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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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Is Windows really used by 1.5 billion people? Or are they talking merely about "licenses sold" here? I mean, how do you accurately count the number of people using Windows? What about people with multiple devices? What about the people using pirated copies? I know, it's all about the money in the end, so 1.5 billion licenses sold is 1.5 billion licenses sold. But it doesn't mean there are 1.5 billion people using them. It's maybe more, due to piracy, but most likey less than that.
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Code-Fight.Club is a project built by Andrew Hathaway with the aim to help fellow developers learn how to write their code in the nicest, most efficient and preferred way they can. To decide which code is the most preferred way, users can comment and vote against a fight for their favourite contender. We support 84 different languages, a mix between programming languages and templating syntaxes, be sure to look through the list. The first rule of code-fight club is... uh, forget I mentioned it
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Becoming a Microsoft Certified Professional is no easy task, let alone if one is only 5 years old! But that’s exactly what young Ayan Qureshi managed to accomplish. Something to think about next time you want to put MCP on your business cards
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Think about it; and think about it carefully. Nothing happens in our society without software. Nothing. "With great power comes great responsibility"
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