That's C though.

That's disgusting and unreadable. Good job.

Larry Ellison is not an asshole. I don't think he has the capacity to be an asshole if he tried. He just craves money. Anything for more money. Money is winning.

Yeah, probably. Where can I find this mythical beast?

Without us admins, who will restart your code when it inevitably dies?

I'm the DBA and the admin. I'm the staff. My managers aren't pajeets either.

I'm also a contractor, but I work with the DoD. All opinions are my own and do not reflect those of the DoD or related organizations.

Rest easy at night knowing that our military (mostly) does not rely on software created by opportunists here by H-1B and unicorn farts.

I configured the DB to audit according to DISA STIG, and audit records go to syslog so we have everything in one easily manageable place, easily offloaded to a logging server.

I'm the DBA and system administrator, and I'm white. What do you do? You ask a lot of questions. What is your experience?

I don't give any money to Oracle. That's for the managers to decide and figure out. But yes, I do get patches from the support site. Only problem I've ever had applying a patch was due to my own negligence in reading the README, which stated I needed a newer version of Opatch. CPUs go pretty smoothly for me.

I don't get paid to develop. I admin the shit developers make.

I've been an admin with 10-12 versions. I had to do the 11 to 12 upgrade personally with one of the (two) systems I was working on that used Oracle DB. That wasn't particularly easy, because the upgrade utility failed out in the middle of it with little explanation of why. The DB seemed to be okay though. Everything started up just fine, and the data was there.

The only real problem I've had was when we setup Transparent Data Encryption in 12, just after the upgrade. For some unexplained and unknown reason, we couldn't use the same wallet for both server to server communication and for encrypting the data at rest. The only way I could make it work was to have two wallets with two different certificates, one for encrypting data in transit, and the other for encrypting the data at rest.

I know. I've explained this to my managers. It's their decision, not mine.

Honestly, the nicest thing I could possibly say about Oracle is that they have an okay database. I have to admin three of them, and for the most part they just work. I don't like working with them, but they do work.

No time for tea, just code. Coffee and/or beer nearby is acceptable, but they don't really matter. Get your head in the game.

Cola, wonderful tea. Comes from USA.

I bet he sucks CoC too.

It was a man who invented the glorious C master language that helped make COBOL go the way of the dodo. Almost nobody uses it anymore. Most mainframes now are running Java. IBM even ships them with dedicated hardware for running high performance Java.

When you're a fag, everything looks like a penis.

How do you test if Mr. Customer can launch the calculator utility? What if it launches, but the user only sees dicks? I joke, but GUIs are hard to work with sometimes and can do weird things, and I don't know how you can test that outside of whether or not it crashed. "It worked fine on my machine."

This is why unit tests aren't all that great.

This might be intentional. isUgly is true by default, and we can't see whether or not there's a setter method defined below. So odds are girl willNeverGoOutWithGuy.

He left out the if pig clause.

The boy naming triggers a toggle of the suid bit.

This might be one of the reasons we have interview practices like FizzBuzz.

OOP problems

Solving the real problems

I'm not your pal, friend!

I'm not your buddy, pal!

work together to make the best operating system

Yeah good luck with that while adhering to POSIX.

Ah, I see now. Close enough I guess.

Python 3.5.2 (default, Jun 28 2016, 08:46:01) 
[GCC 6.1.1 20160602] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> for i in (8,4,2016):
...  bin(i)
... 
'0b1000'
'0b100'
'0b11111100000'

10000? Am I doing it wrong?

This guy keeps whining about his own incompetence, or did I miss some great injustice? I don't think it counts as bad luck if you're lacking knowledge in this context.

My comment was a joke. I fully agree with learning vi for the reasons you mentioned (vim is my editor of choice), but that should be learned before jumping into programming. I would assume OP is capable of picking out an editor or IDE on his own.

I started out with vi and Bash scripting on Solaris and then learned Python followed by Perl. It was a great way to start out, because I learned "how to program" without all of the overhead of memory management and strict typing. Python's forced whitespace gave me good indentation practice. Its 'batteries included' standard library is also a huge plus.

Now I'm learning Rust. It's like C, low level, strict typing, very fast. The transition hasn't been painful, lacking docs aside. C wouldn't have that problem due to its age, but I believe Rust will eventually replace C.

That's actually a thing

In Gentoo

Python for sure

The formatted string literals look neat. I could see me using that feature quite a bit.

You're using Putty, so the engineering server runs a Unix-alike OS? See if X11 is installed. If so, you can configure Putty to allow GUI windows from the engineering server to open on your desktop. You will also need Xming installed and running on your local machine. Not sure if you need admin privileges to install that.

Codecademy has a SQL course that is a decent introduction. Once you have the basics down, download some database software like postgres and just play around with it.