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Something new for the codewitch to play with.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Microsoft says it’s gone door-to-door replacing routers compromised with the Trickbot malware in Brazil and Latin America, hoping to squash an international hacking group. Hi! Have you heard the good news about our lord and master, Windows Update?
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Isn't it a little early in the year for Trick or Treat?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Hi! Have you heard the good news about our lord and master, Windows Update?
Damn! That caught me unawares! +10 
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Next week's headline: Hackers go door to door pretending to be Microsoft, replacing uncompromised routers with pre-infected ones.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Each year, people are creating more content and using more devices to access that content. So it’s more critical than ever to be able to keep files, folders and photos safe, synced between devices, backed up and organized. Which replaces the tool that replaced Google Drive (what goes around, comes around)
And I'm sure there will only be mild to moderate scanning of all files loaded.
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We're pleased to announce a product that has already been released: Dropbox OneDrive Google Drive. We mean, the NEW Google Drive, which does exactly the same thing as the old Google Drive! (At least until we cancel it.)
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I wonder if this is a stealth system for updating the icons?
TTFN - Kent
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google avoids the whole "you changed the Icons now the software is ruined" cluster![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) by replacing the entire application instead. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Kent Sharkey wrote: safe, synced between devices, backed up and organized
They put the most useful feature, "organized", last. That's my biggest problem -- how do I organize all those files, folders, and photos? I guess the more important question is, why do they need to be organized? Which then leads to the question, why am I even keeping them? 
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Intense workloads are putting developers under strain. "No more speed, I'm almost there"
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Maybe it's the language?
Neil Young wrote: It's better to burn out 'cause Rust never sleeps
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I knew there was a problem with that language!
TTFN - Kent
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In a little more than two decades, it’s become the most widely deployed database in the world, according to the official webpage at SQLite.org — partly due to its simplicity. It was bit by a radioactive database during a gamma bomb test...
And it watched as its mother (named Martha, of course) was shot in an alley behind the opera house as its rocketship was sent to earth.
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It's a shocker that a database installed on each client that uses it has more installations than a database installed on more machines than those that have one installation supporting possibly thousands of clients.
I don't think that makes it "most widely-used" though necessarily.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The core message that I want people to take away is that there is potentially a huge amount of value to be unlocked by replacing SQL, and more generally in rethinking where and how we draw the lines between databases, query languages and programming languages. This is what happens when ORM become ubiquitous
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IMHO, SQL is an alright tool for data analysts. Applications would benefit from a different database API.
That said, I have no idea what the article is all about 
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Quote: So there is no way for a user to define the type of an arbitrary json value:
enum Json {
Null,
Bool(bool),
Number(Number),
String(String),
Array(Vec<Value>),
Object(Map<String, Value>),
}
This point made me really question it, because what is to keep you from putting a field for each type into the table? Of course, you would have to use an auxiliary table to store the vector, but it still wouldn't be that hard to model. (The Map would be a bit awkward because you would have to manually keep track of Value somehow, unless I am overlooking something.) And later he wanted SQL to create windows and store their states? Huh? Why?
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Quote: how we draw the lines between databases, query languages and programming languages.
The point of lines is that they shouldn't be crossed. 
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Think of a function as a black box. It takes an input, and spits back out an output. Don't we all want to know what's in the box?
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He blabbers on too much (hire an editor!) but makes a valid point. Been there, done that. Sometimes wondering what idiot came up with the name and then remembering it was me. But also remembering that it started as the named function, but I later determined that what was originally a multi-step process could be made a single-step. And the name didn't change because the team lead would get upset about commits with nothing but name changes.
(Slight exaggeration since I document functions, not just because it's good for other devs, but I have a memory like a sieve.)
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Just wait until you see how much the “Against SQL” guy needs an editor.  Some people think they’re paid by the pound. (And yes, I admit I didn’t real all-all of it)
TTFN - Kent
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I gave up on that article as well.
Much of what he writes seems to prove some lack of knowledge / experience with SQL, imho.
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Microsoft's bug bounty payments have flattened out but still remain large. I'm assuming less than they would have paid testers?
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And I assume they don't pay all of the submited bugs... if not, there would probably be less "yet another unpatched issue" published
Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm assuming less than they would have paid testers?
Testers? what for? They have millions of users that do the job...
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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