Very true but at its best work is progressing society. So working hard and providing for your family may not be completely contradictory.

But yes chose your battles progressing society is...

I think your solution is clearly a better implementation.

I think MS in particular has sometimes just fallen short when polishing off the UI implementation of otherwise good ideas which is...

Well after visiting the science museum in London and having been in Paris at the Louvre two weeks prior I ironically noted that the Sumerians who lived 4500 years ago...

Software will be the last bastion of hand made manufacturing and it is experiencing all the problems associated with that method of construction.

Tortuous time scales

Unpredictable project outcomes.

Inconsistency of quality even...

Good luck and thanks for starting these off.

I am attending SQLSaturday in Edinburgh on the 8th of June

Knowledge Draftsman (5/23/2013)

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This reminds me of an article I came across earlier in my career... The gist of the piece was that every employee should know how to do their...

First point is we seem to quickly forget that numbers and text...

You could argue that it's a great opportunity to give a bit more responsibility to some of the people you've hopefully been allowed to train up in your place.

I've been...

From my perspective in accounting it's very interesting to contrast the discipline of BI with...

I've never liked the term Business Intelligence mainly because I think it’s a reinvention of what all DBAs always knew. If you have to be instructed on why BI is...

Given the significant problems much new software has with 2d interfaces seems somewhat premature to move onto 3d interfaces.

As it stands some of Google's outside projects seem diverse and somewhat...

I've had a go at producing systems with mapping as well and I must admit done well they are incredibly valuable. They are also really quite difficult to get right.

We...

Think this is an excellent idea.

I think physical proximity to your team is important. Cuts down on the requirement to have meetings and you don't need to store up questions...

Honestly it sounds like a great opportunity. There is obviously quite a lot of experience in the company already and as such I would think they are wanting to break...

I am always hopeful that the technology can continue to develop along the lines that single individuals can specify, develop, implement and maintain applications to any scale without necessarily having...