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Kent Sharkey wrote: you spend a great deal of time doing nothing of worth.
ehem, ehem, mmm... The Lounge?  
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Demand for Ruby on Rails talent continues at a steady pace, and developers with the skills and knowledge of this language are red-hot in a tight IT job market. "Some may say Ruby is a bad rip-off of Lisp or Smalltalk, and I admit that"
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Loss of trust in Internet companies could lead to protectionism and a splintered Internet, they say. "Let every eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent."
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CEO of SpaceX and Tesla suggests super-intelligent machines might one day decide the solution to spam is a world devoid of humans. So... those 'enhancement' emails will save us if we save them?
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What worked in the past may not work in the present. That’s certainly true for how I, and many of my colleagues in the industry, have looked at databases. Schemas deemed harmful?
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There goes my career!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Ah - the tables have turned. (Or - "If you can't join them, beat them"?)
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Here's your coat.
TTFN - Kent
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I guess his rant is better written than my one[^] but is in the same vein...
Although - can you imagine how bad things would have been if we'd only had (XML or JSON) files instead of RDBMS? oh. 
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"The key concept of Agile Big Data is viewing databases as real-time streams, utilizing dynamic views."
So it's Excel spreadsheets all the way, then, because real-time streams don't need data to be stored anywhere, do they now? And if you want a specific drop of water from an ocean, you just dip your finger in any wave.
The guy could give lessons in talking bollocks.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Hmmm - another article about Big Data by ... someone who has a Big Data solution to flog. Who'd have thought it.
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Microsoft's latest public compatibility commitments refute rumors that it's planning to discontinue its Surface lineup. So, please buy one. Buy three, the warehouses are stuffed
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Remember when a majority of new tech jobs were going to India and China? Well, increasingly, those jobs are going away altogether. Outsourcing, it turns out, is in the early stages of being automated. The next program you write might replace you.
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Zrrrrp! Boing! Boing!
Don't be silly foolish human there is nothing to worry about.
This post brought to you by Codesoft Automated Programming Inc.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Computer engineering graduates are some of the top paid workers in the country, according to new data analyzed by Brookings. Might even get to pay off your student loan!
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TTFN - Kent
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Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee on the future of farming, work and computing. “Some things are going to completely disappear and obviously more boring jobs go first."
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The Seattle-based organization today launched a crowdfunding campaign that aims to raise $5 million in order to introduce 100 million students around the world to one hour of coding lessons. Learn to code in one hour? In my day, we took 21 days to learn!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: In my day, we took 21 days to learn!
Nowadays you can get an injection.
Marc
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I think that's called LSD. You can do anything on LSD.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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The DHS contributes $23.5 million toward the Software Assurance Market Place to enable software developers to test open source programs and improve software analysis tools. Do you still get paid if you lock them out?
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Makes perfect sense to me. If the US Government can get everyone to conform to a set of standards and run software through their algorithms, it will be all that easier to keep the backdoor access points open for their snooping.
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Microsoft is actively developing a meeting-room application designed to streamline the entire process, including sharing data and recognizing participants, according to company co-founder Bill Gates. I could go for an app that kills meetings
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Skype + Xbox Kinnect + software = $$
(I did pitch this for a large company about 2 years ago - they decided to stay with the $20k teleconference rooms you have to book months in advance...)
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