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Oh, come off it! It is perfectly possible to write a fast MD5 implementation in a bounds checked language - most of the checks will even be compiled away. Even if it wasn't, we could write our super-fast MD5 in assembly or whatever and call it when needed, just like we do with other stuff.
This bug was not in a performance critical piece of code. You could have written it in anything from Ada to Haskell or Lisp. Yes, it would have added some extra bounds checks. Which is great, because that's just what this code was missing.

That's sound advice, from what I've noticed structure plays a very important role in creating a solid resume. When I applied for a summer internship I set up a resume by comparing sections used in resumes I found Googling, eventually it contained the following three sections: "Objective", "Education" and "Skills" (e.g. Operating Systems, Databases, Programming Languages, Methodologies). If you do have any previous working experience (unlike me) you should obviously list that too.

I based my resume on the following resumes:

• Resumes of Pi Lambda Phi brothers and others with a substantial, verifiable affiliation to Pi Lam (http://www.twmacinta.com/plp/resumes/), 16 resumes in total also available as plain text.
• Other resumes such as those of Matthew M. Boedicker (PDF, also wrote LaTeX Resume Tips), David Finch and David L. Matuszek

That's sound advice, from what I've noticed structure plays a very important role in creating a solid resume. When I applied for a summer internship I set up a resume by comparing sections used in resumes I found Googling, eventually it contained the following three sections: "Objective", "Education" and "Skills" (e.g. Operating Systems, Databases, Programming Languages, Methodologies). If you do have any previous working experience (unlike me) you should obviously list that too.

I based my resume on the following resumes:

• Resumes of Pi Lambda Phi brothers and others with a substantial, verifiable affiliation to Pi Lam (http://www.twmacinta.com/plp/resumes/), 16 resumes in total also available as plain text.
• Other resumes such as those of Matthew M. Boedicker (PDF, also wrote LaTeX Resume Tips), David Finch and David L. Matuszek

Nice. Java is a good concept. Slow, mind you, but good

Now if only they would reduce the memory footprint of things like Swing.

...unless they can find a hormone-testing software package they can use as part of the registration process.

HOWEVER. What I want to see is something that will store this information, possibly in a db or somesuch, and then spit it out easily into multiple formats.

I did this with my own resume awhile back (http://www.twmacinta.com/resume/resume_gen.php). Initially, my thinking was close to yours and I thought about making a generalized resume system that reads from a db. What I did, instead, was to store all of my resume information as string literals (inside of arrays) within a PHP program. This is obviously not something you would want to do if you were writing a generic resume generation program for others to use, but since I am the only user of the code itself I opted for this route because it took very little time to develop. I would recommend this route to other developers because updating your resume data is pretty easy (just add another string to the array) and supporting new formats is just a matter of writing some PHP to transform the arrays into that format. All of the formats on my page are automatically generated except for Word and PDF, for which I have written intermediate HTML formats that can be very easily converted into Word and PDF by hand.

This would be a nightmare for me with my "age detector" website because of all the people who would ask for refunds. Even if I opt out the the program and keep my pages free, I'm sure I would still get a ton of email from people asking for their penny back. I already get a ton of email from irate "customers" despite the fact that I'm not selling anything. I get around 20,000 visitors a day and if I had to deal with refund requests for even a small percentage of that it would become a serious burden. I imagine that there are plenty of other sites out there who would want to keep there pages free but would be forced to step up "customer service" if users started assuming that sites are pay per view by default.

Anyway, we have an opening for a full time developer. If you're in the Boston area and you have have experience with Java, SQL, and Unix/Linux and an interest in statistics email me with the URL to your resume.