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by fuzzix 14y ago
'First I want to get off my chest; are we still using the phrase "computer genius" in 2013? Something about it just rings 1980's to me. I dunno. It seems quaint and silly' Hey, at least they didn't say "whizz-kid".
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by fuzzix 14y ago
In this particular instance, for reasons of a self-imposed contraint to favour ease of deployment and use by the target audience, I have no parser. Using xpath (or just about anything else) would be smashing. The likelihood of the markup ch
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by fuzzix 14y ago
In practical terms, how often are you actually parsing HTML? Building a DOM, rendering... A knee-jerk reaction to 'HTML' and 'regular expression' being used in the same sentence is like someone seeing 'goto' without understanding the cont
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by fuzzix 14y ago
I was expecting something a little more like this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3355453
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The Perl Renaissance(lanyrd.com)
85 points by fuzzix 14y ago|126 comments
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by fuzzix 14y ago
I've brought it up here before, but I really like the fact that (large) pixel art is still appreciated and produced. Coming from the inventiveness of the ZX Spectrum days I had a genuine sense of loss when SVGA and "photo-realistic" graphic
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Wallflower, static site generator for Plack/Perl.(metacpan.org)
3 points by fuzzix 14y ago|0 comments
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by fuzzix 14y ago
Maz Spork released the Z80 ASM source[0] of Buggy Boy[1] for 128K Spectrum, though it since disappeard from his site. More of this type of thing! [0] http://web.archive.org/web/20030629124143/http://maz.spork.d... [1] http://www.worldofs
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by fuzzix 14y ago
That hasn't been my experience with CPAN, though cpantesters and cpanratings can serve as a guide to what works and what doesn't. This type of service does not exist for rubygems/pypi to my knowledge. While Perl's unicode support is unparal
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by fuzzix 14y ago
You could check out the weekly cpan ratings[0] for "popular" modules, though I find the best appraoch is to search cpan for modules as I need them. CPAN Modules themselves often serve as a decent template for the form and structure of a Per
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Why I Use Perl...and Will Continue to Do So(drdobbs.com)
7 points by fuzzix 14y ago|6 comments
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5 year logs of Danish Internet surfing: police cannot read format(translate.google.com)
2 points by fuzzix 14y ago|0 comments
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by fuzzix 14y ago
I guess somebody has to be buying licenses for mIRC.
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by fuzzix 14y ago
Modern Perl is today's Perl. http://www.onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/index.html
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by fuzzix 14y ago
I prefer FUSE[0], the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator. Not to be confused with FUSE, Filesystem in USErspace. The author of FUSE knew the author of FUSE and is the creator of Spectemu[1]. [0] http://fuse-emulator.sourceforge.net/ [1] http://
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Booting Linux using UEFI can brick Samsung laptops(h-online.com)
103 points by fuzzix 14y ago|54 comments
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by fuzzix 14y ago
Is this a joke?
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by fuzzix 14y ago
Perhaps this is the excuse to generate more critical updates, increasing the number of accidental Ask toolbar installs. Oracle doesn't believe in "free".
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by fuzzix 14y ago
Ah, seems I misread the info. An artifact of commenting at 6am.
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by fuzzix 14y ago
Aye, pretty much (9-5:30 with flexible start time). Thing is, I would probably work longer hours voluntarily if I could telework - give over half my usual commute time to a little extra. But that's a different story... http://news.ycombina
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by fuzzix 14y ago
As am I. I just spend a lot of time working on my own projects. I value a regular (i.e. not too long) working day for being able to actually do this.
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by fuzzix 14y ago
Fair point. I wonder if the increasing number of us tech firms setting up in .ie (for whatever reason, being an Irish graduate I know it's not for the skills pool) find the adjustment difficult - 20 days minimum, 25 not uncommon, with the a
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by fuzzix 14y ago
Well, isn't that just disgraceful. No wonder George Costanza was a half-assing burnout...
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by fuzzix 14y ago
Quite funny to read about maternity leave being an extraordinary perk - 6 months paid is the statutory minimum in Ireland and it must start a reasonable amount of time before the child is born. Is it also true that there is no minimum amoun
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Where is your HEAD?(pal-blog.de)
1 points by fuzzix 14y ago|0 comments
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Dancer Goes Megasplat(babyl.dyndns.org)
1 points by fuzzix 14y ago|0 comments
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by fuzzix 14y ago
The article has little to do with software development methodologies and does not mention "Lean" or "Agile". Probably more interesting to investors than developers.
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by fuzzix 14y ago
My first thought on seeing Grive was "Oh, it's not FUSE" FUSE is a natural choice if you want fully integrated and transparent access to so-called "cloud storage" services. Performance overhead isn't so much of an issue, you'll probably man
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Buggy Boy - Spectrum 128K/+2/+3 (ASM Source)(web.archive.org)
1 points by fuzzix 14y ago|0 comments
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by fuzzix 14y ago
"Attempting to make grammatically correct code that mimics a human language is a futile effort" COBOL attempts this (the syntax is even written out in "sentences") and it suffers for it. Even if it wasn't a futile effort, is it worthwhile?

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