peterbotond

Fascinating

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 transfer, cash or check deposit at atm or branch are all different for different banks. In other words, it is a vague description when things clear. Some banks are better to their customers some are not so much. I live in the US.

An improvement is most certainly welcome and appreciated.

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 Trick To Simplify Package Management.

http://www.nycbug.org/index.cgi?action=view&id=10345

Disclaimer: i am not Amitai Schlair

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 reading: learning, discussing, agreeing ir disagreeing.

(my first papers were from a teletext or a stencil or a typewriter they were of the information I wish for to read today at least 3-4 times a week. instead of 3-4 days go by for one.)

Bring back the pure unadulterated brain output.

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 said important too) parts.

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 too))

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 expressing my thoughts. Learning a new language helps me understand culture and the people mostly using it and as importantly the vocabulary of the already known languages. i am a poliglot. When I converse in one language i never translate to another it just flows.

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://www.opencobol.org/

Library Dependencies: gmp, libtool, db44, ncurses, libgnugetopt, libiconv, gettext, mpfr Platforms: darwin License: GPL-2+ Maintainers: egall@gwmail.gwu.edu, openmaintainer@macports.org

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 solenoid (maybe 3rd or 4th gear). Besides the solenoid and the alternator all items are maintenance.

Does this count as good reliability?

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 seen beneficial by other developers, rather they were forced to use it, they were surprised how well that worked. All this was behind the scene from the customer and updates bugfixes were going out. Re-write may be the answer sometimes, many times, a well thought incremental re-factoring guide is an easier path.

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 product, or another to not optimize out certain aliasing. the compiler is your friend who sometimes disagrees, misbehaves, and right, just all along is a good friend.

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.

This is pretty much a good article on DevOps. In my words i see DevOps as a bridge spanning the kernel, systems, networks, qa, packaging, and deployment. for a highly optimal system all these need to be planned for with care and attention. DevOps is a tough and long learning to be good at.

src/lib/libssl is in the openbsd tree as of 2 days ago approximately, and being trimmed as seen in commits: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libssl/

edit: precesion: libssl has seen a set of large commits, in the past 48 hours, and other libcrypto related changes.

an alternate link from cryptome: http://cryptome.org/2014/03/nsa-hunt-sysadmins.pdf

<sarcasm>Is that a feature or a bug built in?</sarcasm>

office politics is a shelter for incompetence.

your last paragraph sums it all up the best it deserves more than just one +1. git is a tool to shape the codebase into a quality piece. i usually have about 8-12 private branches that needs others' commit before i can rebase and commit. in these branches i can test and play before anyone gets hurt.

the way i handle c++ complexity is to limit its feature usage to exercise its strength letting it help me solve the problem.

c++ is a big language with big grammar, as such offers a lot of different ways to say the same thing. each different construct is understood by a different set of code-readers, same way as in a complex human language. commenting c++ code is part of writing c++ due to this complexity, in my practice.

in a complex grammar, the order of words makes a difference and certain relation of grammatical constructs must be obeyed to remain comprehensive and understandable by most people.

communications using formal grammar makes it more understandable, versus slang. however both formal and informal convey the same information for the respective group of people.

in a programming language, pondering publicly about good and bad practices and their merit helps reading code, of course, with comments.

Try the book, Concrete Mathematics by Graham, Knuth, Patashnik. I love this book, very entertaining and relaxing read.

edit: the book in the link looks just as good.

security in any application has to start from the beginning and nurtured by all developing this application. security can not be a bolt-on after the fact patch works. when at least these two are not applied all applications will fail miserably. security by obscurity only a make believe.