Ultimatt

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by Ultimatt 9y ago
I think you are reading in too much the criticism of how grammars work. Ultimately the leading compiler uses the Perl 6 grammar engine and tooling to implement the language compiler! So if your needs are substantially less complex than need
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by Ultimatt 9y ago
It also has all of the Perl 5 regex syntax too, so you can still use anything legacy or if you prefer to stick to something more portable. It's just the "default" regex is the new syntax. You can also put in any other "l
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by Ultimatt 9y ago
Probably not wrong but quite possibly in a way that's not been optimised well. I'm sure people on Freenode IRC #perl6 would be interested in your work. Don't forget `perl6 --profile script.p6` gives nice profiler output out o
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by Ultimatt 9y ago
To show you could use other separators defined by any regex you like.
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by Ultimatt 9y ago
That's cool, but I feel like you're unlikely to run into it very often in the wild? The vast majority of Linux systems come with ruby/perl out of the box. Plus if Python did support this sort of hackery it would quickly garne
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by Ultimatt 9y ago
Awesome thanks for sharing this! I was too lazy to give a Ruby example alongside.
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by Ultimatt 9y ago
Not really possible in Python for anything overly useful/complex because of the significant white space, and regular expressions are not a first class object in the language. ipython is the equivalent solution I suppose. However, Ruby
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by Ultimatt 9y ago
Skip awk, use perl.... The alias below sets perl to loop over STDIN splitting each line on more than one whitespace character and populate an array F. The -nE will then Evaluate an expression from the command line looping over the input lin
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by Ultimatt 9y ago
>Isn't it crazy hard to get hired for a research position? I was told in the past that just because you had a PhD didn't mean you would automatically be able to find a job doing interesting research. It's crazy hard to get
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by Ultimatt 9y ago
I'd consider also how you can pivot slightly rather than completely. Coming out of my undergrad degree I had absolutely zero interest in writing boiler plate style software suited-up in a large company. Instead I took on jnr research p
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by Ultimatt 9y ago
You have a very low chance of getting to prof status in academia after a decade away post PhD. Only your academic contributions are considered.
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by Ultimatt 9y ago
Readers understand this isn't close to being an operating system right? You get the first boot sector of a floppy for free from the BIOS. This isn't even as complex as the most simple boot loader. It doesn't handle loading mo
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by Ultimatt 10y ago
Most of those have relatively high value added from the conversion. Perl to Python is essentially meaningless as the languages have feature parity. Complaints like "remove all the global variables and add objects", given Perl actu
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by Ultimatt 10y ago
I can almost guarantee the managers improved nothing other than reporting of work. Before they arrived everyone was too busy doing it to tell execs what was happening. If anything I bet tangible productivity is reduced with the introduction
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The dangers of passion projects: Staying sane in indie development(gamesindustry.biz)
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by Ultimatt 10y ago
As far as investor understanding goes the hype is probably under selling the importance of CRISPR. Because it makes lots of functionality reliable, cheap and much simpler. Even if it did nothing novel at all that would be important enough.
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by Ultimatt 10y ago
CRISPR is a solution to just retroviruses. Bacteria through phages actually come under more attack than humans in this way. If you've got a single cell for the next generation you care a lot about this. Humans any old crap can happen t
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by Ultimatt 10y ago
Check out the new comers section here https://perl6.org/resources/
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by Ultimatt 10y ago
There is the v5 project implementing Perl 5 targetting nqp to be compiled inline with a Perl 6 program. https://github.com/rakudo-p5/v5 The project has mostly stalled since Inline::Perl5 became so effective. v5 had the
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by Ultimatt 10y ago
Unfortunately the regex/grammar engine is one of those components lacking deep optimisation. At the moment. Thats probably a much bigger factor than anything algorithmic. With tokens another nice thing to note is there is longest token
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by Ultimatt 10y ago
Although highly applicable you have to remember evolution is a thing. Proteins where there are no selective pressure to operate at high temperature are likely optimal in the ranges in that state of water. Hyperthermophiles live at 80degC an
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by Ultimatt 10y ago
Instead of finding your weakness and patching that up I would find what you are already strong at and take that to the next level. Then just present yourself as only that person. Craft your image to fit your skills not your skills to some i
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Perl 6 is biased towards mutators being really simple. That’s a good thing(6guts.wordpress.com)
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by Ultimatt 10y ago
Plenty of things trend often on HN with very little community or support existing to date. They are still heard about frequently. The reason is the community understand how to get attention in a way that engages your average dev. It's
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by Ultimatt 10y ago
Again just no. Tardigrades are predated by each other and plenty of other animals. Just because you can survive drought and radiation doesnt mean you can mechanically survive another organism evolved to eat you hunting you down.
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by Ultimatt 10y ago
No it doesn't make sense at all. The vast majority of natural evolution works through composability and shuffling of already evolved structures. So through sexual recombination. Many tardigrades can also selectively vegetatively reprod
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by Ultimatt 10y ago
No Mercator projection is used because its the least weird conformal projection (you draw a straight line its really straight in the real world). If you are trying to plot a bearing at the scale of the planet you want to be using Mercator u
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by Ultimatt 10y ago
Bacteria have a solution to that too though with the use of mobile genetic elements called plasmids. So the genetics of something can float in the population with locality to its relevance. Most antibiotic resistant bacteria in hospitals ge
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by Ultimatt 10y ago
You mean growing trees for wood fuel...
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by Ultimatt 10y ago
Plenty of action on IRC if you want ideas for contributing code https://perl6.org/community/irc Also plenty of libraries to choose from to help out with http://modules.perl6.org/

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