Wrong, wrong, wrong

I’m reading Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems, wherein the authors say:

Data is stored in a table of relations (rows), and each relation contains multiple fields (columns); see Figure 5-7. Note that we use the terms column and field interchangeably throughout this book.

There are two mistakes. The first is that tables are relations, rows are tuples. The second is that a field is the intersection of a row and a column, columns and fields are different things.
I have to wonder what business the authors have publishing a book on data engineering while failing to know such basic things.

Harry’s Rules

So I just finished reading Younger Next Year (thanks Craig!) and its advice is basically “do heaps of exercise”. I thought I might list Harry’s Rules:

  1. Exercise six days a week for the rest of your life.
  2. Do serious aerobic exercise four days a week for the rest of your life.
  3. Do serious strength training, with weights, two days a week for the rest of your life.
  4. Spend less than you make.
  5. Quit eating crap!
  6. Care.
  7. Connect and commit.