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As we considered adding a dedicated tool for working with databases and SQL, we felt it was necessary to better understand how developers used databases. SELECTively? (I'll get my coat)
Caution: May not load in Chrome (at least it doesn't for me)
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They didn't ask me. 
Such tools continue to be mere crutches for they who don't have confidence in their abilities (probably rightly so). Which is fine, expect for that the users don't realize that they are crippling their growth as developers. Developers must get their hands dirty with hand-crafting their SQL themselves.
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My thinking has always been that when a new person sits down to learn node, python, ruby, golang, whatever, for the most part their experience is something like this. It should be just as easy - or easier - to use .NET. Just like developing on Unix, in a new .NET flavour!
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Ohhh... he wants a modern version of the VAX BASIC (or BASICplus on PDP) interactive environment? That was cool, but I thought we had evolved from that.
I, for one, really dislike using huge IDEs (e.g. Visual Studio) just to whip up some small one-off command-line utility, but something like the Turbo-C and Turbo-Pascal IDEs is what I prefer.
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Microsoft’s Chief Marketing Officer and former speech writer for Bill Gates offered tantalizing details around Redmond’s phone hardware efforts, yielded no concessions on the relentless and unclear upgrade push in Windows 7 and 8, and spun Azure as being light years ahead of Google and Oracle’s business cloud efforts. The next one is always the best ever
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In theory, the Internet of Things—the connected network of tiny computers inside home appliances, household objects, even clothing—promises to make your life easier and your work more efficient. Because their things hate your things (and vice versa)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: promises to make your life easier and your work more efficient.
The same line we were fed in the 70's and 80's. And 90's and 00's.
Given the process that I just went through in buying a house, computers have made life a lot more complicated and a lot less efficient. I'm not going to defend the point other than to say that, without computers, the amount of information I've been asked to acquire simply wouldn't be possible. And without computers, archiving that information where no one will ever look at it, but where somewhere, some clerk had to click a checkbox to say "yes, I provided a document explaining my change of employment from contract to W2, yes it was confirmed in writing by my employer, yes, they received a verbal acknowledgement that I was still employed, yes, they know I work in NY while their offices are in CA, yes, they are just fine with that"...and this was just the tip of the iceberg of crap the lender needed...
My brainless toaster with its analog toast knob and ticky timer is quite efficient enough for me, thank you.
Marc
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So how big was it all the way back then, some 13.8 billion years ago? Unfortunately, it took 13.799 billion years before we had quality tape measures
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He shows his math(s) 
TTFN - Kent
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Math isn't proof; just ask an accountant or two.
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TTFN - Kent
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Silly physicists. The universe was as big then as it is now.
Think about it.
Marc
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You're neglecting the Inflationary phase (assuming it existed).
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Archive still being expanded. Once completed we can re zip and see how big it was originally.
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the observable Universe, at 13.8 billion years old, extends for 46.1 billion light years in all directions from us
So, this guy thinks we are the center of the universe? He is back in the dark ages?
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ComScore just recently released it’s desktop search share numbers for the month of November, measuring each search engine’s share of the U.S market, and Microsoft continues it’s slow but steady march towards dethroning Google from its mantle. Amazing what happens when people who can't change their search engine install Windows 10
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So without doing any calculation I must assume this article is totally flawed...
In 2014 all market shares add up to 100%, in 2015 ONLY Microsoft changes and it somehow still adds up to 100%!?
Now doing the math it seems 2014 only adds up to 99.9%, so I'm guessing 0.1% of the population got a 404?
Oh wait, this is Microsoft-news.com... That explain it 
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The only times I used Bing since installing Windows 10 is, when I clicked on a "more info" link somewhere on a settings page. This then openend a browser to query bing with "how to get help in windows 10". Elephanting sunshines...
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In an all-too-typical pattern, InfoWorld accused Microsoft of releasing a horribly flawed, data-destroying security update for Windows 10, KB3124200. There's only one small problem: That update does no such thing. Is it too much to ask tech reporters to gather some facts before hurling accusations? News flash: Tech reporter gets something wrong (inconceivable!)
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There's a worse one?
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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He had a relevant Twain quote (which admittedly isn't that hard). 
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Washington Post, 12/26
Those who would resist the coming of our corporate digital-overlords mutter impotently ?: [^].
Astra Taylor’s iPhone has a cracked screen. She has bandaged it with clear packing tape and plans to use the phone until it disintegrates. She objects to the planned obsolescence of today’s gadgetry, and to the way the big tech companies pressure customers to upgrade.
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Last month, Taylor and more than 1,000 activists, scholars and techies gathered at the New School in New York City for a conference to talk about reinventing the Internet. They dream of a co-op model: people dealing directly with one another without having to go through a data-sucking corporate hub.
"The powerful definitely do not want us to reboot things, and they will go to great lengths to stop us, and they will use brute force or they will use bureaucracy," Taylor warned the conferees at the close of the two-day session.
We need a movement, she said, "that says no to the existing order."
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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I envision a world wherein neighbor's wireless home networks all talk to each other to form one large (free)network without need for a "backbone" and "Service Providers" and nosey regulation.
Such will, of course, be more effective in large well-populated areas (unlike islands of population, e.g. Phoenix).
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Then I will need trees to be able to grow wifi to enjoy my daily dose of internet.
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