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Member 13683208 wrote: I've been in hospital (psychiatric) twice and have two four year gaps in my CV and no one wants to take a chance on me (understandable? maybe).
"Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove." ~ Terry Pratchet
That's how I got here, despite the gaps 
If you can teach, I'd suggest you add that to the list of services provided. Might not be as much fun as coding, but it may help to pay the bills. And go out a lot; any software-related presentation, show, anything with computing - go out and talk to people.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Might not be as much fun as coding, but it may help to pay the bills
And could lead to jobs.
Eddy Vluggen wrote: And go out a lot; any software-related presentation, show, anything with computing - go out and talk to people.
Local clubs might lead to some convention invites which in turn can either lead to jobs and/or establish more of of a reputation when attempting to sell.
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When I first started consulting I spent a lot of time at user groups for the tools I used, not sure they still exist though.
But yeah cold calling is a bitch, best bet is networking and even that is a lot of work.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Thanks a lot! I'm sure that if I work hard I'll make a living
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ping me if you want some technological help
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I need a software for my hardware shop. Can anyone help?
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If you need custom software for specific hardware then you would need to
1. Create appropriate specifications, both functionality and target OS.
2. Find someone to create it for you. You could look to either paying or doing profit sharing.
If you want to sell software then you would find a vendor that would sell to you and you sell it. Just like any other product in a shop.
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What kind of software exactly?
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Hi. I can made for you any kind of software, in C++, just give me details about. Write me an email to flaviu2@yahoo.com
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HI, if you are looking for software for your hardware shop then first you have to finalize your requirements, for which purpose you are looking for. So, it will be helpful for you.
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Any US based freelancers (1099) hold indemnity insurance? If so, who provides (which insurance company) and how much does it cost?
Thanks
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As a freelancer, I wouldn't even contemplate working without Professional Indemnity insurance. It *might* be OK if you're delivering a non-mission critical standalone app and don't *ever* go anywhere near the clients' servers or collect any data. But in practice I wouldn't sleep at night without it, especially as I frequently have to make changes to the clients' servers, manage confidential data, and write systems that are central to my clients' businesses. Never had to claim on it, but that's not the point - it's knowing it's there.
I'm in the UK so can't recommend any US providers.
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Hi!
I'm thinking months of a bot(algorithm) that can detect algorithms(written in assembly or any language) and say what they are talking about.
int factorial(int number){
int fact=1;
for(int i=1;i<=number;i++){
fact*=i;
}
return fact;
}
the robot will read this(analyze it) and say to me that this is an algorithm that calculate factorial, it's a function that return an integer, what...(maybe he should execute it virtually, track registers, vars...) our technology is slow in development, we just invented computers, no robots yet 
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This isn't a business question (wrong forum.)
And there are vast, vast number of algorithms that you could not analyze because they do not represent processes that are defined like factorial is.
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Nah, a computer can only determine the instructions available; not the intent. If you see me add stuff to a list, how would you determine whether it is a list that represents a high-score, or a list of all email-addresses on your machine?
A robot is a computer; and most applications run inside a virtual machine nowadays.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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You're insisting you know, of course a computer can 
did you heard about Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning ...
We should just find the way even if it is difficult
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Isawyouoo wrote: We should just find the way even if it is difficult
Why?
Google's AI cannot differentiate between Turkey (the bird) and Turkey (the country). How is it supposed to infer intention from a set of instructions? And what benefit would that bring? None actually.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Isawyouoo wrote: actually it's possible
No it isn't.
I can only suppose you are using the formal definition of an algorithm, like the one in your original post ("this is an algorithm that calculate factorial,")
In the vast universe of programming the cases of actual implementation of those methods represents such a small fraction of the total code base to be effectively zero. I would not be surprised if the percentage is even smaller than what it represented by winning the grand prize in a national lottery.
In contrast then are a vast, vast number of "algorithms" in the general sense that do not have a formal definition. They solve business, research and even educational problems but one cannot 'define' them because they are unique.
As an example following is some code that I just copied from my computer. What is the actual text that you expect your program to report for the "algorithm" for this?
public static void test(Object s)
{
Date daysAgo = Date.from(Instant.now().plus(-30L, ChronoUnit.DAYS));
System.out.println("Days ago=" + daysAgo);
}
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you said :
but one cannot 'define' them because they are unique.
if they are unique, sure they can be defined due to their unicity.
the algorithm above, will be more understandable if it was in assembly or MSIL code, since it's very easy to examine each instruction and conclude the main idea and the objectif of the algorithm.
As I say always, it's possible to figure what algorithms do, since every composition of instructions is unique.
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So what would be your desired output for the analysis of that code?
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Isawyouoo wrote: if they are unique, sure they can be defined due to their unicity.
That isn't the problem.
How are YOU going to define all such algorithms so that your proposed solution can output some 'definition' of it. Your factorial one is easy. It exists. Computer science and math defines it so if your solution finds it it can write out "factorial" but others have no such definition.
Isawyouoo wrote: As I say always,
As my previous post said and the other poster noted as well what exactly is your program going to put out for the code that I posted?
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Isawyouoo wrote: if they are unique, sure they can be defined due to their unicity.
You're absolutely right, of course they can be defined and identified. But the identifier can add no meaning and will probably look something like 87fad930-be8c-928a-0384feead334
If that's what you want, then fine.
You're asking for AI that can look at "any" algorithm and, from the universe of possible "things to do", extract a meaningful name / description. (e.g. find factorials; compute best route between 3 points; find a perfect love match). To do that the AI has to have "Knowledge" of the entire universe and the language used to describe that universe. At this point - and for the foreseeable future - no AI system is that widely knowledgeable.
You could build a system that operates on algorithms in a very well-defined sector (e.g. fluid mechanics, perhaps) such that the system could "learn" to categorise code that implements one of a set of predefined algorithms.
BTW, you can also - without the need for any AI at all - build a rule-based parser that uses English-like language to say "this is a routine that takes a string and an integer and uses them to return a string and a boolean". Depending on the algorithm you might even be able to further indicate that it determines whether the first [n] characters of input [string] contains a make of car (provided you give your tool a list of every maker of cars).
Isawyouoo wrote: it's very easy to examine each instruction and conclude the main idea
Sorry, but to put it bluntly, that's rubbish. A high-level language is (almost by definition) easier to extract "ideas" from. At a low level, trying to determine the importance of outcomes is virtually impossible. Loading a number into a register could be because you need that number in the register to do other things with outside of the algorithm itself, or it might be the primary objective of the algorithm. You can have no idea of the intent of the code when examining it at that level, partly because at that level the code is not divided up into clear enough structures to even know the boundaries of the algorithm, and partly because the sheer number of instructions at low level will complicate the task by several magnitudes.
As an aside: many, many years ago I had the joy of maintaining a suite of COBOL programmes. The original coder had delighted in the following valid code:
IF (MILKING-PARLOUR IS EMPTY)
MOVE COWS TO MILKING-SHED
PERFORM MILKING UNTIL NO-MORE-MILK OR COWS-FED-UP.This was in a financial accounting system. You tell me what the algorithm does!
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Let's hope the robot tells you that there is a better way.
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