Comments on: 12 Ways Smart Data Professionals Act Stupid

By: ThomasLaRock

ThomasLaRock — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 18:44:00 +0000

In reply to jon49. Yes, and "praise publicly, criticize privately" is important, too.

By: ThomasLaRock

ThomasLaRock — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 18:43:00 +0000

In reply to Robert L Davis. Yeah, I think we've all done one or more. And probably more than one at a time, too.

By: Robert L Davis

Robert L Davis — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 18:37:00 +0000

Excellent article (even if I didn’t write it <- see what I did there?).

I'm sure I've been guilty of many, if not all, of these at one time or another. Or maybe all the time.

If you were going to expand this list out to 13 items, I would suggest adding "they don't automate redundant tasks" for reasons like the automation process takes longer than doing it manually 1 time.

By: jon49

jon49 — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 19:22:00 +0000

Yeah, I’ve noticed I have some of the tendencies you mentioned in the article. So, I do try to watch myself. I’ve found that giving praise and not criticizing to be the most important and taking criticism well. Depending on how much trouble I’m having on a problem reflects how well I react to problems. “How to Win Friends and Influence People” is a good book on the subject. I still need to internalize a lot of it though.

As for the tabs thing :-). I enjoy white spaced languages – specifically F#; So, it is pretty much always spaces and I carry it over into the other languages I use just to be consistent. I thought it was funny when I saw this article saying that financially spaces won 🙂 . I know it really isn’t the case but still funny. The article just goes into the statistics of it showing that although correlated it isn’t the actual root cause.

http://evelinag.com/blog/2017/06-20-stackoverflow-tabs-spaces-and-salary/index.html#.WVAGrOllArJ

By: ThomasLaRock

ThomasLaRock — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 16:20:00 +0000

In reply to David Lapointe. Yeah, sounds familiar.

By: David Lapointe

David Lapointe — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 17:58:00 +0000

…and if you forward this post to them, they wont understand why as it doesn’t apply to them (which probably is a factor of “they know everything”).

By: Bob Bear

Bob Bear — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 14:59:00 +0000

… and you haven’t even mentioned what we get up to on the Conference Party night! (I still smile thinking about a beardy Princess Leia at Liverpool SQLBits 2016 !)