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Webster
Joined 15 years ago
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Feb 11
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Comment · 6 years ago
Substructure and exact match molecule searches are example of graph matching algorithms
Comment · 10 years ago
Education. Better funding for education from elementary school on up will help provide a much better foundation for deriving meaning from our lives
Comment · 10 years ago
Recently turned 61. I make $110k, 30+ years a developer. Currently work with Java on Search Engines. Spent most of my career in C working on chemical search engines. Happy to be healthy, alive, and still having a blast writing software
Comment · 12 years ago
From my experience, software development is much more like writing than accounting or sports. In my experience writers vary a lot in their skill. Not everyone can write, and some writers are much better than others. Of course some not very good writers still create useful documents. In my experience though writers are not fungible. No one would replace Shakespeare with a pulp hack, but that is really what a lot of this argument seems to me to be about
Comment · 13 years ago
Why not just use the CDPATH variable in your shell? If the directory is one you go to frequently, add it to CDPATH, then just cd to it.
Comment · 13 years ago
And here I thought that the driving force was the desire for clean water and clean air.
Comment · 15 years ago
So offshore projects require the Waterfall methodology to succeed? What if requirements change? The design has to change and of course the code. I think you are exactly right, but the nature of development makes offshoring problematic. I have not yet seen good software products created over seas. Usually they need lots of work in-house (rewritten). In my experience the cost savings of offshore development is really creative accounting