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There is. For yearly performance reviews.

Is this... a joke? Performance art?

Not snarking. I'm honestly more confused reading this than I was before.

This and also poor zoning laws and NIMBYism allow for (and encourage) constant sprawl which also drives city prices up more because some people don't want to commute two hours each way.

Now that's the fun part of the cyberpunk timeline I was looking for.

Now this is good content. Thank you!

That too, but also combined with having to balance that the people who did this before also did it in a different time with different resources and also have selective memories.

This. I was going to say essentially the same thing.

Every adult who becomes a parent seems to realize very quickly that their parents also had no clue WTF was going on.

So yeah, no different with what we do, since we're literally always building new things that haven't been done before.

Also sounds exactly like what happened with tobacco companies, lead in paint/gasoline, etc.

It's like we never learn and then those who are in charge made rules to make it even harder to learn as we went forward.

Also that humans are terrible at existential threats.

This. Data engineering has ramped up significantly and if you want senior people you'll quickly run out of people who've been exclusively doing "big data" for 5+ years.

So your options are either senior software engineers who have done some data work (that's how I got to be a Data Engineer) or people who've been doing analytical data work (either in the traditional warehousing space or via science/insurance/finance type spaces) that are semi-technical but have no formal engineering background.

The former are people who went to college in the late 90s/early 2000s (like myself) when things were different. The latter need to hyperfocus on coming up to speed in engineering.

I reviewed this guide a couple months ago for my employer to consider as the basis of an internal bootcamp, and I'd note that it's perfect for the audiences I mentioned. Also, even for people with more up to date academic experience, note that the transactional database schemas that software normally deals with often look wildly different than analytical structures.

This! Ten times this! Single dependencies like this are absolutely a risk management issue.

I say this as someone who's both been a single point of failure at times (and learned my lesson) and someone who's had to clean up after piles of "clever" code that someone left behind when they got hired out somewhere else.

Ok that was a really fun read. It's amazing how many random things like this persist for centuries despite tons of evidence to the contrary existing.

We're all gonna die sometime. Some of us will starve from no food, others will have a heart attack from poor quality food.

Eat Arby's.

Well that's a horrifying new option for our impending doom that I wasn't aware of.

Happy Thursday. Eat Arby's.

Oh hey, this is essentially a plot point in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle books.

Well, getting away from pirates, that is, but same idea.

This one is a double whammy not only because there's not only data on those companies, but it can be extrapolated that many of those companies are relatively new to the cloud (and possibly which cloud service is available as well), making them also ripe for targeting.

One of Attunity's bigger sales deals is making their data migration tools free for a long period to help organizations migrate to cloud. This is essentially a list of "Hey, these other orgs might also be open to hacking as they haven't learned yet."

Happy Friday. Eat Arby's.

Now this is the sort of news I can use.

Why not both?

Unless Hacker News is down, in which case you need to give up and go outside.

This! So much this! Can we please put away the Puritan bullshit ethics in the US that clearly keep getting exported? Those people were booted out a few centuries ago for a reason.

Those "hard workers" that are successful usually had serious connections, money, and luck to start with. Most actual hard workers end up poor and ignored.

Yeah, that's a "Why not both?" situation right there.

It does do important stuff for the business folks, and made it way easier for them in a really cool (at the time) way.

They've gotten bigger via tons of acquisitions and of course when you're an early adopter to an area, it also makes it harder to move when the next new thing comes up.

So yeah, it's clunky and legacy, parts of it slowly getting better, but also not going away quickly either because those who invested in it invested too much to pivot this soon. See also things like Hadoop or anything from IBM or Oracle.

Being forced into a management job with no direction or mentoring.

I've been saying this for years, so I'm glad I agree with the experts.

Same. I also want to live in a world where I don't have to fight with paywalls to read a newspaper.

This! Windows got split up internally under Nadella into Azure and Office groups.

If anything, a lot of this means they're also boosting Azure even more by doing the same thing with their enterprise database areas. This is a boon for any organizations stuck in Oracle data land that haven't gotten heavily into cloud yet or are unsure about jumping to Azure.

Now moving to Azure doesn't just mean sticking with the SQL Server landscape, and possibly also means you can get some analytical and data replication stuff tied into Azure Data Factory, CosmoDB, etc. a little more cleanly.

Amazon has a tool to migrate or duplicate from Oracle to RDS, but with Azure you can just be cloud native! (Not sure it will work that well, but could be a selling point).

TIL: Oracle has a cloud service.

I think this is another one of those massive divergences in culture coming to a head.

In SOME places, people are driving less and need to drive less. In other places, both farther suburbs and smaller areas, cars are no less essential than they've always been. In some cases of aging infrastructure in terms of public transit for cities that have it, suburbs are getting even more car dependent in places where you could have once been fine on transit (looking at you crappy DC metro system combined with extra development in housing).

Now, many of these places aren't dense enough for rideshare, scooters, or whatever else have you to be worth a damn. Alternately, in places like Phoenix, and loose cities with little transit, plenty of people still need cars, and rideshare just craps up the roads even more.

Curious to see how this ends, because I don't think it will go well.

Then these 60% of dudes are clearly unqualified for management. Please either figure your business out or make room for someone who is capable of management.

And I say this because if a manager is that afraid of accusations, they are either doing something to earn said accusations, are promoting a work environment where false accusations are easily believed, or simply just a crappy manager and probably not good at dealing with many of their male reports either.

I note the last one because the two main archetypes that feel this way tend to be older management types that were taught by Mad Men era managers (read overgrown frat boys) or are Mike Pence style ultra-niche religious. Now, again, neither of those are flaws in and of themselves, but if you can't come above those backgrounds and manage a diverse team, then you don't deserve a team.

As a GenXer, I'd like to say...

Welcome to the party.

Now what took you so long?

It's almost as if a few decades of being told that mental health is for wusses and making it exceedingly expensive due to crappy health care is paying off with a bang.

Not to mention that middle aged people at this point are firmly in the generation that the media has literally been ignoring for a very long time. At the same time, that generation is taking care of the two generations that always do get all the attention (their kids and their parents).