df112 · Director, Database & Systems Engineering

As always, thanks for a bunch of interesting links. I knew that the music industry is not particularly artist friendly, but I had no idea it was as bad as it is. Truly depressing state of affairs made much worse by technology rather than better. 

New mission! Looks like it will be fun.

Yep. Deafening silence. Listening to those guys spin down is something. Also a not so gentle reminder that you're going to have to spin them back up again....

Congrats to all the winners!

As always, thanks for a bunch of great links. I particularly enjoyed the industry secrets and the AI snake oil, being exposed to those on a nearly daily basis.

Very interesting post. Thanks for sharing. I always wondered how they were going to handle OCR for pictographic languages like Japanese.

It sometimes seems like the resistance to automating a task is inversely proportional to the need.

We do a couple of things. We push older hardware (particularly servers) to the edge and then into test environments as long as we can. For example we still have an old Sun (not Oracle) v440 running a test web site. The box is at least 10 years old, but since it hasn't died we still run it. We also have a contract with a…

Reading the mission description (which is excellent by the way - I was on the beach in seconds) made me think of the Minions in D2 in their tropical paradise.

Free bacon for a year!

I hadn't seen the decision matrix before. Brilliant indeed. I'm not sure if I'll use the Decision Matrix or the Eisenhower Matrix it's based on, or some hybrid, but in any case it's a great productivity tool for the future. Thanks!

As always, thanks for another interesting Actuator sqlrockstar​. Sadly I'm not surprised at FB gathering data, what stuns me is that people seem ready to give away the farm data wise. Unbelievable. 

Nope. Couldn't possibly be me. I've met the enemy and it's definitely *not* me. Thanks for the post!

Most of the networks I've worked on just don't change that much. The bits that do were automated a long time ago. The other thing with SDN is there has to be interoperability between environments (or a single vendor approach) which just doesn't happen in most networks.

Congrats c0eus​!

same here

Ignite sounds awesome, wish I could be there. As always, thanks for the links - interesting reading as usual.

I wondered how I missed it. First video was very vague and I just guessed from there. Having said that a little voice in my head was telling me to check the one I missed because it seemed like it must be true. Should have looked further. Live and learn.

Money laundering and cryptocurrency? Say it ain't so.

Thanks. i definitely agree on the use of a virtual environment for certifications and learning in general. It allows you to actually get hands on with a lot of the tasks. The other thing that is really essential is some scenarios. Simply working in a vacuum without a plan won't get you very far. We use scenario based…

Thanks for the post jabenedicic​. It's always interesting to get a new view on things, especially when you're in the U.K. and have to take into account a very different regulatory environment.

Yet another crypto currency company in trouble and there aren't as many assets in the accounts as there were supposed to be. Shocked I am.

Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for a very thorough explanation and all the work you and the migration team put into this. Sounds non-trivial to say the least. We appreciate you all and look forward to moving into the new digital digs.

Congrats to all the winners!

Well put. As a fan of Larry, Perl and Yoda, you hit the nail on the head.

Is there a way to see the letter after the fact? I didn't realize there was addition info until today.

Wanted one of these so bad I could taste it, but couldn't afford it. Spent hours standing at a counter at the local geek store in the 80's renting time on one though. It was like $2/hour or something, and I couldn't get enough.

Thanks for the post. Lots of good advice here. This trips so many people up. Boring, not sexy at all, but super important. This is one of the tasks I assign newbies when they first come on board. Give them the latest diagram/docs, point them in the right direction, and have them go verify it. Not only do they get a good…

Went back and read the quantum computing link again when I had more time. Pretty interesting technology, and one that may prove to be disruptive. The idea that something can still be useful without being deterministic is an idea that has worked before (think ethernet vice token ring) but it's not intuitive that computing…