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Websteron What are some real world applications of graph algorithms?

Substructure and exact match molecule searches are example of graph matching algorithms

Websteron The threat of technological unemployment

Education. Better funding for education from elementary school on up will help provide a much better foundation for deriving meaning from our lives

Websteron Ask HN: 30+ men and women in software, how much do you make?

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

Websteron Do elite software developers exist?

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

Websteron Teleportation on the command line

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.

Websteron Builders bulldoze Mayan Pyramid

And here I thought that the driving force was the desire for clean water and clean air.

Websteron Offshoring: does it ever work?

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