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Let the DNC hire the programmers and keep them on staff. Keep the code closed-source (so the Rs don't get it) and also expand it to work with local races in the House and Senate.
This.
My shop used Rhino (JS running in the same JVM as your Java) to write JS automated test scripts. We've got about 800 of them now, and it's awesome. We've built it to run on multiple machines, aggregate logging, report failures, all built into our nightly build with Jenkins so we sit down in the morning and there's a list of issues waiting for us on all new code builds.
How many people will be using a 50+ year old OS/app in 2050 when it would become a problem?
My shop has over 800 automated test scripts, all of which have been running on machines that think it's 2013-2014 for over a year, and will be bumped up to 2014-2015 by the end of the month.
Yes. A thousand times yes.
Just stop feeding the cat entirely. In about 3 weeks, he will stop bothering you.
I'm looking for a new one with a warranty, to give as a gift. I'd prefer not to buy a fragile, commonly-counterfeited product out of the back of somebody's van for $500.
I would have loved them to slot the 3 where the 2 is now, and further lower the price of the 2.
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin