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by danssig 14y ago
I've always wondered: do your ears itch if someone, somewhere in the world says something negative about perl?
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by danssig 14y ago
Haha. No, if you come here most ridiculous posts like you have I'm going to call you out on it. That's your tl;dr. You are making tautological as if they were meaningful and subjective ones as if they were truth [1]. The "infer"ing you d
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by danssig 15y ago
There is no hoopla outside of the echo chamber. If you want a truly amazing language I would suggest things like Haskell, Racket, Clojure, Erlang, Smalltalk, and/or Common Lisp. If you're looking for more batteries included then I'd sugges
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by danssig 15y ago
I don't generally see sales pitches of this level on sites actually selling something . >And anybody who denies this is simply trolling. Logical fallacy: Appeal to emotion. "My argument cannot be argued with because " is always a logi
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by danssig 15y ago
The OP was asking about Perl 6, not Perl 5. Perl 6 has enough interesting things that a python programmer might get interested but Perl5 is a pain to use (coming from the python perspective).
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by danssig 15y ago
Women steer clear of the tech industry because of the sexism that things like sales don't have, I take it?
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by danssig 15y ago
If Zynga doesn't dilute it somehow before the lock-in period is over.
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by danssig 15y ago
Did you just discover the internet today? The list is endless. They hired people when they were small at lower wages with stock options. Then when they made it big they took those options away! The scumbag CEO claimed he was right becau
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by danssig 15y ago
Congratulations to them. The bad news is; now they work for Zynga. I hope none of the founders is a chef.
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by danssig 15y ago
>how can we avoid the TV-ization of computing? How can we make sure future generations don't equate a computer with a consumption device rather than a productive device? Why do we need to concern ourselves with this? The Desktop alrea
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by danssig 15y ago
>It's not a versus, it's a peaceful cohabitation, only some evangelist and/or journalists want to push us to believe there's a war but that's really not true. The issue is; lots of people who never should have had desktops had to get th
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by danssig 15y ago
>In fairness, it's pretty much accepted that you have to switch companies to get a sizable (say, 10%+) raise in IT More people need to understand this. Slaving away hoping to "stand out" doesn't work in IT because of caps on compensati
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by danssig 15y ago
>I sure hope he comes back, I'd like to see Avatar 2. Why do we need more sequels? Wouldn't you rather see him make something new? And if you truly want a stupid Hollywood Sequel you probably have a better chance if he doesn't come
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by danssig 15y ago
Because it's a moronic statement. The US military budget is 0.8 trillion dollars a year. As programmers we should know that no other budget items need be considered until this one is brought down drastically.
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by danssig 15y ago
Personally, I would recommend moving to a country where you don't have to worry about such fears. Any non-US first world country will do.
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by danssig 15y ago
I'm afraid you've been tricked. CEOs used to make 40-70 times as much as the average worker. Now it can be hundreds of times. All the while, revenue per dollar of CEO salary has gone down. The cat is out of the bag. Everyone who defend
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by danssig 15y ago
I wish sites would always offer a single page version but the split up versions like this are more search friendly I think.
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by danssig 15y ago
Wages are related to creation of value, which itself is related to productivity. By what logic would productivity go through the roof but CEOs realize the gains of it? You can try to claim that's simply the market value of getting a CEO, b
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by danssig 15y ago
>Could you define what you mean by "overpaid"? I already did. We can now prove that revenue has actually decreased per dollar paid to a CEO. One might say that that that is because salaries have gone up, but for everyone else wages ha
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by danssig 15y ago
If I were British I would question what our nation's sovereignty actually means. It's not like this kid killed an american and fled back to the UK. Personally, I would like to see a law that says we will never extradite someone to a countr
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by danssig 15y ago
Are you in favor of this person seeing jail time for his alleged crimes?
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by danssig 15y ago
That Forbes article is a great one. Personally I think now that the cat is out of the bag, we should start to see things changing at the executive level (though it's going to take years). For a long time, many of us have speculated that CE
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by danssig 15y ago
You're not going to like this [1] source, but it's very well cited. To my knowledge, Chile is the only time true free market capitalism was ever tried anywhere in the world. [1] http://www.spunk.org/texts/intro/faq/sp001547/secC11.html
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by danssig 15y ago
>Im not advocating pure capitalism but businesses have to make some profit. Agreed. Which is why health care shouldn't be a business. It leads to perverse profit incentives and it's an inelastic market in any case (you can't "opt out"
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by danssig 15y ago
> I no longer care much about the "they're a business, they're allowed to make a profit" line - of course it's still true, and of course they are, I disagree here. Pure laissez faire capitalism works no better than pure communism or so
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by danssig 15y ago
Hampsterdam was a huge success. Until politics got involved and caused the whole thing to be shut down. In fact it worked so well that a Governor lost job because he wasn't willing to shut it down when he found out about it. >For ev
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by danssig 15y ago
I don't know if your being sarcastic or not but "The Wire" is so good it's being used in criminal science classes now.
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by danssig 15y ago
Unless you're a cop.
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by danssig 15y ago
You're ignoring the will power it takes to overcome these situations. Yes, people do. They're called "exceptions". Why do you think it's always celebrated when someone breaks out of this cycle? And no one is talking about giving dangerou
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by danssig 15y ago
It's funny that you mention "The Wire". Did you miss the episodes where a captain made a section of Baltimore a drug-free-for-all zone and crime dropped to almost nothing? I also like how you judge people you don't know to be "worthless".

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