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by expeditious 16y ago
> the "heads down, working" nature That's the same way the Perl 5 community is often described. I don't know CL, but it would be interesting to read a comparison of Perl 5 & CL.
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by expeditious 16y ago
I hope it continues to work. I don't like reading on my monitor, and generally buy the printed book even when a free pdf is available.
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by expeditious 16y ago
The thing about readability of Perl vs. Python ... I dunno. I don't think it's the syntax itself that causes Perl to have some readability issues. Stuff like `$foo =~ s/bar/baz/g` or `join '-', split( q{ }, $a_str)` is very readable. Contex
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by expeditious 16y ago
In the US, very infrequently does anyone ask anyone else who they're voting for. In fact, talking about politics can very quickly turn into a nasty argument. You're also correct about generally being able to tell someone's political leaning
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by expeditious 16y ago
I'd suggest that well-chosen defaults means: Make a pretty good guess at the most common usage patterns you expect most of your users to follow, and have your defaults do that by default . I can't comment on whether or not svn/hg/bzr/git
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by expeditious 16y ago
A complaint I regularly hear is that it's user interface is frought with peril (and has some poorly-chosen defaults).
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by expeditious 16y ago
Nothing odd about that. Lots of people use separate accounts for anonymous vs. publicly-identifiable comments.
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by expeditious 16y ago
With the job market the way it is, you might consider advertising in more populated areas (like MA and CT) targetting people who might relocate for the right position.
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by expeditious 16y ago
Looks like a great tutorial. Covers a lot of ground that others don't (such as the star command, windowing commands, ctags use, etc.). Vim certainly has a lot of ninja editing moves (however, I don't think my development speed is particular
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by expeditious 16y ago
If you have more data than, say, GDBM, can swallow in one bite, how could you break this data apart and then find the right chunk amongst multiple servers when given a key? Also, what does the interviewer mean by this: > I generally ask
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by expeditious 16y ago
The author writes: > Scheme comes with too little in the language to use easily for much beyond teaching programming. This commonly-cited reason seems to ignore implementations that include much more than what the standard specifies.
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by expeditious 16y ago
Long article. Would've liked to see video clips showing, "walk like this", and, "instead of this".
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by expeditious 16y ago
> Will Perl 6 be able to turn things around, or is it too late? Community plays a large role here, I think. The Perl community (both 5 and 6) overall has a practical can-do attitude. This attracts users. Perl 5 seems to have more grumpy
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by expeditious 16y ago
Some unsubstantiated ravings: * Everyone I've encountered online who has used both Perl 5 and Perl 6 says that they like Perl 6 (the language) better. * This first Rakudo Star release is not optimized at all , which is fine and not a surpr
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by expeditious 16y ago
One thing is that Perl 5 doesn't include by default a number of modern features that Python and Ruby have OOTB. Easy OOP, exceptions, and named function args, to name a few. If you want these things for Perl, you need to dash out to the cor
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Ask HN: I don't want an interface like Gmail for my webapp. Alternatives?
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by expeditious 16y ago
Python's alright, but it made me work too hard for what it does. I tried hard to like it but using Python for writing scripts I was constantly asking it, "why are you making me do extra work? Perl doesn't make me do half the crap that you a
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by expeditious 16y ago
Actually melling, thanks for calling me on that. Thinking more about it, I think Perl 6 actually has 2 sides: one is the "like Perl 5 but with a number of things improved/cleaned-up", and the other side (which I neglected to think about in
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by expeditious 16y ago
> I'm not sure what you mean by equivalent ... It means that for basic stuff they are pretty much the same. Variables & data structures (scalars, arrays, mappings), creating and calling functions, creating and instantiating classes,
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by expeditious 16y ago
What OS do Nokia phones run (Symbian, Maemo, or something else?)? What language and toolkit do I use? Is it locked-down, or can I load apps on to my phone (or my friend's phone) that I write? I basically have a good idea what the answers ar
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by expeditious 16y ago
Thank you.
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by expeditious 16y ago
> Have you read SICP? I'm still in chapter 1. Thanks for the explanation of the single quote. Can I convince you to add something about what a "symbol" is (and if it's connected in some way to the single-quote mechanism)?
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by expeditious 16y ago
> In my experience, recursion is the hard part ... My limited experience has been different. I've been trying to make time to learn Scheme lately, and recursion seems simple enough. You can just practice it until it makes sense. What I
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by expeditious 16y ago
Not laughing -- nothing wrong with getting mental help. Foot doctors, heart doctors, brain doctors; they all help fix you up if there's a problem. If you haven't talked to a professional (psychologist or psychiatrist) lately, go (or have a
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by expeditious 16y ago
> There's a lot of CPAN activity, but my impression is that a lot of it seems confined to only a handful of problem domains. You can see a list of recent uploads here: http://www.cpan.org/RECENT.html > There's tons of choice with
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by expeditious 16y ago
Hawking is great. Not because these types of articles are particularly detailed or illuminating, but because this is the kind of stuff that lures young people into becoming rocket scientists. Go Steven!
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by expeditious 16y ago
Instead of leaving Apple for a more open platform, the author says, "lets pray they start doing a better job." Hm... I think this is exactly the kind of customer Apple wants.
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by expeditious 17y ago
Find a local bike shop and talk to the people there. Ideally, find one where the owner actually works there. Talk to them and find out if they are there because they really actually care about cycling. Ask if they ride to work. Ask if they
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by expeditious 17y ago
> writing using a light weight but very powerful tool like Latex Can you please explain in what way LaTeX is lightweight? IIRC, LaTeX is a macro layer above TeX which is a layer above something written in "web" which (don't know the det
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by expeditious 17y ago
Oh great. That's all the Lisp community needs is a hoard of different Lisps competing to see who can write the coolest game using their particular dialect!

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