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I read "vaguely tying them together" as "usually it works, sometimes not". This latter is my experience. Electronic transfers enjoy a certain priority also, direct deposit, wire tr…

berkeley db 185. it has served me very good over the years and it was fast enough for real time market data and indexing and many more.

Yes, I would like more details on this also. ++huh?

volatile just means to keep updating the memory and not keep a copy in the cpu cache.

cross platform package manager: pkgsrc.org i have successfully used it for BSD, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, Red-Hat Linux for the same commercial project. Amitai Schlair: One Weird Tric…

Too many columns and talk about it..... My take: one single column that the rendering visible area can figure out how to render. No hidden agenda. only and just information worth r…

Most people only care about tangibles. When i politely advised about security holes, i was told that "we don't need people like you' or just called the police. I understand.

...then the companies having bad code will make a few good ones for show. Interview is like first date both parties try to impress without mentioning the critical (i could have sai…

Racket is a programming language programming language to program and prove programming languages. See eopl. (edit: yes it is a pun and a brain twister. i love racket (and scheme to…

Language helps me express what is in my head without an actual human or machine language. I think in objects that are not words, so i always translate to human language when expres…

OpenCOBOL is available to learn the language. I do not know it, just checked macports and yes it is there. Description: OpenCOBOL is an open-source COBOL compiler. Homepage: http:/…

it is not different for a widower.

i had a ford focus 2002, ran to 150,000 miles and it got totaled. The only things were replaced: timing belt, tires, brakes, fuel filter, plugs, O2 sensor, alternator, one of the s…

I have incrementally refactored large codebases by committing to a guide of which constructs to replace with what, what is the final goal and writing test cases. Once the guide was…

person of independent means

Essentials of programming languages 3rd. http://eopl3.com/

yes. +1

and sometimes a few lines of extra code is needed to help the compiler figure out programmer's intent. simplest, example, is extra code that will be optimized out in the final prod…

look for a developer without startup experience and have you both forge ahead with a startup.

what if someone has bad eyes of some rare eye problem and can not solve captcha problems at all? in other words fails captcha 90% of times.