it doesn't mean moran. It means "I'm pretty sure but even though I worked for Oracle I didn't actually use a command line oracle client at any point and Oracle's website is a huge joke so I'm never quite sure about anything"

there's an ex-oracle guy at our company who's a total oracle homer. won't stop talking trash about mysql.

i don't really care for the oracle way of doing things.

of course, he's made a boatload of money consulting on oracle products, so that explains that.

how come there's so little documentation on oracle in stackoverflow, etc.? i thought oracle had a lot of customers and stuff.

So the company I worked for got acquired by Oracle, and it was announced I think towards the end of 2011, and there was this big company meeting about it. Big surprise. Anyway we did (and they still do afaik) use MySQL for that product, which of course was acquired by Oracle or however that worked. So at the end of this company meeting they have Q&A, which there was plenty of good questions to ask, but this homer (to borrow the term) who always had to ask stupid questions that no ones cares about, asks if we're going to switch to an Oracle database.

And the CTO kind of makes the quizzical dog face for a second or two and says "MySQL is an Oracle database" and then they moved to the next questions and it was funny the end

we're all supposed to switch to mariadb when oracle starts being evil about mysql or something, right?

i notice oracle making really small evil changes over time, trying to boil us like the proverbial frog.

For the stuff I'm working on right now I'm going to end up moving to Amazon's Aurora I think.

Beyond that I haven't really paid attention.

Hi guys

Me and 3 other dudes are making a new mafia/werewolf site. Its two primary purposes are: 1) Be the most optimized forum there is for playing mafia/werewolf and 2) being a cross-community hub for all mafia/werewolf communities.

I'm not a programmer, but the 3 other dudes are. We have both frontend and backend expertise. But I just wanted to mention this in case any poggers would like to be a part of this project as well - we'd love to have you

/Thingyman

Giving this one BUMP

We'd be delighted to welcome any additional frontend or backend programmers to the project

I don't want to commit to too much programming work, because I have too many side projects going on. But (depending on what forum you use) I could help out with some issues. If you're interested I could also take a look at security. But that offer is only open if you actually want it. A mafia forum is probably not a prime target for hackers.

Interestingly, we did actually get hacked already.

Will send you a PM.

wasn't me

So I am using an embedded derby database, and I read that I need to shut it down or it will skip a bunch of number in the auto increment tables (it reserves 100, and if you don't shut it down it never releases them). So I shut it down, and get an exception. And try a bunch of stuff and keep getting the exception. Then google the specific error code.

So, I am doing the gui work in it's own sandbox area, and I keep getting errors when I am testing my persistence. Hmmm. I don't get errors when I run my JUnit tests. hmmmm. I don't get errors when I put the test in a plain old executable (not JavaFX) class. WTF???


Well, aito, I'm an idiot and didn't realize of course since I was working with an embedded database, which is file based, when I am running a different project it is making a new DB in that projects directory, and not seeing any of the data I have saved, so of course my tests are blowing up all over the place.

Installing the Unreal 4 engine. Anyone played with this before? Looks cool, especially the licensing which is:
Free to use
5% of gross revenue from any products built using the engine

So you pay nothing unless you are selling something.

That 5% is on true gross though, so you sell something on steam for $10, Steam takes $3 for their 30% cut, and Epic (the maker of the Unreal engine) get's $0.50 (as opposed to $0.35 if it were net gross).

Anyway, if anyone is playing around or wants to play around with the engine let me know. I don't have any plans other than a little tinkering (since I am already pretty involved in another project at home) but it looks too cool not to fiddle with.

Anyone notice that forbes.com now detects ad blockers in Chrome?

The bad part of it is that when things like this happen, I use the Firefox debug environment to figure how to kill the detector. Guess what? Forbes doesn't detect the blocker in Firefox. Grrr...

It's really tough to figure out what the damn code is doing using only Chrome.

Regex crossword

Fun puzzle. Took me all day, but it would be much easier if you already knew regular expressions.

I could use some help in figuring out why no mouse drivers will install correctly on my windows 7....anybody?

Logitech setpoint no good...already returned one mouse, bought another, same issues. They work fine in linux so it is a windows issue.