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people should be roughly as comfortable with this as with operating mysql on EC2 or using RDS, and I think that's quite common.

it's more than 5x what Atlassian charges for the same product

it's sort of like trying to argue that "Whose Line" is not a game without points. There are types there, but they don't matter at all. You can cast anything to anything and it will…

as is C

only in languages with first class functions.

how badly does this destroy your stack traces?

I'm guessing his assertion that the person of interest is no programmer has more to do with Gayle's book being full of platitudes and errors than her sex.

nice try, hitler

this type of encrypted messaging is super common between banks and third parties. it's usually done in a similar manner to what is implemented here but in SFTP and every bank has i…

my guess is a thin wrapper around PTOSC.

I can give you some sense of why I use Java and enjoy it today in an "enterprise" setting. The JVM is excellent. Java 8 in particular is quite fun to use, streams in particular. Th…

No, you're missing the point -- using a regex does not allow you to read in less than all of the input (in the best case, even). If you grep a 1GB file with a regex you must read 1…

I was suggesting that this is a fine way for things to be.

Sounds like adult life.

People are probably willing to pay you to do this, but not advertising it so much. Most tech companies (at least in the US) are desperate for work. Less than 40 hours is a week is …

If you don't have the entire string in memory then Boyer-Moore is usually fastest because you can avoid doing a lot of I/O (since you skip comparing many subsequences, you don't ha…