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people should be roughly as comfortable with this as with operating mysql on EC2 or using RDS, and I think that's quite common.

it's more than 5x what Atlassian charges for the same product

it's sort of like trying to argue that "Whose Line" is not a game without points. There are types there, but they don't matter at all. You can cast anything to anything and it will never fail.

as is C

only in languages with first class functions.

how badly does this destroy your stack traces?

I'm guessing his assertion that the person of interest is no programmer has more to do with Gayle's book being full of platitudes and errors than her sex.

nice try, hitler

this type of encrypted messaging is super common between banks and third parties. it's usually done in a similar manner to what is implemented here but in SFTP and every bank has it quirks/a different system for ACKing transmissions. a standard would be nice :)

my guess is a thin wrapper around PTOSC.

I can give you some sense of why I use Java and enjoy it today in an "enterprise" setting. The JVM is excellent. Java 8 in particular is quite fun to use, streams in particular. The tool support isn't quite there yet for all of Java 8, however. In recent versions the concurrency APIs are quite diverse and easy to use (as much as multithreaded programming can be). There are also lots of good libraries -- Guava, Guice, and jOOQ to name a few. Java is also quite fast -- it's consistently outperformed by C and C++ but it's still competitive and much easier to write.

No, you're missing the point -- using a regex does not allow you to read in less than all of the input (in the best case, even). If you grep a 1GB file with a regex you must read 1GB from disk, no exceptions, and that's many orders of magnitude slower than anything on the CPU (or in memory). With Boyer-Moore you can do less than 100% of the file size in I/O, especially if the given pattern is long relative to the full text.

I was suggesting that this is a fine way for things to be.

Sounds like adult life.