me interested - how would you implement this? My inital thought is to do something like (in pseudo code): str = ''; while (i > 0 ) { # least significant d
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by fendale 16y ago
For me, I use Ruby for everything I used to use Perl for, unless I can't get ruby on the system (still haven't managed a successful compile on HPUX!). The other use case is that Perl has a library Ruby does not, which still happens now and
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by fendale 16y ago
The Credit Card companies offer the rewards to encourage people to use their cards. The rewards may be about 1% of spend or so in general. By encouraging people to spend more, a significant proportion of those people will fail to pay the
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by fendale 16y ago
Yes yes yes. In my experience in Enterprise Dev teams it seems to be way too common that people just don't version control their DB schema, or use tools to produce schema diffs between dev and prod to product upgrade scripts, all driven by
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by fendale 16y ago
> P.S. I think your experience is a pretty good example of what drives many people to build startups. Yea, this place drives me more and more mad. I have dabbled in my own side projects, but I am thinking more and more that the time to
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by fendale 16y ago
Oh I know this. The team I was pointing this out to didn't design or build this system, they meerly have to support it, like me. Agree the best way critize is by showing you can do better, but this is a muli-terrabyte system, so its not eas
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by fendale 16y ago
This post arrived here today just after me getting told off for being honest, again. I still don't know if being too honest is right or wrong. I work in a big company (100K employees worldwide), and as such there are company politics going
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by fendale 16y ago
Interesting - I think think that is way out of line, but maybe it adds weight to the argument of point blank refusing to reveal your salary at all. Perhaps I should reconsider my strategy :-/
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by fendale 16y ago
The Mythical Man Month, Peopleware, The Pragmatic Programmer and all the classic Joel On Software Articles - they taught me so much. Unfortunately, just like you I have encountered very few people in my day job who have heard of these book
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by fendale 16y ago
Maybe correct. Ideally I'd like them to make me an offer based on what they think I am worth, considering market rates etc. However if they insist on me revealing my salary, I am going to assume its so they have try and gauge how much it w
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by fendale 16y ago
Last time I went for an interview I learned that you should not be honest about your salary ... let me try to explain. I am at a certain level in a big company with a salary range that is quite large. Many people at my level earn £5000 - £
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by fendale 16y ago
I've just spend half a day today trying to upgrade my rails 2.x app to Rails 3. I think I am going to give up on it, as it is breaking things everywhere. The UJS is the main problem, as I have tons of AJAX things going on, and quite a few
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by fendale 16y ago
My one and old Rails app is running using Apache + Passenger. When I set it up, I wanted to get it using SSL site wide as easily as possible, so I just stuck in a rewrite rule in Apache: RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_U
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Idea for November App Challenge - simple workflow app(sodonnell.wordpress.com)
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by fendale 16y ago
As someone who regularly swims 100 plus 25 meter lengths in a session, I can testify that the Total Immersion book and swimming style can make a big difference. It's all about balance in the water and builds it up over a series of 'karate k
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by fendale 16y ago
I've had a VPS on prgmr.com up for months now with no problems. I mostly knew what I was doing, so I didn't have any need for support questions, but it basically does what I expected it to do well.
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by fendale 17y ago
I came across the gtrends tool that supposedly helps you find niche markets in the past few days - it looks like it may be helpful. Do you care to share any example sites you have produced that bring in some amount of money passively? I am
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by fendale 17y ago
How exactly do you do the backlinking thing? Do you literally create supposedly related sites with 'rehashes' of your same articles and place a link on one to the other? There was a story on here a few weeks back by someone leading the 4 h
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by fendale 17y ago
> If you want the lowest risk sure fire way to make money online though, it's certainly "Find a niche" -> "Create useful content" -> "Promote" -> "Monetize through advertising". I keep hearing this Find A Niche thing, and I
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by fendale 17y ago
The TV license is already £142 a year, or about £12 a month. I think even that is expensive never mind suggesting paying them £120 a month whether you watch the BBC channels or not . When you compare what you get from Sky (if you are into
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by fendale 17y ago
Exactly correct - and if you are using Oracle and not using parameterised queries (known as bind variables in the Oracle world), you are quickly going to have performance problems too. That's not the case with MYSQL as it doesn't have a cu
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by fendale 17y ago
I am on the cable national broadband for sure - def not ADSL. My bill tells me I am on the XL 20MB package. I am still running one of the really old grey modems though. They sent me a new black one ages ago, but I have not activated it as

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