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by daotoad 8y ago
What is best in life? To crush your comedy, to see played out before you, and to hear the felicitations of your patrons.
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by daotoad 8y ago
I have used Perl extensively in all of my last 4 jobs. The biggest reason companies that use Perl (that I am familar with) are looking at other languages is because it is hard to find developers.
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by daotoad 8y ago
That Python is fundamentally more readable is a myth. Unless by "readable" you mean that any Python program is superficially more visually similar to other Python programs than are programs in other languages. Syntactic white sp
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by daotoad 8y ago
You need to take that basic form of "debugging" and turn it into instrumentation. Collect structured data and build tools to process it. Once you have a nice collection of data you can build profilers and execution traces, thing
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Level 0 is missing here. They want to know if they can afford rent AND food this month. They might be able to squeak by if nothing goes wrong. But something always does. Whether the 12 year old car needs an expensive repair or someone ge
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by daotoad 8y ago
Who edited this? Nobody. "weather this name is an acronym or..." An image labeled "A screen show of the Lisa..." which has multiple items clearly labeled as coming from a Mac... "Furthermore, Jobs had leaved the Lis
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by daotoad 8y ago
Well, you just blew your cover. They're watching you now. Alternatively, everyone could pretend to be a muslim-environmentalist-communist with strong interests in nuclear chemistry and virology. It isn't possible to watch everyo
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by daotoad 8y ago
It's not an active racism on the part of the engineers. It's way more subtle than that. There could be a hidden assumption on the part of the engineering team that light-skin is "normal" and anything else is a special c
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by daotoad 8y ago
---OFF TOPIC: WORD USAGE--- Do ad hock networks lead to fetlock-in? A hock is a joint in the lower end of a quadruped's hind leg, between the knee and fetlock. It's in analogous position to the ankle in humans. Of course 'ho
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by daotoad 8y ago
Disappointing, but not really surprising. Yes the actual laws of physics can't be broken. We don't know those. We know an approximation of them based on centuries of careful observation and analysis. That approximation is inc
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by daotoad 8y ago
That's why brutalist architecture works best when it includes large windows and sky lights. What makes the brutalist buildings in the Pacific Northwest beautiful is that many of them are now covered in vegetation, with mosses or vines
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by daotoad 8y ago
Yawn. We've had this in Perl for decades using the DBI Shell (dibsh). DBI is a common database interface. To connect to a data source, one uses an appropriate driver (by convention, in the DBD name space, such as DBD::Pg or DBD::M
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by daotoad 9y ago
Also, lumping in the lack of accountability for police and prison guards with, say, accountability for teachers is laughable. Police and correctional officers have specific, strong protections from legal consequences for their actions.
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by daotoad 9y ago
Perl 5's twofold approach to solving this mess is to use compile time checks to manage new features. The use VERSION syntax lets you specify a version of perl. The feature pragma lets you enable or disable new features on a case
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by daotoad 9y ago
I've used grid with IE11. You need to add some extra prefixing noise to your css. The way you identify grid elements is different and it sucks to duplicate the layout information. But it most definitely works.
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by daotoad 9y ago
Nice work, it looks pretty slick. You have a right to be proud of your work. But.... IMO, the project name is a disaster. If successful it will muddy the water on searches for RxJS (and other Rx) observables. Please do like the Amber.js te
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by daotoad 9y ago
Yes. IME, once a service is dialed in, it should need little maintenance. That's how my team was able to handle responsibility for 5+ services on top of our slowly carved up monolith. If your microservice code is significantly harder
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by daotoad 9y ago
IME we had multiple services for each team. But we were in the process of carving several mutually incompatible whales into common, shared services, YMMV. So we had one team maintaining each whale, and our senior engineers would collabora
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by daotoad 9y ago
Swagger is the basis and a great implementation of OpenAPI which is a standard. https://www.openapis.org
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by daotoad 9y ago
Perl is essentially a pigdin or creole language composed of C, shell, awk, sed and POSIX concepts with bits of Lisp thrown in. If you know Unix, you will already know about 80% of perl. If you know Perl well, you already know a lot of Unix
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Cro: elegant reactive services in Perl6(mi.cro.services)
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by daotoad 9y ago
Unless we can come up with some sweet carbon sequestration tech, that's actually a liability.
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by daotoad 9y ago
This looks pretty interesting to me. But it leads to a lot of questions that are unanswered on the webpage. The claims of 30% faster for a particular workload are reasonable, but what configuration is needed and what exact workload are we
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by daotoad 9y ago
Something like this maybe? https://www.perl.com/pub/2005/06/23/sprog.html
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by daotoad 9y ago
Scrapy? Really? Scrapie is a transmissible spongiform ecephalopathy, similar to mad cow disease, in sheep and goats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapie
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by daotoad 9y ago
Tech interviews are 40 minutes max? Where are you interviewing? I have seen far more 6+ hour interview loops that 40 minute ones. Maybe each session within the full loop accounts for 40 minutes. That being said, people have their pet quest
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by daotoad 9y ago
I graduated in 1996, we didn't do any of the work related stuff. We learned algorithms, datastructures, programming in imperative, OO, functional and declarative mode, numerical methods, discrete maths, operating systems, computabilit
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by daotoad 9y ago
I prototyped this sort of thing for an 8051 based project I was working on where we had more RAM and external EEPROM space than we really needed, but were regularly having to go back and grovel through the code looking for optimizations to
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by daotoad 9y ago
While it is probable that some will dope in the clean league, a simple matter of instituting lifetime bans and reclassifying any and all records held by an athlete would put a strong disincentive. As to your unsupported statement that all t
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by daotoad 9y ago
It's simple, have two leagues. 1. Human performance only - no drugs, no implants, no performance boosts. 2. Unlimited league. Take all the drugs you want, when we have them, install new muscles, cybernetic implants, whatever. Go wild

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