I drive to Oracle HQ and ask to talk to someone who can tell me what it is. Sales guy: So, how much of it do you want? Me: What is it? S: It’s Oracle. Everyone has to have it. Me: But what does it do? S, irritated: Look, how much do you want to buy? 2/n
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Me: How much does what configuration cost? What do the different versions do? Sales: You don’t seem to understand. Go ask your boss how much he wants. Me: OK, so what would I get for $10,000? Sales: Great! We’ll send you an invoice. 3/nhttps://twitter.com/patio11/status/1029113225659408384 …
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Two months later, my boss informs me that Oracle has arrived and I have to put data in it. It is wheeled into my office, where the manuals take up two complete bookshelves and there is a box of CD-ROMs fills the space under my desk. (This is 1994, by the way.) 4/n
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I still have no idea what it is, and a day randomly poking through the manuals proves entire uninformative. Time to go to a bookstore (remember those?) and get Oracle For Idiots. Reading between the lines, I discover it maintains a finite set of tuples. You are joking?
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It takes $10,000, 60 pounds of manuals, and 25 pounds of CD-ROMs to keep track of tuples? It took me another decade to figure out why. (Hint: not because you couldn’t do it in 1/100 as much code.) I never did put any data in it, but my boss was greatly reassured we had it. n/n
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What year was this?
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’94 I think. Maybe ’95.
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Also mix the album in Dubbly.
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We’re showing our age.
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