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by peterbotond 9y ago
Fascinating
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by peterbotond 9y ago
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
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by peterbotond 9y ago
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.
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by peterbotond 9y ago
Yes, I would like more details on this also. ++huh?
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by peterbotond 9y ago
volatile just means to keep updating the memory and not keep a copy in the cpu cache.
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by peterbotond 10y ago
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.nycb
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by peterbotond 10y ago
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
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by peterbotond 10y ago
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.
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by peterbotond 10y ago
...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.
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by peterbotond 10y ago
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))
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by peterbotond 10y ago
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 underst
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by peterbotond 10y ago
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/ L
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by peterbotond 10y ago
it is not different for a widower.
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What Is Obedience? Understanding Obedience to Authority(verywell.com)
2 points by peterbotond 10y ago|1 comments
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by peterbotond 10y ago
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 t
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by peterbotond 10y ago
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 forc
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by peterbotond 11y ago
person of independent means
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by peterbotond 11y ago
Essentials of programming languages 3rd. http://eopl3.com/
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Virtualization in openbsd, first announcement(blog.gmane.org)
3 points by peterbotond 11y ago|0 comments
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Universal configuration language(github.com)
35 points by peterbotond 12y ago|28 comments
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by peterbotond 12y ago
yes. +1
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by peterbotond 12y ago
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.
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by peterbotond 12y ago
look for a developer without startup experience and have you both forge ahead with a startup.
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by peterbotond 12y ago
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.
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by peterbotond 12y ago
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
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by peterbotond 12y ago
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 ha
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Excerpt from ‘Flash Boys’ about Serge Aleynikov and Goldman Sachs(cryptome.org)
335 points by peterbotond 12y ago|200 comments
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by peterbotond 13y ago
an alternate link from cryptome: http://cryptome.org/2014/03/nsa-hunt-sysadmins.pdf
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by peterbotond 13y ago
<sarcasm>Is that a feature or a bug built in?</sarcasm>
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by peterbotond 13y ago
office politics is a shelter for incompetence.

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