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Haven't met a Facebook user yet that doesn't like to hear the sound of their own voice.
Marc
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I'm curios, especially when it comes to things related to Google or Facebook with customized results etc how much of an impact they algorithms have. Because if I like subject X and you like subject X will I see more of your stuff in my stream? Thus potentially exposing me to more of the stuff that I agree with making me think that this is normal and reinforcing my way of thinking?
Because the way I see it social media is just another way to get people to fold in line with mainstream ideas and conform people.
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I agree that it is a case of "I look at this, so I see more of it", but I don't think that it's the blame of social media. People are doing it to themselves by not looking outside of their comfort zone.
TTFN - Kent
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True, I find it difficult even thou I'm quite aware of this to avoid looking up/ interpreting news and information in ways that only reinforce my view but social media does take this to another level.
One example that illustrates this is that I've been having a couple of controversial discussions without old acquaintance's on Facebook and I know at least two of which unfriended me because of my views. While I can respect peoples choice to "sanitize" their everyday environment if they spend a lot of time using these types of services this only speeds up this belief reinforcement.
At least I'm happy that I also have friends which have been able to question my views and keep the discussion rolling. One problem thou is with open discussions like that is that other people with my view also joins in but manages to express themselves in a way that solidifies the negatives of my views in others opinion. But that only keeps things interesting and if I didn't expect to be questioned I wouldn't discuss publicly.
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Fisher-Price thinks preschoolers should be introduced to the problem solving skills they might one day need to be a great coder. "Give me the child for the first seven years and I'll give you the man" (or woman)
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This[^] is where my coding career began 
Of course kids don't need that anymore, with all that JavaScript around 
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Yeah, now anyone can jab a double into a string slot.
TTFN - Kent
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That's all well and good but I think what they really need is to learn how to survive and function effectively.
New version: WinHeist Version They all laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same. Kurt Cobain
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Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase script kiddies.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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So why the hell should everyone learn how to "code" (note the quotes). I guess I should just quit programming seeming as the companies and education systems seem to be finding replacements for me and every other current developer.
i cri evry tiem
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The more "Coders" they have, the less demand so pay goes down.
Simple supply and demand.
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True, and the more shitware is produced.
i cri evry tiem
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DB-Engines' rankings show Oracle is the database most talked about by recruiters and developers, but open source databases posted gains I still think Excel is the most popular database around
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"Looking for DBA's and developers to replace our way-to-expensive Oracle database."
+1 for Oracle
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Oracle has big market share in "big data" databases likes enterprises oder security agencies.
Excel is more for home or small business users.
I used to think that MS SQL Server is doing fine. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Yeah, I think SQL Server is doing fine. I doubt I'd ever use it again intentionally though (MariaDB and PostgreSQL are both good enough, IMO). I'd only use an Oracle product under duress (not counting MySQL, but that only because I'm lazy and that's the default for Wordpress).
It may have changed since I last looked, but just count the Excel spreadsheets in big companies that are acting like databases - contact lists, project tracking, etc. etc. It used to be the free-form database of choice.
TTFN - Kent
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Hmmm...
The method is flawed IMO. For example, DB-Engine calculates an index by (I quote) "searching for <system name=""> together with the term database, e.g. "Oracle" and "database"."
Lets try it out:
Google "SQL server database" => 35.4 million results
Google "Oracle database" => 19.7 million results
They also claim to look at google trends... So that's what I found in Google trends for December 2015:
SQL Server database index = 42
Oracle Database index = 27
They also say they use Stackoverflow...
SQL server Tag: 151708
Oracle Tag: 64616
Get the idea? It looks like Oracle is not as widely mentioned as they worked it out. (and that matches my experience of the market!)
And my last point is that they are sponsored by Solid-It, a development/consultancy company who are in Java/NoSQL business stuff... enough said! conflict of interests springs to mind!
This kind of article should be published in the Daily Mail (If you are from the UK you know what I mean...)
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 Good detective work
Now, get back to real work! 
TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft's coming end of support for Windows Embedded is forcing the industry to look elsewhere Is it still a "bastion" if you stop work on it?
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Quote: The industry coalesced around Windows Embedded CE version 6, which debuted in 2006 and represents 99 percent of all embedded devices' operating system, says Mark Kirstein, senior director of enterprise software at Zebra, the company that makes most of those specialty devices.
I find that incredibly hard impossible to believe. In a small number of markets that may be true, but "99% of all embedded devices" seems a ridiculous claim.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Windows Embedded is running on a lot of older devices, like ATM machines, in the industry (roboters) or cash register in markets.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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The State Administration for Industry and Commerce released a statement Tuesday that it would open a new investigation into the Redmond-based company related to electronic data the Chinese government had collected earlier. Sorry, I have to take the rest of the day off. That headline broke my brain.
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When asked if he’s bitter for receiving no compensation for creating Solitaire for Windows, Wes Cherry once quipped, “Yeah, especially since you are all probably paid to play it!” "Never was so much owed by so many to so few" (OK, to one)
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Wes Cherry actually responded in one of the forums. He wrote the game for Windows 2.1 in his free time when interning at Microsoft in 1988. Graphics was done by direct pixel math against the EGA buffer. He wrote it in C as there wasn't a good C++ compiler available yet for Windows.
A PM saw the game and decided to officially make it part of Windows 3.0. He knew he would not be paid for it and he was fine with it, then as well as now.
Wes is now the owner of a hard cider company on Vashon Island (near Seattle). He says he rarely codes these days, but when he does it's C/C++ for embedded controllers for cider making hardware.
Thought you'd be interested in this trivia, Kent 
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