horus_the_cat

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   by horus_the_cat 9y ago

   Daily Mail's holding company has a serious data operation in place though, maybe they're leaking their inside info, like where the ark of the covenant is warehoused, now that earth is totally fucked
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   by horus_the_cat 10y ago

   Wilson, despite his willingness to take on some really far-out stuff, really is something of a lesser light and a product of his time... his work seemed dated when i was interested in it, and that was a long time ago. Wilson's persiste
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   by horus_the_cat 10y ago

   Speaking as an enterprise CRUD developer wage-slave, if you need a PhD from MIT to figure out how to migrate from Oracle to a sane database like Postgres or SQL Server, you probably should work in a different field or at least a different p
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   by horus_the_cat 10y ago

   Oracle has a huge client base in the gov't and healthcare sectors (at least in the US). Gov't and healthcare also lean heavily on solutions vendors who tend to use Oracle. This is a sector that is easily 10 or 20 years behind the
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   by horus_the_cat 10y ago

   Oracle's IM suite provides some questionable value. It's passable technically, questionable from the biz perspective and in reality is a land-and-expand product with lots of optional modules that Oracle is happy to 'advise&#x