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Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Trudy Booth - Aug 21, 2003 3:34:41 pm PDT #4513 of 10005
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Jon B. - Aug 21, 2003 4:15:54 pm PDT #4514 of 10005
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Done, Trudy.
Cindy - Aug 22, 2003 12:43:12 am PDT #4515 of 10005
Nobody
Do we have any way of knowing how many people are subscribed to each thread? This is a waste-of-time question. I don't want anyone to go do extra work. Seeing the stats on who is here from which country just made me wonder about stats, in general.
Jon B. - Aug 22, 2003 1:41:19 am PDT #4516 of 10005
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
It's possible, but it would require someone to write a SQL query to figure it out.
Cindy - Aug 22, 2003 1:56:38 am PDT #4517 of 10005
Nobody
Well, screw that, then. :)
DavidS - Aug 22, 2003 8:44:34 am PDT #4518 of 10005
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Well, screw that, then. :)
An SQL query isn't that complicated.
§ ita § - Aug 22, 2003 8:46:50 am PDT #4519 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
An SQL query isn't that complicated.
Neither is an equation.
Unless you're talking about a complicated equation, that is.
Like equations, queries vary. That's why there are entire courses in relational database usage.
DavidS - Aug 22, 2003 8:59:42 am PDT #4520 of 10005
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Unless you're talking about a complicated equation, that is.
True enough - I've written queries that had more than a hundred separate calculations in them. Still, I was making the distinction that writing one SQL query that did some sort of crosstab calculation summing up subscribers probably wouldn't be an all-day task.
not that I'm volunteering or anything. I've only done SQL within the context of Access, and that's only when I had to go poking around in the guts to fix something.
Cindy - Aug 22, 2003 9:17:56 am PDT #4521 of 10005
Nobody
It's still work. There's no "order this report" feature, so it's work; so it's a nevermind on my part. I was just curious.
smonster - Aug 22, 2003 12:07:02 pm PDT #4522 of 10005
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Hi. Code-ignorant (totally) poster here to say that I had no idea it was bad to have the auto-refresh on, or to have only 25 posts/page, until Hec posted it in Bitches. Meaning that I think something along the lines of Jess's post in Press would be good, as there are probably other well-meaning but code-clueless Buffistae out there.