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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.


That's wildly inaccurate. It's a language level feature that indicates values can change in ways other than what's suggested by the code that manipulate them.


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


From pkgsrc website.

> pkgsrc is a framework for building third-party software on NetBSD and other UNIX-like systems, currently containing over 17000 packages.

And Fedora/Yum has 18000+ packages.

Thats a hell of a lot of C/C++ source code thats tested and configured to compile with the system compiler.

I think this is a case of not being able to see the forest for the trees. The entire open source community and operating systems development revolve around a set of extremely robust C/C++ package managers. But they are so integral to development at this point that they have become almost invisible.


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.


Well you'd want to be reviewing the code you're going to be working on. If they bait and switch like this then they should expect high turnover.


If you're not interviewing with anyone on your team directly they may not have access to whatever you'll be working on. That doesn't make it a bait and switch.


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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