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My boss has designed a practical test to be used during interviews for new members of our database team, and asked me to sit it. Apparently I've got the job  I can still bullshit with the best of them!
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I would negotiate the future payment.
Bruno
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Congratulations!
That means you'll be getting two salaries, now? 
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I have not done an interview/test in 15 years, I suspect my bullshit capability may have slipped!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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The guy who turned up today to take the test scored high on the bullshit monitor - the boss recognised him and checked the personnel records - he worked for the company about 7 years ago, and was sacked after three months. His CV said that he was working for a different company in that timespan.
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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In the UK I interviewed a DBA who I had sacked 3 years before in Oz, he dropped the production database and had backed up the master DB 3 times instead of the production DBs.
He got the job as he was the best of a bad lot <facepalm>
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Metaphorically.
In the early nineties, many said: "I do OO correctly; you don't understand OO".
Now, they seem to say: "I work on Big Data; you don't understand Big Data".
Is there a similarity?
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Yes, neither are a silver bullet
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Had to look up what Big Data stands for.
From Wikipedia (fr because not in the english version):
"À titre d'exemple, Twitter générait en janvier 2013, 7 teraoctets de données chaque jour et Facebook 10 teraoctets."
As an example, Twitter creates (as for January 2013), 7 terabytes of data per day, Facebook, 10 terabytes.
 That is indeed one shitload of crap
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It's only crap if you don't understand Big Data(tm)
For those who do understand Big Data(tm) it can be used to provide incredible insights into the human condition. Now this data and the software systems to mine it are available the imponderables become ponderable - I, for one, will never have to ponder about what my idiot mate in Godalming is having for his tea.
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Cucumber sarnies?
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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RugbyLeague wrote: For those who do understand Big Data(tm) it can be used to provide incredible
insights into the human condition.
You sound like you're selling something. What incredible insight did mankind get from the huge amount of tweets? Humor me, which part of the human condition have we learned to understand thanks to the accumulation of 140-character messages?
It's helpfull in targetted advertising, but that's about it. And yes, advertising should be banned.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Rage wrote: That is indeed one shitload of crap
That's somewhat redundant. But regardless, I feel I just contributed to the shitload of crap on CP! 
[edit] Oops, I just realized what I was implying. Um, sorry folks, I wasn't implying that CP has a shitload of crap, I simply meant that I was creating crap on CP!!! I think I'll go back to my hole now before I put more of my foot in my mouth. [/edit]
Marc
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I hope you didn't put it in the crap first?
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Nothing wrong with putting you foot in you mouth. Everything in moderation.
Just make sure that you use plenty of seasoning and ensure the edges are seared, to hold in the juices. 
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Marc Clifton wrote: That's somewhat redundant.
When you consider that "shitload" was just a mispronunciation of "shipload" that caught on, it makes a bit more sense.
But Rage is French, so tell him he's an idiot, anyway,
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: When you consider that "shitload" was just a mispronunciation of "shipload" that caught on, it makes a bit more sense.
Ah, I didn't know that! A useful tidbit.
Mark_Wallace wrote: But Rage is French, so tell him he's an idiot, anyway,
Marc
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7-10 terabytes a day... Great...
So 7-10 terabytes a day of teenagers posting about every song they heard and what they had for breakfast, grandparents posting every chain letter and joke they heard, and your neighbor describing in vivid detail their time on the old porcelain throne.
The term "signal to noise ratio" comes to mind.
If it were me, I'd distill that 7-10 terabytes a day down to the most interesting hundred megs, and forward the original chunk to the NSA to give them something to do (Hey, they're getting it anyway - Give them some crap to dig through).
But then, I'm not Big Data.
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Ian Shlasko wrote: If it were me, I'd distill that 7-10 terabytes a day down to the most interesting hundred megs bits
I hate it when people get the numbers wrong.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mais vous pouvez traduire ca sans problème je pens...?
Brüno
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Here is a comparable example from the utilities industry.
We have an application that collects phase angles for electrical transmission 30 times/second.
After 'massaging' the raw input to compress the storage to significant changes, we are still generating 4G every 8 hours; this data is then studied by the local university to better understand how to manage the electrical grid.
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As a counter example, where the "Big Data" isn't a bunch of crap: Cern[^]
Some tidbits from the article:
Article wrote: - 30 petabytes or so of data produced annually
- The Data Centre processes about one petabyte of data every day
- At peak rates, 10 gigabytes of data may be transferred from its servers every second.
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But... weren't you out for the weekend already?
Phew! you almost discover how we misbehave when you are out!
Have a nice weekend... 
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