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I haven't seen an ad in decades. And the losers who use anti-adblock, I just run a greasemonkey script to take care of that problem, or I simply avoid the site.
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SQL is the second-most common programming language, used by 50% of all developers (Web, Desktop, Sysadmin/DevOps, Data Scientist/Engineer) and beaten only by JavaScript - a language half the age of SQL. SELECT FIRST solution FROM choices WHERE NOT broken
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Kent Sharkey wrote: SELECT FIRST solution FROM choices WHERE NOT broken
No records found. 
[edit]BTW, it's select top 1 not select first You're mixing Linq and SQL. [/edit]
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
modified 2-May-17 20:48pm.
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Bah. I should know better than trying to wing code with you lot.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I should know better than trying to wing code with you lot.
Well, 5 for the effort, and frankly, 5 for writing something that is a lot clearer than "top 1"! Too bad you weren't on the SQL design committee 43 years ago! 
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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I note that the attribute the invention of SQL to E.J.Codd, which is unfortunate as he didn't write it (he did invent relational database management systems).
In fact, Codd was always highly critical of SQL - for example, a relational database should (according to his 12 laws) never have duplicate rows - even in the results of queries.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Who still predominantly codes for the desktop for a living?
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MarcusCole092076 wrote: Who still predominantly codes for the desktop for a living?
His voice echoed in the empty cave...
Unfortunately, many of us have found that we cannot predominantly do desktop dev.
I do still work on some desktop apps but more and more they are a pain to deploy and they should really just be implemented as web apps or at least WPF / UWP or something.
modified 2-May-17 15:20pm.
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raddevus wrote: they should really just be implemented as web apps or at least WPF / UWP or something.
... Which everyone will prefer to run on a desktop.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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raddevus wrote: many of us have found that we cannot predominantly do desktop dev.
Ridiculous. I've been doing desktop dev for 30+ years and will continue to so. There is no shortage of work out there.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Oh yeah?
And what, pray tell, do you think the word many means?
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I'm predominately desktop myself (and very much hope to be until I retire) but there's clearly less desktop work around than there used to be and I don't see anything remotely ridiculous about raddevus' comment.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Good question... of they code I've written in the past 10 years, most of it has been back-end processing (Windows services) or console applications that can be scheduled and executed.
When I have to write 'interactive' code, it is usually <cough> <cough> VBA Macros in Excel <cough> <cough> that existed before I arrived.. we just maintain the beast.
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The stuff I do is predominately automation systems and supporting apps so, while they can run on my desktop and laptop boxes, that is not where they are deployed. They end up in one factory or another in one country or another.
FWIW, at my previous employer most of our customers were suppliers to Apple, Samsung, and their competitors so things we made can be found in the vast majority of the world's mobile devices. My current employer is in a completely different line of business. I have finally escaped from the semiconductor industry and I am very glad for that.
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Yup, that would be me. 
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/ravi
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Not for a paid living, but I actively support this[^] desktop app that's used by 10K+ users on a daily basis.
/ravi
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Me, using c++ and MFC.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Dear god 
i cri evry tiem
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Wow. MFC. I really liked that framework. Amazing that it still going somewhere.
DocView architecture FTW!!!
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Moi.
Speed of sound - 1100 ft/sec
Speed of light - 186,000 mi/sec
Speed of stupid - instantaneous.
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up until a year ago: me
now, it's all REST
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Is that a well deserved rest or is that still to come?
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I have been for the past year. Before that, I wrote software for the Microsoft Hololens and back-end services for the military.
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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