mcculley

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2011.
by mcculley 17y ago
I thought the point was that readability is important. There's a difference between one's willingness and ability to learn a new language and read code written in it and what is a good idea to foist upon the many others who will read, exten
2012.
by mcculley 17y ago
Yes, their system is browser based. Greasemonkey would probably work fine as you described, but I would be more comfortable with an actual API when committing funds. Even with an API, I would probably still want to review the transaction on
2013.
by mcculley 17y ago
Oops. 2 employees would be $42.99. Yes, I should have used max(). I copied that expression out of my budget spreadsheet and I added that cell after we had 5 or more employees, apparently.
2014.
by mcculley 17y ago
We use PayCycle. It is $42.99 + (numEmployees - 5) * 1.50 per month no matter how many checks you generate. This means you aren't penalized for paying weekly or for generating reimbursement checks out of phase with your normal payroll cyc
2015.
by mcculley 17y ago
This is very convenient now that Java (as of 1.6) has JavaScript/Rhino built in as an implementation of the Scripting API: http://snipplr.com/view/17501/javascript-swing-application/ Execution is as simple as 'jrunscript app.js'.
2016.
by mcculley 18y ago
I used this and had a good experience with it. The project I used it on was ~150K lines of C and had lots of developers from different organizations contributing code. That made it a pretty good example of a project that was having troubl
2017.
by mcculley 18y ago
One thing I would add to that is that Ada at that time (Ada83, that is; Ada95 fixes this) lacked function pointers. There was no mechanism in the language to support the runtime selection of behavior that function pointers allow. Such a fea
2018.
by mcculley 18y ago
Am I missing something obvious on scribd? I saw no way to download the original PDF on the scribd page. I was as annoyed as the original poster when this paper (HPL-2007-193) was on HN and I tried to save it so that I could read it later.