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Combining a Linux capable CPU and MCU is not new or that weird... I think a Cortex A9 and Cortex M4 appeared on a combined SoC on the IMX6 platform around 10 years ago.

Plenty of use cases in embedded!

I think my company was told a year ago to not use IoT Central as it was going to be deprecated.

They also made ThreadX open source a few months back. Be interesting to see what else happens in the IoT area for Microsoft

I integrate into SAP for manufacturing and the users can certainly do every transaction they need to do to account for cost and shipping product and keep finance / supply chain happy.

But yes, to actually plan and run their manufacturing area, that's where the software I write comes in... as well as a ton of spreadsheets :)

The cost/implementation of SAP is so big that the decision to use it can only be signed off at C-Level.

Any company who is looking at SAP is likely doing business in the US - Sarbanes-Oxley means CFO and CEO have to personally sign off on the financial accounts and are criminally liable (am sure it's the same in other countries).

SAP at it's core is all about financial control. SAP sell SAP to CEOs and CFOs by telling them it will provide strict financial controls to their company and avoid them personally going to jail / paying huge fines. It's an easy sell

It wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft buy Jetbrains

He was already there.. he's continuing in the same role

Can you link to Brewer's article please...

Are you using SQL or ?

Sounds good. Does your company hire remote? :)

Considering that people like to sleep on planes and the flight attendants / cabin crew will get people to close the blinds / dim the cabin lights as quickly as they can, this will never take off.

Joe! Using American lingo already I see :)

And thirdly, Yahoo did not force any of these companies to sell to Yahoo. Yahoo made an offer and they accepted.

What did you not like about raven?

Personally, being British, having looked at the sheer diversity of jobs in the US job market for software developers, the UK job market really doesn't seem that exciting.

Yup. Click on "Council Tax" on the homepage... then "Can't find it? Other council tax services"... then "See your council tax band" (Rounded red button)

Not every solution has to work for every country. This would be very nice for the UK and our address system works great.

I've used a few BI tools and it blows everything else out of the water - this is the first tool I've come across where I feel like end users could actually create the reports they want with it.

I think crowd sourcing should be for gaining knowledge you don't have yourself. It should not be a replacement for being lazy - you can google tour dates for all those bands and comedians yourself - you don't need others to do that for you.

And also, you might want to spell San Francisco correctly :)

One of the founders is a friend - very interesting social enterprise idea

Yes you're right - this post has no discussion of what governments might require of a business from a legal standpoint

You cannot search for "c#" - it strips the # out

Someone correct me if I'm wrong (IANAL) - but in the UK it is "loser pays" - ie Tesla will be liable for the BBC costs.

Was this a subtle reference to IBM and their involvement with Nazi Germany?

Because plenty of people just use the iPad for e-mail and surfing the web so they don't need more than 16GB.

I have a 16GB iPad 1 still going strong - I barely use any apps outside of the ones preloaded [exceptions being Twitter, Facebook + Kindle].

When I travel, I load on a few movies / tv eps and I watch those. When I travel again, I just swap them out. I do the same at home. 16GB is ample if you're happy to swap content on & off your device.

Can anyone look to good guides / examples on technical writing [for those of us who are developers who have to also write docs from time to time]

Do people actually need these kind of searches when they book travel? I don't know about anybody else but my life is pretty scheduled and the dates I can go on holiday are fairly fixed and planned months in advance. Research of where to go is done with my wife on tripadvisor and looking through brochues.

Ebookers / Expedia search is pretty easy - pick the dates, pick the location, compare prices.

I just don't see the need for these kind of searches

Especially as if you had these machines, you would have to have at least 1 on-site engineer at all times (most likely two) to be able to fix / correct them when they go wrong - who would cost you $50 / hr.

free can't stay free forever without someway to collect money

Corporate clients and people with plenty of disposable income - i.e. good people to have as paying customers!

I'd add network cable to your list, I now always carry a 10m one as you can guarantee if you do need to plug in, often the switch / hub is not nearby