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by cutler 1y ago
I can just see it now - Trump, Netanyahu and Zuckerborg teaming up to provide Gazans with VR headsets running videos of virtually reconstructed Palestine. Genocide, what genocide?
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by cutler 1y ago
HarmonyoS has started the ball rolling.
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by cutler 1y ago
It's simple - stop using AWS ... or Azure ... or ... Follow DHH and learn to manage your own boxes.
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by cutler 1y ago
If Edge is built on Chromium doesn't that put Chrome's effective market share at 82%?
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by cutler 1y ago
Unfortunately in the case of Palestine Britain merely handed over the baton to an even more hideous imperialist monster - the U.S.A. - which has reverted to Napoleonic levels of barbarity. Imperialism is alive and well in 2025.
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by cutler 1y ago
Implicit $_ , regex wizardry and The Monastery. I miss those days. Perl had culture like its successor Ruby and unlike its soulless cousin Python.
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by cutler 1y ago
Craigslist and Amazon's secret sauce was Perl.
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by cutler 1y ago
It's a short walk from Facebook to Palantir, literally and metaphorically. Meta staffing for a long time has been packed with IDF operatives and AIPAC goons. All hail our not-so-new tech overlords next time you watch footage of a block
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by cutler 1y ago
Definitely the most influential for me along with Larry Wall's "Programming Perl".
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by cutler 1y ago
Love the Accept-only cookie notice. A real trust builder.
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by cutler 1y ago
Clojure has pipeline functions -> and ->> without resorting to OO dot syntax.
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by cutler 1y ago
Watch Rich Hickey's early Clojure videos and be blown away.
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by cutler 2y ago
The JVM now has virtual threads so Elixir's days as the only game in town for massive parallel computing may be numbered.
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by cutler 2y ago
Much as I loved Perl when I started with it back in 2000 CGI.pm was pretty hacky with new vulns popping up every week. It's creator, Lincoln Stein was, however, one of the stable of Perl Jedi and he did a sterling job of keeping it pat
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by cutler 2y ago
Why stop there? Why not add interfaces, OO and design patterns while we're at it? Then CSS will be a "real" language.
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by cutler 2y ago
https://www.crn.com/news/applications-os/199501735/microsoft...
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by cutler 2y ago
I gave up on C# and .Net after realising Microsoft is still the same old Microsoft I loathed back in the 90s and 00s when IE ruled the world. The emperor's new clothing is cross-platform .Net. The reality is that whilst .Net may well r
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by cutler 2y ago
Clojure data structures implement structural sharing which minimises copying overhead.
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by cutler 2y ago
It's totally different. The R in REPL retains its original reference to the Lisp READer which is special when your code is structured as an AST as in all Lisps. Only in Lisps can you select the left paren of a deeply nested function an
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by cutler 2y ago
Clickbaity misleading title. Should read "Rust is Eating Javascript Tooling".
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by cutler 2y ago
So the web is basically broken. Can WASM provide a solution?
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by cutler 2y ago
But can it sync my 5th gen iPod Touch? Nope. Game over.
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by cutler 2y ago
JVM isn't the only option. There's nbb (Clojurescript for Node.js) and Babashka (Bash in Clojure). You can also use GraalVM for native compilation.
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by cutler 2y ago
I don't get the nostalgia for NotePad - the most featureless piece of software ever invented.
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by cutler 2y ago
When I installed it with Macports recently it gave me a warning that CGI.pm is now in maintenance mode and should not be used for new projects. I get the nostalgia value but Dancer and Mojolicious are surely better alternatives?
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by cutler 2y ago
I cut my teeth on Perl in 2000 but a decade later Ruby gave me the best bits of Perl plus the amazing Rails framework. The deal-breaker with Perl was having to compile CPAN modules. With something like Moose which has a huge list of depend
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by cutler 2y ago
Python and Ruby are both OO.
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by cutler 2y ago
It's Ruby that makes Rails what it is. Matz combined the best of Smalltalk, Lisp and Perl to produce a language second to none for writing DSLs. DHH simply capitalised on Ruby's strengths.
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by cutler 2y ago
Also true in the programming world where JS, Python and Java dominate.
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by cutler 2y ago
Trouble is this could easily lead to CDN, IP and proxy manipulation by state actors for repressive ends.

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