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by dugword 10y ago
Perl6, it finally has a production release and some useful libraries to build real tools. Very interested to see if it was worth the wait.
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by dugword 10y ago
I've been drinking IPAs in Oregon for over a decade and the breweries haven't slowed down on making them one bit. There are more choices of highly hopped beers than ever. Typically half the selection on the shelf is some kind of I
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by dugword 10y ago
I live in Oregon, where the craft brew scene arguably started: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/08/0808_oregonb... IPAs have routinely been the most featured variety at all the pubs I've freq
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by dugword 10y ago
<3
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by dugword 10y ago
Yes they are. That is exactly what the Colony Collapse Disorder crisis is all about. The hives managed by beekeepers for the purpose of pollenating crops are mysteriously dying off, and they are having a hard time finding replacement swarms
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by dugword 10y ago
This. Every (good) job I've gotten has been from networking. Finding good developers is hard, and companies love referrals. Those 3 senior devs that have quit likely found a job somewhere else, and that somewhere else will be hiring. I
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by dugword 10y ago
This has almost no content, what is the purpose?
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by dugword 10y ago
This appears to be an uncredited summary of Dave Thomas's talk, "Agile is Dead" http://youtube.com/watch?v=a-BOSpxYJ9M
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by dugword 11y ago
> Ending all your lines with semi-colons won't save you, only understanding ASI will do that. It will save you if you use JSLint/JSHint/ESLint/etc. In your example you will get an error about a semicolon missing after
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by dugword 11y ago
You bet it is! It is still actively developed with new CPAN modules being added every day. I love perl, it is far and away my favorite language to hack stuff out in. Which is really where this language shines; quick prototypes or duct tape
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by dugword 11y ago
Everything is bigger in Texas... Texas symbols are two or more ascii characters that replace a single Unicode symbol.
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by dugword 11y ago
The experience is less than obvious when browsing from a phone. Swiping left is not my default when visiting a website.
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by dugword 11y ago
More likely it's going to raise your utility bill, Portland has to pay for our fancy new pipes somehow.
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by dugword 11y ago
"Dynamic languages are at a disadvantage. Most of the mainstream ones out there today were designed by amateurs, people with no formal CS background" Patently false. * from Wikipedia Python: Guido van Rossum * Master's degree
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by dugword 11y ago
I think there are several great reasons to use Node.js. First, JavaScript is a darned good language. It has some quirks, and some down right awful parts. But they are easily avoided, and often can be automatically detected by static analysi
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by dugword 11y ago
Glad to see some new cool stuff about Perl on Hacker News. The community is still very active, and a lot of very smart people are doing quite interesting things with it.
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by dugword 11y ago
People use IE8 still because they are running 10+ year old computers. Mobile phones tend to get upgraded much quicker.
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by dugword 11y ago
Head First C by O'Reilly was pretty good. Shows how to use make and explains linked libraries in addition to just C semantics.
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by dugword 11y ago
Lot's of good stuff here. I especially like the double diamond operator, safer behavior. However that string of punctuation is terrible and I wish they would have changed the behavior of <> with a pragma.