djackson 22568 (3/28/2014)

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For those of you reading this, obviously most of you are far, far better than the inept people I deal with. It isn't even fair to talk...

Robert.Sterbal (3/28/2014)

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An environment that lowers the risk to the customer and our internal organization is the one that we strive for. Setting expectations and having a good baseline are critical...

Well my last position I was the production DBA as a member of the Networking team. An application upgrade didn't go quite right. If you ever tried to do Dynamics...

phonetictalk (3/21/2014)

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I agree with Steve on Anonymous. Of course it's easy to say "find a new job" but much more stressful if you're already living paycheck to paycheck, have debts...

hisakimatama (3/20/2014)

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Unfortunately, despite this vendor being contracted by the regulatory agency here, they've been operating for about 8 years without the slightest mishap in terms of inspection. How this...

I actually thought of a good set of books that would probably translate to movies decently.

The Chronoplane Wars Trilogy by Crawford Kilian

The Fall of the Republic

Rogue Emperor

The Empire of...

The Dragonriders of Pern would probably go better as a TV series. Especially...

Then there are the rollbacks caused by stuff that didn't happen in the test environment.

We had a software package that we upgraded the DB and the clients in a test...

Well my last company didn't have a Chaos Monkey. But we had at least once a year that we had to fire up all the systems at the DR site....

Someone mentioned Ender's Game had been adapted to a movie.

It's probably been 10+ years since I last read the book so the details are fuzzy. But I picked up the...

Another series that would probably be better as a series than movie is Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn Series. That was a good interesting series of books.

jasona.work (2/28/2014)

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I'd love to see a couple (OK, a lot) of books made into movies (heck some might be better as a mini-series on TV)

The Posleen War series (quite a...

Mine would be the Emerald Eyes (Continuing Time) series.

The author wrote it in 1988 but was a programmer so his tech views were on about par for the future time...

My laundry bill has...

I've been telecommuting since mid December. The loss of the 110 mile round trip is so great. That is two hours I get back.

The downside is that with all the...