Ovid

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Death by Database: a short story of how a bad schema can hurt you company(ovid.github.io)
2 points by Ovid 8y ago|3 comments
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by Ovid 10y ago
That doesn't help when you need to review each individual branch to find out if it needs to be worked on, merged, or deleted.
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Easily clean up a team's remote Git branches(blogs.perl.org)
1 points by Ovid 10y ago|2 comments
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Perl, Python, and Ruby: The anatomy of a testing assertion(writemoretests.com)
2 points by Ovid 10y ago|0 comments
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The average size of Web pages is now the average size of a Doom install(mobiforge.com)
857 points by Ovid 10y ago|449 comments
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by Ovid 11y ago
I'm confused. What's so hard to reason about that? It's very obvious that it prints 2016. Maybe "infinite lazy lists" isn't something that most mainstream languages consider, but honestly, they're very han
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The Zen of Test Suites(ovid.github.io)
1 points by Ovid 11y ago|0 comments
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by Ovid 11y ago
You are completely wrong and people with your attitude are part of the reason we expats are suffering. Studies repeatedly show that that that majority of almost 8 million Americans living abroad moved to look for work, to find love, explore
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by Ovid 11y ago
Actually, no. The US has tax treaties with roughly 1/3rd of the countries in the world (source: https://www.irs.gov/Businesses/International-Businesses/Unit... ). If you're not in one of those countries,
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by Ovid 11y ago
Sorry to break it to you, but if you're a non-US citizen but a permanent resident in the US, you're a "US person": https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/22/120.15 This means that you'r
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by Ovid 11y ago
Junctions are insanely useful once you get used to them and I use them frequently. Basically, any time you have a list and you're worried the properties of any , all , or none of the list members (hmm, just about all lists), then j
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by Ovid 11y ago
Much of the "hatred" seems to come from those who have a lot of preconceived notions about Perl (either 5 or 6). However, I look at the people who approach the language with curiosity and no baggage, and the reactions I often see
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by Ovid 11y ago
I have to take exception to this because part of what I do for a living is teach tech companies how to hire. The claims are: 1. Performance on our online programming quiz is a strong predictor of programming interview success 2. Fizz buzz s
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by Ovid 11y ago
The range operator (..) is also pretty cool, since we're all lazy now. Here's an infinite lazy list of prime numbers in Perl 6 (declared as a constant because you presumably don't want to change 'em): constant prim
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by Ovid 11y ago
I can't say, but I love what Perl 6 has done. For example, here's a Point class, with read/write, mandatory attributes: class Point { has $.x is rw is required; has $.y is rw is required; } Like m
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by Ovid 11y ago
When it's native to the language, it's awesome. When it's bolted on as an afterthought, you get articles like this. Native gradual typing can be much faster and assuming the language has a decent test suite, cases can quickly
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by Ovid 11y ago
The issue I have with gradual typing in most languages is that it's added after the fact and not native. As a result, the integration isn't native and you start seeing issues like this. This, incidentally, is one of the reasons I
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How the Unicode Committee Broke the Apostrophe(tedclancy.wordpress.com)
35 points by Ovid 11y ago|15 comments
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by Ovid 11y ago
Perl 6 isn't as complex as people make it out to be. I have friends who are race car enthusiasts who could go in to excruciating detail about cars and if you don't know how to drive, it could seem daunting. The reality is that m
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by Ovid 11y ago
I just want to thank you for the very insightful comments you've made and it will definitely help me reform the background of what I've written. I think that largely my key points about modern corporations are generally on point
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by Ovid 11y ago
Your complaints are interesting (I'm the speaker). That talk was a gross oversimplification in many ways as I've pointed out. Note that the core talk was 35 minutes and no, there's no way that I could give it as fair of a cov
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How Agile Is Destroying Management(youtube.com)
3 points by Ovid 11y ago|7 comments
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by Ovid 12y ago
And sometimes they outsource because it's hard to find expertise in a particular area, or they have a staffing shortage. I am regularly contacted because of that.
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by Ovid 12y ago
If they're outsourcing to save money, I don't want them as a client. As I've said, if they're pinching pennies, they're not focusing on the right area or they're so cash-strapped that they can't focus on
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by Ovid 12y ago
> 7) Charge more. I have a small, but profitable consulting company working for clients across Europe and the US. If there's one thing I've learned, it's that if some of the first words out of the client's "how m
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SCO is back and continuing their lawsuit against IBM(sltrib.com)
10 points by Ovid 12y ago|0 comments
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by Ovid 12y ago
Damn it! I totally feel your pain. Migrating COBOL to Java has long been one of my pet peeves. The former is procedural with all variables being global and fixed-width and the later is OO (sort of) with lexical variables of variable size. T
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by Ovid 12y ago
OP here. I really can't say as much as I would like (there's stuff I can't share), but my publisher had a face-to-face with an Amazon rep and internal action was taken. Amazon's investigation is apparently over. The inte
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by Ovid 12y ago
Ex-COBOL developer here. In case anyone is wondering if something like this could ever be the "killer app" of COBOL that launches it into modern fame and glory, the answer is "oh god, no." COBOL isn't a modern langu
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by Ovid 12y ago
> Many fake reviews are blatantly fake, and could easily be flagged by a relatively naive set of heuristics. Yes, that's true, but I think this is a question of scale. Amazon is the world's largest e-commerce site (well, I thi

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