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by cutler 3y ago
Don't underestimate the social dimension of learning.
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by cutler 3y ago
1979-83
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by cutler 3y ago
My parents had been paying taxes since they entered the job market in their mid-teens so I feel no guilt in recovering some of what they contributed.
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by cutler 3y ago
The real value of University for me was having the freedom to read extensively both within and outside the degree curriculum. My family were working-class but education was fully-funded which affected how I used my time. Sure, there were al
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by cutler 3y ago
In the UK polytechnics used to fulfill this role and they did it well as long as the sector was well funded. Once the cost accountancy rot set-in under Thatcher every higher education institution became desperate to be re-classified as a un
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by cutler 3y ago
Despite the author's 40 years in education he still doesn't get it. Education is an end in itself not a job qualification. You can only grok this if you have lived in a country in which higher education is/was fully funded by
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by cutler 3y ago
.... unless your mailserver's IP/network has been blacklisted by said behemoths.
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by cutler 3y ago
Sites which don't handle user data do not need HTTPS.
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by cutler 3y ago
Same way Google broke SMTP. Even SPF isn't enough anymore.
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by cutler 3y ago
Comparing Go to Perl is apples to oranges.
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by cutler 3y ago
"Unrolling @_" is still a Perl ritual.
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by cutler 3y ago
Amazon.co.uk was built in Perl and Booking.com is still a Perl shop.
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by cutler 3y ago
Larry Wall was a genius.
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by cutler 3y ago
Ever noticed how whole industries such as this exist merely to solve the incidental complexities of OOP?
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by cutler 3y ago
Title should have been "Using awk to process CSV files".
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by cutler 3y ago
Om is definitely not the place to start Clojure web development. I'm not sure it's even maintained. Kit and Fulcro are full-stack frameworks but if it's just SPA then re-frame is best option.
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by cutler 3y ago
Music died in the late 80s when the DJ supplanted the musician and sampling replaced originality. This is just part of the same trend.
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by cutler 3y ago
You said it for me. Muzak lives on.
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by cutler 3y ago
As if the current music scene hasn't already plummed the depths of banality. At this rate the stars of the 70s and 80s will be in business until they expire.
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by cutler 3y ago
In other news shares in Marlborough saw hockey stick growth.
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by cutler 3y ago
With all the hype about "modern" Java I still have escape regex metacharacters even after the introduction of raw string literals. Wake me up if/when Java finally fixes what really needs fixing.
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by cutler 3y ago
Can someone please do the same for Hacker News? For a text-based site it's dog slow.
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by cutler 3y ago
It can do "Hello world". How cool is that?!
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by cutler 3y ago
O'Reilly's bestiary had an exceptional line-up of Unix classics in the early 2000s.
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by cutler 3y ago
Friedl's "Mastering Regular Expressions" is one of the best books I've ever read and started my Unix journey via Perl and Emacs.
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by cutler 3y ago
Interesting that the OP reverted to C after playing with JS and Python. Maybe having to do everything manually at the lowest level maximises focus, assuming you have the time and patience.
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by cutler 3y ago
Considering Swift 1.0 was released in September 2014 I'm not exactly bowled over by how long it's taken Apple, with all their resources, to rewrite Foundation.
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by cutler 3y ago
Why is the only Mac option a non-default, local repo-based Macports installation? What's wrong with a binary or a port that is actually listed in Macports? Isn't that the whole point of Macports?
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by cutler 3y ago
A good reason, if any were needed, to escape from the Java OOP maze once and for all and never return. Honestly, talk about a mountain of incidental complexity. People, wake up! It doesn't have to be this way. You've been sold Jav
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by cutler 3y ago
Yes, terribly written. Eveything but a detailed description of "backwards".

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