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argonium

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About argonium

Developer and writer. 20+ years of experience with Java and C (some Python), databases, back-end / desktop software development, algorithms, etc. Wrote one technical book and edited 4 others. Interested in performance tuning and technical writing. Looking for a new challenge.

Email me at mfwallace {at} gmail

https://github.com/argonium

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfwallace/

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    The link should probably be https://prettydiff.com/2/guide/unrelated_parser.xhtml

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    Comment #29318497

    I use Vox but without any cloud or premium features. It's free and works well enough on my Mac. https://vox.rocks/mac-music-player

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    Indeed, she was part of the legendary Wrecking Crew.

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    SEEKING WORK - Washington, DC - Remote only Developer, architect and writer. 20+ years of experience with Java and C (some Python), databases, back-end / desktop systems, algorithm…

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    More info on Spring support for GraalVM native images: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/wiki/Gra...

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    Comment #19027655

    There's a fantastic book on Shannon called "Grammatical Man", by Jeremy Campbell - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000KHFL0W

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    Location: Fairfax, VA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Developer, architect and writer. 20+ years of experience with Java and C (some Python), databases, back-end …

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    Location: Fairfax, VA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Developer, architect and writer. 20+ years of experience with Java and C (some Python), databases, back-end …

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    Location: Washington, DC Remote: Yes, only Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Developer, architect and writer. 20+ years of experience with Java and C (some Python), databases, …

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    Good point. Thanks for the feedback. Our sites don't get a huge amount of traffic, so it's possible Spring doesn't have as good a concurrency story (or it's due to memory usage) as…

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    I've been following these benchmarks for some time, and am always shocked that Spring does so poorly (it's 7% here). I haven't had any performance issues with Spring in production,…

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    SEEKING WORK - Washington, DC - Remote only Developer, architect and writer. 20+ years of experience with Java and C (some Python), databases, back-end / desktop systems, algorithm…

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    Comment #16624744

    Looks good on my MBP. Thanks for sharing!

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    Comment #15458312

    Most likely the GP is referring to "This crowd-funding campaign is ran in ...".

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    Comment #14524589

    I wrote this one a while ago - https://github.com/argonium/jsnip . May be helpful.

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    Comment #14130734

    Thanks for this. My first thought was Harry S. Truman.

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    SEEKING WORK Location: Washington, DC, US Remote: Yes, preferred Availability: Part-time Field: Technical writer I'm a long-time software developer with strong skills in technical …

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    Comment #9895318

    Beetle can be used to: a) execute SQL queries and save the results to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, TOML, TSV, Markdown or a SQL file (INSERT commands); and b) generate fake data (lots of …

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    I'm working on Beetle, a command-line ETL tool written in Java (if it goes well, I'll add a Swing interface). It's rudimentary at this point, but soon you'll be able to execute a S…

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    JarMan, for working with Java archives (JAR files). You can check the manifest, see if the JARs listed in the manifest's classpath exist, browse the methods, interfaces, etc. of a …