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TDD only works in conjunction with thorough peer reviews. Case in point: at my place of work, code and tests written by an intern can go through literally dozens of iterations befo…

> if doing GPL stuff use the open source license from ExcelsiorJET. Thanks for mentioning our product, but I have to make a few corrections: First, the Excelsior JET Runtime licens…

Problem is, the God Folder dates back to Vista and it is the Windows 10 Creators Update that began setting that field to NULL. Apparently the author of that change did not foresee …

Excelsior guy here. Overall, I would say that AOT suddenly becoming kosher helps our business way more than competition hurts it. Then, "JDK9 has AOT out of the box" is a bit of ex…

Author here. Kindly (suggest where to) cross-post - I think it's important for the health of our industry that freeware authors and open source enthusiasts keep getting rewarded fo…

Some info for those that want to AOT Java without paying for it: The entry-level edition of Excelsior JET is free (as in beer) since the end of August 2016. Licenses for the more s…

[0] can be had at $10+ under a charity program at the moment: http://www.excelsiorjet.com/charity

Low/zero cost is a benefit only if everything else is equal. Eclipse and Netbeans are free, yet people pay for IntelliJ IDEA. We use an expensive commercial GUI testing product bec…

I mean someone who can build support for your shiny new language and/or instruction set into GCC or LLVM and get their pull request accepted by the maintainers.

I am with a small company focused on compilers and managed runtimes (JVM), and I can tell you that _good_ compiler consultants are in high demand. For instance, I had a discussion …

Just want to make one thing clear: in this particular case the request was to block a specific URI. It is the (smaller) ISPs that do not have a technology to block an URI and the (…

Just specify on your freelancer's profiles that you are available part-time due to "other commitments". Not all prospects are looking for full-time workers.