thornygreb

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 version and not backported because the version you are on is no longer supported. And now you are in dependency update cascading hell.

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 those now actually also take voice.

Benson NC? That is some good BBQ.

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 much worse really. But you won't know without trying.

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 me in.

Maybe management is dysfunctional everywhere, I don't know, about to find out but mine literally just copied the email (headers and all!) from the client into the ticketing system and assigned it. Most of management has been there for decades and it has been their only job ever.

I spent more time tracking my time spent in the various systems and monthly reports than actual dev work. And the work was so mind numbingly boring.

I took the plunge and applied to half a dozen interesting job posts and that was it. I was worried about ageism, being an imposter, having to leet code, endless rounds, etc. But it wasn't that bad at all, a small take-home and a few rounds of talking about experience and now a nice pay bump and new problems to solve.

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. It has features I wish PostgreSQL had and vice versa. Nothing is perfect.

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 bugs earlier since plpgsql is not compiled like pl/sql.

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 seems like gis staff have turned into pretty map makers and most of the real processing and such is done in open source tools (postgis, gdal and python)

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 system. In over 10 years this is the first I've seen something like it.

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 we are and I don't see those diseases making big comebacks?

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 the Oracle RDBMS documentation is more thorough. The implementation of MVCC is radically different and I'm not too keen on vacuuming but it is a necessary evil tradeoff for the benefits in PG's implementation. And above all I can put PG on a box with 40 cores and have dozens of hot standby's for $0 in licensing fees.

You are confusing computer science with software engineering/programming. They are not the same.

The CS field does not move at breakneck pace. The core classes taught in CS are the same now as they were then.

> I have a CS degree from 1990. It's about as much use as an aerospace engineering degree from 1927

I'm not sure there was such a thing as an aerospace engineering degree in 1927, but if you think a CS degree from 1990 is worthless than you didn't learn much. That theory is still applicable today. Just because the shiny bits on the outside look all new and fancy does not change the underlying theory one bit.

At least 12 million Commodore 64s were sold, some sources say higher.

One of my first jobs, I was tasked with spray painting the price (99 cents each) of landscape timbers on a big pile of uh, landscape timbers. I painted '.99 c', and my boss said, you just gave them away for less than a penny. It is hard to un-spray paint a dot, lessen learned FOREVER.

Like the paperless office? Still waiting...