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by eCa 12y ago
This is a bit like the last widow of a soldier in the American civil war dying in 2008 [1]. History is not as far away as it appears. [1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maudie_Hopkins
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by eCa 12y ago
I think it is correct to view them as related, but definitely not the same language. A short example from the recent Perl6 calendar[1]: Perl5: package Timer; use Time::HiRes qw(gettimeofday tv_interval); use Mojo::Base -b
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by eCa 12y ago
...Or a hundred lines of decent Perl or Ruby. Any language can be written badly.
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by eCa 12y ago
Well.. here we have daylight saving time seven months a year, which really should mean that DST is 'normal time'. That also mean that five months every year we have Daylight Losing Time. I want to abolish that .
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by eCa 12y ago
Also, if you 'localize' something using Google Translate[1], please let the user choose language somewhere in the app. For example, the Hostelworld ios app[2] requires the user to change language for the entire device . As some
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by eCa 12y ago
http://goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/
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by eCa 12y ago
They are wrong to draw the trendline the way they did. Since what they are claiming is not steady growth (then the trendline would make sense) but a shift in behaviour they should instead have drawn one line for average before the change,
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by eCa 12y ago
Trains (and station clocks) in Russia still run on Moskow time.
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by eCa 12y ago
Roundabouts differ wildy in design, sometimes a separate bike path is better and sometimes its better to be unseparated. In my experience (I've biked in several European countries) the most important parts of unseparated roundabout bik
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by eCa 12y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI
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by eCa 12y ago
My main problem with the talk is not that you make fun of Perl (every langauge is easy to make fun of), but that you don't seem to have more than a superficial grasp of Perl. No one that doesn't understand a language should make r
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by eCa 12y ago
The vulnerability in the talk is not in Perl. It is in the CGI module.
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by eCa 12y ago
The suggestion was that a future release of Perl5 should be named Perl7. Perl6 is a "spunky little sister"[1] to Perl5, not the next evolution of Perl. [1] http://perl6.org
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by eCa 12y ago
IIRC a Perl hash has never been in the order of key add order, but rather that two hashes, with its keys added in the same order, returned their keys in the same order, even in separate executions. Now hash key order is always "random&
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by eCa 12y ago
Yeah, and if they worked for Lehman they're gonna love the unhedged call opinion. It's exciting.
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by eCa 12y ago
Webster's: "Since some people take sense 2 to be the opposite of sense 1, it has been frequently criticized as a misuse. Instead, the use is pure hyperbole intended to gain emphasis, but it often appears in contexts where no addit
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by eCa 12y ago
Also according to Wikipedia, it is going to put the city centre here [1]. While big parts of the town will be torn down there are at least some areas that will remain. [1] https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=67.848757,20.2993544
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by eCa 12y ago
That's kind of saying you don't like bikinis because of [1]... [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossroads
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by eCa 12y ago
Perl 5 has evolved quite nicely lately, and I don't wait for Perl 6 (the biggest problem with Perl 6 is that "6" is bigger than "5"). While I haven't read this book (only skimmed parts), this book is not affect
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by eCa 12y ago
"There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible." -- Henry Ford http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/qu
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by eCa 12y ago
Judas kiss. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_of_Judas
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by eCa 12y ago
I guess it depends on why someone uses Facebook. I (finally) got an account a while ago in order stay in contact with friends and former colleagues. My usecase of Facebook does not include me wanting Facebook to know everything I do. Hence,
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by eCa 12y ago
So, the ends justify the means ?
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by eCa 12y ago
What is the advantage of something like this compared to something like an Airwheel [1]? [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz05Cyzuo1Y
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by eCa 12y ago
The french has the conventional rail record with ~574kph (357 mph) [1]. [1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGV_world_speed_record
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by eCa 12y ago
Perl 5 is not going away for a long time.
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by eCa 12y ago
The equivalent in the Perl world is at https://metacpan.org/recent .
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by eCa 12y ago
Because it is negative [1], even if it sometimes might be an appropriate response. [1] http://i.word.com/idictionary/hate
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by eCa 12y ago
Sounds like the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader-Meinhof_phenomenon#Fre...
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by eCa 12y ago
Your url structure is a part of your ui.

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