[quote user="Ben L."][quote user="boomzilla"][quote user="Nagesh"]In some cases I notice that referential constraint cause much mischiefs when developer not familiar with old legacy application. With huge offshore contract risk is high, so best thing to do is drop all foreign key on database, after approval from ...

[quote user="ObiWayneKenobi"][quote user="markfiend"] In short: 1) Adria Richards complains about sexism 2) She gets hounded out of her job by dudebros posting rape-threats and death-threats to her and to her company. And you guys are all OK with that? Good to know. [/quote]  Yeah, I am, because this bitch took it ...

[quote user="Sutherlands"][quote user="RHuckster"][quote user="Ben L."]"I don't need your stupid indexes! This table already has THOUSANDS of rows in it and queries never take more than a few seconds!"[/quote] Need context. By "already has thousands of rows in it" did you push this thing to ...

[quote user="Ben L."]"I don't need your stupid indexes! This table already has THOUSANDS of rows in it and queries never take more than a few seconds!"[/quote] Need context. By "already has thousands of rows in it" did you push this thing to production a week ago, or 5 minutes ago? If it was 5 minutes ago, ...

[quote user="ObiWayneKenobi"]To be fair though most business users, if given the opportunity, will want EVERYTHING completely customizable and want infinite permissions.  I had the misfortune of working in a company that had to implement their own pseudo-Active Directory security detail in the database to lock down anything and ...

[quote user="Cassidy"]Missed a great opportunity to tell her that for bet practise her bank account should be accessible to ALL people, not just her.[/quote] I wasn't there for that tirade, but from what I gathered, it was quite a spectacle to watch. I'm sure someone eventually at least uttered those words under their breath ...

[quote user="CodeNinja"]The loading screen for all exercises says, 'This is a placeholder'.[/quote] In my experience, those ones are the worst, because in my last few jobs, getting people to write copy tends to take forever no matter how short it is. We had a release go over by a week because there were days of debate over ...

Several years ago I was one of the front-end developers for a system that was primarily used in-house by our account managers, but we had some clients using it as well. To put in the most generic terms, it was a website marketing system which, in addition to managing ad campaigns (not just online campaigns, but TV and radio) and SEO data, also ...

Oh dear. This could become a "Who's on First?" sketch with extra nerd sauce very easily.

[quote user="configurator"][quote user="RHuckster's PHB"]Well, obviously just do the bugs that crash first and then do the other critical tasks after that. Duh.[/quote] This guy shows an unexpected level of common sense. Most would just say [quote user="Normal PHB"]Well, obviously just do all the bugs first. ...