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by berntb 13y ago
I was discussing the period when we humans evolved. Not so large groups then. Evolutionary pressure creating psychopaths from a group evolutionary basis seems unlikely (these generally need quite specific circumstances to work). (Your argum
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by berntb 13y ago
The point was, with the attitude to strangers in clan warfare (not modern post-clan societies), psychopaths have nothing to add regarding ruthlessness. See old Scandinavia. For stylized cattle raids (e.g. historical Ireland, before the viki
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by berntb 13y ago
I'm not going to rule out that psychopathy can have been a good thing in some society roles, but they do look more like shirking parasites? (An evolved strategy that is turned on sometimes, depending on environment.) [Edit: Afaik, psyc
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by berntb 13y ago
I had similar experience when I started Perl. I was used to take a problem of a certain size, sit down and think for a while. Then code C for maybe 3 to 10 days. When I did a similar problem in Perl, the time to think for a problem of that
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by berntb 13y ago
Yeah, Django has a really well planned ramp up for a newbie. Especially compared to Catalyst among the Perl frameworks. The ORM was a bit of pain (had to do jump through hoops just to get multiple column indexes, iirc?). But in the end, aft
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by berntb 13y ago
I answered a comment re threading, not different multi process implementations. (All the popular scripting languages have bad threading support and try to do everything with multiple processes, afaik. It should be possible to add good suppo
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by berntb 13y ago
For stuff so trivial that even the GIL is no problem, most any utility should work... (You don't seem to know that Perls are usually not compiled with threading support?) It just isn't interesting to talk about. I argued that list
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by berntb 13y ago
There has been quite a few offers from Packt and O'Reilly this autumn. A pity I filled up my reading buffer before. (I mostly read literature on the iPad, paper for work stuff so I can lend it to people.)
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by berntb 13y ago
You really prefer Python threading to anything?! You haven't found any of the major Perl web frameworks? You haven't seen Moose for OO? perlbrew? (Don't get me started on list comprehension, extra stuff to learn because Pytho
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by berntb 13y ago
"CGI Programming with Perl, 2nd Edition" is from the year 2000, otherwise I'd joke about 20th century called and want their library back. :-) If you can't go to the modern frameworks, I quite like Dancer myself, you can
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by berntb 13y ago
>> max, min [etc] Perl has a minimal std library, to teach people to use CPAN I guess. But even Perl has util modules for trivial help functions in the std install (at least those which aren't one line of code to define). The str
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by berntb 13y ago
Is that personal experience or a general research result? Is the result better than with careful code reviews [of the critical pieces] (both after writing, but also short checks during development over a code listing and coffee)? Intuitivel
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by berntb 13y ago
Well, as long as you don't own a company worth stealing you don't get problems with the police (and other organized crime)? :-) I've only been to gay parties a few times in my life. Very depressing, since they have much more
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by berntb 13y ago
He he, I remember 15 years ago when I told a friend studying economics and East Europe, that I had racist tendencies when it came to Russians -- everyone I had ever talked to for more than five minutes were an engineer or had a cultural job
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by berntb 13y ago
Where to start? :-( The point with democracies is that they take input from their citizens, or the leadership will get kicked out. The point with terrorism is to scare people, mainly in democracies. If the terrorists succeed in scaring vote
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by berntb 13y ago
Read the previous paragraph in the article. The point was that "everyone" assumed they understood how well he was doing, while being unable to evaluate that. (E.g. never heard of github.)
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by berntb 13y ago
Not in a hurry now. Your point is that democratic countries should behave better than the international treaties they sign , even if it will result in dead citizens of those countries. And you compare with children, to give "weight&qu
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by berntb 13y ago
Uhh... If you don't sign and follow the conventions, I thought you weren't protected by them? And for the US prison system, Google stop prison rape.
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by berntb 13y ago
The Taliban side didn't follow any kind of war laws. What legal protection does the POWs of Guantanamo really have? For instance, afaik POWs from lawful sides in conflicts can be kept until the conflicts are over. The Afghan war is s
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by berntb 13y ago
I have a PS3 and don't know if I'll upgrade to a PS4. Maybe when there are lots of more games. (Dark Souls 3?) (I might even have gone the M-soft way, since they seem to have better support for hobby developers, but I don't h
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by berntb 13y ago
>>its command line almost matches a linux setup. Grumble, the most important feature isn't as good -- apt. Otherwise, I might switch back.
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by berntb 13y ago
I assume China is impossible for someone with a bad peanut allergy? (Gets sick just with a bowl of peanuts in the same room.)
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by berntb 13y ago
Not really. I think a day or two extra is typical punishment for minor problems (not cleaning your room, etc). It said in the linked DN article that he was kept locked up the rest of the month (not moved to a separate institution). They are
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by berntb 13y ago
So... when you're not a consultant with a need to impress people, you instead redirect the conversation to subjects other people know, which interests you? :-)
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by berntb 13y ago
He had a one month sentence in a no-walls prison, probably with signs saying "it is forbidden to go beyond this sign". Those places are typically used for people just caught drunk in traffic. More or less a way to keep people with
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by berntb 13y ago
Personally, I'd pay money to see the real code before considering a job offer... :-)
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by berntb 13y ago
>>It's an empty statement that could apply to almost any development language no matter how objectively 'good' or 'bad' it is. No, it isn't really contentless. All really complex systems will have ... wel
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by berntb 13y ago
Thanks, helpful reference! It do feel like getting information on the construction method of the whips which will be used on your back sometime in the future. :-) :-(
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by berntb 13y ago
I've seen a real nerd (the guy that got the big companies to do tcp/ip in Sweden, I'm not going to write Googleable names) do an ass of himself in a similar way. I happen to know that he considered that "funny". I&#
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by berntb 13y ago
Well, it becomes simpler if we note that: Most reasonably informed people should agree that the [software] world is a better place because rms is in it. And not only for gcc, emacs, etc. The rest is just a question of how many years before

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