petit_robert

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by petit_robert 13y ago
I switched several years ago and never looked backed. No problem whatsoever, I produce all my corporate documents with it. Could you explain what it is that scared you so much? I am the one to scream whenever I'm forced into using anyt
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by petit_robert 13y ago
[I just realized that my comment may have appeared very harsh, specially from the authors' point of view. My apologies to them, I was _very happy_ to have a good GUI when I started working with databases] @antihero : Seeing things does
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by petit_robert 13y ago
Indeed. I really have no idea why so much energy is spent on GUI tools. What do these things provide that one can't get from the command line, I wonder?
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by petit_robert 13y ago
I've been happy using tuffmail.com . Fine for my needs, no problems that I know of, and they're helpful
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by petit_robert 13y ago
"How do you stop any market from getting taken over by psychopaths who want to turn it into an incest-fest?" I suggest replacing these useless leeches with open source software. I believe that most administrative tasks in large organization
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by petit_robert 13y ago
I also pick my own hours for work, and for the last few years have woken up after 4-5 hours of sleep, worked for a couple hours, then gone back to sleep for another few hours, very much like in the monastery schedules mentionned upthread (a
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by petit_robert 14y ago
Colonel O. North, nice to see you again!
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by petit_robert 14y ago
Considering the space requirements of a DB with a properly designed schema, I have to wonder what on earth you can do that generates beyond a few terabytes of data, and how you can make any sense out of it. Also, your comment is rather ambi