byron4242

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   by byron4242 5y ago

   Thanks for the pointer. I will look into this with great interest and get a discussion going within my company about whether this implies that we would want to start permitting Raku into our codebase. But I very much doubt that this permi
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   by byron4242 5y ago

   > Well, duh :) Perl's still more popular than people think. There is no way to define the word "popular" that makes this a true statement with regard to Perl 5 or any future development thereof shooting for backwards compa
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   by byron4242 5y ago

   We're agreed that separation of work and private spheres is good practice. But I'm not sure what country and what legal concept it is that you are referring to when you say "it's been held up in court multiple times that
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   by byron4242 5y ago

   The OP was about a contractor though. The way I think about somebody who is truly a contractor is that they are their own IT department, and their capabilities in the IT space should be at least on par with whatever the client's IT de
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   by byron4242 5y ago

   It's a widespread practice that companies provide laptops to contractors to compartmentalize the way they interact with the company's IT. But I'm really quite opposed to it. At one point I had 3 sets of machines: Two differe
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   by byron4242 5y ago

   I recently did something similar. The ironic thing is that I work for a privacy-focused startup where such a practice is in total opposition to personal values held dearly by most people who work there. They claimed (and I assume that it&#