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Unfortunately, in the accompanying article they defined a pass as 4 out of 5.
Sorry.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I believe your signature amply covers that...
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Yes, you've got 8 more attempts!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Sure it is; it uses a lot less network bandwidth than listing all the colunm names. And it's future proof as well, less maintenance, win-win.
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Well, I'd think you'd want to tack a WHERE clause on there, or TOP, or something else to reduce the possible number of rows coming back.
TTFN - Kent
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Not if you want them all.
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 Fair enough
TTFN - Kent
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Could someone give an extended explanation for the 5th question? In particular, why can't the DB optimize it by first doing WHERE a = @a over the entire table to get a subset of 100 records and then doing WHERE b = @b over just those hundred? Since the brute force/non-indexed where clause is only being done over ~100 records it shouldn't require a significant amount of time to do.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Got 5 for 5, but in my last position, I was forced into the DBA role for 2 years when the DBA announced on Monday that Wednesday was his last day.
I could either learn and save myself a lot of grief, or suffer, and I don't like that kind of suffering.
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A "scary" software flaw that has put users of iPhones, iPads and Mac computers at risk of being hacked has dealt a blow to the reputation of Apple, the world’s most valuable brand, say security researchers. More news from that category, "Duh!"
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What QuickTime, iTunes and Bonjour couldn't do to that reputation cannot be done.
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Technically, with Google Android getting such the world-wide market bigger, percentage-wide, than Apple, the same could be said of Google. They're just as "vunlerable" of virus / security attacks due to their popularity as is Apple; if not, more, because they have a larger user-base.
In 1985 I started using a Mac 512ke at my employer.
In 1986 I bought a Mac Plus (1MB of RAM, Yeah Baby!) and printer for $3,200. (Side Bar: the finance company went under 3 weeks later and I didn't pay a dime!).
So I figure the only way to keep gettin' free Macs was to work for the source, Apple.
I started working for Apple's Human Interface Group (HIG) in the late 1980's.
Since June, 1986, I've never had a virus or security issue with an Apple and/or Mac product.
Only 1 virus hit a series of Macs at a company that I (years) later became an employee at. Other than that, I know of no mass virus/security threat within all my 27+ years of Mac use within my many, many contact spheres.
Yet, 'tis factual, hackers prefer and seek larger audiences to exploit, which is where both Google and Apple are now at.
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And, for the record, yes, I do use anti-virus software; since last June.
Why? Cuz my kids are now using the computers!
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Except for the current SSL vulnerability created by them fixing the zero-day on iOS but not OS X.
That's a documented vulnerability to all SSL traffic with live exploits that Apple, in their wisdom, publicized to the world.
See: The Guardian[^].
They previously drew criticism for failing to release security updates that had been applied to BSD UNIX code bases from which it drew sources - even though that exposed vulnerabilities that had been fixed and documented in those communities. I believe they have failed to learn from the experience judging by the recent news.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Apple, Linux & Co. never were more secure than Windows in terms of exploitable defects. But when you are a hacker: what would you try - hack a single Linux box with xy distro version 2.5, a few Macs or several thousands Windows PCs? When we start talking about vulnerability of Apple's products now, it just means that they have now a market share for becoming interesting targets to hackers. That's it: they grew beyond the threshold of being ignored.
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I'd say there was a little window, before XP SP2, when OS X was inherently more secure than Windows. Since then I agree entirely.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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There's some surprise news out of Barcelona today: BlackBerry CEO John Chen told CNBC that he'd be willing to sell the company's BBM chat service... for the right price. "If somebody comes to me with $19 billion I would definitely sell it," he told an interviewer on air. "I mean, I would recommend to the board to take it." I think there's just one little flaw with his plan
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Ha! With a dr evil pinky to the side of the mouth move.
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Yeah, and I'd love to sell my farts for $19 Billion, too.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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With some decent methane content, I'd say you probably have a better chance at $19bill 
TTFN - Kent
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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not unless he throws in all of BlackBerry's government contracts gratis
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There is that.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Christopher Shields wrote: not unless he throws in all of BlackBerry's government contracts gratis
You need something to wipe your ass on just in case the $19 billion spent on the farts follow through, so to speak.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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I think a potentially better way is to figure out when the actual deadline for each feature is from a business perspective. Now, I know what you’re thinking, business deadlines are always unrealistic, with more features than any team could actually complete successfully. I hear you, and have experienced the same thing, but this time will be different.
Lets pick the right deadlines.
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