This Week I Learned
Continued reading the book The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine by Charles Petzold
Technically this didn't happen this week, but I decided to blog about it this week: After 20+ years in IT .. I finally discovered this...
This Week I Tweeted
Microsoft buys BrightBytes DataSense to bring more data analytics to schoolsBrightBytes, based in San Francisco, is an education data-analytics company and has been a Microsoft partner for years. In addition to the DataSense data-integration platform it is selling to Microsoft, BrightBytes will continue to sell its decision-support platform called Clarity which uses machine learning and predictive analytics.
Microsoft is planning to integrate DataSense into its Microsoft Education product family. According to Microsoft, DataSense is "the leading IPaaS (integration platform as a service) solution for both education solution providers and school districts across the US."
I don't know much about this company.. but it's the data and analytics that is valuable... companies like this one are getting snapped up left and right
Winklevoss Exchange Gemini Shuts Down Accounts Over Stablecoin Redemptions
In one instance, email correspondence obtained by CoinDesk shows an OTC trader based in Latin America had his account closed after he informed Gemini that he planned to redeem several million dollars of GUSD. (A major cryptocurrency exchange, speaking on condition of anonymity, attested to the desk’s professionalism and reported that it was in good standing.)
So you can deposit money but don't you dare take it out........
Python Developers Survey 2018 Results
Python usage as a main language is up 5 percentage points from 79% in 2017 when Python Software Foundation conducted its previous survey.
Half of all Python users also use JavaScript. The 2018 stats are very similar to the 2017 results. The only significant difference is that Bash/Shell has grown from 36% in 2017 to 45% in 2018. Go and SQL have also grown by 2 percentage points each, while many other languages such as C/C++, Java, and C# have lost their share.
In 2018 we had significantly more respondents specifying they’re involved in DevOps (an increase of 8% compared to 2017). In terms of Python users using Python as their secondary language, DevOps has overtaken web development.
The use of Python 3 continues to grow rapidly. According to the latest research in 2017, 75% were using Python 3 compared with 25% for Python 2. Use of Python 2 is declining as it’s no longer actively developed, doesn’t get new features, and its maintenance is going to be stopped in 2020.
See all the other interesting fact on the jetbrains site
Githistory
This is pretty cool.. point any public github file here and you can see the last 8 or so commits by scrolling from the top here is what @BrentOzarULTD sp_foreachdb changes look like ...
It looks like this
So for any file, just replace github.com in the url with githistory.xyz
For example.. the stuff in red needs to be replaced
https://github.com/BrentOzarULTD/SQL-Server-First-Responder-Kit/blob/dev/sp_foreachdb.sql
https://githistory.xyz/BrentOzarULTD/SQL-Server-First-Responder-Kit/blob/dev/sp_foreachdb.sql
Just hit this link to see it
https://githistory.xyz/BrentOzarULTD/SQL-Server-First-Responder-Kit/blob/dev/sp_foreachdb.sql
Some cool stuff you might enjoy
List of stories set in a future now pastThis is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.
This is a list of fictional stories that, when written, were set in the future, but the future they predicted is now present or past. The list excludes works that were alternate histories, which were composed after the dates they depict. The list also excludes contemporary or near-future works (e.g. set within a year or two), unless it deals with some notable futuristic event as with the 2012 phenomenon. It also excludes works where the future is passively mentioned and not really depicting anything notable about the society, as with an epilogue that just focuses on the fate of the main characters. Entries referencing the current year may be added if their month and day were not specified or have already occurred.
Some from the year 2019... Akira, Blade Runner, Dark Angel
How Peter Jackson’s team made World War I footage look new
“I thought, ‘Can we actually make this 100-year-old footage look like it was shot now?’” Jackson said on the latest episode of Recode Decode with Kara Swisher. “So it’s sharp, it’s clear, it’s stable, it looks like modern [films].”
And he had the means to do that: Over the past five years, Jackson tasked Park Road Post (a subsidiary of his production company WingNut Films) with adding color and sound to the archive footage, as well as making the frame rate consistent and similar to what we’d expect from footage shot today. The result is the new documentary “They Shall Not Grow Old,” which he said removes the “barrier between us and the actual people that were being filmed.”
This is some amazingly looking stuff... here is a video so you can see what it looks like
Build 2019 registration opens on February 27th
Join us in Seattle for Microsoft’s premier event for developers. Come and experience the latest developer tools and technologies. Imagine new ways to create software by getting industry insights into the future of software development. Connect with your community to understand new development trends and innovative ways to code.
Wondering what new stuff they will announce
The Chemical Brothers: Setting Sun (1996)
Haven't heard Setting Sun for a while, it's an excellent running song, I have added it to my running playlist on my phone
Setting Sun is a song by The Chemical Brothers with vocals by Noel Gallagher from the group Oasis. It was released as a single in 1996 from their second album Dig Your Own Hole and reached number one on the UK Singles Chart.
Took this on my way to the Princeton Junction train station... beautiful morning colors
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