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Posted by
cao825 on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @01:31PM
from the self-post dept.
As noted on several articles, including:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/22/obamacare-website-programmers_n_4141411.html"A review of internal architectural diagrams obtained by the AP revealed the system's complexity. Insurance applicants have a host of personal information verified, including income and immigration status. The system connects to other federal computer networks, including...
Posted by
cao825 on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @10:15AM
from the archevery.blogspot.com dept.
Posted by
cao825 on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @06:40PM
from the engadget.com dept.
If anyone refused to answer questions like this in an interview I was running, I would ask them to leave and tell them they wouldn't be hearing from us. I don't care what your qualifications are, if you are an asshole who will not take directions, then I don't want you in my department.
Very cool. One issue I saw was that the shadows actually show on top of other objects.
Posted by
cao825 on Sunday March 04, 2012 @10:12PM
from the archevery.blogspot.com dept.
Posted by
cao825 on Monday December 12, 2011 @08:08AM
from the archevery.blogspot.com dept.
Come on man - Electronica
Posted by
cao825 on Monday October 24, 2011 @02:35PM
from the docketinyourpocket.com dept.
Posted by
cao825 on Monday September 12, 2011 @08:59AM
from the linux.com dept.
My current employer said that they did not like to even offer interviews to anyone who was currently unemployed because there was probably a reason for it and they didn't want people that couldn't keep a job.
Knew I would be graduating in May of '08, so I started sending them out around Jan-Feb of '08 (4-5 months ahead). I got interviews in Feb-March and had my job offers by the end of March.
Graduated May of 2008 - Sent out 10s of resumes - Two interviews (not a great GPA) - got offers at both - took the slightly lower pay one because it had a better job description and was in a more convenient location. It has worked out very well for me.
Posted by
cao825 on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @07:34AM
from the ask-hn dept.
It was good until I realized it was just a drawn out rip on VB...
Posted by
cao825 on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @06:53PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I have been using HostGator shared hosting as a low cost solution to host some of my start up ideas over the past year or so. Unfortunately any time a site gets a decent amount of traffic, my account gets disabled for server load or something of that nature. For those of you that outsource your hosting, what sites have you used that you like? My main requirements are PHP, SQL, ruby, and...
Doesn't work for me. Site keeps getting connection resets.
As someone who works on the pricing system for a distribution company - this article may apply to retail, but it definitely does not apply to everything. Our suppliers try to screw us at every turn by making us deal with complex cost side, so we have to have an incredibly dynamic and flexible system to deal with an international customer base.
Posted by
cao825 on Friday February 25, 2011 @11:44AM
from the thesun.co.uk dept.
Posted by
cao825 on Thursday February 17, 2011 @07:12PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I was discussing with some friends at work some of the worst algorithms (in terms of Big O), like Bogo Sort, Stooge Sort, etc... We were trying to think of how one could write a procedure with O(n^n) and all of our attempts ended up being infinite or much less than n^n.I would imagine we just didn't think in the correct terms. Unfortunately, neither Google nor Wolframalpha were any help...
It really depends on how your departments runs. A lot of times the gathering of requirements for BAs is by far the hardest, most time consuming, most frustrating task on the project. They have to travel, deal with users / clients, play political games, etc. If the programmers are more of code monkeys in the organization: in that they get tech specs with pseudo code and just transition it to real code, then they do not necessarily deserve to get paid more.
I have been a support analyst, programmer, software architect, and BA (and worked with several PMs). You really can't have one blanket generalization in this area because it completely depends on structure and job responsibilities.
If they are worried about user experience and that is the main reason they do not encrypt - then why not at the very least use a version of encryption that the site can decrypt? Sure, the people who grab the data can run some cryptography programs on it and eventually come up with the algorithm, but it is a hell of a lot safer than plain text.
I think you need to define dead. If you are saying it is dead in the sense that there is no new development being done on it and/or it is not in high use, then you are completely mistaken. I would say the best "dead" definition for it is: any company looking to implement a new system would not choose COBOL as their language. In that sense, it is technically dying, but definitely not dead.
I started at a company 2.5 years ago as a COBOL programmer and am now a Software Architect for the company. I would say that COBOL still runs a very large percentage of business systems (especially banking). Our system does even implement GUI and we are starting to use a form of MVC for new development.
While I think most companies that have COBOL systems want to get rid of them and move to a newer language, doing so is going to take a very long time. My company has wanted to move from COBOL to a higher language for over 5 years now and never been able to prove the business case. The language will be around, at least in maintenance if not development for at least another 20 years imho.
The big problem that companies are having is that the majority of COBOL programmers will retire in the next 5 years and new college grads don't have experience with it and don't want to learn it because it is considered "dead" by mainstream CS. That means those that actually know the language stand to make a very large amount of money in the coming years helping big banks convert their systems, when they have nowhere else to turn.
When I type in a website and press start the page doesn't do anything...
His coded version crashed two of my web browsers (FF and IE)