I don't remember seeing any depreciation notices anywhere in the UI

And how did your exercise levels change between travel and being at home?

Well, look at it properly, the bug is about optimization of a query that does not make much sense. Sure, it could be done better, but why would you issue such query at all.

If you look at problems that Oracle/MySQL engineering tackled, they are somewhat different - data compression, online DDL, parallel replication, GTIDs, InnoDB scalability, etc - these were huge efforts and get reasonable focus. Think of all the bugs that were not filed against MariaDB... :)

Count InnoDB engineers working for Oracle and for Maria, unfortunately that will not be balanced. Even Percona's InnoDB expert Yasufumi Kinoshita ended up working for Oracle lately.

Sure, Maria can do all sorts of tricks in SQL-land, but it is not the full picture. Oracle has much more engineering power dedicated to supporting MySQL, and they also have customers who are doing bug escalations as well.

Disclaimer: I used to work at MySQL AB and currently am working on a deployment that builds upon Oracle's MySQL tree, see https://www.facebook.com/MySQLatFacebook

if there'd be really a push for it, all you would need is server-side strict mode enforcement. any software engineering intern can add that feature :) but I guess not too many users really push their vendor for it, do they?

Well the only "great" thing about Java is the JVM - which in and of itself isn't that great.

I also find these things great about Java:

* tooling (IDEs, code processors, ant, maven, etc)
* Java community is great - you can get free frameworks and libraries and support for anything you want to develop
* standardized APIs
* portability (I use Linux at home and Windows at work - it's great to have the same software running everywhere)

Things I am still waiting to be great:

* Nice GUIs (hopefully with Java FX 2.x)
* Easier deployment of desktop apps

I had it opposite, once I watched Matt Dillon movie, and "oh wow, now he is acting!" :-)

I agree that there is not much formal training required, but there might be a lot of change in behaviour required.

The things that worked well for me:

1. Delegate - trust people

2. Communicate - communicate every day with your management and with the people who are reporting to you, give them enough background information. Always notify interested parties of the issues so that they could help you or could adjust their plans. Trust me - it is difficult to be a messenger, but so much less stressful overall.

3. Do not micromanage

4. Set realistic expectations - do not overpromise.

5. Follow up - follow up on whatever you do to make sure that the job is complete.

Don't trust Facebook's "engineers".

I don't think MySpace used PG - they were MS SQL shop (though I hear there were attempts to switch to other engines)

(reposting as a logged in user) I wrote a bit longer response to this:
stonebraker trapped in stonebraker 'fate worse than death'

I think I know a bit more about database situation inside FB than Mr.Stonebraker. Go figure.

I'm not sure if this was supposed to be funny. It is much slower to enter same character many times (not only brain sucks at counting fast mechanical moves, but also you don't get finger parallelism ;-)

I have already switched to diigo.com

There is enough deseases in the world to stay in business once you eradicate one or two diseases. In the meanwhile - finding a full cure for anything gives you an exclusive access to a metaphorical gold mine.

One needs to stage man-in-the-middle attack to hijack existing session, whereas broken handshake can be used to establish new connections. Not looking at crypto-analysis, keeping connections open is much more secure ;-)

I'm all for rules and agreements, however in our current society model, where society is governed by government those rules are imposed on everyone - whether you agreed to them or not.

Some of the rules are unfair. For example, taxes or mandatory conscription to army (in some countries)... In such cases I mostly support people who are tying to avoid being forced into something they did not agree with in the first place.

Is paying taxes to a government just because you were born in that particular country is much different from slavery?