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by amerika_blog 13y ago
Perl is the ultimate hacker's language. It was for the 90s and 00s what Microsoft BASIC was to the 1980s. However, I think it's also coming back. Most of the "inefficiencies" it got tagged with were relics of the server
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
The Perl culture is very much "Wild West" meets the race to space. It's a language for people who are comfortable enough around theory that they don't need syntax to force them to use it. At the same time, it's high
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
Still the best all-purpose language. Trend languages like Ruby and Haskell are flashes in the pan.
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
"We are not inherently better than those people, we're just luckier about our surroundings." It seems to me people choose their own actions. When enough choose badly, the society as a whole decays.
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
I support the NSA monitoring. No, not a troll. At this point, the USA has a ton of enemies. Filtering through emails, phone, etc. is a good way to catch these. We need to give law enforcement the tools it needs. Seeing how this access was a
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
It can't end soon enough. The open internet meant that anyone with TCP/IP could see all content. Facebook put everything behind a wall that was both effective at blocking open access and ineffective at protecting privacy. The cent
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
You know Dot Com Bubble 3.0 is about to burst when some site gets funding for interpreting rap lyrics.
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
The truth is often hidden in plain sight simply because most will never go looking for it.
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
These are coffee table books about interesting/ironic details of our world, not any actual reshaping. I used to read such books in the pursuit of being an "intellectual," then picked up Marcus Aurelius and realized how pueril
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
"Working hard" is confusing the tool for the objective. Are they working effectively? That last word is the important one. It implies a connection between the work and reality. Otherwise, people gladly work hard... on irrelevant b
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
Modern media is a good way to make yourself neurotic. Fear sells and misery sells. Everything else is not of interest.
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
"When an organized group of people uses force to take your belongings, leveraging tactics of fear for political ends, isn't that firmly within the definition of terrorism?" No, that's democracy. And the dumbest ideas alw
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
My kids are growing up on classical music. It helps accelerate this process.
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
The scholar-gentry are false elites who have no idea how disconnected from reality they are. Source: former one, fall from grace, mostly by choice.
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The post on Reddit's flawed algorithm mysteriously disappears(reddit.com)
3 points by amerika_blog 13y ago|0 comments
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
Government is the enemy. That means no wealth redistribution. Can the internet balance these two?
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
This sounds like politics to me more than anything else. Having everyone learn to code is like having everyone be a paralegal. Most will be bad at it. Neither is particularly difficult, but specialization is a matter of personality more tha
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
Will you do a Slayer cover?
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
I didn't know this. Thanks for elaborating. I always enjoyed Germany, but I liked France too.
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
Good synopsis. Check out the discussion on Reddit itself: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1si31j/reddits_...
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
Reddit is designed for SEO gaming. The point is to have your bots/friends downvote everything but your submission. It works every time.
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
Ask these guys: http://www.o9a.org/
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Brazil's child sex trade soars as 2014 World Cup nears(theguardian.com)
3 points by amerika_blog 13y ago|0 comments
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
And spending $100 on Chinese food, instead of $40 on non-perishables, is?
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
Why are there so many Romanians and Bulgarians in Germany? Seems a weird choice to make. I mean, Germany's a lovely place, but why a mass exodus to there? "It's Tuesday, let's move to Germany."
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
That's not a terrible idea at all. Around here, you can also get bean filling in jars, which is another good source of protein (and flatulence, but what isn't these days).
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
"It makes me sick that I pay around 40% in state and federal taxes and social security (not that much lower than Western European countries) yet there is still so much poverty and poverty related issues in our country." Maybe the
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
Depending on the definition of "healthy." Eating normal food, with some organics but not all, is reasonably affordable if you're willing to cook. That takes longer, but results are better. I don't know how people afford
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
My original statement is quite helpful, if you're trying to get yourself out of a financial hole. Restaurant eating is savagely expensive. I learned that the first time I had to loop a paycheck. It's not complete advice, meaning t
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
"The reason for all the vitriol is that he wasn't suitably enthusiastic -- he didn't pay all the required lip service, he isn't perceived to feel people's pain." I agree. He's a strong leader who didn&#x27

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