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by danssig 15y ago
>It could be that "the 1%" are simply creating more than their previous share of wealth. No, the 1% are generally company executives. The company is indeed creating more wealth but right now executives are taking a very large portion
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by danssig 15y ago
I think everyone understands that companies are creating wealth. The question is: who is capturing that created wealth? Right now the scales are heavily skewed toward the 1% capturing a lot more than they traditionally did.
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by danssig 15y ago
You have some good points here, but I tend to disagree with term limits. Things take time to fix. Terms are 2 to 4 years. That's not enough time for the effects of big changes to really show up.
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by danssig 15y ago
That's a trait of pretty much all first world countries. In places like Switzerland the people could actually vote such nonsense away if they wanted to.
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by danssig 15y ago
Can't you relabel things with Siri? I.e. at home say "Siri, when I say 'water polo' I mean gynecologist" (replace 'water polo' with a sport you would never actually play under any circumstances, otherwise you could end up with a big surpri
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by danssig 15y ago
>If it was bad, it wouldn't have become the way to communicate with people in every culture on the planet. We have nothing better, but it is not the only way we communicate. Mathmatics made a whole other language to communicate with
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by danssig 15y ago
I don't use Python, Ruby or any other scripting language unless someone pays me to. I was simply responding to inaccurate or tautological statements thrown around in this thread.
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by danssig 15y ago
No, you've completely misunderstood my post. I was saying "I have to do all the effort to install perl and then I still have to do more work to actually write a program". We then took a detour where it was claimed there is no effort invol
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by danssig 15y ago
>Mixins don't even compare to roles; Of course they do. They may not be as good as perl's Roles but you can't say "Ruby doesn't even have a way to do this" as the GP did (paraphrased). They do, perhaps it's not as nice but it's there.
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by danssig 15y ago
Well, fair enough if that's the case but I wish the perl community would be consistent. Anytime someone jokes about perl 6 not being usable, someone (often chromatic!) comes out and says "it's usable now, you're talking nonsense". And if i
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by danssig 15y ago
Seriously?! Someone downvoted this statement? It was completely factually true. People do indeed get confused by the difference between declarations and expressions. That's why some languages don't like to have that distinction. With
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by danssig 15y ago
>I provided the sample, randomly pulled from CPAN and that dude harped on one small extract. I missed that part. But I find it highly amusing that you randomly pulled a sample file from CPAN an already failed your own test. >Hm,
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by danssig 15y ago
>If i were to restrict myself to searching only the past 5 years of produced Perl code on CPAN i would be hard-pressed to find truly terrible samples. Well, it depends on what you mean by "truly terrible samples". If you mean "things t
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by danssig 15y ago
I coded in perl for an agonizing 5 years. Sure, it made sense to start working on perl 5 again once it was clear that perl 6 was stalled but is that still the case? I was under the impression that there are just a few things missing. If
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by danssig 15y ago
Or you could, you know, do what other languages do and just move on to perl 6. It was meant to replace perl 5 after all. To be honest, as a outsider this whole movement of keeping perl 5 around forever after perl 6 is getting closer and
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by danssig 15y ago
One is a declaration, one is an expression. And, believe me, I taught C++ for a while and this already causes a lot of confusion.
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by danssig 15y ago
>Now that premise in itself is silly and you know it. (I could get a code sample for any language that would be impossible to understand by someone who doesn't know anything about tha language and it wouldn't even have to be a complicat
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by danssig 15y ago
>perl is very flexible which is a good thing. So are nearly all modern languages. No advantage. >perl lets people do crazy things So do nearly all modern languages. No advantage. When ever I hear people sing the praises of perl it
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by danssig 15y ago
>Perl is really powerful, Compared to what? C? In what way is it more powerful than Ruby, Python, Ocaml, Haskell, etc.? There are things perl has over e.g. python (lambdas) but there are at least as many things those languages have ov
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by danssig 15y ago
This line of reasoning is old and tired. Natural language is a bad enough way to communicate with people, it's a ridiculous way to communicate with machines which take everything literally and treat everything implied to mean "crash in amu
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by danssig 15y ago
Actually, I would pay up to 25%... for the first (6 mo or less) contract. They got me that, how ever they did it. But I got me the extension so why do they expect more than just a payrolling fee for the extentions?
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by danssig 15y ago
They thought of that. You can put it up to your head like you're on a phone call. You don't feel self-conscious talking on the phone in public do you?
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by danssig 15y ago
Apple, if you're listening, I've got an idea! First, you need to prove beyond any doubt that the Fire is being sold at a loss. Once you know this, set up some dummy stores and invest the billions of dollars you have laying around in bu
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by danssig 15y ago
This doesn't make it right. I'm surprised people on this site support below cost selling so much. It is fundamentally a "big player" practice that newcomers can't usually compete in. Imagine you made a company selling one kind of tablet
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by danssig 15y ago
>CL's generic functions are not a superset of message passing I would say they are. Generic functions can dispatch on a single object if they want to. As far as doesNotUnderstand, most OO languages don't support it anyway. Further, wh
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by danssig 15y ago
This shouldn't be surprising. Even experts get surprised by what perl's syntax actually does [1]. [1] http://blog.plover.com//prs/accidental-syntax.html
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by danssig 15y ago
Personally I wish selling below cost were illegal across the board. It's a destructive practice and allows people who have no stake in one kind of market kill that market. Take the Amazon Fire, for example. They lose money on every unit s
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by danssig 15y ago
>And it's type system and object model are better than CL anyway. I couldn't disagree with this more. I don't see what is so different about their type system but SBCL is doing more and more type inference for you. As far as object mod
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by danssig 15y ago
>Nobody is "blaming the victims". They are founders, Founders can't be victims? I'll remember that if I ever feel the need to mug somebody. >should know at least basic rules of what they are doing There are no static "basic rules".
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by danssig 15y ago
Wonderful comment. This is one reason I always laughed at the argument "yea, but... we have all the source code!". Great, so the solution is we pay to maintain it? How is this free again?

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