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by berntb 10y ago
Of course. But I get your our point -- this is a corner that might bite you. It don't happen to me often, but I sprinkle "+ 0" and so on, without thinking about it.
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by berntb 10y ago
Come on, don't exaggerate -- dualvar has to be explicitly imported and used. (I've never seen it in the wild, I have no clue what Perl::Critic says? Edit: pbp has nothing to say about them?) And I'm not touching the "Per
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by berntb 10y ago
The discussion was \z contra \Z. I always clear out the new lines and use \Z, so I never bothered. The ASCII table used to be the alpha and the omega. :-) That is, it was not so much of unnecessary extra detail when the char codes was inser
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by berntb 10y ago
I have to agree with that, it could maybe take an extra work week in the beginning, to get beyond baby language. (But it wasn't as bad as C++ was for me. :-) ) Expressive is the good side of this. But you really need to have coding sta
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by berntb 10y ago
Uh..? 1. PCRE copies the Perl regex syntax almost completely (except some much newer cases than \A and \Z). See e.g. http://www.rexegg.com/regex-quickstart.html for \A, \Z, \z 2. If you check http://perldoc.perl.
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by berntb 10y ago
I'll agree with the rest, but not about Moose. It is not Perl 6, but is still probably better than most other scripting language OO systems.
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by berntb 10y ago
>> operator precedence mistakes (e.g. - in C) Many years ago, I had a bookmark in my C manual (Harbinson Steele) for the operator precedence page. After a while I removed that bookmark. I decided that if I needed to look at that list,
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by berntb 10y ago
>> the libraries you have come to depend on aren't there See e.g. Inline::Perl5 and Inline::Python (don't know how mature that is). >> For a new language to get adoption I'm not really that knowledgeable right now
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by berntb 10y ago
How are the modern keyboards? (I got a Dell Latitude last time and will probably buy another one next year. Good for Linux, lots of ports, ok screen, not so expensive and sturdy. But an ugly plastic box that is not so well designed. The tou
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by berntb 10y ago
One thing you wrote made me curious: That good wine box -- will a wine box from another batch also impress as much? I assume one of the problems with the cheap stuff is the std deviation values? I might add that I got a Moldovan 2 bucks win
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by berntb 10y ago
According to w-pedia, Chomsky wrongly dismissed the eye witnesses as an anti communist propaganda conspiracy... And evaluated as more trustworthy the supporters of dogma/regimes that already before the "Killing Fields" had a
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by berntb 10y ago
Only joking, I know enough music people to get that a lot of musicians are nerdier than I am. But the music people I know would still have appreciated that joke, so either drink more coffee or sleep more? :-) (You could counter with "I
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by berntb 10y ago
What the GP was referencing was the old argument of us Emacs users: " There is a difference with efficiency of easy learning and efficiency when using ". It implies that the cost of learning Emacs is small, per year of bliss using
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by berntb 10y ago
>> people on various parts of the political spectrum are writing things about various Middle Eastern actors which they are sure to regret in future. Interesting, what do you think will be heavily reevaluated? Frankly, I have no clue.
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by berntb 10y ago
"Simplicity"?! <Cough> It took me quite a few hours to learn. :-) At first, I was a bit frustrated and thought "Because of recommendations, I just spent X hours learning a tool where the GUI applications can be learned
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by berntb 10y ago
Why not this? WHERE A AND B AND C Or better, this? You can comment out any part easily. WHERE 1 AND A AND B AND C (With keywords capitalized, as g-d intended. :-) Or not.)
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by berntb 10y ago
My claim was about Chomsky's volume of criticism of Israel, compared to other groups/countries in that conflict. If that really is unclear, criticize my grammar (not using my native tongue). I answered this: >> [Chomsky ne
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by berntb 10y ago
What?! This is the early international reaction of Pol Pot criticism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide#Internation... Chomsky, according to the w-pedia link I gave in the GP, criticize that and call it
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by berntb 10y ago
>> Chomsky and Herman examined mass media coverage of U.S. enemies vs friends That is not exactly how Wikipedia discuss the Pol Pot and Chomsky subject? (Also, a later quote by Chomsky, at the end of that discussion of him, notes that
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by berntb 10y ago
Edit: Is it off topic to ask for a reference to what someone writes they've spent hundreds of hours on?! :-) >> I know of exactly zero cases of him claiming that Israel "deserved" civilian casualties I did not write t
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by berntb 10y ago
That seems naive in an anti-naive way? :-) When I look at the foreign policy of my country (Sweden), it seems a large part of it is decided as part of internal political posturing. Tail wagging the dog, etc. I'm not as knowledgeable ab
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by berntb 10y ago
NY Times didn't really go much into the political stuff, which they really don't write about. Do you have any recommendations after those hundreds of hours of Chomsky? I have problems reading/listening. To me, Chomsky's
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by berntb 10y ago
The allergies (and the associated damage from them) got worse. :-) :-( More detailed: I thought "There seems to be problems when I eat peanuts?" I bought a bag and ate. And was sick for a week. Then I started experimenting with an
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by berntb 10y ago
What I regret is a single thing: Not finding out about my allergies earlier. I would have a different and richer life (also economically, but not what I mean) if I knew I was a bit chronically tired from them, not to mention other problems
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by berntb 10y ago
Why post some advertisement ? That said, how is the Linux compatibility? I use a Dell Latitude for laptop and generally get no name PCs for desktops (built by some local company that know what they do.) Why would I want to go Z?
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by berntb 10y ago
This is probably the best pro-death argument -- the social consequences. The rest can be solved. But in two to seven decades, when they have this problem, I doubt they will see it as a moral choice to kill (/refuse to save) people beca
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by berntb 10y ago
>> you will never get average users to switch to Linux Last I looked, Linux (in Android) was leading BSD-alike (iOS) -- and those are probably the two most popular platforms around... :-) Especially for average users that are cost c
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by berntb 10y ago
There are low margins generally in the phone industry, too. And in the computer industry. My point was that Apple probably cuts large projects with too little earning potential.
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by berntb 10y ago
Afaik, Apple starts lots of development projects and a lot of them gets "Steved". If the new product isn't enough better than the competition or won't have enough profit margins... axe. (Point is, the project might have
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by berntb 10y ago
As an addendum to my comment: I think I wasn't clear, so sturgill missed my trivial point -- I meant that it was not rational to believe in supernatural phenomena without good support. And intelligence is probably less correlated with

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