jmilkbal

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The power structures will never allow it. The conditions for a society of leisure have theoretically existed for some time now. We will simply end up with a a planetary ruling class that lives opulently while the other 99% live in abject poverty.

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Working HD Active Protection System for newer Thinkpads - DESCRIPTION: Around the time of the release of the Thinkpad W530, Lenovo had changed the way in which the HDAPS system was done on Thinkpads. In the past, the tp-smapi* packages and the hdapsd daemon made using Thinkpads with rotating platters excellent, but the newer models now receive errors, and there's some notion that maybe the kernel has some kind of support for APS systems now. It's quite frustrating to know I've sacrificed protection by having a newer model while we wait for SSDs to become as trustworthy as our HDDs. - No Affiliation

Ada had OO from Ada 95, though it doesn't look anything like the OO in most mainstream languages of today. In Ada 95, tagged types were introduced which were based on Ada's powerful record types and Ada 2005 introduced interfaces in a style similar to Java. Java and Ada have both taken plenty from each other over the years.

Edited because I was misleading about the introduction of OO.

T'was programming language satire at it's finest, in my opinion. :)

During a presentation, I tried to show a ranged type implementation in Java. To put it mildly: it's a mess.

SEEKING WORK/FREELANCER - Omaha area or remote

Looking for PART-TIME contract or salaried work.

I've been working on a development team for several years as a contract worker. I'm looking for a better arrangement while I continue my university education pursuing degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics.

Most of my experience in the upper levels of the web stack, but I'm very much interested to attack other areas of the stack, development process, documentation, etc., open source tools and open source platforms.

With my current hat, I've been working to connect backend to frontend and developing the frontend using typical, but not remarkable web tech. I'm especially interested in participating in high-quality development processes with great people.

I've developed APIs, managed conversion of a project from long-lived HTTP to websockets, improved backend database libraries, written great technical documentation, and more. My strongest backend language is Ada which is a reflection of the kind of qualities I value in software and processes.

My interests are across the board including (but not limited to) full-stack for web, Android and Windows mobile apps, data science and visualization.

Please get in touch. CC3cZk at wh.ftml.net.

SEEKING WORK - Remote from Omaha, Nebraska, USA

I creating reliable software by using safe languages as much I can with high test coverage and excellent documentation. A current project is a standards-based, web front-end and associated back-end code for a call center contact management system written in Ada, adding new features and updating and rewriting existing code. Also, create a complete RESTful API and more modern, more extensible interface from the ground up.

I've developed solutions in many languages on both front- and back-ends using languages like Ada, Java, C and PHP on the back-ends and standards-based HTML, CSS and JavaScript on the front-end using well-known tools like jQuery, Prototype.js, SASS, LESS, Bootstrap and a host more along with custom written tools when necessary.

Recently I converted a display that updates in realtime from a Mozilla technology that never caught on, long-lived HTTP requests, to WebSockets working through bugs in the third party library's implementation and working with the vendor to get them fixed quickly.

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I am an Ada developer, but I think it is objective to say that anyone who opposes a language because there fingers will have extra work probably doesn't belong in this field. If you consider the development process as a whole—research, planning, development, verification, etc.—those extra keystrokes add an exceptionally marginal amount of time to the development process, but reduce time so much more by making the code more intuitive to read. Don't let me lead you to believe that Ada's words make it intuitive; that would be disingenuous, but the syntax has been formed since its inception to be readable by developers and non-developers alike. This is an important distinction with something like Java, neverminding that you don't have to explicitly instantiate generics in Java. One of the key objectives of Ada is code that is especially intuitive to non-developers. There's a lot going on in the language. I hope this helps.

I use Ada everyday developing a predictive dialer and contact management system for call centers and it's web-based front-end. Interest has been steadily growing since I started with the language in 2006. One, possibly useless, indication is that the #ada channel on freenode used to hover in the single digits and now regularly hovers around 70. People regularly enter the channel asking how to get started.