Hi Tim,

> On 17. Jan, 2021, at 09:43, Tim Cross <theophil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Highly recommend a mutt and imap combination. Your not locked into any
> particular mail folder format, can still access things via mobile
> devices and can process messages fast and efficiently.

also, there's the good old elm. ;-)

> He was amazed when I showed him all he needed to do was highlight the
> error message, copy it and paste it into the message. This guy was one
> of the senior developers on the team.
> 
> I switched employers a few weeks later.

one just can't know it all, I can understand that. But I expect a senior 
developer to develop good software. Knowing at least basic functionality of the 
tools s/he uses is one aspect of it. Copy/paste text is a basic thing which I 
expect a developer to know how to use, be it a terminal window or the IDE in 
use.

The buzz-title "senior" developer/dba/whatever is very relative to what the 
company sees in you. I found that what is called "junior" in one company is 
"senior" or even "seasoned" in the next. These are only buzz words without a 
proper norm and classification and I don't give them much credit.

With about 21 years of experience, my company calls me "Senior Oracle DBA". 
Still, I don't know RAC because we never had it, and know only little of Data 
Guard, which is way too complicated and bloated anyway. Oracle is so bug-ridden 
that I spend all of my day searching for fixes for databases and the OEM. Thank 
god, my day shifts more and more to PostgreSQL. :-)

Cheers,
Paul

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