HillRat

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by HillRat 13y ago
Yeah, I don't touch Java very often (and my Java is more sledgehammer than scalpel at the best of times), but off the top of my head I'd reduce the example to: int[] arr = new int[50]; for(int x =2; x <= 100; x = x+2){arr[(x&#x
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by HillRat 13y ago
That's the risk of the .NET ecosystem -- depending on any particular technology within the stack is fraught with peril, simply because MSFT has proven it's willing to kill support for any product, service or technology at any time
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by HillRat 13y ago
Look up the 1999 WorldCom outage due to a screwed-up load of Lucent's Jade platform upgrade. Fun times. Best I can say about that is that within a year WCOM execs had bigger problems than just pissing off CBOT....
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by HillRat 13y ago
Interestingly, $12K is over twice the average advance in the publishing world, which says something about the health of the technical publishing ecosystem. If you don't mind my asking (customer discovery process here), what tools did y
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by HillRat 13y ago
XAuthorize.net sold a similar product for a number of years. I'd think that (not having done more than skim the patent) it would count as prior art in the event MSFT wanted to protect that IP -- assuming that it could pass the non-obvi
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by HillRat 13y ago
Yeah, our creative writing tool (backspacr.com) uses versioning at the scene/subchapter level, and it's definitely nontrivial to present diff and merge tools to end users. We're working through customer stories right now to t
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by HillRat 13y ago
Healthcare.gov interfaces with so many internal systems, and was subcontracted to so many parties (including big players like Experian who are exceedingly private about their software), that you couldn't untangle the hairball. If my ex
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by HillRat 13y ago
Has anyone successfully implemented a "rocketback" RTLS maneuver on a production booster? A partial success looks pretty good on something that's been totally theoretical to date.
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by HillRat 13y ago
Nice concept; I'm lucky that I've (knock on wood) been in remission for the past few years, but I nearly died of the damned thing thanks to a series of misdiagnoses. Luckily, my (then-future) father-in-law has UC, so my wife was a
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by HillRat 13y ago
The Perl Poetry contest used to be a thing -- I don't think anyone ever measured up to "Black Perl" in awful audacity, but the parser can take a hell of a lot of abuse before it cries uncle.
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by HillRat 13y ago
"No taxation without representation" != "No representation without taxation." Regardless, this "%d don't pay income taxes" canard shows up every year, and it remains an incredibly misleading number. First,
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by HillRat 13y ago
License costs are definitely an issue -- at the enterprise level and in regards to internal development, there are strong institutional biases towards MSFT for a variety of reasons (the key driver being that all your employees have Windows
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An Internet Petition and an Overzealous Prosecutor May Have Doomed Aaron Swartz(slate.com)
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"A mistake, perfected:" Upcoming documentary on APL(lathwellproductions.ca)
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by HillRat 13y ago
It's an in-house version of Myriad.