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721.
by cutler 4y ago
There's one thing I don't get about mindful detachment and worldly renunciation - it denies the value of many of the world's greatest achievements and relegates genuine creative passion to mere ego. The western world was buil
722.
by cutler 4y ago
When your preferred PHP alternative has produced as many open source killer apps, in terms of adoption, as PHP has I'll be all ears.
723.
by cutler 4y ago
It's not hip on HN to praise Facebook but React revolutionised front-end dev with salaries now on a par with back-end Java/C# and often higher. I also really love how Facebook was born in a student dorm whilst giving the finger to
724.
by cutler 4y ago
Yes. Winess Java.
725.
by cutler 4y ago
Perl tended to follow rather than lead which is why it lost to its competitors - first PHP, then Ruby and Python. For example, Ruby had its own server interface - Rack - long before Tatsuhiko Miyagawa developed a version for Perl called the
726.
by cutler 4y ago
Mod_perl was too much of a hosting liability for that to have been a possibility. You had to really watch your step with mod_perl not to expose shared memory to other processes running on the same server. Mod_perl is also much more complex
727.
by cutler 4y ago
It was only high performance if used with mod_perl and that was the problem for cheap hosts. HTML::Mason without mod_perl was a dog compared with PHP. Perl generally missed the boat with embedded templating. Catalyst, Mojolicious and Dancer
728.
by cutler 4y ago
I don't understand why Python is touted as some kind of replacement for Perl when there are many things Perl does better and faster. Python isn't even optimised for one-liners so how can it be compared with Perl?
729.
by cutler 4y ago
I was just thinking how long before somebody mentions Docker. Why leave Kubernetes out? Point of article missed completely.
730.
by cutler 4y ago
Ok, perhaps "abomination" was excessive but, seriously, why is opening a new buffer each time you traverse a directory a sane default?
731.
by cutler 4y ago
3.0 has been in the works for years but doesn't look like it will ever see the light of day.
732.
by cutler 4y ago
Dired is an abomination filling up your buffer list as you traverse directories.
733.
by cutler 4y ago
AWS was built mainly with Java as far as I'm aware.
734.
by cutler 4y ago
Amazon used to have a lot of Perl code. So it's all moved to Python? Give me Larry over Guido any day.
735.
by cutler 4y ago
Absolutely. I have an afro wig somewhere from when 70s retro clubs were the thing in London.
736.
by cutler 4y ago
I doubt it as most job boards I've seen have 3 or 4 Django roles for every Rails role.
737.
by cutler 4y ago
I've thought of returning to working with Perl but the one thing which puts me off is Catalyst.
738.
by cutler 4y ago
I was flabbergasted once to see Perl rates right up at the top with Clojure and Scala but I suppose Perl's a bit like COBOL these days in that only greybeards still work with it.
739.
by cutler 4y ago
Another benefit of legacy niche languages, such as Perl, is less ageism. Clojure is a real joy to work with. Ruby is in an interesting phase approaching niche status with correspondingly high rates.
740.
by cutler 4y ago
I do a bit of screening at the outset. If a company even mentions "cultural fit" it ends there. We all know what "cultural fit" really means.
741.
by cutler 5y ago
Just learn Perl and you're guaranteed to be surrounded by 40- or 50-somethings at any gig you apply for.
742.
by cutler 5y ago
COVID and the remote work revolution actually had an upside for over-50s. For the first time you could conduct a full series of interviews without anyone seeing your face. Many companies are happy to conduct the initial interview by phone t
743.
by cutler 5y ago
My experience with cgo has been less than stellar. I built a simple Fiber API with 2 Golang libs (gosweph and swephgo) which interface with the Swiss Ephemeris C library. Both libraries segfaulted when the API was loaded with more than a co
744.
by cutler 5y ago
Why not <py></py> instead of <py-script></py-script> ?
745.
by cutler 5y ago
To put this in perspective here are some job stats from Indeed.co.uk for London and the UK (excluding London): London: Rails 237, Django 383, Laravel 149 UK (excl. London): Rails 230, Django 406, Laravel 1001 So, yes, there are less Rails j
746.
by cutler 5y ago
Your sample is hardly representative. The big-league Node frameworks are all SSR-based due to the problem presented by pure front-end SPAs. Have a look at Next.js and Remix.
747.
by cutler 5y ago
Well said. I've been a great fan of Clojure for a long time but what stops me from using it for clients is the attitude in the Clojure community that libraries are favoured over frameworks. That's not to say there aren't a fe
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by cutler 5y ago
Go is great until you need to interface with a C library via cgo then you are in a world of pain with segfaults and the general mismatch between goroutines and C's ideas about concurrency.
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by cutler 5y ago
Seconded. Anything by The Damian is pure gold including his Vim videos.
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by cutler 5y ago
Absolutely. The Perl library of the early 2000s stands head and shoulders above anything I've read since in programming. O'Reiily blazed a trail with their Perl library because Perl seemed to attract the brightest minds and the be

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