From the syllabus: " Trigger Warning: The material presented in this lecture uses explicit language and discusses certain situations in database management systems that may be triggering to some students."
> material presented in this [...] may be triggering to some students." Can't be serious as I didn't see MUMPS in the list. (Who gets that joke wins a free trip to Wisconsin)
CMU 15-721 (Spring 2016) Database Systems
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Re: CMU 15-721 (Spring 2016) Database Systems
#12From the syllabus: " Trigger Warning: The material presented in this lecture uses explicit language and discusses certain situations in database management systems that may be triggering to some students."
Re: CMU 15-721 (Spring 2016) Database Systems
#13For folks interested there's another implementation specific db course https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs346/2015/ although the lectures are not on youtube
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#14From the syllabus: " Trigger Warning: The material presented in this lecture uses explicit language and discusses certain situations in database management systems that may be triggering to some students."
So sad that they are forced to put such "warnings" on this kind of courses.
Re: CMU 15-721 (Spring 2016) Database Systems
#15From the syllabus: " Trigger Warning: The material presented in this lecture uses explicit language and discusses certain situations in database management systems that may be triggering to some students."
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#16From the syllabus: " Trigger Warning: The material presented in this lecture uses explicit language and discusses certain situations in database management systems that may be triggering to some students."
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#17From the syllabus: " Trigger Warning: The material presented in this lecture uses explicit language and discusses certain situations in database management systems that may be triggering to some students."
There was a similar issue some years ago, where a popular author on Oracle PL/SQL began polluting his technical books with politically-charged text in the examples. In this case, though, the "trigger" was not something so innocuous as terminology such as master-slave. The author's justification here: http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly//news/feuerstein_10...
Re: CMU 15-721 (Spring 2016) Database Systems
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
There was a similar issue some years ago, where a popular author on Oracle PL/SQL began polluting his technical books with politically-charged text in the examples. In this case, though, the "trigger" was not something so innocuous as terminology such as master-slave. The author's justification here: http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly//news/feuerstein_10...
I'd hesitate to describe master-slave as innocuous to begin with.
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#19Re: CMU 15-721 (Spring 2016) Database Systems
#20By taking this course and referring others to it you're directly supporting CMU - and indirectly supporting CMU's activities related to breaking the Internet for the FBI/US: https://www.google.com/search?q=CMU+TOR
There's a lot of really good work that comes out of CMU, including the department that helped the FBI.
EDIT: furthermore, SEI was doing independent research into the security of TOR. The FBI subpoena'd CMU to give up the results/contents of the research which is what ultimately helped the FBI do what they wanted.