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Re:How Vladimir Lenin Became a Mushroom on Thursday December 07, 2017 @07:55PM (#15875834)
Fascinating
Re:GNU Taler on Monday September 18, 2017 @01:54PM (#15277993)
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.

Re:Write a hash table in C on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @07:44PM (#15086254)
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.
Re:Linux Programming: Signals the easy way on Thursday April 27, 2017 @08:25AM (#14210919)
Yes, I would like more details on this also. ++huh?
Re:Linux Programming: Signals the easy way on Thursday April 27, 2017 @08:23AM (#14210909)
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

Re:Writing Less Code on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @08:40PM (#12309659)
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.
Re:The Human Cost of Tech Debt on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @09:25PM (#12222752)
...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))
Re:The Magic of “Untranslatable” Words on Sunday July 17, 2016 @02:59PM (#12111273)
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.
Re:Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer on Thursday July 14, 2016 @05:34PM (#12097342)
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: [email protected], [email protected]

it is not different for a widower.
Re:The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain on Friday June 10, 2016 @07:06PM (#11880857)
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.
Re:Ask HN: That's Not My Name on Saturday January 23, 2016 @09:34PM (#10961201)
person of independent means
Re:Growing a Programmer on Thursday September 17, 2015 @01:37AM (#10231728)
Essentials of programming languages 3rd.

http://eopl3.com/

Re:Go Execution Modes on Thursday September 04, 2014 @11:24PM (#8272168)
yes. +1
Re:The compiler is always right on Sunday May 11, 2014 @09:14AM (#7728626)
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.
Re:Ask HN: Why Will No One Hire Jr. Devs? on Sunday May 04, 2014 @02:53PM (#7695302)
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.
Re:Confessions of a Full Stack DevOp on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @11:18AM (#7598296)
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.
Re:Use after free bug in OpenSSL on Sunday April 13, 2014 @03:09PM (#7582490)
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.

Re:I Hunt Sys Admins on Friday March 21, 2014 @12:23AM (#7440648)
<sarcasm>Is that a feature or a bug built in?</sarcasm>
Re:How to Minimize Politics in Your Company (2010) on Sunday March 16, 2014 @09:54PM (#7412431)
office politics is a shelter for incompetence.

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