Thank you for the rewrite.
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I'd definitely be in Python, if I were I not writing commercial software.
It's an excellent FREE tool with a lot of FREE resources.
The stumbling block for me is that there is no real way to protect the software or the code.
I'd never consider Java. Just too slow.
I do all my coding in a language called
Clarion. I've been using the language since 1993.
It is a 4GL, and is very expensive. The core language is a couple of Thousand dollars and the 3rd-party libraries bring the tab to around $6k.
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If you are not enamored to BIG DATA, I would suggest that you learn Excel.
- I mean, really learn.
- Take a simple online course that gets you up to speed.
- Figure out what you to accomplish.
- The hard part is getting data in and populating other sheets within the file.
- Take another course when you need to learn something.
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HSH does not allow you to build custom databases. It does, however, allow you to FILTER the database about 15 ways from Sunday. (That 16th way will be the one you want.)
There are roughly 3,800 factors for every horse, so there is a lot there.
But it is a very intense program.
Very flexible, but not the same as writing code.
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Finally, we get to the good stuff!
I really tried to use BRIS as an import but the data just isn't robust enough. Plus, the speed, pace and class numbers are just not as good as what I'm used to.
Then, of course, there is the issue of the way they want to compensate the developer. LOL
But let's move on from all that.
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Yes, I credited my wife in my software for the first time.
She's been my whiteboard partner for so almost 3 decades. But in the last 2 or 3 years, I have seen Beth's intellect just go ballistic! (There is a logical reason for that's for another day.)
While Beth does not write code, she actually understands my whiteboarding. As I explain things to her, I am working through issues and problems - usually starting on a very base level.
She actually helped me design the Artificial Intelligence within the software.
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About the deTerminator...
It Determinates. LOL
It is not about picks... although it does make good ones.
It's real goal is to provide something that everybody wishes they had but nobody actually has:
an
INFORMATIONAL ADVANTAGE
It does this by allowing the user to have information:
- Nobody else has (by inventing its own factors).
- The whales wouldn't use (because it doesn't fit their approach).
- Produces a killer artificial morning line.
- Calibrates who the whales are likely to be.
It's coming and it will rock the world.
Intro price will be $79 per month plus $100 per month to HDW for unlimited data.