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This is RBAR by any other name.

An extraordinarily arrogant approach to presenting a project. The TEXT datatype is deprecated in most RDBMSs. A minor and insignificant point but following the 'remove the brown M&…

The number of times I mis-spelt Stonebraker in my Ph.D thesis... An absolute pioneer. I'm glad he's still around and active - sadly unlike many of his late contemporaries.

5-stage recruitment process too, including referencing! And no salary indication.

How about finishing Azure first

I agree, doing things to prevent a penalty is probably worse than classic positive reinforcement/conditioning, doing things to get a reward. It's not healthy in the long-term. Howe…

Thank you, this is news to me, I've been using the 'Learn French with Alexa' series on YT, plus a French dictionary and some magazines etc. I'll check it out!

When I procrastinate, it stems from the thought, 'I don't really want to do this (right now|at all)'. So one way to jump that hurdle is consider the consequences of not doing it, a…

What I find interesting is that on HN, downvoting doesn't seem to have a negative impact, not as much as Reddit anyway. And I wonder if that's because folks who use HN really care …

I've always felt the downvote option was a colossal mistake and just allowed controversial or unpopular points of view to disappear, strengthening the filter effect for everything …

Maybe it's the ol' HN hug-of-death but I'm getting a mostly blank screen on the #ALL page with a single post from 'Krazy', contents a single If it helps, I'm on Edge v.114.0.1823.4…

triggered

As someone in this space I can attest that AI teaching in most (UK) universities is generally poor on detail, abstract and behind industry by at least 3-5 years. Not to mention tha…

When you're dealing with SQL you're dealing with items in sets, and really all you're doing is joining, slicing and filtering sets of data to obtain the results you want, perhaps w…

My Twitter feed started showing hot takes from more and more right-wing nutjobs, probably because I am naturally slightly conservative (small-c) in my views. Eventually I got fed u…

This looks like a great tool, I would like to ask if it really is AI-powered? AI is a term that's been heavily co-opted by the expert systems crowd, especially when marketing solut…

I'm sorry to say that Notepad, then Notepad++, have been my tools of choice for nearly 20 years. To-do lists, work journals (immensely useful as a knowledge base especially in shor…

Hasbro are attempting to do the same thing to the D&D brand, sadly. I don't know the details but the idea is to move to One D&D from 5e, which will inevitably come with more online…

I've recently held a senior management position then left and obtained a technical position at a different organisation. Not kidding, I nearly cried with happiness moving away from…

Do you think it's something to do with the medium, rather than the content? I am an avid book-collector and much prefer to pick up a technical manual and find guidance there, but a…

No, that isn't correct. The query planner optimises query execution in a layer of abstraction below the representation of the tables, the relational integrity and structure of the …

I can manage 15 minutes or so on my aging Oculus Quest but that's about it. There's a Netflix option on there, I can relax in a virtual cinema with surround sound and a screen size…

To echo the rest of the comments, hybrid is fine if and only if I get some kind of private space in the office itself, a cube is OK, a desk with partitions is OK, but I want to be …