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I win! 
(not sure if I've ever actually handled a euro, now that I think of it)
TTFN - Kent
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Ok, just sned me yor creddit card deetails, b'wana, and i will rich make you!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Damn!
I meant to say "enrichened", but I got distracted!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I don't think the idea is a bad one. It would sure cut down on tech support calls from family members who really just use their machines for web browsing and e-mail, but end up messing them up with malware if they're able to install anything from the entire internet. It makes sense for schools that are currently using Chromebooks now, too. If you're giving your students devices, it's probably better if the students can't install anythign and everything.
It also doesn't seem like Win10 S machines will be totally locked down. An upgrade straight to Win10 Pro will cost $50, and the upgrade even free until the end of 2017.
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Study Finds Gender Bias in Open-Source Programming[^]
A study comparing acceptance rates of contributions from men and women in an open-source software community finds that, overall, women’s contributions tend to be accepted more often than men’s – but when a woman’s gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often.
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The Insider News[^]
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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A global survey found one-third of data-center and IT professionals plan to put workloads in the cloud over the next year. We get to pay for the silver lining
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And when the clubble (you read it here first, folks!) bursts, Henny Penny really will be running around shrieking that the sky is falling. Don't get me wrong, I think the cloud is great, but I suspect a whole new tech will develop on mirroring / synchronizing your cloud data locally for that cough rainy day when all the clouds come home.
Obviously that tech exists already, it'll just be repackaged, toolified better, and reduntified (dang, I'm on a role tonight), with marketing like "Don't let that backhoe take down your entire operation" or "Worried about that unnamed country in the Korean Peninsula ruining your day and data?" or "Keep your customers connected with our private global mesh network, regardless of what the US Congress and spammers do to your bandwidth."
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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Wow. And I just spent the last 2 years REMOVING every single bit of my life from the public cloud. It's all on my own infrastructure now.
OneDrive keeps coming back even though I've uninstalled it 3 times now, but it's just a zombie.
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The application suite I work with has a 'cloud' option for data transfer.
For some scenarios, it makes sense, especially for research: they get a copy of our data and use it internally to develop better products. The only caveat, if you will, is they must be using the application suite we are using.
The alternate is company-to-company VPN connections.
So.. on a per instance basis, we evaluate pick what is best.
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Academics have developed a set of approaches that not only identify web ads but deter anti-blocking strategies. I'll believe it when I don't see them
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Nope, it's not unbeatable. A good HOSTS file will beat it. It works great for me.
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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
Latest Article - Merkle Trees
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
Latest Article - Merkle Trees
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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