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Mario Vernari wrote: Shouldn't be "ARE exposed"? Isn't that "(many) data" and not just a "(single) datum"?
No. Most folks get this wrong, but in proper English you'd use "are" if you're referring to multiples of something and "is" for a singular. And while it is more than one TB, it's referring to the size as a whole single unit.
For instance...
A herd of sheep is flocking.
Twenty sheep are flocking.
Both refer to the fact there is more than one sheep, but the former is doing so as a whole, which is singular in nature.
Jeremy Falcon
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Well, thanks (everybody) for the explanations.
Your last example makes sense: is the same in Italian. However, I think that's because the "is" actually refers to the "herd", which is one.
What's different is the "data" usage. In Italian it is almost non sense talking about a "single" data, unless we're explicitly referring to a specific part of the bunch. Generally speaking, the context refers to "many" data, especially when they sum hundreds of TB!
Thanks again!
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Mario Vernari wrote: In Italian it is almost non sense talking about a "single" data
You got it right.
It's a bit of a gray area I'd wager, but data refers to a whole, much like water. You don't say you have 4 liters of waters, it's 4 liters of water. Water is the whole and liter a measurement. Which means the water is one and the measurement is plural - just like with the word herd. And just like with data, whereas TB is just a measurement.
So for instance...
Liters of water are hard to measure in that glass.
The water is hard to measure in liters in that glass.
We're talking about the same thing, just one focuses on the measurement (like a TB) and one focuses on the collective whole (just like with data).
Jeremy Falcon
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Kent Sharkey wrote: NoSecurity?
 - excellent!
Marc
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It's going to get worse before it gets better. But it's just a smaller screen, right?
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I don't know. I had to fight for my life to get a legacy web forms application with the first release of AjaxToolkit to work with IPad. It needs to work for browsers from IE6-IE11, FF, Chrome, and Safari.
It doesn't seem feasible to continually upgrade software, but to me, that is why it sucks!
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jgakenhe wrote: It needs to work for browsers from IE6...
Your employer must hate you
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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The iPhone only has 1GB Ram???
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And because you can hardly read 20 line of 40 characters on mobile screens, I can now sit several meters away from my big desktop monitor when browsing web sites designed with "mobile first" ideology...
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Recently, Sven Slootweg published a blog entry entitled Why you should never, ever, ever use MongoDB. It starts out with the words "MongoDB is evil" and proceeds to give a list of negative statements about same. Anger deemed (sometimes) counter-productive
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Hiring a developer is tricky. "Should I stay or should I go?"
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The article might list a valid question, but it also says you should sit and peruse the potential hire's twitter account with them. 
What I choose to post, or not post, on personal social media shouldn't be considered a factor for employment.
I don't have a twitter or facebook account, so I don't really care, but if I did, I wouldn't show an employer or potential employer anymore than I would show them my personal address book. LinkedIn? Sure - it's not a personal social media outlet.
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I was interviewing candidates recently and after a raft of technical questions I asked "What changes do you see or would you like to see occur in our industry in the next decade"?
This was really the make or break question - if you don't have any thoughts on this I don't really want to work with you...all the answers to the other questions I ask are google-able.
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If you asked me that question, I would get up, request you delete all my information, never contact me again and walk out. In most cases, something like 99.99%, that question has no bearing on one's ability to do the job. You asking that question tells me I would not want to work with you.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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It depends on the position.
If you are looking for an entry-level programmer, or for a consultant for a specific project, the question may be irrelevant (less so in the case of the consultant). For a team leader or above, I think that this is a valid question.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Fair enough - we'd always "delete all information" for anyone we didn't hire as a matter of course. We're not Facebook.
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 I view questions like that as being far more useful than, "Code a b-tree on the whiteboard". It gives insights into their thought processes, and if they actually have any. (The rest is just an implementation decision  )
TTFN - Kent
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Nah, it's just BS. Real developers are solving today's problems with (at best) today's tools. Leave tomorrow for tomorrow. Even "new" things that already exist like Go and Swift are not worth thinking about unless they address a need today.
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That's a good question. I may have to borrow that 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Dominic Burford wrote: "There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
Let me guess, MS choose the second one ? 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Haha exactly
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Excellent point - I focus more on questions that you aren't Googleable. You gain more insight from people that way, and also see how they view things and whether or not they can defend a particular position on a topic.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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First of all 'our industry' is very broad and not words I would use... We're all actually working in different industries as software developers. In my industry which focuses on electronic defence system, I would like to see less red-tape, automated red tape or better thought out red tape (less time consuming, less constrictive). I'd like to see a bigger focus on actual development (in any area) and less focus on the other stuff (crap is what I actually wanted to say). There is much more changes I'd like to see but will leave it at that.
P.S. If you asked 'your field' insead you might of gotten the actual answer you were looking for.
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