Posts by AMBxx 2719 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Jan 2014
Modern software development is a 'house of cards'. Dependencies are multiple levels deep, there's no way to keep track of what's happening under the covers.
I checked an application running on Tomcat yesterday as part of these problems. It was using the older 1.x version of Log4j so not affected. However, there were dozens of copies of the jar file scattered all over the place.
This is no way to write maintainable software. Time for a rethink on all these frameworks and plugins.
I'm a fairly recent convert to Postgres, though I've been aware of it for years. Most of my work is in MS SQL with bits in MySQL.
What's surprised me is how Postgres views Oracle as their target, not MySQL.
I just wish that when I created a view that Postgres would keep my definition with all its comments.
Don't get me started on not being able to modify a view because of dependencies. Drives me nuts.
>>26 per cent of organisations are now using SAP S/4HANA compared with 16 per cent last year
That could be caused by one of two thing - either an increase in the number of S/4HANA users or a shift from SAP to 'other brand of ERP'.
Probably a mixture of the two, would be interesting to know the real numbers.
Maybe you don't use a key, but I bet that if you stop your car in the middle of nowhere that whatever you used to start the car will restart it.
You leave home using just your phone to start your car. Park somewhere with no mobiile signal. You're stranded unless you brought one of the other methods of starting your car.
Dreadful design.
You don't need to earn that much to be in the top 1%. Somewhere around £150k this year. About 5% of us will manage that at some point (income varies annually). I managed it first in my early 30s. In about 5 of the last 20 years too - I have a very variable income.
These spaceflights are for the top 1% of the top 1% - a whole different sphere to operate in.
No such thing as genuinely anonymous health data. We all have a unique breadcrumb trail. If even part of that is public, we can easily be identified within the anonymous data.
This is what converted David Davis to the data protection cause - his health data is easily identified as he is one of very few people to have broken their nose 5 times. No reason to hide the nose breaking, but who knows what else is in his health record that he'd want to keep private.
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