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It does not matter that the person who did this was a woman.

Use of stolen SIM lands person in jail.

MSSQL is easier to optimize at last for me than say Sybase and Oracle, which I also supported.

People can bash MS as much as they want but their products are dirt simple to use and for the most part efficient. MSSQL comes with some query plan analysis so you can look at hit and miss ratios. From this info you can make some decisions as to add additional clustered or non-clustered indexes or use stored procedure which are saved (preprocessed) for faster execution. I forgot which of the several books I used to do this. But I was pleasantly surprised at the performance increase with my occasional tweaking.

Performance was not a priority for us that is why it was done occasionally. Not my call. My main job was make sure replications happened effectively, maintain good restores and security, and create stored procedures and triggers.

I hated the ORM in Rails. I do not want magic when I know how to do it more efficiently. For example there are certain times it is better to use DISTINCT versus GROUP BY for unique values.

I miss MSSQL. I use MySQL and it is ok but not like my sweetie and, thank you, not like the ugly gorilla Oracle.

In smaller apps I use sqlite or flat files.

People wonder why "women" find certain fields distasteful. came to HN: Number one topic for comments - about a "Woman".

Why say she is a woman? Depressing. Is it required? No it is just to stress the fact that women are stupid and perhaps deceitful than men. Yet my empirical suggests otherwise. So sad HN.

Edit: Downvote all you want.

I know, I know what swag I would like cool transformer toys.

The norm is to appeal to 8-10 year old boys. I ain't. But I am a geek at heart. Also those stupid mental rings and stuff like that.

I was thinking useful stuff - but skip that - give something that makes me smile.

Wow - Why is this not the number one article in HN?

WHY!!!????

Losing respect for HN.

I used to worship institutions such as Bell Labs. But I guess when you learn how the sausage is made, it takes the luster off of things.

The book, My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance, talks about why he left Bell Labs to be a quant on wall street.

I remember after graduating college. I was unsure what to do next. My profs wanted me to do PhD. My fiancee, a PhD candidate, was against it. The company I worked at was willing to pay for my masters in electrical engineering but again my fiancee made the argument since I was repulsed by large organizations that I would resent it. I would most likely end up working for those companies. He was right. This is what happened to my friends.

5 years ago, I was reconsidering a PhD, I thought comp sci or stats. So I dipped my toe and got a masters in stats - it was fun. Do a PhD? No. What for. Economically it would not make sense for me.

I would only do it if I found a fun topic such as modeling detection of prostate cancer (my masters project) but so far the idea of working for the immoral pharma industry including the unis and rest of them makes me ill.

I wish I learnt Marie Curie's secret on how to focus on the work and forget the rest. But I haven't.

My husband works as a computer science researcher (AI) - I KNOW I never want to do this. Pittance for ground breaking work done at excruciating slow pace with so many failures. The shit he puts up so he can work on the stuff that interests him - boggles the mind. I almost want to scream - get a bloody commercial job (effectively 2x salary) and use your own money to run your own tests. But he has seen what the prospects and the environment through the eyes of friends smarter than him and knows the true cost of politics. Smart man.

I would never advise anyone to do a PhD unless you are in love with the topic.