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by ora600 16y ago
No offense meant to the wonderful HR people who are no doubt out there, but from my experience HR people are good with: * Processes, procedures and forms * 401K, health insurance and other benefit programs * Buying salary surveys * Finding
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by ora600 16y ago
I guess the question is - does the customer know they don't exist yet but you have every intention of delivering?
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by ora600 16y ago
The only way I can outline a good presentation is with a sharpie and sticky notes. One concept per note, you can rearrange them easily, have an idea of what the presentation will flow like, and then turn each concept to a slide. I'll probab
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by ora600 16y ago
Similar to promising potential customers that your product is doing things it doesn't actually do and hoping you can add the extra features before anyone finds out. I view those as distasteful, but I've yet to see any company/salesperson wh
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by ora600 16y ago
Being the admin, I'm pretty sensitive to: 1) People trying to bump the priority of their own tickets by showing up in my cube. This is inevitably at the expense of other, more polite, users of the system. Prioritizing requests is one of the
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by ora600 16y ago
Actually, I found more and better solutions in blogs than in official documentation and books. Especially the topic of edge cases or documentation that doesn't work as advertised or error messages that don't mean what they think they mean.
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by ora600 16y ago
You can require this, but its tricky to enforce. Especially on DBAs.
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by ora600 16y ago
In any database comes a time where a developer or administrator will have to make manual changes to the data through an ad-hoc script. It can be straight sql or perl/php/ruby thing. The easier you'll make it on him not to cause horrible cor
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by ora600 16y ago
Can you link to documentation of ALTER SCHEMA for Oracle that does transactional DDL? I don't think it exists.
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by ora600 16y ago
But the reverse is true. If you bought music from iTunes you can't play it elsewhere. Since iTunes are a convenient way to purchase music, some of us ended up with large quantities of music tied to Apple's devices.
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by ora600 16y ago
Of course it isn't! I was just riffing off the idea in the parent comment.
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by ora600 16y ago
You may have sampling bias - you tend to hear more the ones that completely dominate conversations. This doesn't immediately mean they are really the majority. Personally, I wish my CS program taught me to speak more at a conversation setti
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by ora600 16y ago
I learned today that I may be losing my H1B soon. I can stay in the US as I'm married to another H1B holder, but I will not be able to work. Since I dislike being idle, my first thought is to pack up and move back to my home country to look
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by ora600 16y ago
I liked the idea of "unprecedented level of access to the algorithms and data that Blekko uses to determine relevancy". This is a great differentiator from Google. Google can copy features like slashtags easier, but I can't imagine a large
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by ora600 16y ago
Except that sometimes differences only exist on a slightly more expensive scale. If you can't tell the difference between 6$ Cab and 6$ Merlot, it is likely because at this price range there is very little difference. Better wines are bette
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by ora600 16y ago
I'm totally not following here... How can multiple insert statements be considered duplication if they are inserting different things to different tables? My apps have multiple insert statements. They also have multiple calls to "print". D
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by ora600 16y ago
I have a problem with designing a data model with the "ease of displaying it in a pretty way" as the main consideration. Nested tables may well be the bee's knees, but probably not for this reason alone...
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by ora600 16y ago
It is more work than ORM, but if efficient access to data is an important part of your application, it seems to be extra work that brings benefits. At least that has been my experience. I'm not clear on why this layer has to be repetitive a
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by ora600 16y ago
I completely agree with every word you said. But why do you want columns that contain tables recursively? Aggregate and non-aggregate mixture is supported in the standard and Oracle with the analytical expressions (if I got your meaning cor
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by ora600 16y ago
Even in its own domain, SQL sacrificed parsing for "user friendly" English-like appearance. SQL error messages are very unhelpful in every DB. You can't easily debug misbehaving queries and there are no tools to help. There is even a lack o
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by ora600 16y ago
As you state in your article, the ability to easily phrase ad-hoc questions and have them answered with almost no programming is a very useful tool. Why not use two tools where two are needed? Many databases run a mix of OLTP (which require
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by ora600 16y ago
If you little all your code with CRUD, your code is horrible indeed. If I hard code filenames all over my code, I also have horrible code. This doesn't mean that files and file names are a problem or that they caused duplication. The normal
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by ora600 16y ago
"Twitter's basically just using Cassandra in place of memcached" Not sure about that. They also said they are using it for analytics. Actually, since Cassandra is persistent to disks, using it as a memcached doesn't sound right.
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by ora600 16y ago
So my customer has a critical production database that was hit by excessive locking issue on a table that slowed everything to a halt. It looks like an abuse of existing feature, so I worked on collecting enough information to help the deve
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by ora600 16y ago
Thanks for pointing out specific frameworks. I got the feeling that I should be doing more programming than just unix scripts.
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by ora600 16y ago
Thats for the detailed reply. My email is cshapi@gmail.com, feel free to pick my brain :) I joined Hackers and Founders meetup - just meeting people who are doing interesting work sounds like great fun and will probably make me feel more "s
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by ora600 16y ago
That sounds reasonable. I think my CV is a problem - 15 years of Oracle probably sounds like "very expensive specialist" to a startup. I should probably rewrite it to say "Will do any type of work very cheaply for a startup", only without s
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by ora600 16y ago
The article is too fluffy for my tastes, but it states correctly that multi-tenancy is a difficult problem where you have too choose between several non-perfect solutions. From the DB perspective, the major design decision seems to be: Does
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