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by bwarp 15y ago
They'll be working in call centres next year.
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by bwarp 15y ago
Perl is not the root of all things. I think you'll find computer science got there first. As for associative arrays and regular expressions, I think Perl blatantly nicked those from awk! The problem I have is that Perl is the "jack of all t
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by bwarp 15y ago
use English in itself is a sign of much turdyness.
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by bwarp 15y ago
I rarely use Perl CGI. I haven't since about 2002. Regarding C# and Java startup. It's not an issue. You can warm start appdomains/JVMs. We do this. Once it's running, both Java and C# run rings around most things.
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by bwarp 15y ago
CPAN is a mess of poor maintenance and poor documentation. It's also painfully coupled to everything. Perl is monolithic. There is too much in the core. I've read large chunks of HOP whilst tryingand I just can see how some things are pooly
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by bwarp 15y ago
Oh FFS. Everything has a barrier to entry. Just work with it until you get over it. People want instant gratification these days. It takes time to understand stuff. The Internet (and crappy TV about popstars and shit) has lead to people hav
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by bwarp 15y ago
I'll probably get downvoted for this. I know Perl very well which is why I don't use it. I disagree with you... If UNIX was a schizophrenic, paranoid, indecisive, eclectic, personality-disorder equipped operating system, then you'd be right
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by bwarp 15y ago
What abstractions in particular? I'm interested from the perspective of resolving any issues in that space.
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by bwarp 15y ago
It is statically typed and non interactive. I'm not sure I could get on with that as a scripting language.
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by bwarp 15y ago
My father has some HD650s and I found that they make my head too hot :(
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by bwarp 15y ago
I used perl for about 5 years for general scripting tasks. It's not about there being too many ways to do something for me, it's that you need to know the subtlety of each one and cryptic abbreviations.
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by bwarp 15y ago
I've got a pair of Sennheiser HD-25 SP-II headphones (they are monitor headphones and spend a fair amount of time whacked into the front of a Korg Trinity). I paid 30 GBP for them in 2004. I've replaced the cable once for 20GBP after repeat
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by bwarp 15y ago
Well that just makes me go WTF. I genuinely can't think of a way this will be used which will be positive for PHP.
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by bwarp 15y ago
Unless it ships with Visual Studio, I doubt I'll ever see it.
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by bwarp 15y ago
Good stuff! However, another thing I'm not going to get to use whilst working in a Microsoft monoculture :(
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by bwarp 15y ago
Several thousand years later... http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html
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by bwarp 15y ago
I've not found one yet! If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to know.
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by bwarp 15y ago
I tend to find that Go is so multi-paradigm that it fits all my use cases well. It's a perfect high and low level language, fits entirely in your head, has decent testing support, scales code-quantity wise very well and is very fast. It tra
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by bwarp 15y ago
Yes they are. But only from new businesses looking to cut costs. In older businesses, Office is entrenched and there's no getting away from it.
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by bwarp 15y ago
Ha that is so true. Ironically I just posted a rant against that crap: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3628371
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by bwarp 15y ago
Downvoted by a git fanboy...
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by bwarp 15y ago
Apart from the large chunk of us who don't do open source stuff and manage products with it. Github brings us no benefit then.
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by bwarp 15y ago
I have found the same things, even recently. Git for windows basically brings half of MinGW with it including a shell and pisses up your windows cmd settings terribly. There is no platform abstraction layer in Git, so you're stuck with drag
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by bwarp 15y ago
Until you are replaced with a very small shell script...
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by bwarp 15y ago
Just the title puts me off that. Sounds like a video for a recruitment agent who thinks they're being cool and in with the kids...
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by bwarp 15y ago
Rubbish - your head is in the clouds. This is the real world where we solve problems with the tools we know and work on a common ground to everyone else. I get the feeling a lot of people on HN just fell out of university or work in a niche
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by bwarp 15y ago
I've dumped all extensions - I had R# and VisualSVN. The solution does have about 80,000 files though.
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by bwarp 15y ago
This is all language astronauts. There's nowt wrong with the for loop for most cases I can think of. Closures are way more expensive if you include the call overhead.
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by bwarp 15y ago
Sure it looks all pretty, but have they made it faster and more reliable? VS2010 is just damn slow and falls over on me at least 2-3 times a day which is not acceptable. When you pay for 25 VS2010 premium licenses with MSDN on top of your
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by bwarp 15y ago
No I will not use Chrome. Firefox 10.0.2 on Windows 7 X64. Only addon is adblock plus. Clicking "python (beta)" at the top results in a stop script after about 10 seconds.

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