Roboprog

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by Roboprog 9y ago
It would be humorous, but instructive, to have something like this for Java that parses it and dumps out metrics about the tree size for a project - AST node count and static depth, where possible to tell.
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by Roboprog 9y ago
Thus, the "+". The article is fair in that regard - it's just an abstract curve, with no exact formula, let alone coefficients. In practice, though, when somebody brings up Laffer, they are going to claim constants that gen
393.
by Roboprog 9y ago
It seems they did well both before and after 1970. So???
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by Roboprog 9y ago
Would it not be... This: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve + The assertion that the peak of this curve is skewed towards the left (low tax rates), rather than the right (high rates)? That is, that if the &quo
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by Roboprog 9y ago
Seriously, if you would have showed me the text of the code I'm working on now when I was a year into college in the early 80s, I think I would have changed my major.
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by Roboprog 9y ago
Thanks, Mike, er, Michael. - Bob.
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by Roboprog 9y ago
Especially since most IDE's seem to go out of their way to make sludge out of the text, unless you have hours to spend training each one, and can figure out how to do so... ... until your coworker edits the file in the out of the box I
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by Roboprog 9y ago
Thanks. Almost nobody liked my comment (downvoted), but it sure kicked off a long discussion :-) I haven't done any actual Lisp since the 80s on a CDC Cyber mainframe and a dedicated expansion card on an Apple II, so I'm "a
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by Roboprog 9y ago
Did that for simple polynomials back in the early 80s. The approximation of an arbitrary function is more interesting to me, precisely because I didn't do that, I guess :-) Cal State (Stan) only had (some) Lisp available because I was
400.
by Roboprog 9y ago
Fortunately, JEE & Spring are MUCH easier to get started with :-) Let them eat COBOL...
401.
by Roboprog 9y ago
Try putting the closing parens on a line aligned with the opening one, as if they were K&R style closing braces (ignoring that open-paren goes before keyword/func-name, rather than after ) (define (fact x) (if (zer
402.
by Roboprog 9y ago
"The experience" - starting with the constant pop-up nagware, moving on to the dismal performance, following with the whack-a-mole update of the week "thrills", etc.
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by Roboprog 9y ago
Substitute "USB class compliant MIDI keyboard with Aux in" for "Casio", which I said way too many times :-) The trick is to get/make a patch that makes no sound (e.g. - sample of silence) to abuse the keyboard'
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by Roboprog 9y ago
Quite true. But I think I'm gonna be sick :-) (in general, I'm not a fan of Object-Foo-Mapping, but then I've used dynamic/runtime typed languages on and off since the 80s)
405.
by Roboprog 9y ago
And my youngest has been using Chromebooks at his school the last 2 or 3 years.
406.
by Roboprog 9y ago
Thank God this finally happened. About 8 or 10 years ago, my older daughters insisted that OpenOffice wasn't a "real" word processor, since it didn't look like MS Office on XP, and we were then running Ubuntu at home (si
407.
by Roboprog 9y ago
Touchscreen devices are popular in special ed / autism work.
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by Roboprog 9y ago
My iPad mini is a great little synthesizer. That's not a very big market, though. For about $400 (total - iPad + Casio, some wires and software), you can use one to build a portable rig that actually sounds decent (if only I knew how
409.
by Roboprog 9y ago
I guess we can call the mobile market "Revenge of the Consumers" - "No, Microsoft, F--k you ." While most people just accept the OS that comes on a PC if they buy one, I don't think they were too anxious to repeat
410.
by Roboprog 9y ago
Thanks for that. I wonder how many of us in this readership have "flop affinity", given often very particular tastes and goals?
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Thanks for the sequence diagram. That's exactly what we're doing.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
No :-) My first reaction was "I have to rewrite one of these in a week or two, is this API easier/cheaper to use than our current vendor?" I suppose if this post had come up a few months earlier or later, I would not have car
413.
by Roboprog 10y ago
I don't want to implement the OCR code. Most other clients would probably not want to, either :-) It's a huge value add, if a vendor is going to offer this service.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Our current vendor supports this. There is a barcode (or on older stuff, just digits) in a "window" on the document which the system OCRs and uses to index incoming documents. This allows the incoming (returning) docs to be rout
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Doctor sign-off on cause of death, as well as other medical related stuff. Online processes are not yet legal in California.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
I'm working on the California death certificate automation system. DocuSign is not legally accepted for a doctor to sign off on cause of death for a decedent. Laws for your use case will be different. That's mine.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
I have to rebuild one of these in a week or two, so it is VERY MUCH an item of interest to me to support the "sign and send back" workflow.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Here's how it looks like it works to me: (their stuff is of course HTTPS, and I'm assuming the caller's support links would be as well. Each REST call also has authentication tokens, of course) === Out: === You POST data to
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Same. At work we are in the process of rewriting an application that sends FAXes to doctors for their signatures. The barcode is on the edge of the doc, rather than the coverpage, but otherwise, same. The barcode is used as less error pr
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by Roboprog 10y ago
"Wet signature" being a term with some legal standing. DocuSign, not so much, other than for preliminary real estate actions.

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