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A new service has been funded by the DHS that will make multi-tool software assurance testing faster, cheaper, and easier. I'm not entirely sure that's the acronym they should have gone for
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Is that the same armageddon that was going to destroy the world due to Y2K?
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Forget the acronym, this has NSA written all over it. Send us all your code and we'll "fix" it. Granted, it's all open source so far.
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Microsoft's open developer strategy is amazing and welcome news. But the company must still bite the bullet and make peace with open source. The job's not done until ESR has a heart attack?
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.net is older than ten years now. Time to take what they've learned from its mistakes and develop its successor.
modified 17-Nov-14 16:11pm.
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What are they going to call it? .org? .com? .co.bs?
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I thought they already did that with Windows Runtime... or, maybe not. 
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Nah. ESR'd probably do a victory dance while muttering "took them long enough" under his breath.
RMS OTOH... 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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doh! Yeah, RMS. That's who I meant. Dang. Ruined the joke 
TTFN - Kent
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A consumer electronics coalition warns that many of its companies have "lost business" or have faced backlash from governments fearing the National Security Agency. "Politics makes strange bedfellows."
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'Open source' and 'Microsoft' used to be like oil and water; the two would never be mixed. But today, Microsoft has shown that it is highly supportive of this community by open sourcing parts of its key products and allowing these platforms to run on its Azure infrastructure. It's catching?
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A comparison of two relational databases from the point of view of a data analyst. SELECT TOP 1;
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This makes me want to try PostgreSQL! 
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I've been quite pleased with Postgres. While many of the points in that article seem like minutiae to me, I will say that it is painless to install (can't say that for SQL Server and all its variants running on my computer), it's easy to connect to (again, I've fought all sorts of TCP/IP, Pipe, etc. crap trying to connect to SQL Server), there's a free .NET client, and again, I've never had problems connecting to a database in pgAdmin, while I've had nightmares trying to get the path exactly right in SSMS, verify that right services are running (or not), etc. etc.
The one thing that I don't like about pgAdmin is that it's 6 clicks to drill down from "Databases" into the specific database schema table collection.
And I've got Postgres installed on my Beaglebone Black. How cool is that?
Marc
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Kent Sharkey wrote: SELECT TOP 1;
 That's so last century.
SELECT ... FROM ... ORDER BY ... FETCH FIRST 1 ROW ONLY
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It gets even better, PostgreSQL supports ranges, so you can do this:
SELECT …
FROM …
WHERE (time_stamp, id) < (?, ?)
ORDER BY time_stamp DESC, id DESC
FETCH FIRST 10 ROWS ONLY So you get paging that's always the same speed no matter what page you are on. Well, assuming that you have an index on time_stamp, id
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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Postgres is excellent, but this review made me barf - there was no attempt to create a balanced view, no instrumentation to back up claims, and generally a lot of MS bashing.
Should try harder.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I was fine with his, admittedly biased, arguments until he threw in a curve-ball and introduced christians and muslims in there, and his quote that 2.7bn people are wrong. I'm now trying to work out whether he thinks that's the number of SQL Server users, or the religious count. Either way, it really had no place in the post.
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No sync placeholders in Windows 10; testers accuse company of again not heeding feedback. You can't please all the customers, all the time
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Don't ever put all your eggs in one basket, especially if you don't control the basket.
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Welcome to the cloud 
I foresee a great future for coders, writing and rewriting the same stuff over and over again.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Sources for the Financial Times understand that the internet giant is developing "Facebook at Work," a professional take on its familiar formula. No. No, no, no, no NO. No.
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Yeah, ain't gonna happen.
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Microsoft has collected all the stats about its products and services into a report which was released on November 13th. These numbers provide insight into the massive amount of users Microsoft has across the company. "All the lonely people, where do they all belong?"
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