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Yes, but very often you are trucking along just fine with some version of a dependency and then all of a sudden it gets a CVE and the fix has only been applied to the next major ve…

I have a functioning rotary phone connected to POTS. I do live in the sticks though. Only issue is automated systems that ask me to dial 1 for foo, 2 for bar, etc. But a lot of tho…

Benson NC? That is some good BBQ.

https://urbanfootprint.com

You don't really, that is why I consider the pay bump what I call 'grass is not greener' insurance. I'd rather get paid more for the same thing wouldn't you? And I can't imagine it…

I resigned yesterday, and with 20 years experience I guess I'm a senior dev. It was many factors, but management and the amount of process and the banality of the work finally did …

I pay for jetbrains datagrip, worth every penny.

Reminds me of Salvage 1 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvage_1 ), Andy Griffith goes to the moon in 1979!

Exactly, and many features that are in the standard now and we take for granted were invented by Oracle in the first place.

My goto was Tom Kyte ( https://asktom.oracle.com ) for learning the 'why'. Burleson is an interesting character, but not always correct either.

Oracle has quirks, yes. Oracle the company is...yes. We all get it. Oracle RDBMS has been around for longer than most of us have been alive and has amazing backwards compatibility.…

Done it once..in 20+ years accompanied by an entire re-write, so not often enough to care about this at all.

I used to miss packages but I mainly use schemas now to organize. Not the same I know but as good as it gets. I also add https://github.com/okbob/plpgsql_check so that I can find b…

You will eventually run out of memory or some other restraint given large enough datasets. PostGIS will churn through it and not crash...

Similar, I didn't get any anime exposure really in the 70's. My intro to mecha was through Space Giants ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061299/ ) after school on TBS.

nice, similar to tern which I've been using lately after using flyway for years. https://github.com/jackc/tern

seriously though, if I had a nickel for everytime one of the gis staff asked me to process something for them using postgis because arcgis would crash on them I would be rich. it s…

My Ford has one key, works on everything, of course it is a truck and has no power locks or windows.

I don't know if it is related, but a certain three letter agency we do business with is having an IT freeze from 9/21 to 10/3 which means no changes of any kind to any production s…

100g protein * 4 = 400 calories + 10g fat * 9 = 490 calories to stay healthy? Maybe if you are 3ft tall and sedentary.

downvoted for asking a question, kills me it does.

So tell me this, polio and smallpox were eradicated, but I am 45 years old and never had a smallpox or polio vaccine, so that makes me an anti-vaxxer regarding those two, yet here …

I'm sorry, but documentation is one thing Oracle is NOT lacking. http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/nav/portal_booklist.htm

Because if you use the input parameters correctly they are immune to injection. If you concatenate unsanitized input you are susceptible no matter where you write the SQL.

Longtime Oracle dev/dba. I have been using PG now for over 6 years, and it is my #1 choice for new projects if possible. Oracle beats it in instrumentation and tooling and to me th…