Silverlight is not strictly speaking .NET. Different registry keys, etc.

It doesn't even have DataSets, it ain't .NET.

It's what was once called the DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime) a long long time ago.

Get off my lawn.

Oracle + C# is actually pretty fun.

At my Oracle place we weren't permitted to use P/SQL. I used a python-esque syntax to have these insanely complex 5-page plus queries, but the catch was they were filled with CTE (common table expressions). I didn't have to give Oracle any hints - it just found them and optimized away 99.99% of the query and executed blazing fast but I could do totally dynamic sorting/searching.

Combine that with C# and stay the hell away from Toad, and you're home free. Just write your own Query tool and did I mention stay the hell away from Toad?

I think Osama Bin Laden tried something similar once...

Well, I guess they pretty much guaranteed now that the US government will kick their asses eventually...

Well played, dumbasses, now everyone is paying attention!

Maybe they could use that juicy GPU to do super fast BCD fast enough!

I got a box with 26 folders in 5 sets of 5 colors plus 1 gray folder. My first thought obviously was a-z but how many q's would i have? So i decided to lump my stuff into 5 really broad categories and rotate the sets each quarter. The last set is long term. When i rotate the 4th quarter back to the current, i purge and move the residue to long term. The 26 th folder is for stuff waiting to be filed.

It works great for me but no one else can figure it out :). Btw, the categories are: stuff about money, cute stuff, stuff about me and the wife, stuff about the kids, and service records. Medical bills is stuff about us not money. I always know where to look

But if 100% of 1% of the people use FF on Linux, that's 1%. If 1% of 85-90% of the people use FF on Windows, that's 0.85% to 0.9% of the people. It's less people! Your analogy doesn't work.

There's absolutely no way no way I tell you to use a hook for a specially delivered payload to turn that ol Microphone on when you didn't know it!

Isn't that what FireFox is supposed to be? The lightweight fork of Mozilla minus all the built-in crap, which can be added via plugins? Since when did Firefox start embedding so many features?

They used a code generator for all the SQL. Only EXEC calls to auto-gen'd SPs, just did a religious doubling of single quote, and I'll be gobsmacked if I could find a way to inject squat.

I tried all that shit with unicode variations - nothing broke it.

Face it, it worked.

Excellent post!

Composition is less brittle than inheritance.

I usually related the story like this: In the 1700s, Isaac Newton and Leibniz invented calculus (you know that really hard stuff we still have a difficult time learning today.) By the late 1800s, math guys knew how to do almost anything using just a pen and paper (calculate orbits, really advanced mostly graduate level math stuff). They felt brilliant. And they said, "shoot, 30 years from now, we're going to essentially be God. From any starting point, we'll be able to predict any outcome."

Then the undecidability stuff with Goedel happened, and then we had intutionism with Brouewer, etc, and they realized it wasn't to be.

This sounds a lot like that.

The most important thing to teach kids is : don't leave records of what you say. I'm sure kids have done this forever and "everybody" knew they said it, same as when you post on FB; the difference is here is something someone can use as evidence.

Debian doesn't like 95% probability (stable should be stable). Plus Ubuntu ships with non-free parts that make it unacceptable to Debian.

I think the only reason I like Debian as a desktop is I use FluxBox as my windowing manager, no dock, and just use the whiz-bang GTK-based *apps*. Best of both worlds and fast.

pfft, I'm still running Netscape Navigator 1.0 with Trumpet Winsock on Windows for Workgroups 3.11. Leet!