Comment Re:Database Design for Mere Mortals (Score 1) 291
I second that. Not extremely technical, but a good first read about relational databases, normalizing, etc.
I second that. Not extremely technical, but a good first read about relational databases, normalizing, etc.
But how can they be sure the kid didn't actually eat some nuts? It's urban legends like this that spread unnecessary fear?
This is only partly true (only a very small part) and much less so now.
The drug companies did sponsor some thin "throw-away" quick reference books on narrow topics. With the crackdown on drug companies, this is much less true now.
Drug companies didn't and still don't fund or write any of the major medical reference texts that are used primarily. They would sometimes buy them to give away to doctors (again, this happens much less now), but they didn't have input on the content. I've edited major medical texts, and know the editors of other leading texts, and know that drug company concerns had nothing to do with the content.
I spent my teen and pre-teen years building electronics from freely-available plans. But we never called it "open source" back then, so why start now?
Um, because we have a good general purpose term for it now that wasn't in use when you were a pre-teen?
"No matter where you go, there you are..." -- Buckaroo Banzai