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Cool. So when was the nail cutter/clipper invented?

"All that are useful are valuable; but not all valuable are useful." - Me. I'd rather be useful than be valued but is totally useless. :D

“May Hegel's philosophy of absolute nonsense - three-fourths cash and one-fourth crazy fancies - continue to pass for unfathomable wisdom without anyone suggesting as an appropriat…

"Hegel, installed from above, by the powers that be, as the certified Great Philosopher, was a flat-headed, insipid, nauseating, illiterate charlatan, who reached the pinnacle of a…

When a DBMS that claims it is relational and yet it supports SQL's "features" that departs from the relational model, then that DBMS is not relational. If a DBMS is "slow" or "fast…

To quote: "The talks in this series will present ideas on either (1) making SQL go as fast as possible or (2) replacing SQL with something better." How were you able to infer that …

"make sql as fast as possible" is a misnomer. you cannot make a language fast, only its underlying implementation (i.e the specific dbms). and this is the error I see 90% of the ti…

By having a default value (non-null) for each declared type of those columns. Or, the user must define a default value in the query itself. Yes, tedious; but, precise and forces th…

> If your signup form has an optional field for a full name which I don’t fill in, I still have a name. Just because a value is not known by your database doesn’t mean it isn’t def…

Here in the Philippines, filing tax returns are not a problem. If you're an employee, your employer does it for you. The employer just deducts the tax owed by each employee, and pa…

Clearly explained. Thanks!

A few years back, I had a co-worker that was hostile to me. I won't go into the details why there's that hostility, but what happened was this: - In the middle of a (chat) conversa…

100. In a long list of advice, use numbers instead of bullet points. Makes it easier to share to others. :D Most of the advise are really good though.

"people leave managers not companies" Countless times I've heard or read this somewhere. Quite untrue with my experiences. Who exactly is the "manager"? the "company"? In my experi…