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IMO you should've quoted the $23k/processor license bomb that the feature comes with. Reading the blurb I thought it was just that your previously small dev DB's VM would explode to consume your entire VM servers resources.
Speaking of which, does Whoracle still count processors by core instead of by socket?
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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If you’re in software, configuration files are a significant part of your life. But every configuration file introduces a morass of unknown syntax, unknown semantics, poor debuggability, poor documentation, poor maintainability, insufficient abstraction, and insufficient generalization. Because who needs to update a setting in the field?
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If only it was possible to create some sort of magical "Windowed Interactive Setup Assistance Dialog"... 
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Every line in a config file represents a moment in the development when the developer just wasn't sure which way to go so, we put it in a config file that we can have the end user tweak if there is trouble with the chosen defaults.
Whatyagonnado?
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I see only a blank page.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Do you have JS disabled? I think Medium might just send down a wad of JavaScript that pulls down the content. Been a while since I looked, and I'm on the wrong machine to double check right now.
TTFN - Kent
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Dunno, but I have ActiveX Filtering enabled.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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The corporate firewall gremlins are trashing the page for me. In FF; I've got naked HTML no js/no CSS. In IE I've got a formatted blank page that's hiding a scroll bar but which still has content if you scroll down. 
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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The so-called Internet of Things gains traction, with two out of five developers looking at the possibilities. Heading down the highway (of hype), looking for adventure
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Heading down the highway (of hype), looking for adventure
Or whatever comes my way!
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Well, I'm going to make it happen!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Rumors are rampant, but here's what's on for sure with Windows 8.1 Updates, Windows 9, Windows 365, Windows Phone, Xbox, and 'Threshold' Cheese will be moved, people will be upset, life will continue
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Cheese will be moved, people will be upset, life will continue
Sounds like Switzerland.
The console is a black place
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There are upset people there? I thought they were 24/7 happy with chocolate and fondues (and chocolate fondues).
TTFN - Kent
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..and snow; lots of fluffy, white snow!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Next month, if you walk into any Target store across the country, browsing one of the main hubs of mass American consumerism, you’ll find a board game that teaches the fundamentals of computer programming to preschoolers. "Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man"
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Oooh, I'll have to buy a copy or three.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Given web users’ general reluctance to pay for content. We are of course, paying. Just not with cold hard cash, but with our privacy — as digital business models rely on gathering and selling intel on their users to make the money to pay (the investors who paid) for the free service. "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."
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How delusional. In the highly improbable case that this takes off, the megacorps with their zillion server data clusters will end up dominating the farming for their crypto currency; and since they'll still end up hosting 99.9999...% of the internet will be able to subvert it for the spamvertisers benefit just like they do today.
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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In one alternate future, the server will indeed die as a natural result of everything becoming more and more distributed, of which there are already several decent examples like Bitcoin. The advantage of such distribution is increased resilience to nodes and networks going down and to data loss. The disadvantage might be argued to be security, but that is a technicality (albeit possibly a complex one) that, quite frankly, firewalls, current encryption schemes, etc., all currently more-or-less fail at -- they don't address the real issue of how to make a chunk of data actually secure, the current approaches are basically just condoms around data. The other thing that we've hidden in the idea of "secure" is also trust. We need systems that separate out those two concepts:
Secure - readable (note, not accessible, but readable) only to authorized people/systems
Trustworthy - can be open or secured information, but includes a measure of the data's trustworthiness, whether it's a username and password, a decryption key, or data itself.
The future will (theoretically) address both these issues more explicitly and we will develop better tools for dealing with the separate issues of trust and security.
Marc
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There is a lot of excitement around the current trend to get more people to be into computer programming. Whether or not they end up becoming coders, we can all at least can gain a bit from “computational thinking.” Address: One Memory Lane. Resident: Me
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It's ironic how he starts off with "computational thinking" (which is what got me to read that ridiculous post) and devolves rather quickly into "copying code and typing it in, line by line." Given that seems to be his idea of computational thinking, it should be obvious why computer users are no longer (and never were) programmers.
Marc
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As Microsoft continues its push to remain relevant in the mobile space, it still doesn't appreciate the factors that allowed Apple to enter a market they had no previous experience in and turn it on its head with the iPhone. It's the chamfered edges, silly!
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If anyone ever figures it out, that would be a story.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Design by committee would get my vote.
TTFN - Kent
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