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by daotoad 9y ago
I don't think it was just the "harmless claim" that was the issue. Many of his points were objectionable if not outright offensive. The obvious example of an offensive claim is that women are more prone to be neurotic. Als
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by daotoad 9y ago
Too bad the nifty techno-in-a-can synth diddling in the video drowns out the inventor talking about his technology.
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by daotoad 9y ago
While I can understand Google deciding to fire the author, he's embarrassed the shit out of his company in a very public way, I think it would be sad if they do. The dude has some serious misconceptions about the world and people, but
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by daotoad 9y ago
Good idea for a website, should be able to get you some nice revenue from intermittent visits. You probably want to focus on financial services for your ads. I'm not going to say anything about your numbers and your models other than,
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by daotoad 9y ago
Perpetual intermediates exist in every field, many of them with far more nuance than any mere programming language has to offer. The way to extract productivity from these people is the same in software development as it is in any endeavor
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by daotoad 9y ago
You aren't alone in thinking that. http://blogs.perl.org/users/zoffix_znet/2017/07/the-hot-new-... https://github.com/perl6/marketing/blob/master/TablePosters&#x2
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by daotoad 9y ago
It's still pretty new, so the library infrastructure sucks (but getting better every day). I'm only peripherally involved in the community, but at this point, it seems people are using it primarily for small utilities and such.
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by daotoad 9y ago
So do you like small tools or having everything built in (like a REPL)? It sounds like you are justifying an emotional attachment rather than making consistent arguments. Now, there is nothing wrong with having an emotional attachment to a
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by daotoad 9y ago
Come up with a style guide and stick to it. Failure to do that with any language, no matter how restrictive, leads to messy code. It doesn't matter which way you unpack your args unless you are trying to do something fancy (the sub 1%
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by daotoad 9y ago
The significant part of argument handling in Perl5 is that @_ is a list of aliases to the arguments. You usually see add1 or add2 style argument processing because nice named arguments that are a copies of the function parameters. add3 sh
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by daotoad 9y ago
Perl 6 is designed to be a large, feature rich language that can be learned and used incrementally. The intent is that, like users of natural languages, Perl 6 practitioners gain fluency and nuance in their expression over time. So, if you
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by daotoad 9y ago
I think the real dark pattern here is the stupid animated scribbles under the section headers. WTF?! Is this 1997? Why don't you bring back the blink tag while you're at it! Sigh.
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by daotoad 9y ago
So, I am a white dude who was pretty skeptical about the whole microaggression thing. But I changed my mind. My girlfriend is biracial and just watching how strangers interact with her taught me a lot about the state of race relations in t
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by daotoad 10y ago
He's got his routing handled. You may wish to 'root' for him, however.
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by daotoad 10y ago
People think Perl code is unreadable and mysterious because the language design philosophy is different than other programming languages. Most languages strive for a limited, orthogonal set of built-ins and features without any repetition.