Apologies I maybe should have posted this in the Newbie forum hadn't realised this.

I definitely think that would be a good step towards improving competency.

The older professions certainly do that - medicine, accountancy, teaching, trades of all sorts… I guess its because our...

In certain instances I could see that paying managers less might be an option.

I would also like for groups to elect their own managers. Like everyone says generally most groups...

Surely software at the end of the day is digital information so in principle it could be immortal if it can still run.

Software only becomes valueless if it can't run.

Old...

Yes there is change and I can see that continuing for hardware.

I still believe long term though software development may be far less prone to constant development with consolidation around...

There are two aspects of software which make it unique in the world of Economics.

Immortality and essentially Free Duplication.

Immortality usually leads to higher prices - eg gold diamonds etc

100% Accurate...

Gary Varga (4/29/2014)

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I really hope that the split between SQL Azure and on-premises SQL Server is somewhere close to 50/50 just so that both remain equally valuable to Microsoft. Perhaps...

Good one you had me.

A friend is a surgeon and they have a daVinci machine.

To date they haven't been practical enough to see widescale use - they are also very...

I have a number of safeguards on my passwords.

I think I am safe.

I find the security services look good but I don't like the way they put a massive target...

Tobar (3/11/2014)

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I am certainly one of those. I am quite enamored with sqlservercentral, and I am sure this...

From my experience it can be difficult to do continuous delivery if there are real big changes to back ends.

For Enterprise Data Applications I have found that the key to...

Yes there's something seriously wrong with some of the patent applications.

They are anti-competitive / anti-imaginative and it makes me wonder how in the hell they are upheld.

New Planet Money have...

Yeah another accountant in the world of systems design. I am always surprised and disappointed that accountants don't take a deeper dive into the...

Eric M Russell (1/21/2014)

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I know. Even with constraints Excel would still not be a database, but it would make for a better data input and analysis tool. For example, Windows...

I was doing some work in Lightswitch the other day VS2013 and I note that in the schema diagram after you have named a table Contact it will automatically make...