Comments for Zen and the Art of Programming

Comment on Reasons to switch to DB2 9.7 by Surachart Opun

2009-07-01T07:45:10Z

How about multi-version and rolling forward?

Comment on Apple “Genius” by Robert Bath

2009-06-29T19:52:16Z

I’d say it’s an organizational issue if the organization hires (or permits to stay employed) people with the aforementioned attitude problems.

Comment on Reasons to switch to DB2 9.7 by Roderick van Domburg

2009-06-29T14:42:21Z

It seems to me that the Currently Committed isolation level is semantically equivalent to Multi-Version Concurrency Control. Or is that too much of a stretch?

Comment on Apple “Genius” by Matt Zago

2009-06-27T20:32:50Z

You were underserved by the genius because of his faults rather than organizational issues at Apple. I used to work for an Apple store and they understand that there is an imperitive to keep customers happy. The genius you got didn’t serve you in the spirit of Apple retail.

Comment on Apple “Genius” by sambeau

2009-06-27T13:14:32Z

I have to say that my experience in Glasgow has been totally different to this. I’ve never had a problem. Even the on-hold experience was good (it told you how long you had to wait).

My experience in other computer chains has been far, far worse.

My only problem is that there is a waiting list to see a “Genius”.

Comment on Apple “Genius” by TurboBorland

2009-06-27T00:34:59Z

This happens everywhere. They attach a catchy title to a person so the customer thinks they’re dealing with people who actually know what they’re doing. The biggest fraud of this in the computer field, that I know of, is Best Buy. Their geek squad does attract some very good potential, but the bulk of those that I’ve come across have yet to show me anything spectacular.

Comment on DB2 Express-C 9.7 and the Django adapter released by Robert

2009-06-25T19:06:31Z

YES! Finally. Thanks IBM

Comment on Let’s all grow up by Let’s all grow up | humandoing software

2009-06-25T16:48:53Z

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Comment on Install DB2 on Mac OS X and give us feedback by Michael Walker

2009-06-24T21:14:34Z

One gotcha is that DB2 does not seem to like the OS X “short name” of the instance owner to have any upper case letters. I am probably one of the few who had any caps there, but I had to change it before I could install properly.

Just getting going, but DB2 on the Mac looks like a real boon for me in ditching my old Dell laptop.

Comment on DB2 Express-C 9.7 and the Django adapter released by Oracle kills Virtual Iron. Is MySQL next? | FreeDB2.com

2009-06-23T15:36:23Z

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