When does one become too old to program? Do people feel that they become less able to solve problems as they age? Were they better programmers in their 20's than in their 30's and 40's? Or do they feel that because as they've aged they know more, so when solving a problem it takes more time because the search space of solutions to evaluate is larger?
@sashang You're too old when you think you're too old. I know people into their 60s still doing great as a programmer. The trickier part is corporate culture that doesn't accept older programmers on the whole, so you see them going solo/freelance more often than working inside a regular organization.
@AkashRamani - Without knowing what operations you plan to perform that need to be fast it's hard to answer. Also, it would have to be quite a large tournament for it to matter much, as long as you don't have an unusually bad algorithm. I guess if you are running simulations as fast as you can or something it would matter.
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@JimG. it's all broken because no one has any idea how to architect programs really. We have all this education of which a minuscule amount focuses on proper methods of system design.
@WorldEngineer - One of the comments on the article JimG referenced has it right in my opinion. It's just rarely economical to even try to fix minor or rare bugs. And the environment software is written for changes fast enough that a serious effort to get all the bugs probably wouldn't complete before people switched to something shinier and buggier. Architecture can help by lowering the costs, but that just pushes the break-even point a bit - still well short of fixing everything.
user20683
@psr true
user20683
and software is turning into an a true ecology
user20683
eat or be eaten and whatever you can do to survive at a minimum is what you do before you move on
@WorldEngineer - Also it doesn't help that when people vote with $, it's hard for them to assess reliability, even if it's important to them. And people who stick with the same software for ages because it's reliable, even if it falls behind on features, aren't going to buy your software because they're sticking with what they have. (And even free as in beer software has the same issue, it's just people voting with their feet instead of their wallet).
Use AES.. see Comparison of DES, Triple DES, AES, blowfish encryption for data for details..
As for ease of use.. refer you users to a Site Like: http://www.everpassword.com/aes-encryptor
@Morons: Were you familiar with the OP's security algorithm? Or were you simply recommending best-of-breed encryption packages for the OP? // Reason I ask: I'm honestly not familiar with what the OP is trying to accomplish with that "number-guessing" algorithm, and I was wondering if somebody could enlighten me.
Use AES.. see Comparison of DES, Triple DES, AES, blowfish encryption for data for details..
As for ease of use.. refer you users to a Site Like: http://www.everpassword.com/aes-encryptor
