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I work for EDB, assisting a bunch of really skilled people share their PostgreSQL expertise and experience with the world.
Before that, I worked here - at Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange. Here, my duties also involved helping a bunch of really skilled people share their knowledge. So you might encounter some posts from me which provide guidance and advice for the folks using this network of Q&A sites.
I tend to write as though I know what I'm writing about... And sometimes I do... But, you should always use your own judgement: question everything, read the links to supporting materials, and draw your own conclusions. I'm usually happy to discuss anything I've written, so don't hesitate to raise concerns or point out when something is unclear!
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Open letter: the July 2024 question quality survey is a dead end The survey presupposed all questions would fall into a few categories wrt evaluations of purpose, information, presentation. This one did not: the asker solved their own problem and needed help understanding what to do with that. No set of choices I might have made among the available options would have accurately reflected the problem or pointed towards its resolution. |
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Open letter: the July 2024 question quality survey is a dead end Edited an answer into the question, @philipxy |
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answered | Open letter: the July 2024 question quality survey is a dead end |
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awarded | Revival |
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Announcing a change to the data-dump process All the commentary about licensing (in your comments @TylerH and in other answers and comments here) serve to illustrate what is probably the real intent of the language used in the UI mock-up: to muddy the waters sufficiently to discourage use and distribution, whether or not that is allowable legally or enforceable practically. Which is itself worthy of condemnation and derision: the licensing situation surrounding the content has already had a long history of being muddied by poor communication and planning - introducing further confusion is beyond foolish. |
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Announcing a change to the data-dump process After watching public meltdowns in a few different companies over the years, I've come to believe this is something of an occupational hazard for CMs, @wizzwizz4. The job should not require and does not benefit from this sort of duplicity, but... the pressures of the role inevitably lead to it as an outcome. The blind fear of insufficiently-controlled release of information leads to useless communication efforts leads to speculation, hasty correction, and ultimately a chaotic and confused trickle of information mixed with misinformation... leading to the very thing that was feared. |
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Announcing a change to the data-dump process Yeah, I kinda suspect that's not too far off, @AMtwo - that this is a "for show" type of thing, to ease investor concerns and ... Maybe even discourage clueless customers from seeking alternatives. But... There are alternatives, and they tend to be a lot better (if not cheaper) than the data dumps, which are primarily of value to small fry (like... Me) to learn and experiment with. SO's best long-term hope is to provide something of real value for folks who can pay, something that can't be replicated by distributed scrapers who won't care or even notice any of this. |
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answered | Announcing a change to the data-dump process |
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