Hacker News: diseasedyak

New comment by diseasedyak in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"

diseasedyak — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:45:39 +0000

Dang, really? Why would that be? I mean, I believe you, I'm just shocked. I'm glad I read this, as I was thinking of getting some but not now.

New comment by diseasedyak in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2024)"

diseasedyak — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 21:22:43 +0000

Location: Arkansas, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Teradata, Oracle, MS SQL (25+ years of database administration experience across these)

Resume/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eHmw2XvXnujfhAGKddqZo_QO...

Email: nathan.gillmore@gmail.com

New comment by diseasedyak in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2024)"

diseasedyak — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 20:14:16 +0000

Location: Central Arkansas, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: 25 years of experience with Database Administration.

  - Oracle, Netezza, Teradata, SQL Server

  - Shell scripting, Python, Ruby, PL/SQL

Resume: email me please

Email: nathan.gillmore@gmail.com

I've worked for major retailers, database warehouses, and video game devs. Wide breadth of experience with databases covering lots of technologies. Would love to find a great company to stick with for years to come!

New comment by diseasedyak in "Family Dollar to close almost 1,000 stores"

diseasedyak — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:56:55 +0000

Every Dollar Tree and Family Dollar that I've been in (and this applies to Dollar General as well, here in the southern US) has had 1, maybe 2, employees working and aisles filled with boxes waiting to be unloaded. A couple employees can't contain any sort of theft, much less help customers and unload all the stuff to put on shelves.

Little reason to be shocked on why their business model isn't working...

New comment by diseasedyak in "DBeaver – open-source database client"

diseasedyak — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 15:31:01 +0000

I work primarily with Teradata, and prefer Toad over DBeaver. I've tried to use DBeaver but for some reason when creating objects or performing DML, it looks like the command successfully completed when it actually did not. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong...

New comment by diseasedyak in "AWS and Blockchain"

diseasedyak — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:02:00 +0000

I'm still trying to wrap my head around how a blockchain would be helpful, even in your example. How is tracking say, a cow, from farm to lot to slaughterhouse, and knowing what all was done to said cow, not simply something that could be done easily and fast with a database?

Is the portability of the blockchain the thing? I could see maybe how that would help, if there wasn't a standard across the databases involved or something.

Honestly just trying to understand, thanks!

New comment by diseasedyak in "My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simulator"

diseasedyak — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 14:28:18 +0000

I was 6 years old, 7 or 8 years away from acquiring a Commodore 64 and typing out my first code in BASIC from the back pages of a Compute! magazine... I'm an old man.

New comment by diseasedyak in "My dad's resume and skills from 1980"

diseasedyak — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 19:08:04 +0000

Hah, not quite nowadays but I, too, was dealing with one from around '97-2000'ish. What a pain in the ass. That was just one network in the building, I also had to deal with 10base-t, which was also a nightmare. shudder

New comment by diseasedyak in "James Webb Space Telescope hit by a tiny meteorite"

diseasedyak — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 13:05:41 +0000

Throw a few dozen Rain-X wipers from AutoZone on that baby, she'd be good.

New comment by diseasedyak in "Ask HN: How do you deal with rude interviewers?"

diseasedyak — Wed, 11 May 2022 21:13:43 +0000

I've been in the IT job market since 1995-ish, and have worked for a lot of companies, both big and large. In all my experience with interviews, I've only had one that was a rude disaster.

It was for a DBA position with a small team at a major insurance company. It was a team of 2 that wanted a 3rd experienced Oracle DBA to help them expand. Sounded good. Interview starts with those 2 guys, and immediately it was readily apparent that one of them had no real intention to hire someone, at least not me. Within 5 minutes, the shithead one had laughed out loud when I said I didn't have much experience with a certain part of Oracle. Any Oracle DBA out there knows that the product is f'ing PACKED with stuff, lots of it you won't use because you are in a certain segment (i.e. - in a data warehouse environment, you use certain tools but not others, etc).

I just sat there, staring at him. The other guy at least had the courtesy to turn red-faced. I know a lot of posts here say to just thank them and walk out, but I was so shocked I just sat there. The rude asshole never asked another question, and finally the nice guy escorted me out. He left me at the door with a "We'll be in touch." and I just chuckled and thanked him.

New comment by diseasedyak in "Ask HN: Is DBA still a good job?"

diseasedyak — Mon, 09 May 2022 14:12:30 +0000

I've worked over 20 years as a DBA, mainly Oracle but also with Netezza, Teradata, Postgres, MS SQL Server, DB2, and Mongo. I would say DBAs are still in demand. I recently was laid off from a place that wanted to outsource DBAs and it took next to no time to find my new job. The pay is stellar, imo.

Having said all that, I could see it would be hard to decide right now, as a new IT person, to get into being a DBA. We wear so many hats, and are generally looked to for anything that needs to be done. As others have stated, a lot of companies don't seem to care that their queries are absolute shit, they just throw more hardware at the issue.

New comment by diseasedyak in "Considered "18+""

diseasedyak — Tue, 03 May 2022 21:02:53 +0000

I worked for over a decade as a DBA for one of the largest private data warehouse companies, and it was hilariously fun to get the so-called "naughty word list" for customer suppression reasons. I learned so many creative slurs based on where people live or were born.

Australians, in particular, have an amazing amount of curse words/racial slurs.