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Well, there is that statue of King Wenceslas riding a dead horse upside down, so perhaps the Czech's need it spelled out also. :P
FWIW, here in Texas, it's simply called "riding" (with horses being the default beast of burden, followed by motorcycles).
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ACRowland wrote: only Americans need it spelling out which part of the horse they're supposed to sit on.
Yeah well... arrogance isn't not the trait of the intelligent either.
Jeremy Falcon
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Yup.....
Even mike judge said it...
"I never expected my film to become reality"
Idiocracy
Idiocracy - Wikipedia
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I can relate.... sadly 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Being the wizard I am, I was askedtold to to implement a chat bot.
I refused. I could not see myself implementing something I hate to use myself.
Nothing succeeds like a budgie without teeth.
To err is human, to arr is pirate.
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I feel you!!
We had a hardware shutdown on some old lappie's a few months ago. As per IT policy, you are not allowed to replace, modify, kick, scream at, throw or jump on any said hardware without them checking, confirming, ordering, waiting 6 weeks from cheapest vendor and installing said hardware.
3 Days after ticket generation, 10 year old look-alike arrives, GOOGLE the issue (after we disclosed the error messages and issues - graphic cards were shot) and off he went. Ticket were now sent from his office to head office, then back to regional, then back to head office and lastly to our office for final approval (some accountants got involved to ease the approval and ordering process!)
a Few days later we were asked why certain reports shows a back-log, ahmmmm, "Did you approve the hardware replacement?" No, but about those reports..... 
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Myself I realize that humans are messy and disorganized. There are no good ol' days where that wasn't true. Someone probably died because the wedge they used on a block when building an Egyptian pyramid was the wrong size.
Now selective memory on the other hand is true. They have proven that.
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I know exactly how you feel. I worked in IT for a small, very specialized group in a large (5000+) corporation. Fortunately my group maintained the hardware/software for a corporate core function (AGC/SCADA/electric utility). As such we were insulated from the rest of the IT insanity. Eventually to further insulate us we were removed completely from IT and put directly under the engineers in charge of transmission/distribution (another hell, but at least a lesser one).
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Greetings,
as Mark Twain once stated:
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
Cegarman
document code? If it's not intuitive, you're in the wrong field 
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Much like my days with Orange Mobile Comms.
I was a GSM/Radio Access/Network Engineer, and we had for anything I.T.to have to call the I.T. team who sat at the other end of the office from us.
In fact most times, I could ring "I.T. Support", look over the divider and watch someone pick the phone up and answer it.
The funny part was, I.T. support had to get permission from the network engineering teams to enter the data centre's and server rooms, so we could quite often phone I.T. support, watch the call get answered, then watch that person make a call to "Network" which would then ring on the phone beside me, which I would then answer and confuse the hell out the person on the other end.
Nothing ever got done, because we spent more time following process than getting anything done.
So upper management thought it would be a great idea to combine the Network Teams, and the I.T. support teams into one large "Tech Operations" team.
Not for one moment did they consider that the engineers on the Network teams where also high access certified (We looked after all aspects including GSM, and that often meant climbing phone masts) they just looked at it from the point of view that we "The Network Team" where just specialised I.T. Monkeys that did "Networky Stuff".
So all of a sudden you had all these general I.T. support guys suddenly being sent out into the field and not having a clue what they where doing, and experienced guys who should have been out in the field answering support calls to fix printers in managers offices.
It get's better though......
So to FIX that problem, they removed field work from all I.T. & Network personnel completely, made us all sit answering phones all day, then farmed out the actual work to a 3rd party company, costing them 3 times what they paid the already trained trained guys that where on the payroll, then they set up a help line for the contractors to phone into the I.T. help desk to help them when they didn't know how to do something on the network or on any I.T. problem inside the organization.
Stuff like this just never ceases to amaze me.
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Like Hecklefish said the other night, "If we are going to rely on Humans to teach AI morality, we're screwed..."
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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If they used Nutanix, they wouldn't run into that problem as it takes in all of the hypervisors.
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There's a reason we were happy when the Personal Computer was created. We got away from the admins of the mainframe.
IT managing lots of users is easier if they can standardize on processes. The standards they pick work for most people (accounting, sales, shipping/receving....) Software & firmware engineers are an edge case of their user base.
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Back in 2009, I began a personal project, using SQL Server (Express) and -- after a month or two -- got it to a certain point before losing interest.
Around 2014 (if I recall correctly), I had the idea of reworking it to use SQL Server or SQL Server Compact depending on what the user specifies at run-time.
This is not difficult. If I recall correctly, Subversion can be configured to use one of two (?) database backing stores.
I have long sought a project to show off my ideas about implementing an SQL-based application which can be configured to use any one of a number of supported ADO.net providers. I just didn't want to expend a lot of effort on it at that time. Yet it has remained in the back of my mind.
This summer I have some time to have another look at it and I see that SQL Server Compact is currently out of support.
(As with OleDB, I hope Microsoft reconsiders and releases a new version, but I'm not holding my breath.)
As you may know, I don't really care that something is out of support, but finding some other product is still desirable.
What I envision is the ability to have the application, it's data file(s), and whatever DLL(s) is required on a flash drive, and just run it from the flash drive on "any" suitable Windows PC -- not relying on the host to have anything more than a vanilla .net install.
What I am looking for:
SQL-92 compliance
ADO.net provider
No software/driver to be installed on the host
From my few experiments, SQL Server Compact satisfies all of these criteria.
From what I can tell, SQL Server LocalDB does not meet all of these criteria -- but maybe I misread something. Of course, I could add support for that as well anyway.
I have looked around online a bit and not found anything which seems to be what I want.
The term "embedded database" comes up a lot, but I don't want NoSQL or a Key/Value store or anything which must be installed.
I will likely proceed with using SQL Server Compact and add support for other systems as they come to light. This particular application is really just a proof-of-concept anyway.
I just wonder whether or not anyone here knows of something I've missed.
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I don't know how SQL-92 compliant it is, but have you tried SQLlite?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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It's mostly compliant. Biggest deviation is that it's weakly typed and has limited support for triggers
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