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by colomon 16y ago
Errr... libraries? (at least for being surrounded by knowledge and stories)
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by colomon 16y ago
It's not like the "Michigan Left" (I hate that name, "Metro Detroit Left" would be much more accurate) does away with making a left turn at a light. Instead, you make a right turn at light at the intersection, and then a left turn at the e
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by colomon 16y ago
Damn, 55-years-old is middle-aged now?
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by colomon 16y ago
Umm... how are you getting sushi quality fish in Richmond, Indiana in 1900? What's your source of nori and wasabi?
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by colomon 16y ago
All I can say is, your life must be a hell of a lot different than mine. My job (writing programs used by people around the world, all from my home office in small city Michigan) could not have existed in 1973. Indeed, my house probably has
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by colomon 16y ago
"This is a big moment in solar physics," says Vourlidas. "STEREO has revealed the sun as it really is--a sphere of hot plasma and intricately woven magnetic fields." Is it just me, or does that sound suspiciously like it is from an Onion ar
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by colomon 16y ago
Sure, it all depends on context. If I'm talking with someone and he's obviously knows what he's doing, then I'd certainly make allowances. At the same time, you'd certainly hope that an interviewer had the basic English-language terms down
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by colomon 16y ago
Huh. I'm thinking I might very well not want to be hired by someone who doesn't know the difference between a digit and a number. What an odd thing...
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by colomon 16y ago
I just checked the book Perl 6 Essentials (2003, sigh) and it has given / when already, looking very close to the current standard.
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by colomon 16y ago
Wait, didn't everyone like XP more than Vista? I know I used Windows from version 3.1 right up until my experiences with Vista convinced me that spending an extra $1000 to get a MacBook Pro instead of a Vista laptop was completely worth it
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by colomon 16y ago
Not just that -- doesn't he give the strong impression he manually changes each instance of a double space he runs into?
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by colomon 16y ago
Or ever-so-slightly lighter Perl 6 version: my $x = 'Apple Carrot Banana'; my @y = $x.words.sort; if @y > 2 { say "we've got {@y.elems} elements!"; } else { say "insufficient elements. fail."; }
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by colomon 16y ago
Cool, but it seems like they missed a bit of a chance by not printing a simple system keyless flute. Less impressive looking, I suppose, but as long as they were careful with their CAD model design, it probably would have worked perfectly
644.
by colomon 16y ago
Unfortunately it's about two years behind the language now. Otherwise I'd have one hanging on my office wall...
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by colomon 16y ago
Or maybe -- just maybe -- his problem domain might be harder to write tests for than yours is. Look, as one of the Rakudo Perl 6 developers, I love our extensive test suite. It's an absolutely terrific development tool. Writing tests for
646.
by colomon 16y ago
I cannot upvote this enough, had the exact same experience.
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by colomon 16y ago
Forth was my first thought when I read the article -- it seems like a perfect fit for a project like this.
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by colomon 16y ago
I've heard that some domestic turkeys cannot fly. For sure the wild turkeys I've seen can. An entire flock getting spooked, taking off, and perching in a big tree is quite an impressive sight and sound...
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by colomon 16y ago
Apparently a lot of people here did, as did I. But now that you mention it, it did seem completely freaking insane to me...
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by colomon 16y ago
I wrote a SID music sequencing program in Forth on my C64, it was a tremendously fun programming environment. (I think there may have been a bit of assembler involved as well, as it was very easy to call from Forth.)
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by colomon 16y ago
But the difference (at least in the example code shown) is entirely in the choice of algorithm. The better / shorter algorithm just happens to be in Pascal...
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by colomon 16y ago
Yes, using Mysite.parse($req, :actions(Mysite::Actions.new)) says "Parse $req using grammar Mysite and actions Mysite::Actions.new." When a token is found, the action method with the same name is called. As I understand it, the i
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by colomon 16y ago
I've tried it twice now, and hated it both times. I was very excited about the prospect of a still-actively developed "Textmate" that would run on my other development machines. (I've got four active development machines, and only one of
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by colomon 16y ago
Can you say more about this? I've been very happy with Ack in Project, and I'm loath to change such a big part of my working environment without some understanding if what I should expect to gain...
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by colomon 16y ago
Ack in Project works fine in 10.5, I use it there every day...
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by colomon 16y ago
Seriously, with 2.0 planned as a complete overhaul, I don't even know how quick I'd be to switch to it if it came out tomorrow. TextMate 1.5 + the Ack bundle already does very nearly everything I want -- my only desire would be slightly be
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by colomon 16y ago
To be fair to the those unfortunates who were not on the offensive line, I actually got recruited to dungeon master by/for a bunch of the star high school football seniors when I was a sophomore. I want to say there was a quarterback, a ru
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by colomon 16y ago
"Use Windows" might to be the key here. I mean, my main development machine is a MacBook Pro, and I use headless Linux machines heavily. But I've always got a Windows machine booted up, and I've got Parallels running Windows on my MBP abo
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by colomon 16y ago
That's what 6502 emulators are for! Do you still have the source?
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by colomon 16y ago
Are you kidding?! I watched an anti-evolution video about a decade ago, and it was so creatively wrong it has been an endless source of mirth for me since. "You see, there was a giant ice shield around the Earth in the early days, and tha

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