Yeah, it was Texas where that happened, not California, right?

Yeah, it was California where employees were able to sue employers for such collusion. Good luck with that in some other states, where what Apple, Google, etc. did is just business as usual.

They have the stupidest, most intrusive laws that negatively impact every other state.

You are welcome to your state where a lack of laws allows employers to restrict your opportunities to change jobs. Yeah, welcome to your overlords who use the lack employee protection to push your income down.

NOTHING is going to happen in California. Their budget is a joke. They have a double digit sales tax rate and the biggest deficit out of every state

Perhaps you should come up to date on California's budget situation. Even if California had the biggest deficit in the past, California has the largest economy of any state, by a wide margin, making everything relating to finances bigger in California than any other state.

California doesn't even have the highest sales tax rate.

Maybe they want to win back the consumer market they lost? Perhaps diversify a bit?

I just appreciate that they need to compete, and they are forcing their major competitors to bring new things to the table. Otherwise we might be looking at a repeat of mid-2000s, with stagnation like happened in Windows XP and IE 6... just with Apple or Google at the helm this time.

From what I can find, the standard length is 18. That appears to be a minimum, not a maximum.

Regardless, everyone else that matters supports more. Why not Oracle?

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It's plenty if you have standards to abbreviate everything and remove all vowels. Of course, when your NMNG_CNVNTN_RQRS_UNDRSCR_CHRCTRS

oops too long

In the last 2 decades on a general purpose processor? Why? AFAICS it has been proven without any room for reasonable doubt that programmers have to be protected against themselves in this ... and the performance impact hasn't been relevant in a long time.

Add one extra order of magnitude for amount of buffer overflow based exploits it has caused.

The only thing most IT projects gets done is throwing money down the drain (even when ostensibly successful, like most security sensitive C code).

That's nice.

Isn't Oracle's table/column names still limited to 30 characters? I would think a modern, enterprise-worthy database could handle a bit more.

It's ok! I got you covered! Wait... crap!

Or, more specifically, Object Pascal. The work that Anders Hejlsberg did on Turbo Pascal and Delphi are very underrated, and conceptualized a lot of ideas that would bear fruit in C#.

Oracle != Microsoft

It's pretty obvious why Microsoft has been within the top few spots of the computing industry for so long. Beats the hell out of me how Oracle is still around.

There is no reason that we have to pick one and abandon work on the others. I don't see that the same resources go into solving more than one, except that the meteor and volcano problem have one solution in common - be on another planet when it happens.

The clathrate problem and nuclear war have the potential to end the human race while it is still on one planet, so we need to solve both of them ASAP.

I assume that the plane was rerouted on a pretty much direct route from where they were to Atlanta. They'd want to make sure that the airplane stayed over relatively unpopulated areas in the event of an explosion.

And if it strays off its assigned route? Do you really think they are going to shoot it down?

It's like a resume question from Evil Overlords, Inc. software division.